Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer says it’s hard to believe his famous food caused a Mets player and a Phillies manager to get food poisoning.
Firing back against claims Mets first baseman Lucas Duda and Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg fell violently ill after eating Shake Shack burgers, Meyer claimed on Tuesday it doesn’t add up.
“It’s highly unlikely. … If you’re in a restaurant and one person says they got food poisoning from fish, you can say, ‘Well, that was probably one bad fish.’ But with hamburger meat, it’s an entire batch. And we haven’t heard of one other case of food poisoning,” he told The Post. “We don’t know for sure a Shake Shake burger made them sick.”
The restaurant is looking into the situation — but Sandberg failed to return Meyer’s calls seeking more information on Tuesday, Meyer said.
“We’re trying everything we can to take this as earnestly has possible. … Right now, we don’t have the facts,” he said.
“We serve hundreds of thousands of people and we care deeply about our customers.”
On Tuesday, Sandberg said a burger he scarfed at the Citi Field Shake Shack made him so sick he lost six pounds over the weekend, ESPN reported.
“A couple of coaches took a bite and didn’t like what they saw and threw the rest away. … I was in a rush so I ended up putting it away,” he said. “I had one piece of toast in two days, and I’m feeling fine about that. I don’t want anything in my stomach.”
Duda, who was hospitalized and forced to sit out Friday’s game due to food poisoning, also blamed it on a burger he ate at a Shake Shack in Westbury.
“It was a little bit undercooked,” Duda told The Post.
“[It was] regular food poisoning, just run of the mill. I feel good now so everything is good,” he said.
Asked if he’d eat at Shake Shack again, he said: “No, I don’t think so.”