YouTuber MrBeast is being sued by the company that runs MrBeast Burger, a virtual restaurant chain and its ghost kitchens, for failing to honor his contractual obligations and interfering with business—with damages allegedly exceeding $100 million.... [+]
American Dream on September 4, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Jimmy Donaldson sued the operator of MrBeast Burger to get out of the contract on July 31, 2023, but Virtual Dining Concepts countersued on August 7, 2023. Virtual Dining Concepts, VDC, and subsidiary Celebrity Virtual Dining, filed suit against MrBeast—whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson—Monday morning in New York.
The suit alleges Donaldson didn’t meet promotional obligations and goes further to say he made “disparaging comments” about MrBeast Burgers and VDC that caused irreparable harm, pointing to a number of now deleted tweets in which Donaldson said he wanted to end the partnership and signed a bad deal, according to a copy of the suit obtained byVDC argues in the suit that the restaurant—MrBeast Burger—and company suffered a damaged or destroyed reputation from Donaldson’s statements, including...
on Twitter he was closing MrBeast Burger by tweeting “when working with 2,000 restaurants I don’t own it’s impossible to guarantee the order quality” and that he was “moving on.”