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. Get it?An attorney for Jodee Berry (left) said 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. I mean, Toy Yoda. If they have those at car dealers, I mean."
This settlement is unusual in that Hooters did not ask for a sweeping confidentiality agreement, Noll said. "It confused me to no end."
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 because she heard "Toyota" when, in actuality, the company said "Toy Yoda."
She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot. When the blindfold was removed, she found she was the winner of a toy Yoda Star Wars doll. She was less than thrilled and a bit miffed.
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 - which are really big words that sound really legal and scary to Gulf Coast Wings, Inc. executives.
The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said the whole contest was an April Fools' joke and noted that Hooter's bills itself as "Delightfully Tacky, Yet Unrefined."
"The April Fool's Committee thought this was one of the funniest pranks in the history of the company - outside, of course, the fact that we make our money by asking nubile young women to serve mediocre food and drinks. That we cannot top."
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