Food Truck Owners Respond to Kellogg’s Lawsuit

(filed as part of Kellogg’s exhibits in U.S. District Court documents)

The owners of a Findlay food truck have responded after being sued by a giant in the food industry.

Kellogg filed a lawsuit this month against the owners of Leggo My Eggroll in U.S. District Court in Toledo.

The suit claims that the owners infringed on their copyrighted slogan L’Eggo my Eggo,” which is used to promote the company’s Eggo frozen waffles.

(filed as part of Kellogg’s exhibits in U.S. District Court documents)

Kellogg also accused the food truck owners of utilizing a font and color scheme that appears to similar to Eggo packaging.

The company claims they offered to pay the operators $5,000 to change the name, but filed a lawsuit after the food truck operators allegedly “ignored Kellogg’s requests and responded with its own threats and demands.”

On Thursday, the owners posted a response on its Facebook page, highlighting their court documents calling the company’s claims false, inflammatory and improper.

They claim that negotiations and honest dialogue do not amount to threatening language.

This is their complete response:

Good afternoon, good people! We would like to clear up a few topics that have been floating around the media that had been posted in this law suit that are very untrue false statements.

1. The ignoring Kelloggs… we have sent all information to our lawyer from the very start. They were always in contact.
2. We are legally allowed by law to run and work our truck. This is not an illegal truck and we will do so until otherwise stated by our lawyer.
3. The “threats and demands” our lawyer and myself “Gabryel” talked with the lawyer about negotiations. This was meaning offers to not just close down completely. (Why would we? By court of law we haven’t done anything wrong) they waited until our opening week after being closed all winter to offer us to close down after only being open one year. (Playing nasty) kelloggs was aware we close in the winter so to offer to close us down the week we open was extreme considering full booking.
4. We did seek legal advice and had a lawyer make our llc before opening. Giving a fun play on words.
5. Yes this is a billion dollar company who is going to sell our community lies and paint us like we are bad people for not taking 5k to close down our llc business for our whole season. As a food truck we are only open seasonly. We also have bills to pay and mouths to feed, as well as employees to pay.. We are opening up to speak with all media with our lawyers as of this week.
6. Kelloggs didn’t want to work with us. They chose to take this route and either shut us down or sue us.. we stand firm knowing we are in fact a way smaller company but we will not accept cooperate bullying.
7. We will sell our wonderful fresh food (fresh cut veggies) and grilled fresh meat to our supporters and community along with friends and family and we will let the laws and lawyers work themselves out. This case is between our lawyer and ourselves.
8. We have attached a piece of the document stating that information was not true and as well can also be looked up online.

Thank you to our friends and family as well as our local foodies who support us during this crazy part of life! If u know us personally which a lot of you do then you know are intentions are always in hearts and we will not take this bullying or trolling.

We will not be responding to any information regarding our case as our lawyer advised and we will not be responding to negative nasty mean comments either.
Thank you Bobby & Gabryel

Kellogg has said they had no choice but the file a lawsuit, and they are now seeking to “recover all gains and profits that “L’Eggo my Eggroll” has made while using the name.