The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that in September, 2022, poultry-processing executive Augo Pinho followed a black pickup truck through traffic, watching the vehicle make stops at three Popeyes locations across the Greater Toronto Area. The Globe's Susan Krashinsky writes that at each stop, the driver delivered boxes through the back door. The surveillance mission was the result of a tip Mr. Pinho had received from a poultry wholesaler: Someone named Amjad Farooq had been buying "significant quantities" of raw chicken, and had mentioned reselling the meat to Popeyes. Mr. Pinho, president of ADP Direct Poultry, had received an unusual number of complaints from Popeyes about its chicken: it was discoloured, smelled or rotten. ADP's allegations are now at the centre of a bizarre court case. ADP in May sued Popeyes' parent company, Restaurant Brands International, along with a number of Popeyes franchisees. The lawsuit alleges that at least two dozen Popeyes locations in the GTA bought "rotten" and "unsafe" meat from Mr. Farooq, who sometimes stored the meat in a residential garage that lacked proper refrigeration or freezing procedures -- as did the vehicles in which the chicken was transported.