Tammy Billings and Erin Levzow

You know, when I first heard it, uh, I was not really paying attention too deeply, like most things in life, and I thought it was either a new IKEA furniture or a Swedish death metal band.

I was like, "Oh, that's a good name-

[laughs]

...

Cyclospora." Uh, but you know, jokes aside, like this is serious.

You know, I'm the CMO at Salad House, and we've suffered a decline as a result of this.

And we know our lettuce is safe.

We've traced it.

We've talked to, uh, you know, our suppliers and everything.

And like, we- like, you can eat at Salad House [laughs] and not end up in the bathroom out of-

Yeah

... any sort of d- dysregularity.

And like, it's affecting us.

I went to a Lansing Lugnuts baseball game two weeks ago, and they have a taco stand.

And I went to go get a taco, and she's like, "Yeah, we can't serve any lettuce tonight." [laughs] And I was like, "What, what is happening here?" Um, you know, liability, you know, it's funny.

Anybody can sue anybody for any reason.

There's nothing stopping you from suing me.

There's nothing you from stopping you suing your neighbor, your neighbor...

Like, anybody can do it.

It's just whether it holds up in a court of law or not.

Um, and when something is this big, when it's this big, it's usually easier for the, uh, person being accused to just pay to make it go away.

You know what I mean? And sometimes it's just easier to be like, "Write a check and it's gone." And you know, I don't know that at the Taco Bell board room there's an annual conversation about making sure there's a reserve cash flow for-

[laughs]

... uh, when this happens.

But they're kind of a little bit protected for it because you're right, it does happen.

You know, when I first heard it, uh, I was not really paying attention too deeply, like most things in life, and I thought it was either a new IKEA furniture or a Swedish death metal band.

I was like, "Oh, that's a good name-

[laughs]

...

Cyclospora." Uh, but you know, jokes aside, like this is serious.

You know, I'm the CMO at Salad House, and we've suffered a decline as a result of this.

And we know our lettuce is safe.

We've traced it.

We've talked to, uh, you know, our suppliers and everything.

And like, we- like, you can eat at Salad House [laughs] and not end up in the bathroom out of-

Yeah

... any sort of d- dysregularity.

And like, it's affecting us.

I went to a Lansing Lugnuts baseball game two weeks ago, and they have a taco stand.

And I went to go get a taco, and she's like, "Yeah, we can't serve any lettuce tonight." [laughs] And I was like, "What, what is happening here?" Um, you know, liability, you know, it's funny.

Anybody can sue anybody for any reason.

There's nothing stopping you from suing me.

There's nothing you from stopping you suing your neighbor, your neighbor...

Like, anybody can do it.

It's just whether it holds up in a court of law or not.

Um, and when something is this big, when it's this big, it's usually easier for the, uh, person being accused to just pay to make it go away.

You know what I mean? And sometimes it's just easier to be like, "Write a check and it's gone." And you know, I don't know that at the Taco Bell board room there's an annual conversation about making sure there's a reserve cash flow for-

[laughs]

... uh, when this happens.

But they're kind of a little bit protected for it because you're right, it does happen.