Dunkin’ Donuts settles fake-butter lawsuits
Posted On: Mar. 31, 2017 10:14 AM CST
A Massachusetts man couldn’t believe it was not real butter that Dunkin’ Donuts was smearing on his bagel. So he sued and got a settlement out of it, the Boston Globe reported Thursday.
In a pair of lawsuits filed in Massachusetts’ Suffolk County Superior Court in March, Jan Polanik accused more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in eastern and central Massachusetts of “a grand deception: using a butter substitute on his bagels, even though he had ordered the bagels with butter,” the Globe article states.
The suits each targeted a different group of related franchises and sought class action status to represent any customer who “ordered a baked product, such as a bagel, with butter, but instead received margarine or butter substitute between June 24, 2012, and June 24, 2016.”
The settlement terms will be filed with the court in the coming weeks, the man’s attorney told the Globe. The doughnut chain has not commented on the suits.