'Boneless wings' suit against Buffalo Wild Wings doesn’t fly in federal court
Restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings can continue to serve “boneless wings,” even though the sauced chicken nuggets are not deboned chicken wings as a class action lawsuit purports they should be, according to a federal judge. (Image from Shutterstock)
Restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings can continue to serve “boneless wings,” even though the sauced chicken nuggets are not deboned chicken wings as a class action lawsuit purports they should be, according to a federal judge.
The dispute that Buffalo Wild Wings misled patrons by marketing “boneless wings” on its menu is not a “reasonable” assumption, according to U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. of the Northern District of Illinois.
The sports bar and grill restaurant offers regular bone-in chicken wings and the “boneless wings,” as reported by Legal Newsline.
According to Tharp, “A reasonable consumer would not think that BWW’s boneless wings were truly deboned chicken wings, reconstituted into some sort of Franken-wing.”
The ruling, issued Tuesday, follows a three-year attempt against Buffalo Wild Wings, which landed in a Chicago federal court in 2023. The law firm Treehouse Law in Los Angeles filed suit against the restaurant, representing Aimen Halim of Chicago.
Halim has until March 20 to file another version of his complaint.
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