A woman suffered a serious allergic reaction after being wrongly served a meal at a Swansea restaurant that wasn't gluten free.
Brewstone, in Uplands Crescent, Uplands, sold a slow-cooked lamb dish, which included couscous, to the retired doctor who suffers with Coeliac disease.
She had initially made the restaurant aware of her gluten intolerance while making a table booking over the phone.
Swansea Magistrates' Court heard that the 'GF' (gluten free) code had been assigned to the lamb meal on the restaurant's menu and that the customer had asked the waitress if it was suitable for her to eat.
She was told that it was suitable but after eating the meal she later suffered a serious reaction which resulted in her needing hospital treatment.
She was taken in an ambulance to Morriston Hospital where she remained for almost a week.
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Bill Parry, representing Brewstone, said that staff at the restaurant had previously received food safety training - but that an external company who were asked to manage the menu didn't notify them about the couscous containing gluten.
He said: "When it came to this dish, they told them all about the allergens that may be in lamb or milk but not about the couscous.
"That has been translated through to the waitress on the day."
Mr Parry explained that "significant" improvements had been made at the restaurant following the incident, which happened on November 29, 2019.
The court heard that an environmental health officer visited Brewstone in November this year to make a "test purchase", which "passed with flying colours".
Mr Parry added: "On the basis of that you can conclude this is not going to happen again so long as those procedures are in place."
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District judge Neil Thomas called the victim's hospitalisation "a serious state of affairs".
One of the company's two directors, Michael Jones-Griffiths entered a guilty plea on behalf of the company.
The company was fined a total of £4,000 and ordered to pay £3,240 in costs with a victim surcharge of £181.
