Seattle woman sues restaurant over diet menus
Washington state resident Anne Paskett is filing a class action lawsuit against major F&B chain Brinker International, that owns Chili’s, Macaroni Grill and On The Border.
The complaint says that the restaurants’ diet menus understated the amount of calories and fat content in some of the food they served.
The lawsuit seeks full refunds and interest for the plaintiff and other who ordered from the low-calorie menus.
Most of the Chili’s locations in Western Washington have been shut down. Brinker International has not issued a formal statement to respond to the class action suit.
For three years, Paskett was on a strict calorie-counting diet under the Weight Watchers program, but met with frustrating results, and believed her failure to lose weight was due to companies that falsely stated how much calories were in their low-fat selection.
Seattle attorney David Breskin is representing Paskett in this class action lawsuit that alleges misrepresentation and consumer deception.
He says, “It’s difficult to put prices on that, but I think what we’re looking for is that it’s not going to happen in the future.”
This case garnered plenty of media attention and even had a campaign to investigate just how much more calories the food at Chili’s and Macaroni Grill had than was claimed in their menus.
Following this suit, a woman in California launched a similar class action lawsuit against Applebee’s, also under the Brinker International umbrella of companies.
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