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Burger King lawsuit. What a waste of time and money

If someone would go around picking of personal injury lawyers and mutilating their bodies and I was on the jury they would walk.
 
Caveman Catfan said:
Class action lawyers and personal injury lawyers are categories that may overlap, but are not necessarily the same.
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Correct. Class actions are very important functions of the free market. They inflict money loss on large companies which is the only thing those companies fear.

Most people would be surprised to know many companies run an analysis to see if it's cheaper to fix their product or settle the eventual class action. In those cases, hopefully the financial pain far exceeds the recall so that, in the future, companies and consumers financial positions are aligned. Knowingly letting consumers be "damaged", to whatever degree, should never be the financially advantageous position.

So people should be glad when they see class actions filed because that's protecting the consumer in ways the government can't or wont
 
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Obviously men in charge of that advertising campaign, lying about the size of their meat and all.
 
bigblueinsanity said:
Correct. Class actions are very important functions of the free market. They inflict money loss on large companies which is the only thing those companies fear.

Most people would be surprised to know many companies run an analysis to see if it's cheaper to fix their product or settle the eventual class action. In those cases, hopefully the financial pain far exceeds the recall so that, in the future, companies and consumers financial positions are aligned. Knowingly letting consumers be "damaged", to whatever degree, should never be the financially advantageous position.

So people should be glad when they see class actions filed because that's protecting the consumer in ways the government can't or wont
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There are a lot of crap class action lawsuits and they mainly make money for the attorneys. I agree with the idea of your post, however. Just not always in practice.
 
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I remember not that long ago you could get a whopper for 99 cents - it’s not like Burger King is some gourmet restaurant - just another money grab.
 
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Nobody got hurt here by the Whopper. It’s not an opioid that was sold as non addictive.

Is this the first whopper these complainers have eaten? Making a hamburger that looks appealing isn’t a life threatening problem. Some Whoppers probably do look like the ad.

The burgers aren’t gourmet burgers they are made by teenagers. Cmon.

I’d like to see a bio picture of this idiotic judge held up next to him and see if he looked exactly like the picture.

Money grab. It’s a fast food burger and a pretty good one. Don’t go if you don’t like it.
 
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Making a hamburger that looks appealing isn’t a life threatening problem
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No but that also isn't the legal standard.

This thread is great evidence in favor of their case and no one even realized it. Saying "everyone knows the picture looks nothing like the product" means they have a case. It's pretty incredible these companies were allowed for so long to get away with such a bait and switch.

It's literally no different than seeing an ad for a car, giving them your money, but getting a beat up version of the advertised vehicle. It's just less money per transaction.

Is it curing cancer? No. Is it one of the important class actions that addresses a critical issue? No. It won't even be worth that much money as far as class actions go. But it is a valid case
 
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What is everyone’s beef with this suit? You want companies to be allowed to lie to you? What are you advocating for here? If they say they are selling you a half pound burger but it is only slightly over a quarter pound that’s fraud on a massive scale by a national corporation. Why stand up for that?
 
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The last time there was a big class action lawsuit with a fast food company that gained traction it was McDonalds and the hot coffee and it actually ended up being very legitimate but was twisted to the idiot masses to be frivolous and allowed tort reform - literally a punishment on the citizens in favor of corporations - to be passed. So f*ck BurgerKing and anyone complaining about this lawsuit.
 
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Ron Mehico said:
The last time there was a big class action lawsuit with a fast food company that gained traction it was McDonalds and the hot coffee and it actually ended up being very legitimate but was twisted to the idiot masses to be frivolous and allowed tort reform - literally a punishment on the citizens in favor of corporations - to be passed. So f*ck BurgerKing and anyone complaining about this lawsuit.
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People that make fun of that woman really have zero idea what happened.
 
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SkyPrince1 said:
Used to be.
Quality has gone down considerably.
Was definitely one of the best FF burgers in the 80's-90's.
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Can’t remember when it was but maybe in the 90s when they switched their fries they were terrible so I quit eating there - one of the few fast food places that does/did have onion rings though.
 
Wesley91581 said:
Can’t remember when it was but maybe in the 90s when they switched their fries they were terrible so I quit eating there - one of the few fast food places that does/did have onion rings though.
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I used to hit up Burger King quite a bit back around 92-95. There was one on base when I was in the Air Force. Anytime I needed to run some errands during my lunch break (got an hour), I would sometimes hit it up and get 2 large fries and a large chocolate shake. Both were excellent back then.

I'd dump all the fries in the bag, pour in some salt, and gave it a good shake. It was easier to drive around eating fries, but I needed 2 of them to fill me up. Now they're mediocre. Most fast food fries are these days. It's basically the second most important menu item and they treat them like whatever.

McDonald's fries can still be pretty good if they are fresh, hot, salted, and not full of oil from them not draining them properly. That is a rarity to get them like that though. Arby's curly fries and Rally's seasoned fries are both pretty good as well. Most of the rest are mediocre (Burger King, Wendy's, White Castle, Moby Dick).
 
