Florida woman sues local French bakery after it plastered posters calling her 'cake thief' in shop window after tiff at cash register - causing her to be hospitalized with stress
- Margarita Sciapin, a jewelry designer from Boca Raton, is suing her local French bakery after a feud over payment for a cake left her in hospital from the stress
- Paris Morning Bakery claim the mother was refunded for a purchase but decided to keep the cake anyway
- Sciapin's lawsuit, filed last week, is seeking damages in excess of $50,000
A clean-eating Florida mother is suing her local French bakery after a feud over a Mocha cake left her hospitalized with stress.
Margarita Sciapin, a jewelry designer from Boca Raton, who describes herself as 'plant based, vegetarian on a path of balanced eating' bought a $29 mocha cake from Paris Morning Bakery in Boca Raton in January this year.
A dispute over payment led the bakery to plaster posters next to its register of the mother with the words 'cake thief', a receipt stating her full name and some of her credit card information splashed across them.
Now Sciapin is suing the business for emotional damages and defamation totaling more than $50,000.
Sciapin recalls in legal papers filed last week how when she went to pick up her mocha cake the cashier gave her the wrong product and was not able to 'simply switch the cakes'.
The employee, Sciapin alleges, instead suggested issuing a refund and charging her again for the cake.
Sciapin says she did not want to run the risk of being charged twice so decided to keep the original cake and told the employee 'not to worry'.
The bakery, however, recalls events differently.
One of the posters offered an explanation for the public shaming: 'This Karen thief stole a cake from us at 5 p.m. on January 22, 2023.'
'When an employee tried to explain that our refunds don't show up in statements immediately, she got angry, refused to believe the employee, took the cake, and left while her cake was already refunded.
'She was very impatient when the employee was trying to figure out how to do a refund receipt, instead of waiting, she ran off with the cake' the poster concluded.
Sciapin claims the posters led her 12-year-old daughter to be taunted at school, and herself to be left in such a state of stress and anxiety that she was hospitalized for shortness of breath and rapid heart rate.
An employee of the bakery told the Miami New Times that images taken from Sciapin's social media were used to produce the posters.
Materials featuring Sciapin were distributed across Paris Morning's locations, she says.
'It's like a thing across our stores. They actually printed a bunch of different themes of her and then gave it to our stores in case she comes back. We have memorabilia of it in our kitchen,' the employee said.
A manager at the store told the publication that Sciapin 'didn't see the refund on her credit card and said she was just going to take the cake.
'If she would have waited for two minutes for the employee to text me, to figure out how to print a refund receipt, she would have gotten it. But she was rushing the employee and not being patient, not being very understanding.'
The bakery employees said the posters have been taken down.
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