Customers: KFC Giveaway Clucked Up Our Lives

KFCHell hath no fury like a chicken lover scorned -- as you'll see in this lawsuit filed by people who are pissed over KFC's free chicken giveaway.

James Asanuma just filed the suit on behalf of KFC fans everywhere, saying the chain's May giveaway was nothing short of a scam to deceive its customers into spending more dough.

The lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, says KFC promised everyone "2 pieces of grilled chicken, two individual sides and a biscuit" -- but the promotion, which was promoted on the "Oprah Winfrey Show," turned out to be so popular they couldn't meet the demand.

And that's when the biscuit hit the fan.

The suit says that because KFC couldn't dish out the food as promised, they were forced to give vouchers for free food in the future.

The suit says this "bait and switch" caused customers to incur "travel costs, paper and printing costs, postage, the money they spent on other food items at KFC on visits when they had intended to redeem the Coupon ... and the loss of the value of the promised Meal."

James is suing KFC, because he's hungry for a little payback.



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91. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, paper and printing costs? This lawyer should be disbarred.

Posted at 2:27AM on Jun 19th 2009 by George

92. KFC didn't honor the coupon at any of their Hawaii locations, and when I left messages at their office, no one called back. KFC lost alot of customers in Hawaii and across the nation.

Posted at 10:22PM on Jun 19th 2009 by mona

93. What a rridiculous lawsuit! Get a life, loser!

Posted at 10:03PM on Jun 21st 2009 by This Neocon

94. pathetic that people in the usa sue over a little meal lost.... The fat nation has spoken!!!

Posted at 9:07PM on Jun 26th 2009 by wickedcora

95. here in ohio they told us that they were getting fake coupons and that they needed to send them in to verify if they were real or not. once verified they would send us a coupon(four per household, which we only recieved two so far). they never told us that they ran out because the one on woodville rd. had plenty of grilled chicken when i visited all four times.

Posted at 9:51AM on Jun 27th 2009 by ice t

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