Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths.
A Panera Bread spokesperson says the restaurant chain is phasing out its Charged Lemonade, a highly caffeinated beverage that has been blamed for at least two deaths in lawsuits.
The beverages prompted controversy in October following a lawsuit filed by the family of 21-year-old Sarah Katz, a University of Pennsylvania student with a heart condition who died after consuming Charged Lemonade. A second lawsuit was filed in December by the family of Dennis Brown, a Florida man with a chromosomal deficiency disorder and a developmental delay who also died after drinking a Charged Lemonade.
A third lawsuit was filed in January by Lauren Skerritt, a 28-year-old Rhode Island woman, which claimed the beverage left her with “permanent cardiac injuries.”
The stuff was a good product imo, just horribly displayed/advertised. Now the brand for it is rightfully tarnished.
It sucks I love that stuff for mornings when I’m tired I just pour some into my ice tea in my Stanley
I mean, based on the image, it does say the caffine content prominently up front. Just doesn’t run around saying “EXTREME” or the like on it, and I dunno how many people have a feel for how many milligrams does what, because other stuff doesn’t normally indicate caffine content like that.
I’d never bothered trying it at my Panera’s, as I prefer zero-calorie drinks, but I didn’t think of it as being an energy drink.
It wasn’t always labeled so prominently.