N.J. restaurant writes ‘happy wheelchair birthday’ on disabled customer’s dessert. Here’s what we know.
📍 How it ended
{ "epilogue": "A New Jersey woman expressed outrage and bafflement after an upscale restaurant served her a birthday dessert with an offensive message highlighting her disability. The restaurant subsequently issued an apology and explained how the hurtful message ended up on the dessert.
Epilogue added 31d ago, after coverage quieted.
The story so far
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