Lack of training on cleaning wine glasses costs restaurant nearly €50k

Forensic engineer, Conor Murphy, said if the waitress been shown how to do it safely she would have been cupping the bowl of the glass in one hand while using the polishing cloth with her other hand. File photo.

There’s a right and wrong way of polishing a wine glass and because a restaurant proprietor failed to teach a waitress how to do it properly it has cost his company close to €50,000 in damages and legal costs.

Judge John O’Connor said in the Circuit Civil Court that 24-year-old former waitress Daniela Tricolici ought to have received training in the safe way of polishing wine glasses when she worked in Ravellos Restaurant, Clonsilla, Dublin, five years ago.