One suspects the difference the minute they enter the restaurant. By the time you’ve finished your appetizer you are throughly convinced. This isn’t a “real” Fridays. The food quality, the drinks, the service is all wrong. Indeed, like so many other rogue companies in the Bahamas, the proprietors have merely stolen a trademark name and are conducting business improperly.
Meanwhile, the “real” TGI Fridays, owned by Carlson Restaurants Worldwide is suing for trademark infringement. Yet another example of trademark and copyright abuse in one of the world’s most copyright abusive nations.
The TGI Friday’s restaurant chain and its parent, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, have filed a lawsuit in the Bahamas Supreme Court against DIMCAM Ltd, the management company for East Bay Street’s ‘Friday’s Soon Come’ knock-off restaurant, alleging a breach of trademark.
Attorneys for both parties confirmed this development yesterday. In an interview with The Tribune, Cheryl Whyms, an attorney with Graham Thompson and Co, said the lawsuit, filed three weeks ago, and a notice published in Monday’s Tribune came about because Carlson Restaurants did not want the Bahamian public to believe that Friday’s Soon Come restaurant was an authentic TGI Friday’s restaurant.
Source: Yolanda Deleveaux, The Tribune
