Subway is striking back after a lawsuit alleged its tuna salad contains no actual tuna salad.
The lawsuit, filed Jan. 21 in the U.S. Northern District of California by two California residents, Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin, claims Subway Restaurants Inc. engaged in intentional and negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, common-law fraud and violated federal and state laws against false advertising by calling the filling used in in its sandwiches and wraps tuna when in reality, it is completely bereft of tuna as an ingredient.
According to the lawsuit, Subway packaged, advertised, marketed, distributed and sold the Products to consumers based on the misrepresentation that the products were manufactured with tuna. In reality, it claims, independent testing revealed the filling in the Products has no scintilla of tuna at all. In fact, the Products entirely lack any trace of tuna as a component, let alone the main or predominant ingredient.
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Lawsuit claims Milford-based Subway used fake tuna in sandwiches
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Subway staff in 2015 at a sandwich shop in Seattle. In January 2021, California plaintiffs retained a major law firm to oversee a lawsuit against Milford, Conn.-based Subway, claiming that tuna sandwiches purchased at an unspecified number of California shops contained no tuna which the company disputes.Ted S. Warren / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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A Subway Footlong tuna sandwich from a Connecticut shop of the Milford-based chain.Alexander SouleShow MoreShow Less
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In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Subway customers claim that tests on tuna sandwiches sold at multiple shops in California did not contain tuna at all.
McDonaldâs, Subway, and other franchises got $15.6 billion in small-business funds
By Jonathan OâConnell and Andrew Van Dam Washington Post,Updated January 28, 2021, 5:06 p.m.
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All 20,000-plus Subway locations in the United States are independent franchises. Among fast-food chains, some 4,278 Subways took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press/File 2015
WASHINGTON â Franchises of Subway, McDonaldâs, hotel chains, auto dealerships, and other big businesses received a total of $15.6 billion from the governmentâs emergency coronavirus loan program for small businesses, according to data released by the Small Business Administration in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.