The decision to eliminate pre-meal peanuts at Texas Roadhouse was influenced by litigation concerns related to customer injuries and changing dining practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For decades, Texas Roadhouse served peanuts shell-on in large buckets, encouraging customers to discard shells on the floor. This led to numerous customer injury lawsuits.
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly changed restaurant norms, making convenience and safety paramount—factors that likely contributed to the move away from serving peanuts.
Though peanuts provided a fun, casual atmosphere in queuing environments, the associated dangers and lawsuits prompted Texas Roadhouse to reevaluate their service offerings.
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