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A federal judge has filed a lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings, accusing the sports bar chain of deceiving customers by selling boneless wings without chicken wings.
Judge John Tharp Jr. dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court in 2023 by Aymen Halim, who claimed he was misled into buying what Tharp described in a Feb. 17 ruling obtained by USA TODAY as “essentially chicken nuggets.”
“His allegations are without merit,” Tharp wrote.
Mr. Halim accused Buffalo Wild Wings of falsely selling “boneless wings” in violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Halim argued in his lawsuit that he expected to receive “deboned chicken wings (i.e., composed entirely of chicken wing meat),” according to the ruling.
Tharp noted in his ruling that the cauliflower wing option appears under the wings section of the menu and should not cause customer confusion.
“If Mr. Halim’s claims are correct, a reasonable consumer would believe that cauliflower wings are made (at least in part) from feather meat,” Tharp wrote. “But they aren’t.”
Tharp gave Halim until March 20 to amend the case to present additional facts that would allow the case to be reopened, but expressed skepticism about the ruling.
“It is unlikely that Mr. Halim could provide further facts about his experience that would show that BWW is deceptive by calling Nugget ‘Boneless Wings,'” Tharp wrote.
USA TODAY reached out to Mr. Halim’s attorney for comment late Monday.
