Posted on 05/09/2002 1:50:36 PM PDT by jpthomas
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."
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No, Hooters girls usually have big floppy tits. That is NOT HOT. Neither are FAKE tits.
"HOT" is just enough for a mouthful. Anything bigger is for nursing septuplets.
Michael
Besides, given her looks, perhaps they were trying to send her a message with "Yoda".
Only after a ton of makeup, a tight t-shirt, tight shorts, and a couple of beers.
What was the "wild accusation"? Hooters claimed that the winner of their beer-selling contest would get a Toyota. When the time came to pay up, the contest prize was now a toy Yoda -- as if anybody other than a Star Wars fanatic would consider that a decent prize. There are lots of frivolous lawsuits out there, but this isn't one of them.
Clearly fraud.. they manipulated their wait staff to sell more product for them.. in a promise for a reasonable reward.....
Idiot manager, hope his salary was docked for the full amount of the settlement.
Dude was clearly stuck on stupid... much like this Fox Sports crew is....
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