i'm not dressed for that you're dressed for burger king should we make it burger king here are the
top 10 most ridiculous times people sued fast food restaurants there are those who will always
try to put the blame on the chains sometimes with good reason and other times well not so much yeah
i have a lot of questions number one how dare you no knife no problem i need a knife in 2016 popeyes
had to find out the hard way that you should never take away people's right to cutlery ever
indeed a man from mississippi who also happened to be an attorney decided to sue popeye's louisiana
kitchen after choking on a piece of chicken when the fast food joint failed to provide him with a
knife at the drive-thru instead he was given a spork a hybrid utensil combining a spoon and a
fork following this unfortunate incident the man had to undergo emergency surgery to get
the chicken out of his throat a little extreme especially considering all the possible solutions
that were available to avoid such a conundrum put it in your mouth and let the meat slide down your
throat hole like well going back to the restaurant to get a knife or you know taking smaller bites of
the food plus as many people have pointed out who eats fried chicken with utensils anyway
either way the man was seeking financial compensation and punitive damages but after more
than a few extreme comments directed at him and his family online he eventually dropped the suit
finger licking good disappointment his finger looking good back in 2016 it was kfc's turn to
have a lawsuit filed against them for false advertising this time it was from a new york
woman claiming she didn't receive everything she had you poor ordered well actually she did only
it didn't quite live up to expectations indeed despite the commercials showing the kfc chicken
bucket overflowing with fried chicken and marketed as enough to feed an entire family the one she got
did not match what she saw she stated that they're showing a bucket that's overflowing with chicken
you get half a bucket that's false advertising and it doesn't feed the whole family they're small
pieces originally kfc had offered her a pair of gift certificates but that wasn't enough to
soothe her rage you're not nice claiming the chain violated the law by engaging in false advertising
and using misleading trade practices the lady sued kfc for 20 million dollars the case was eventually
dismissed due to insufficient facts a bony chicken nugget i can walk into a mcdonald's in nigeria
order chicken mcnuggets when i bite into it you know what it's going to taste like just last
year a man in palm beach florida filed a lawsuit against the golden arches after injuring himself
with a chicken mcnugget how did he do this after he bit into one of the breaded chicken bites he
claimed that he broke his tooth on something hard something that wasn't supposed to be there a bone
what no way apparently he pulled a bone almost an inch long from his mouth and suffered from
unbearable jaw pain toothache and a headache for the next few days alexi stolfa the man
in question was seeking a recall of mcnuggets to avoid massive consumer injuries and insisted that
they presented a danger to all consumers he also learned following a visit to the dentist that he
had two micro cracks in the afflicted tooth and since it would take at least six months
for him to have his tooth replaced and he didn't have any dental insurance to cover the expenses
he wanted mcdonald's to do it for him and demanded 1.1 million dollars to cover his injury he claimed
he wasn't trying to get famous from this lawsuit but simply wanted to protect
people and tell them to be very careful with mcnuggets mom can we have some chicken nuggets
oh dear let's put sarah in a spin price may vary what's the difference between a chimichanga
a chalupa and a toast everybody knows that reading the fine print on anything is crucial
it all began when a couple visited their local taco bell to get their hands on two five dollar
chalupa craving boxes however disappointment and anger were lurking in the shadows as they
were charged more than five dollars for each the horror instead the total for the two boxes was
12.18 before tax which did not make the happy couple very happy at all most people would
simply let it go and maybe pass along a comment to the manager but not these determined diners
they ended up filing a lawsuit against taco bell and their parent company yum brands for false
and misleading advertising they said the only reason they had gone there in the first place
was to benefit from the five dollar promotion in siri they could have won if only taco bell
hadn't been one step ahead it turns out the chain didn't need to charge what was advertised because
the commercials had some legal fine print with a prices may vary disclaimer look what happens
to the taco this is why it's important to always read every single tiny bit of print before
taking that next step the proof is in the chili at least once a year i like to bring in some of my
kevin's famous chili once upon a time there was a lady named anna ayala who claimed to have made
a shocking discovery when eating a bowl of chili at a san jose wendy's restaurant a human fingertip
this is possibly one of the scariest experiences one could ever be subjected to which is why the
story received so much exposure so fast and while similar occurrences have happened in the past
at different chains this particular one never actually happened i'm serious about this stuff
anna ayala planted the fingertip herself hoping to score some big money from a lawsuit she got
the severed finger from her husband's co-worker who had lost it in an industrial accident and i
do make a mean pot of chili needless to say this hoax thanks to the crazy amount of attention it
received did not go unnoticed the chain suffered an estimated 21 million dollars in lost business
due to her false claim charges were brought and both she and her husband pleaded guilty she was
sentenced to nine years in prison but was released after four for good behavior the only condition
she's not allowed to step foot in a wendy's ever again mick not happy i am not a happy meal right
now for most people mcdonald's is synonymous with big macs and great deals for children
however it's all about the happy meal with that being said just because it's called a happy meal
it doesn't mean that it makes everyone happy antonio bramante a resident of quebec canada
