P.F. Chang's green beans take-out order came with 22 staples; restaurant investigating

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Sunday night, Ashley Potter and her husband decided to order out from P.F. Chang's in Baton Rouge to share a meal with their five children who range in age from 14 to 23. The whole order exceeded $200 and included some of their favorite menu items — particularly an order of crispy green beans.

After the family ate Sunday night, they put the leftovers in the fridge and warmed up the food Monday night for dinner. They popped the crispy green beans into their air fryer.

And that's where things went sideways.

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"My husband grabbed a big handful of the green beans and put them in his mouth," Potter said.

From there, Billy Potter got a shock.

"My husband had a filling. That's how he felt it. It kind of shocked his tooth," Ashley Potter said.

There was something in the green beans that should not have been there.

"Then he just spit it out," Ashley Potter said.

From there, the Potters got a toothpick and started investigating. In all, they found 22 individual staples in the green beans.

"We got a toothpick and started counting," Ashley Potter said. "There were no staples in the bag. Even the receipt wasn't stapled to the bag. The bag handles were all tied together. There were no staples anywhere else — except in the green beans."

Ashley Potter said she wasn't sure what to do — so she called the restaurant.

"I don't know what else you can do — except not eat there anymore," she said. "Eating out is not cheap. Then we had to throw it away. So that ticked me off more."

Ashley Potter said the first person she spoke with at P.F. Chang's offered to give her a new order of crispy green beans.

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