YouTuber MrBeast is being counter-sued for $100 million by Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind Beast Burger restaurants. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, shared in June that he was going to be “moving on” from his Beast Burger restaurants in order to concentrate more on his snack business with his chocolate bar brand Feastables. Just over two years ago Donaldson partnered with Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC) to launch over 2,000 ‘ghost kitchens’ to make Beast Burger available across the United States. VDC are suing Donaldson for failing to honour his contractual obligations, as well as intentional tortious interference. The lawsuit was filed on Monday morning in the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the County of New York. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The suit, obtained by Variety, is a response to Donaldson suing VDC and its parent company last month, wanting to terminate the deal for his restaurant chain, alleging the burgers it served were called “disgusting,” “revolting” and “inedible” which damaged his reputation. Last week, VDC hit back at the suit claiming it was “riddled with false statements and inaccuracies”, as well as calling it “meritless” and “ill-advised”. “This case is about a social media celebrity who believes his fame means that his word does not matter, that the facts do not matter, and that he can renege and breach his contractual obligations without consequence,” the suit states. “He is mistaken.” The counter-suit claims that Donaldson had breached the parties’ agreements and interfered with business dealings. As a result, it has damaged the reputation of MrBeast Burger and VDC, turned away customers and ruined relationships with suppliers and vendors. The lawsuit also contains examples of deleted tweets from the YouTube star’s account where he writes that he wished to close the burger business, writing: “the company I partnered with won’t let me stop even though it’s terrible for my brand.” VDC was co-founded by Robert Earl, who is the founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood. The company has backed celebrity brands including those from Mariah Carey and Mario Lopez. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

'Schitt's Creek' actress Emily Hampshire apologized for her Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial costume

On Tuesday, July 25, Liz Tran shared her journey towards inner success, trusting intuition, and the three key elements for a centered life

The famous marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities have been putting on their must-watch shows for decades

Ed Sheeran was joined onstage by local legend Eminem at his Detroit concert.

'If you go into something with the wrong energy, you ain’t gonna do it right,' said Offset

Many of Grado's headphones are prohibitively expensive, so we're happy to see that the top-end

Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for an upcoming Australian family drama starring

Here is why BT Sport is going to be called TNT Sports by the time the new season gets underway.

Amouranth seemed agitated as she placed the firecracker carefully on the ground, took a moment to gaze at the camera, before sprinting away

'She just started to back up toward me and looked at me and got close and elbowed me,' said Sage Steele

'1000-lb Sisters' stars Tammy Slaton flaunts slimmed down figure in sexy beach outfit