MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – A Lowcountry restaurant is speaking out after being accused in a lawsuit of selling falsely advertised locally caught wild shrimp.
Page’s Okra Grill took to social media Wednesday night, responding to the false advertising claims in a lawsuit filed against them and 39 other local seafood sellers by the South Carolina Shrimpers Association.
“We will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars this year on East Coast Wild Caught Shrimp. I am sure there may be someone doing more than that in Charleston but it’s not many,” Page’s explained. “We agree that restaurants should not advertise using all local shrimp on their menus, which is why we don’t do that, and so we are angry to be lumped in that category. We do not claim on any of our menus that our shrimp is all local or East Coast.”…