Truth be told, most all these fast food places should be sued with gusto. For at least a decade they sell a picture of something the consumer clearly never gets. Furthermore there are so many dangerous additives and mystery ingredients, their "food" is barely food. It certainly isn't the food they advertise.

I'm all for free markets and consumer choice, but that only exists when consumers are fully informed of exactly what they're getting; and that most certainly isn't happening in that industry.
 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Truth be told, most all these fast food places should be sued with gusto. For at least a decade they sell a picture of something the consumer clearly never gets. Furthermore there are so many dangerous additives and mystery ingredients, their "food" is barely food. It certainly isn't the food they advertise.

I'm all for free markets and consumer choice, but that only exists when consumers are fully informed of exactly what they're getting; and that most certainly isn't happening in that industry.
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Then you have to sue all of the store foods that do things like use butter on pictures of ice cream and glue in place of milk so cereal looks better (a couple of tricks I read about). I also have never had a frozen pizza look like the picture after cooked.
 
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KyCatFan said:
Then you have to sue all of the store foods that do things like use butter on pictures of ice cream and glue in place of milk so cereal looks better (a couple of tricks I read about). I also have never had a frozen pizza look like the picture after cooked.
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Partially agree. The part I disagree with is any food ultimately prepared by the consumer. The consumer skill in preparation is an intervening circumstance which dictates the outcome and appearance of the product.

Mostly agree on finished products, however shipping and storage can also alter those appearances.

However for fast food, that product is cooked and assembled right there on the spot.
 
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The aesthetics of food preparation are arbitrary. What injury did you suffer because it didn’t look exactly like the promotional image? Hard one to argue for successfully. Specific quantities and portion sizes are where you can get nailed.
 
When I learned of the ‘pink slime’ Taco Bell meat I started to question all the other foods at fast food joints.

Then I heard a story about what Arbys roast beef really looks like before it’s cooked/heated up

Finally, the ‘impossible burger’ plant based shit started coming out. At that point I think I realized I wasn’t eating real food from any of these places

Now, I rarely eat anything more than fries at these establishments. Every now and then (maybe once every 2-3 months), I’ll give in and eat some shitty Big Mac or beef ‘n cheddar.

I should add that I still eat at chick-fil-a (I find their quality diminishing as well) and Culver’s (probably my go-to FF at this point). But hardly ever at a McDonald’s/BK/DQ/Wendy’s/Arby’s.

My kids still love to eat at those places, but I usually either get nothing or an order of fries (which, as already stated, are not as good as they used to be).
 
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chroix said:
The aesthetics of food preparation are arbitrary. What injury did you suffer because it didn’t look exactly like the promotional image? Hard one to argue for successfully. Specific quantities and portion sizes are where you can get nailed.
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They are but the issue is they represent otherwise. Their marketing is intentionally deceptive.

No one person was greatly injured, but that's the power of class actions as a tool in the marketplace. No company fears a suit over $1.50 but.....when that damage is multiplied exponentially over the course of tens of thousands of customers per year - there is incentive to change deceptive behavior
 
cat_chaser said:
When I learned of the ‘pink slime’ Taco Bell meat I started to question all the other foods at fast food joints.

Then I heard a story about what Arbys roast beef really looks like before it’s cooked/heated up

Finally, the ‘impossible burger’ plant based shit started coming out. At that point I think I realized I wasn’t eating real food from any of these places

Now, I rarely eat anything more than fries at these establishments. Every now and then (maybe once every 2-3 months), I’ll give in and eat some shitty Big Mac or beef ‘n cheddar.

I should add that I still eat at chick-fil-a (I find their quality diminishing as well) and Culver’s (probably my go-to FF at this point). But hardly ever at a McDonald’s/BK/DQ/Wendy’s/Arby’s.

My kids still love to eat at those places, but I usually either get nothing or an order of fries (which, as already stated, are not as good as they used to be).
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Since it is just me and the wife, she no longer cooks dinner when she gets home from work. We eat carryout from Longhorns, Cracker Barrel or fast food. If your kids are eating ff, what are you eating? I ask because I am looking for altenatives to ff.
 
Lamar Card said:
Since it is just me and the wife, she no longer cooks dinner when she gets home from work. We eat carryout from Longhorns, Cracker Barrel or fast food. If your kids are eating ff, what are you eating? I ask because I am looking for altenatives to ff.
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I’ll get an order of fries or simply eat something at the house.
 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Correct. Class actions are very important functions of the free market. They inflict money loss on large companies which is the only thing those companies fear.

Most people would be surprised to know many companies run an analysis to see if it's cheaper to fix their product or settle the eventual class action. In those cases, hopefully the financial pain far exceeds the recall so that, in the future, companies and consumers financial positions are aligned. Knowingly letting consumers be "damaged", to whatever degree, should never be the financially advantageous position.

So people should be glad when they see class actions filed because that's protecting the consumer in ways the government can't or wont
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I, too, saw "Fight Club" and understand marginal analysis.
 
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