TheQuartering [8/1/23]
Famed YouTube star MrBeast is suing the company that makes his popular MrBeast Burger for allegedly serving severely undercooked meats that were “inedible.”
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, wants to end the business relationship with Florida-based Virtual Dining Concepts for causing “irreparable harm” to his reputation, according to the lawsuit filed in New York District Court on Monday.
The complaint claims Virtual Dining “was not focused on controlling the quality of the MrBeast Burger customer experience and products” as it sought to grow its ghost kitchen concept.
“As a result, MrBeast Burger has been regarded as a misleading, poor reflection of the MrBeast brand that provides low-quality products to customer that are delivered late, in unbranded packaging, fail to include the ordered items, and in some instances, were inedible,” according to the court filing obtained by The Post.
Donaldson, who boasts more than 172 million subscribers on his YouTube and makes millions off advertising revenue, opened MrBeast’s first brick-and-mortar outpost at New Jersey’s American Dream mall last September that drew more than 2,000 fans who camped out overnight.
But the reviews of his burger operation have been as rancid as the alleged products being served, according to several examples cited in the lawsuit.
“Finally ordered our first Mr. Beast burger and then realized after the first bite that it was mostly just raw meat,” wrote a Reddit user cited in the complaint.