Hilltop Steak House is a landmark restaurant in the Greater Boston area. It's not the best restaurant, but it has always been able to keep many customers happy; at one time it was considered to be the top-grossing privately owned restaurant in the country with sales of $26,000,000+.
As part of the deal the founder made when he sold out in 1988, he and his guests would always be able to get the best service available with minimum waiting time and would eat and drink for free. Well, as it will happen to all of us, the founder died in 2003. His heirs decided to sell the land on which the restaurant sat. The new owners said that this abrogated the "free meal" deal. The widow and her family said it did not and proceeded to sue. The appellate court ruled in the buyer's favor, but in today's litigious times that means little if there are deep enough pockets.
I wonder whether the legal fees will be less or more than the free meals the family has not had over ythe past few years.
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I would never eat at a restaurant that had a grudge against me. Cooks can do some nasty things to your food.
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