By now I think you all know that Vinnie's has been caught with their pants down by a local TV station not once but twice. Now a Charlotte Observer article reveals they are still guilty of substituting inferior product for advertised premium menu items.
The Guy Harvey lab tested samples of their Famous Grouper sandwich and found it didn't contain Grouper. They have since had to change their motto " Home of the Grouper Sandwich"
You think that they would have learned their lesson the first time but the TV investigative reporter came back the next year and found they were still substituting other cheaper fish but marketing and charging Grouper prices.
They lied not once or twice but now a third lie is uncovered. Jen Aronoff of the Charlotte Observer in a 5/13/2010 front page article titled "Oil spill leaving mark on menus" interviewed Vinnie's area supervisor David Broach and he admitted that Vinnie's substitutes small gulf shrimp for Calabash shrimp on their menu.
I don't know about the rest of you but when a menu advertises an item as Grouper or Calabash shrimp and charge premium prices I expect to get what I paid for.
I'm boycotting Vinnie's in favor of Captain D's. I guess when I pay $2.99 at D's instead of $12.99 at Vinnie's I won't feel as bad.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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