Food Network Lied and Cheated, Contestant Says
Food Network Lied and Cheated, Contestant Says
QUEENS, N.Y. (CN) - The Food Network cheated a reality-show contestant out of a promised frozen yogurt franchise, the man claims in court.
Kris Herrera sued Television Food Network, Scripps Network Interactive, Yogurt City, Cineflex Productions and others, in Queens County Supreme Court.
Kris Herrera claims the network lied to him to get him to participate in the show, telling him a yogurt chain was filming a "corporate video" to document his life as a manager of one of the franchise's stores.
The premise of the show, "Giving You the Business," is that the CEO of a major food chain "selects four standout employees as contestants and secretly puts them through a contest involving a series of tests and outrageous challenges that place each contestant in situations of ridicule, embarrassment, and false light," Herrera says in the complaint.
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The next day, the defendants informed him at a TV studio that he and three other managers were participants in the television show. They also told him that he had won, and would be given his own 16 Handles franchise store, Herrera says in the complaint.
But after filming ended, "defendants began advising plaintiff that he was only going to be awarded a 'part of a franchise' or a 'stake in a franchise' as opposed to his own franchise store as promised during the filming of the episode," according to the lawsuit.
Herrera claims he asked what percentage of a franchise he would be awarded, but he never got a response.
Instead, he claims, he got an email offering him one share of common stock in Yogurt City. The contract restricts him from selling the share, and says that he loses it if he ever leaves the company, Herrera says.
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Fine print reads: "A dollar a year for a million years." 
