Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 01/21/2013 2:08:45 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
DEARBORN, MICH. – McDonald's Corp. and a franchise owner have reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging that food at a Detroit-area restaurant with a large Muslim customer base wasn't prepared according to Islamic dietary laws as advertised.
McDonald's and Finley's Management Co. agreed Friday to pay $700,000. The money will be shared by Dearborn Heights resident Ahmed Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers.
Daklallah said there are only two McDonald's in the United States that sell halal products and both are in Dearborn, which has one of the nation's largest Arab and Muslim communities. Overall, the Detroit area is home to about 150,000 Muslims of many different ethnicities.
The locations advertise that they exclusively sell halal Chicken McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches and they have to get those products from an approved halal provider, Dakallah said. He said there was no evidence of problems on the production side, but he alleges that the Dearborn location on Ford Road sold non-halal products when it ran out of halal.
Daklallah said he was approached by Ahmed, and they conducted an investigation. A letter sent to McDonald's Corp. and Finley's Management by Daklallah's firm said Ahmed had "confirmed from a source familiar with the inventory" that the restaurant had sold non-halal food "on many occasions."
In the settlement notice, Finley's Management said it "has a carefully designed system for preparing and serving halal such that halal chicken products are labeled, stored, refrigerated, and cooked in halal-only areas." The company added it trains its employees on preparing halal food and "requires strict adherence to the process."
He said although Ahmed believes McDonald's was negligent, there was no evidence that the chain set out to deceive customers.
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If they don’t agree with the food, they can always go somewhere else....
But, that is not their agenda.
when a behavior is (grossly) rewarded, we get a lot more of it
prepare thyself for thousands more lawsuits seeking $700,000 payouts for 70 cent sandwiches that weren’t cooked the way the customer liked
this case could solve much of the unemployment problem for lawyers (while raising the cost of burgers for all the rest of us, of course)
Set up.
Any national fast food company stupid enough to pander to this nonsense deserves what it gets.
You mean the bacon wasn’t kosher? Too frickin’ bad. Go to Papa Mohammed’s Lemon Chicken Hut. The happy meal includes a vest with the promise of virgins. Let them sue over that.
I would blame the franchise owner, who is likely a muslim.......
Doing business with perpetually aggrieved groups has an extra risk premium. Fast food probably isn't worth that risk. Close the stores and move on.
halal. Really.
Would they do that for Kosher customers? Oh, I forgot. They don’t serve Kosher food.
Would they do that for Kosher customers? Oh, I forgot. They don’t serve Kosher food.
Since it is impossible to taste the difference between a halal and non-halal chicken, how did they know the nuggets were not halal?
They didn’t see the phony imam wave his magic wand over his mcnuggets?
Best reason in the world not to cater to these people. Best sign to post... Warning: nothing in this establishment is halal or kosher...eat at your own risk.
Yeah I was looking for the name of the franchise owner but didn’t see it. Insurance fraud is pretty common among that bunch so it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some kind of scam going on here.
The nuggets were missing the suicide belt!!!
Something doesn’t make sense here. It seems that the restaurant serves both halal and non-halal food. I don’t see how he can prove that he was served non-halal food on a specific occasion.
I used to work at Dawn Foods in Jackson Michigan years ago. Once a month Rabbis would come in to supervise while we made exclusively kosher mixes for one day.
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