Restaurant official says boy shouldn't have been kicked out of Muskogee store

Candi Smithson said she and her 2-year-old son, Preston, and four others were asked to leave a Muskogee Pizza Hut because they brought a McDonald's hamburger patty inside the store.

Preston has severe food allergies and can't eat most dairy products or pretty much anything with flour in it, Smithson said.

A McDonald's patty is one of the few fast-food items the boy can eat “because it doesn't have filler in it,” his mother said.

The boy's mother said the food was brought into the store inside a discreet carton.

“You want to be respectful of the other places you go into,” Smithson said. “And you don't want to tempt other kids with your McDonald's.”

But Smithson said a waitress noticed the outside food items and eventually a manager became involved. She said the manager asked her and the five others she was with to leave.