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National Restaurant Company Settles FTC Charges For Deceptive Gift Card Sales
Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns restaurant chains Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Smokey Bones, and Bahama Breeze, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it engaged in deceptive practices in advertising and selling its gift cards. As part of the settlement, Darden will restore fees that were deducted from consumers’ gift cards and disclose fees or expiration dates in future gift card sales. This is the agency’s second law enforcement action involving allegedly deceptive gift card sales.
“The FTC works to make sure consumers have the facts they need to make smart decisions, no matter what they’re buying,” said Lydia Parnes, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “When it comes to gift cards, issuers can’t gloss over key information. They must clearly and prominently disclose fees and restrictions that affect the use of their gift cards.”
According to the FTC’s complaint, Darden advertised its gift cards on television and radio, and in its restaurants and Web sites. Darden represented that consumers could redeem the cards to buy goods or services at its restaurants equal to the card’s monetary value. But Darden did not disclose adequately the “dormancy fees” that would be deducted after a certain period of time. For cards sold before February 2004, after 15 months of non-use, a $1.50 dormancy fee was deducted from the card’s balance for each month of inactivity; for cards sold after February 2004, the monthly fee was deducted after 24 months of non-use. Read more at ftc.gov.
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