(CNN) -- Two mothers expressed outrage Friday night that their young children -- about 1,000 miles away and days apart -- were inadvertently given alcohol by servers at franchises of national chain restaurants. Jill Vanheest, whose 2-year-old son was given sangria on March 31 at an Olive Garden in Lakeland, Florida, told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell that she's having difficulty accepting what happened. "They poisoned my child right in front of me," Vanheest said Friday. "There aren't really words for how distrustful that makes me feel, how angry I am." Just over a week later, on April 8, Taylor Dill-Reese said that her 15-month-old son was given alcohol during a meal -- rather than the apple juice he'd ordered -- at an Applebee's in Madison Heights, Michigan.
@highlight
A Florida mother says of Olive Garden: "They poisoned my child right in front of me"
@highlight
Her toddler was taken to the hospital after being served sangria at a Florida restaurant
@highlight
8 days later, a Michigan boy was served alcohol at an Applebee's franchise
@highlight
Both chains apologized and vowed to change their drink-serving policies
@placeholder's, though, said that Madison Heights police conducted a field test and found the drink itself only registered a .014 alcohol level.
While Dill-Reese has already filed a lawsuit against @placeholder's, Vanheest said she has not decided whether to do the same against Olive Garden.