{"id":9575,"date":"2018-05-15T12:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=69c99c015b946d5e3ce1e23f6f997224"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:12:37","slug":"tim-hortons-franchisee-sues-parent-company-for-4-million-over-licence-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/tim-hortons-franchisee-sues-parent-company-for-4-million-over-licence-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hortons franchisee sues parent company for $4 million over licence renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A franchisee is suing the parent company of Tim Hortons after he says it acted in bad faith when declining to renew a licence for one of his stores.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Kuziora filed the $4-million suit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the TDL Group Corp., a subsidiary of parent company Restaurant Brands International, on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>It claims the company refused to renew his licence, which expires at the end of August, for a location at 200 Bay Street in downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, Kuziora believed the company would renew his licence if he committed to renovate the location &#8212; an arrangement the company allegedly makes with all its franchisees.<\/p>\n<p>It says the company acted in bad faith and was motivated to reject Kuziora&#8217;s renewal because he is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the company, is a member of an unsanctioned group representing franchisees concerned with what they say is mismanagement of the chain, and other factors.<\/p>\n<p>Neither RBI nor Tim Hortons immediately responded to a request for comment, and none of the allegations have been proven in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A franchisee is suing the parent company of Tim Hortons after he says it acted in bad faith when declining to renew a licence for one of his stores. Mark Kuziora filed the $4-million suit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the TDL Group Corp., a subsidiary of parent company Restaurant Brands International, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}