Three customers (and in some reports, employees as well) are said to suffer chemical burns after margaritas at a Chili’s restaurant in Forest City, North Carolina, were prepared with a cleaning chemical instead of an intended ingredient.
Across the outlets, the incident is described as a mistaken use of a granulated degreaser or other industrial cleaning product during bar preparation. NDTV and Breitbart both emphasize that the drinks were contaminated and that the resulting burns occurred after customers consumed the margaritas. The New York Post adds detail that an employee mistakenly treated the degreaser as sugar. Fox News similarly frames the event as a “dangerous mix-up,” and specifies that symptoms involved both customers and employees.
Overall, the accounts align on the core sequence: a cleaning chemical is accidentally used in margaritas, leading to chemical-burning symptoms among those who drank the cocktails, and reporting ties the cause to an error during preparation rather than a deliberate act.
