McDonald’s pays out $700,000 to Muslim community after restaurant ‘falsely claimed its food was halal’
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 24, 2013 0:53
McDonald’s has agreed to pay out $700,000 to members of Michigan’s Muslim community after one of its restaurants allegedly wrongly claimed to be serving halal food.
The situation came to light after local resident Ahmed Ahmed said he bought a chicken sandwich in September 2011 in a franchise restaurant in the Dearborn neighbourhood of Detroit.
He claims he later discovered the food was not halal, despite signs in the restaurant suggesting it had been prepared according to Islamic requirements.
Mr Ahmed said that after discovering his food was not halal, he approached a lawyer and together they conducted an investigation.
A letter sent to McDonald’s and Finley’s Management by lawyers said Mr Ahmed had “confirmed from a source familiar with the inventory” that the restaurant had sold non-halal food “on many occasions”.
After they claimed to have received no response to the letter, Mr Ahmed’s lawyers filed a lawsuit as part of a class action.
McDonald’s and Finley’s Management reportedly agreed to the tentative $700,000 settlement, with the money to be shared by Mr Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers.
The company added it trains its employees on preparing halal food and ‘requires strict adherence to the process’.
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