March 06, 2024
Choice Hotels has been ordered to pay a roughly $780,000 arbitration award after dozens of South Asian franchisees earlier fought the hotel chain's bid to arbitrate their claims that a vendor kickback scheme cost them $61 million.
August 13, 2020
Dozens of Choice Hotels franchisees are fighting the hospitality company's attempt to arbitrate their claims that a vendor kickback scheme cost them $61 million and that the chain more aggressively enforces its contracts against Indian and other South Asian franchisees.
June 15, 2020
Dozens of Choice Hotel International Inc. franchisees accused the hotel chain in Pennsylvania federal court Friday of discriminating against Indian American and South Asian American hoteliers and of a kickback scheme that they say scored the company $61 million last year.