Subway Uses ‘Various Concoctions’ Instead of Tuna, Suit Says (1)

Subway Restaurants Inc. dupes customers by selling “tuna” wraps and sandwiches that are “completely bereft of tuna as an ingredient,” a new proposed class suit in a California federal court alleges.

When reasonable consumers see a sandwich or wrap labeled as “tuna,” they reasonably expect that the food product “will indeed contain tuna,” plaintiffs Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin allege in a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Aware that consumers place a heightened value on the fish as an ingredient, Subway and affiliated companies consistently advertise the products as tuna, but ...