In-N-Out Burger sues YouTuber who it says posed as an employee

In-N-Out Burger is suing a fashionable YouTuber who it says posed arsenic an worker of the burger concatenation and filmed his interactions with customers, aboriginal posting the videos online. 

The lawsuit, filed successful territory tribunal successful cardinal California, alleges that net property Bryan Arnett impersonated an In-N-Out idiosyncratic by wearing a fake azygous bearing the company's trademarked branding. He duped customers into believing helium represented the marque successful bid to harm its reputation, the ailment claims. 

Arnett filmed himself engaging with customers arsenic helium made "lewd, derogatory and profane remarks," In-N-Out Burger states successful the suit. 

For example, portion impersonating an employee, helium led customers to judge that the company's nutrient contained cockroaches and condoms, the edifice concatenation alleges. He besides told customers that edifice associates "put their feet successful lettuce served to customers," the suit claims. 

Arnett did not instantly respond to CBS MoneyWatch's petition for comment.

In-N-Out, which was launched successful 1948 and is based successful Irvine, California, owns and operates restaurants successful California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Texas.

In-N-Out is suing Arnett for alleged trademark infringement and concern defamation, and is seeking to prohibition Arnett from its establishments. It besides wants to necessitate that helium region online posts and videos that notation to In-N-Out. The institution is suing for damages and immoderate profits helium mightiness person made from his videos.

The prank videos person since been removed from Arnett's nationalist YouTube channel and are nary longer viewable online. 

Arnett has astir 334,000 YouTube subscribers and shares videos online connected a scope of topics. In 1 video, for example, helium tested Planet Fitness' argumentation that lets premium members enactment retired arsenic agelong arsenic they privation by spending 24 hours astatine the gym.

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