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North Texas man sues Cinemark claiming 24-ounce beer cups can't hold 24 ounces (www.fox4news.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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A North Texas man has filed a class action lawsuit against Cinemark, claiming the movie theater chain is lying to customers about the size of its drinks.

Shane Waldrop claims that Cinemark's 24 ounce cups can only hold 22 ounces of liquid, according to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

On Feb. 14, Waldrop went to the Cinemark in Grapevine and purchased the 20 ounce and 24 ounce draft beer.

He noticed the 24 ounce cup did not appear to be big enough to hold 4 more ounces of liquid.

Waldrop took the empty container home and measured how much it could hold, discovering it only held 22 ounces.

Waldrop and his legal team says the movie theater chain is taking part in "deceptive" and "otherwise improper" business practices that violate state and federal laws about misbranding.

"This is especially misleading because the 24 oz drink should provide a deal for consumers over the 20 oz drink’s price: $0.37 per ounce vs. $0.39 per ounce. But due to the actual volume of 22 oz available in the ‘24 oz’ drink, the price is $0.40 per ounce making the larger drink more expensive per ounce, which is not a deal at all," reads the lawsuit.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 86 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

In Canada a pint is a legal measurement of 20oz / 568ml

If you advertise beer on the menu as a pint, it must be at least 19.5oz excluding head(allowable margin of error)

What happens though is countless places advertise a pint, and then give you something like 16-18oz which is against the law.

It's gets harder tell what you're getting as well when they serve in non standard pint glasses, or glasses without a pint mark.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

bring your own pint glass. and a lawyer to every bar you go to. bam ez money

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Pay for your law degree this way then be the lawyer to save on costs! Travel the country for free indefinitely!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Ah, so that's what the 4th Littlest Hobo remake is going to be like.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

This is something that happens every year at the Oktoberfest in Munich. Legally, the "Maß" should be 1l, but the standards office regularly measure the contents way below that mark, even if one allows for a certain margin of error.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So the legal requirement in Canada is not an actual pint?

[–] RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a pint. Just not a US pint.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is this some imperial joke I'm too metric to understand?

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Imperial pints are standardized as 20fl.oz. But the US uses cups to measure pints instead of fluid ounces. In the US each pint is 2 cups, and each cup is 8fl.oz. So in the US, a pint is actually 4fl.oz smaller, because it’s measured in cups instead of fl.oz.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You're in a band?

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

An imperial pint is 20 fl oz, a US pint is 16 fl oz.

[–] FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

If they can't even do the stupid units right then it's no wonder they don't like the sensible ones!