Funny_Guy Wrote:
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> Everytime I think of Hooters, I remember this
> story.....
>
>
> Former Hooters Waitress Settles Toy Yoda Lawsuit
> The Associated Press ^ | May 9, 2002 | AP staff
> Posted on Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:50:36 PM by
> jpthomas
>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/680871/post
> s
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> PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A former waitress has
> settled a lawsuit against Hooters, which she said
> promised to award her a new Toyota but instead
> gave her a toy Yoda.
>
> An attorney for Jodee Berry said Wednesday that he
> could not immediately disclose the settlement's
> details.
>
> "She's satisfied with it," said the attorney,
> David Noll. He did say that Berry can now go to a
> local car dealership and "pick out whatever type
> of Toyota she wants."
>
> Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest in last May at
> the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she
> had won a new Toyota car.
>
> She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant
> parking lot, but when the blindfold was removed,
> she found she was the winner of a toy Yoda Star
> Wars doll.
>
> Berry quit the restaurant a week later and filed a
> lawsuit in August against Gulf Coast Wings, Inc.,
> the corporate owner of the local Hooters, alleging
> breach of contract and fraudulent
> misrepresentation.
>
> The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said
> the whole contest was an April Fools' joke.
>
> This settlement is unusual in that Hooters did not
> ask for a sweeping confidentiality agreement, Noll
> said.
>
> "I think that's a recognition of the fact that
> there's been such an amazing amount of attention
> focused on this case," he said. "There's not a
> whole lot of reason to try to hide its existence."
Thought you had to have some hooters to work at Hooters?
No wonder I don't dine there. Breach of contract indeed.