Summary
holding that McDonald's franchisees could be required to operate only on premises leased to them by the parent company and this was not an illegal tying arrangement, because “the challenged aggregation is an essential ingredient of the franchised system's formula for success,” making the franchise and the premises lease “a single product.”
Summary of this case from Dunkin' Donuts Franchising LLC v. CDDC Acquisition Co. (In re FPSDA I, LLC)Opinion
Nos. 80-1332, 80-1335.
May 4, 1981, October TERM, 1980.
C.A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 629 F. 2d 809.