According to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Chipotle is keeping change from customers' orders, without their permission. The rounding up on tabs in some Chipotle chain locations has quickly added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from customers.
Yikes! Lawyer Frank Salpietro said he believes this is a move by corporate bosses: “It has become very clear that this is a top-down directive from the corporation, this is how they should handle the situation."
Fox News reports:
The state attorney general’s office has received at least seven complaints, reports said.
Corporate bosses are likely behind the move, a lawyer told the station.
One customer in Hampton, Pa., said she received $4 change on a bill of $15.51 instead of receiving $4.49 after paying with a $20 bill, KDKA reported. A restaurant employee simply withheld the remaining 49 cents, she claimed.
Another customer, in Pine, Pa., received $11 change on a bill of $8.72 instead of receiving $11.28 after paying with a $20 bill, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
“What we’ve learned is that they are telling people after they order their food and give their money to the cashier that they don’t have any change so they are not going to be able to give you the change,” Salpietro continued.
The complaint, filed Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, alleges hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars in consumer losses.https://t.co/7z4v2vZqHa
— TribLIVE.com (@TribLIVE) August 20, 2020
He added that he thinks the restaurant will use the so-called national coin shortage as an excuse, but he said that he isn't buying that.
“I understand that the pandemic is affecting all of us,” Salpietro added. “But that doesn’t give Chipotle the license to line its own pockets at the expense of consumers, particularly when you hide behind a coin shortage to justify taking more money than you should.”
Such actions can hurt customers who are struggling to make ends meet, according to KDKA.
There was no immediate response from the restaurant chain.
I don't see this ending well for the Mexican grill.
Trending Political News
Satanic Billie Eilish Cries 'Trump Destroying Everything We Care About'
Pop star Billie Eilish is a teenager who is mad at the world. Now her focus of anger is President Donald Trump.
The 18-year-old proclaimed on Wednesday at the Democrat National Convention that Trump “is destroying our country and everything we care about,” and “we all have to vote like our lives and the world depend on it.”
Harris DNC Speech: 'No Vaccine for Racism' — No Vaccine for Being a Whore Either
Senator Kamala Harris touched on the coronavirus pandemic as well as racial "injustice" during her speech at the Democratic National Convention.
She argued that there is an effect of “structural racism” and “injustice” in the United States, pointing out that minorities are being affected worse by the coronavirus.
Victory in California! Federal Appeals Court in California's Strikes Down Anti-2A Legislature
For hundreds of years, America has always seen as the land of opportunity. People have come from all over the world to have the change at a life of opportunity and freedom in America.
Countless people have come and experienced success or raised children who became successful. It has truly been a land of opportunity.
Savage Black Lives Matter Runs Over and Beats Raccoon, 'Only White People Worry About Animals'
Black Lives Matter only cares about one thing...themselves.
I mean that with all sincerity. I'm not saying that black people only care about themselves. These are two different things.
YES! This State Just Made It a Hate Crime to Harass Police Officers and First Responders
For those of us who are supportive of the police officers and what they're going through right now in having to deal with right now, there is some good news.
Amidst the massive surge in crime and violence and the calls to defund the police which would effectively eliminate the force that is protecting our society, the state of Georgia has made it a hate crime to harass our boys in blue.
Veteran Confronts Man With AK-47 'You're Not Shooting Anybody In This Store Today' (VIDEO)
There aren't a lot of people in the world, especially in the United States, who have the guts to confront a crazed gunman.
But for one military veteran, it was all in part of being a soldier and a citizen at the same time.
