Hooters waitress won a toyota!

aKho · 23rd Jan 2006, 11:24 AM

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A former Hooters waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest.

Instead she won a new toy Yoda -- the little green Jedi master from Star Wars.

Jodee Berry, 26, then a waitress at the Hooters in Panama City Beach, won a contest to see who could sell the most beer in April.

Manager Jared Blair told waitresses that the contest was a regional promotion, according to the lawsuit, and that the top 10 waitresses from each restaurant would be entered in a drawing. The person whose name was drawn would win a "new Toyota automobile," the lawsuit says Blair told them.

In early May, Berry said, Blair told her she had won.

"I couldn't believe that out of all the girls who were entered, I was the winner," Berry said.

She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot. When the blindfold was removed, Berry wasn't looking at a new car, but a Yoda doll.

Berry said she looked beyond the $40 toy, hoping to see the car driving around the corner. Blair, she said, was inside the restaurant laughing. But she wasn't.

"A corporation can't lead their employees on like that," Berry said. "It's not good business ethics. They can't do that to people."

Berry quit the restaurant a week later.

She sued Gulf Coast Wings, owners of the restaurant, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation. She is seeking as compensation, the cost of a new Toyota -- the car.

Her lawyer, Stephen West of Pensacola, said he was also looking at false advertising statutes.

West said one other Hooters waitress verified Berry's story.

Berry said Blair knowingly misled them through the course of the contest by telling the employees he didn't know what kind of Toyota it would be -- whether a car, truck or van. The suit contends that he also told them the winner would be responsible for the tax on the new automobile.

West said those statements would go a long way toward defeating any defense argument that Berry misunderstood Blair.

The restaurant regularly had contests where management would come through with the promised prize, said Berry, who worked at Hooters for about a year before quitting.

Stuart Houston, a spokesman for the company, said it had not been served with the lawsuit yet and he would not comment.

source : http://www.sptimes.com/News/072801/S...a__toy_Y.shtml

1031982 · 23rd Jan 2006, 01:34 PM

Come on, she won a CAR, not a really cool action figure! Wait... I want that Yoda! lol! But really there are a lot of issues that will arise with this, and Golf Coast Wings is making a BIG mistake going against this. Best thing they could have done was simply go through with the promotion. I hope she gets her Toyota...

Dashken · 24th Jan 2006, 12:21 AM

Maybe everyone heard it wrongly... Toy-Yoda for a Toyota?

Donutey · 24th Jan 2006, 07:35 AM

i kinda remember this story from a while back... didn't this happen two years ago (roughly)? I don't know, i doubt anything came of the lawsuit...

aKho · 24th Jan 2006, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Donutey

i kinda remember this story from a while back... didn't this happen two years ago (roughly)? I don't know, i doubt anything came of the lawsuit...

http://www.sptimes.com/News/072801/..._a__toy_Y.shtml

looking at the link, i think it's probably from the year 2001.
nevertheless, still an interesting read.

Olle P · 24th Jan 2006, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Dashken

Maybe everyone heard it wrongly... Toy-Yoda for a Toyota?

I think that was supposed to be the joke from the employers side, but had the manager not intended to mislead the waitresses they wouldn't have had the price ceremony in the parking lot, would they?

Cheers
Olle

Adrian Wong · 24th Jan 2006, 05:49 PM

Hmm.. Sounds intentional, but it was not just a contest to see who has the best kept fingernails. It was a contest to see who sold the most beer, which is financially beneficial to Hooters. So, I'd say she deserved what the company promised - a Toyota... not a Toy Yoda.

Olle P · 24th Jan 2006, 07:26 PM

I think the manager could have gotten away a bit easier by at least giving her a toy car, of Toyota model. Not that it would have been much better, but at least he'd used a more plausible loop hole...

/Olle

acedriver · 24th Jan 2006, 09:09 PM

slow news day?

terry99 · 25th Jan 2006, 02:53 AM

This is a blonde joke, isn't it? Surely something like this wouldn't even happen in the US.

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