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Chicken Delight franchisees paid a little extra for each paper cup, each paper plate, the chicken-coating mix, etc., providing the franchisor with income for corporate operations, advertising, and profit. Some franchisees (and their legal representatives) believed this scheme ran afoul of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which requires that the franchisor not sell products above fair market value. In the 1960s a lawsuit was filed on behalf of 94 franchisees and, in 1971, the plaintiffs won a precedent-setting ruling from the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that broke the franchise contract for all stores and awarded damages to the plaintiffs. (
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Zealand in 2018 to complete a one-year graduate diploma in Mechatronics (Robotics). He immediately joined Lime E-scooter Company for one and a half years as a mechanic and was promoted to Mechanic In-charge and then to Regional Manager for Hamilton, NZ. In December 2020, Tushar moved to Canada to start working in the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy with Dipak as Marketing Manager. In the fall of 2021, Tushar began managing restaurants in Alberta.
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Chicken Delight outlets was lax. The company was thus fighting the battle with people who, having had a bad experience in one outlet, generalized that to the entire chain, then told their
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Sukhadiya became President of Chicken Delight of Canada Ltd when he acquired the group of companies with his family friend Dipak. Tushar studied Mechanical Engineering in 2015 and studied Mechanical design courses such as AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventory and SolidWorks in 2017. Tushar
215:. The jingle "Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight," emphasizing their delivery and take-out services, was widely advertised on American radio and television during the 1960s. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the chain's mascot was a chicken with a chef's hat, holding a plate of biscuits.
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