“Buffalo Wings is well aware of this issue, but has refused to change its practices,” he claimed in the doc. He notes that Papa Johns calls the dish “Chicken Poppers,” while at Domino’s, they are labeled “boneless chicken” to avoid any confusion. Halim known that the products were not chicken wings, he would not have purchased them, or would’ve paid significantly less for them,” states the doc, which goes on to declare that the Chicagoan had suffered “financial injury” due to the defendant’s “false and deceptive conduct.”Īnd while the discrepancy may seem like semantics, Halim points to the fact that BWW’s competitors are careful not to mislabel their meat chunks. The incident that inspired the suit occurred earlier this year, when Halim fell prey to the alleged breast meat masquerade, WGN-TV reported. On the BWW menu, the boneless chicken wings -of which 100 million were once sold in a single year, per the chain - are described as “all white chicken” that is “lightly breaded.” Facebook/Buffalo Wild Wings Halim analogized the so-called boneless wings to chicken nuggets. Our buffalo wings are 0% buffalo.” Plaintiff Halim accused Buffalo Wild Wings of false advertising, claiming that its so-called “boneless wings” are actually comprised of breast meat. Our boneless wings are all white meat chicken. When reached for comment, Buffalo Wild Wings directed The Post to a tweet posted on Monday, which read: “It’s true. “Indeed, the Products are more akin, in composition, to a chicken nugget rather than a chicken wing,” the document reads. In it, he argues that the products’ name and description lend the false impression that they are bona fide chicken wings that “have simply been deboned” and are therefore “comprised entirely of chicken meat.” However, in actuality, they are “not wings all” but rather “slices of chicken breast meat deep-fried like wings,” the plaintiff declared of the supposed culinary cover-up. “This class action seeks to challenge the false and deceptive marketing and advertising of Buffalo Wild Wings’ Boneless Wings,” reads the lawsuit, which was filed by plaintiff Aimen Halim against BWW and parent company Inspire Brands, WGN-TV reported. The complaint was filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, per court documents obtained by Nexstar’s WGN.
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Lawyer who blew $8M of clients’ money in Vegas strikes deal with fedsĮx-lawyer Tom Girardi competent to stand trial in embezzlement case: psychologistĪ Chicago man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings on the grounds that its so-called “boneless wings” are actually closer to chicken nuggets. NYC store owner fed up with shoplifters also dealing with ‘shakedown’ claiming website isn’t accessible to blind In a similar case, a woman in Illinois filed a lawsuit against Fireball, claiming the company's mini "Fireball Cinnamon" bottles mislead customers who may think they contain whiskey.Music publishers sue Twitter for $250M for allowing copyrighted songs The suit accuses Buffalo Wild Wings of violating the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, along with a breach of express warranty and common law fraud and seeks an undisclosed amount of "punitive damages." "It should be noted that Domino’s Pizza and Papa Johns also sell actual chicken wings, and that, a restaurant named Buffalo Wild 'Wings' should be just as careful if not more in how it names its products," the complaint states. The complaint notes that other chains like Domino's Pizza and Papa Johns each label their products as either "boneless chicken" or "chicken poppers." Halim known that the products are not chicken wings, he would not have purchased them, or would have paid significantly less for them," according to the suit. Halim said he purchased the boneless wings in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and "reasonably believed the products were actually wings that were deboned." Proposed law aims to protect families owed large sums of money from retirement communities
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