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ADA Website Lawsuits: Restaurants & Food Service
Restaurants, cafés, bars, pizza shops, and food service operators with public-facing menu and ordering websites.
Total filings
14
YTD
0
2026 so far
Last 90 days
0
rolling
Repeat defendants
0
sued more than once
Most active states
Where restaurants & food service ADA filings cluster geographically.
Repeat defendants
Restaurants & Food Service businesses with more than one federal filing.
No repeat defendants in this industry yet.
Recent federal restaurants & food service filings
Most recent 14 filings on file. See the full tracker for everything.
| Date | Defendant | Plaintiff | District | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-25 | Big Jim's Bar & Grill, Inc. | Fernandez | E.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2025-09-25 | Kotobuki Restaurant, Inc. | Fernandez | E.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2025-09-25 | Chicken N Pickle, LLC | Crumwell | S.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2025-06-24 | GUMBYS PIZZA FRANCHISE LLC | EVANS | N.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2025-03-31 | Sonny's Franchise Company | Espinoza | S.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2025-03-31 | TAZIKIS INC | EVANS | N.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2024-12-31 | Landry's, Inc. | Clement | E.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2024-07-01 | Henry's Restaurant LLC | Fernandez | S.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2024-06-28 | Asian King 2827, Inc. | Layne | E.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2024-06-28 | USHG, LLC | Hernandez | E.D.N.Y. | View case → |
| 2024-06-28 | California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. | Ariza | S.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2024-06-28 | Ghost Kitchen, LLC | Ariza | M.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2023-09-29 | CAFE AMERICANO X BCC LLC | Lucius | S.D. Fla. | View case → |
| 2023-09-29 | Aventura Restaurant, LLC | Lucius | S.D. Fla. | View case → |
Restaurants & Food Service ADA lawsuits, in plain English
- Are restaurants & food service businesses common targets for ADA website lawsuits?
- Yes. Restaurants, cafés, bars, pizza shops, and food service operators with public-facing menu and ordering websites. We track 14 federal filings against restaurants & food service defendants in our dataset.
- Why do plaintiff firms target restaurants & food service sites?
- Restaurant sites combine menus, online ordering, reservations, and physical-location pages — each with its own set of accessibility failures. Menus rendered as inaccessible images, unlabeled order-modifier forms, and inaccessible booking widgets are common pain points.
- What WCAG criteria are most often cited in restaurants & food service lawsuits?
- The same five criteria show up in about 80% of all ADA website complaints regardless of industry: 1.1.1 (alt text), 1.4.3 (contrast), 2.1.1 (keyboard), 2.4.4 (link purpose), and 4.1.2 (name, role, value). Restaurants & Food Service sites typically add industry-specific issues: forms, menus, product filters, booking flows, or scheduling.
- How do I check if my own site is at risk?
- Run the same axe-core scan plaintiff firms use. It's free, takes about 60 seconds, and shows roughly what a serial filer's automated tool would find on your site.
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