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Are they sure that’s not just the air from Jersey?
In New York, a condominium board has filed a lawsuit against a Subway franchise. Folks in the condo are pissed off over the smell that comes from the neighboring Subway whenever it’s baking bread, alleging that the building is being “inundated with strong and nauseating food odors.” The Subway odor allegedly seeps into the building’s basement, lobby and stairwell, and reaches as far up as the 46th floor.
The franchise’s owner, Tae Hyun Shin, says he’s tried to work with the condo, but they haven’t given him enough time. For example, he offered to pay for any necessary dry-cleaning, and he also offered to install a $3,500 ventilation system to redirect the baking odor. And it sounds like Shin may be right, because check this out: the odor started two weeks ago, after the Subway opened. The lawsuit was filed on Friday, and on Saturday, the installation of the Subway ventilation system was finished - and according to a weekend attendant in the building, the smell has been gone since Saturday. Plus, a city inspector from the Department of Environmental Protection has been to the Subway, but no summons was issued.
But none of this has stopped the condo board from asking for over half-a-million dollars from the Subway franchise, which boggles owner Shin’s mind. An immigrant, he said, “I heard that America is a lawsuit country, but this is really….”
Yup. Welcome to America, Mr. Shin.
(Actually, Shin immigrated over 20 years ago, so he should consider himself lucky that it took over two decades to get himself sued.)
