BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A woman who claims she slipped and fell on potatoes that were allegedly on the floor at Abe and Louie’s (2200 Glades Road in Boca Raton) is suing the restaurant owner for a minimum of $50,000. Christina Balkis who lives in the area claims potatoes were on the floor of a public area of the restaurant on October 13, 2023, causing her to slip and sustain critical injuries. BocaNewsNow.com could not determine if the potatoes were whole, French fried, mashed, or in another form.
We are publishing the complete complaint at the end of this report. Here are highlights of the claims filed against Tavistock Restaurant Upscale Group Holdings LLC which owns Abe and Louie’s:
>> Negligently creating a dangerous condition inside the subject premises located at 2200 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431, by carelessly placing and/or leaving potatoes on the floor, thus creating a foreseeable zone of risk to customers, including the Plaintiff, when the walkway on the subject property becomes dangerous; Negligently creating a dangerous condition inside the subject premises located at 2200 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431, by carelessly failing to remove potatoes from the floor, thus creating a foreseeable zone of risk to customers, including the Plaintiff, when the walkway on the subject property becomes dangerous; Negligently creating a dangerous condition inside the subject premises located at 2200 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431, by carelessly allowing potatoes to remain on the floor, thus creating a foreseeable zone of risk to customers, including the Plaintiff, when the walkway on the subject property becomes dangerous;
Negligently failing to devise any policies and procedures or adequate policies and procedures for purposes of identifying any dangerous conditions inside the subject premises located at 2200 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431, including, but not limited to, in relation to store merchandise being placed and/or left on the floor, including, but not limited to, potatoes, thus creating a foreseeable zone of risk to customers, including the Plaintiff, when the walkway on the subject property becomes dangerous; Negligently failing to implement any policies and procedures or adequate policies and procedures for purposes of identifying any dangerous conditions inside the subject premises located at 2200 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431, including, but not limited to, in relation to store merchandise being placed and/or left on the floor, including, but not limited to, potatoes, thus creating a foreseeable zone of risk to customers, including the Plaintiff, when the walkway on the subject property becomes dangerous… <<
The suit states that Balkis: “Suffered injury(ies) in and about her body and extremities, resulting in pain and suffering, disability, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, aggravation and/or activation of pre-existing injury(ies) and/or condition(s), pre-disposition to further bodily injury(ies), expense of hospitalization, medical and/or nursing services, care, and Page 11 of 13 treatment, loss of earnings in the past and future, loss of the ability to earn in the future, loss of compensation in the past and future, transportation expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses. The losses are either permanent or continuing in nature and the Plaintiff will continue to suffer such losses in the future.”
Balkis is represented by attorney Peter Magnami of Fort Lauderdale. Abe and Louie’s parent company had not responded to the suit through publicly available court documents as of Saturday morning. Read the complete complaint here:
