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Last month, a Minneapolis man stopped at a popular chain restaurant to buy a tuna sandwich before his work shift started. He said he had already eaten half the sandwich, when he bit down on something hard — a thumbtack. He wasn't injured, but he went back to the store to see if there was a bulletin board near the prep area. When he didn't see one, he asked if the employees could try to track where the fish came from. Instead, they gave him coupons.
"Their response has been, 'We're not going to investigate it,'" he said. "They won't even make phone calls to their [tuna] suppliers to find out where this came from."
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