let this be a learning experience, pandering to goathumpers is not good for the bottom line...
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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Its pretty unlikely that they’re eating exclusively halal food anyway.
Nobody bothered to mention in court that in Islam if someone says they are giving you Halal and they have lied to you it is not a problem as the sin goes to the person who lies.
Mel
I know a Pakistani who ate pepperoni for six or seven years after coming to this country. Then one day somebody broke the news to him that it contained PORK!
“That was the worst day of my life. I loved it so!”
Washington State once had a quarterback named Samoa Samoa. His nickname was Repeat.
If I worked there I’d slip pig piss into their coffee!
Since it is impossible to taste the difference between a halal and non-halal chicken, how did they know the nuggets were not halal?
This has nothing to do with food as such, it is all about fundraising for the cause
I don’t see how he can prove that he was served non-halal food on a specific occasion
Ah, but he didn’t have to, he had a symphatic judge, was the judge muslim?
i keep my eye on that situation as well because those fries are gluten free ~
Send them to Denny’s!!!
I know a Pakistani who loves ham. Seriously.
Everytime he eats it, he says, “Astaghfirullah”, or God forgive me.
He even has an impeccable theological justification for it. Pork is pretty much the national dish in the Czech Republic, so there’s really no way to avoid it, and it does say in the Koran that if there’s nothing else available, you can eat pork.
So he’s got his bases covered. And his theological basis for drinking beer is equally......creative. :)
let this be a learning experience, pandering to goathumpers is not good for the bottom line...
If an infadel pig tricks you into eating something unclean how many virgins do you lose? How much should a heavenly virgin be worth here on Earth?
Daklallah said there are only two McDonald's in the United States that sell halal products and both are in DearbornI'm in favor of halal products, assuming all of them can be poisoned for basically simultaneous consumption by muzzies -- problems solved.
“there are only two McDonald’s in the United States that sell halal products”
Wonder if they have the halal McRibs?
I still have to travel to Dearborn where I grew up because I still have relatives there but believe me Dearborn is has become a hell hole, the ragheads have taken it over. Next is Sharia law just wait.
It's a shame the same rule isn't in effect when muslims rape women, where it's the woman who gets stoned to death after being raped.
Must really suck to be a muslim woman.
Mark
“Any national fast food company stupid enough to pander to this nonsense deserves what it gets.”
Amen to that!
They are lucky someone like me does not work there, I would make a POINT of making sure that everything they sell was non Halal. Every single thing..
I have a friend who opened up the first Baskin Robbins ice cream drive thru in Michigan and it was located at 23 mile and Gratiot in Chesterfield Twp.
After about two years, the foundation started sinking, walls cracking........you name it. He had to sue the contractor who built the building, with no help from the Baskin Robbins corporation..........He lost the site and the franchise but he did settle with the contractor.
“Would they do that for Kosher customers? Oh, I forgot. They don’t serve Kosher food.”
There are Kosher McDonald’s in Israel, and I believe one in Buenos Aires as well. None in the US, that I know of. There are a number of Kosher Subway restaurants in NYC (and perhaps elsewhere). If it turned out that they were selling non-Kosher food, my guess is they’d be sued as well.
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