JonR
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:25:00 PM
LMAO!1412006.jpg
shakedownma
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:26:00 PM
Fine print! if I have anything to say about it. I cant stop laughing.
shakedownma
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:27:00 PM
don't you need to have breasts to be employed at Hooters?
vegasryan777
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:28:00 PM
LMAO!
daveincincy
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:29:00 PM
They've lowered their standard considerably over the years. You could say they haven't stayed *abreast* of what made them famous.
rfenst
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:32:00 PM
She needs to show one single piece of paper, like a flyer or Memo to employees, promising the winner a Toyota and then she has a slam-dunk case.

Otherwise, she will win if other employees testify they were all promised the same prize should the win the contest.

Other than that, she might convince a jury against the testimony of her co-workers and management, but I doubt she could do this.

RandyB
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:32:00 PM
Wish I had that light saber 🙂
Thunder.Gerbil
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:41:00 PM
RE #6-

Don't tell that to her attorney.

He got her a hefty settlement out of the deal.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm 

shakedownma
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:42:00 PM
^

LMAO

RICKAMAVEN
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:57:00 PM
Former Hooters waitress settles toy Yoda suit

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won.

Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the restaurant's parking lot in a blindfold.

But when the blindfold was removed, she found she had won a new toy Yoda — the little green character from the Star Wars movies.

David Noll, her attorney, said Wednesday that he could not disclose the settlement's details, although he said Berry can now go to a local car dealership and "pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants."

After the stunt, Berry quit the restaurant and filed a lawsuit against Gulf Coast Wings, the restaurant's corporate owner, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation.

The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said the whole contest was an April Fools' joke.

pacman357
Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:10:00 PM
Ugh. Lowering their standards, Hooters is. A date with a burned-out light bulb I must have. Tee hee!
plinytheelder
Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:23:00 PM
Is anyone sure Hooters hired her?

She doesn't look well-endowed enough to work there.

Other than that, she got punk'd and didn't like it...

Too effin' bad.

Did her poor self-esteem take a hit...

Again, TOO EFFIN' BAD.

Didn't they teach her in grade school that sometimes

life ain't fair.

grmcooper
Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:59:00 PM
^^^^ LOL you got it Pat

Cooper

heynow5151
Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:53:00 PM
12. Author: plinytheelder Date: 04/10/2008 07:23 PM Reply

Is anyone sure Hooters hired her?

She doesn't look well-endowed enough to work there.

Yeah they should sue her for fraudulent misrepresentation !

Sharpshooter
Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:03:00 PM
#12

If they did that to your daughter, or worse, yet, YOU at YOUR job, would you be so sympathetic?

(Insert adage about one's own ox being gored}

I guess the "April's Fools" joke is on the manager who found that maturity is a good asset when you're in charge, especially when LEGAL issues come into play.

kms
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:13:00 PM
^Yeah, no kidding! Basically, they promised employee incentives for good performance and once it was time to pay up, reneged on the deal. I think most people would be pretty pissed off if that happened to them, and she should take whatever legal action possible.
hotdog64
Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:34:00 PM
My wife worked for the same owners up in Alabama. Lets just say they don't pick the brightest bulbs in the box for managers.
DrafterX
Friday, April 11, 2008 4:33:00 AM
Who got the Yoda tho?
Lowman
Friday, April 11, 2008 4:43:00 AM
I think Opie and Anthony did a skit and had a contest to win "A Hundred Grand"... The winner was excited and said, "I'm going to buy this and buy that"... Then Opie said, "How are you going to do that with a candy bar?"

Needless to say, the winner's response was totally beeped out...

LOL

Low

dkeage
Friday, April 11, 2008 4:46:00 AM
Building peoples hopes up, just to smash them..........good times.....