and father of three young children was a regular at mcdonald's but still had a lot to say about
the chain's advertisements targeting children a happy meal toy reminds people of a sweeter
time a simpler time since the happy meals were deliberately situated at children's eye level his
kids would inevitably beg for one and he would feel pressured to buy one but not only by his
kids but also by mcdonald's itself he estimated that he ate mcds at least once every two weeks
and that he had spent hundreds of dollars on happy meals over that time we'll get you one of those
happy meals you got a happy meal can we get a happy meal we'll stop it against a happy meal
of course it's all because of the toys that are often linked to popular film releases and must be
collected to complete the sets since canada has a law prohibiting advertising to children under
13 a judge declared the suit valid and in 2020 a settlement was reached mcdonald's now has to use
images instead of physical toys in the displays and place them above the images of other happy
meal offerings like books too much texting papa are you near me papa can you hear me
there's nothing more annoying than being hounded by companies with promotions every single week
well actually there is and that's being hounded at every hour of the day without your consent
and that's exactly why this next lawsuit came to be who's papa john it was beverly hills resident
jonathan onozi who finally said enough is enough and took matters into his own hands
by filing a lawsuit against pizza giants papa john's for texting him too many pizza offers
via an automated marketing system the suit alleged that around 50 000 illegal text messages were sent
to uninterested customers across the country after certain papa john's franchisees provided their
marketing company with a list of customers and their phone numbers are you kidding me
gimmicks don't make better pizza our people and ingredients make better pizza
the company assured papa john's that the texts were in fact legal because there was already a
business relationship between the customers and the chain only there is no proof that any customer
ever gave consent anosie was one of those unlucky few only the messages kept coming even after he
had texted stop to the robot tech system since this is considered a violation of the telephone
consumer protection act a nosey requested 500 for each text he received he argued that the intensive
texts caused him to suffer a significant amount of anxiety frustration and annoyance subway and
its unreliable subs when subway open they change the fast food game but sometimes you gotta refresh
to be fresh the five dollar foot long promotion from subway is probably one of the best marketing
campaigns of the last century everyone had that catchy jingle stuck in their head which made you
want to get subway right away it was a pretty good bargain too the problems came about when the truth
about the footlong came out it wasn't actually a foot long it was an australian man who made the
shocking discovery when he decided to measure his mighty sandwich and post the results online
next to the ruler the sub was revealed to be only 11 inches long which is a full inch shy of its
advertised 12 inches you sit on a throne of lies obviously customers were not happy about this fib
which led to one of the longest running lawsuits two new jersey men took it upon themselves to get
justice for hungry customers and took the sandwich giant to court seeking damages an attorney
involved in the case even went as far as going to 17 subway shops in new jersey to measure the
sandwiches the verdict none of them were 12 inches subway kept defending that its foot long was
supposed to be a descriptive trademark rather than an accurate measurement but people didn't buy it
after years subway finally settled and agreed to measure the subs in front of customers and pay the
plaintiff's legal fees extra hot coffee it's so hot i poured mcdonald's coffee in my lap to cool
off in 1992 stella linebeck was with her grandson in the parking lot of a mcdonald's in albuquerque
new mexico when she spilled burning hot coffee all over her while she was trying to open the lid
while it might seem rather innocuous at first it led to a lot more than a couple of swear words
liebeck suffered third degree burns and ended up at the hospital requiring multiple skin grafts it
was only after mcdonald's refused to reimburse her 20 thousand dollar medical bills offering her only
800 dollars that the lawsuit was filed you get me one coffee drinker on that jury you won't walk out
of there rich man but how hot was this coffee up to 190 degrees fahrenheit which is at near
boiling point apparently the chain was aware of its coffee temperature issue and had received over
700 reports of people burning themselves before the lawsuit but didn't do anything to remedy
the situation mcdonald's claimed that it was the customers who wanted the coffee this hot i did
not oh hi mark liebeck eventually settled for less than 600 thousand dollars and the fast food chain
had to regulate the temperature of its coffee ice in iced drinks okay it's coffee iced coffee tell
me it's iced coffee are you the kind of person who orders their drinks light on the ice to enjoy even
more of the actual drink if so here's something for you back in 2016 there was a very comedic
nearly ludicrous lawsuit launched regarding the amount of ice starbucks puts in their drinks
careful here we're not talking about how much ice they put in hot drinks but in the iced drinks
yes really the plaintiff claimed that starbucks was loading up their iced drinks with too much ice
almost half the cup which meant they were getting less of the actual coffee they paid so much for
when the lawsuit came out starbucks insisted that ice was well an essential component of any ice
beverage and that if a customer was not happy with their drink they could simply let the barista know
and ask for a new one basically they were saying there was no need to get all worked up over
ice unsurprisingly a judge dismissed the case ruling that a reasonable consumer ordering and
ice to drink would know that the drink they receive will include ice and in case that
wasn't convincing enough the judge also pointed out that since the cups are clear
it's pretty easy to see just how much ice you're getting and that all you have to do is speak up
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