BLT Restaurant Group LLC sued celebrity chef Laurent Tourondel, who developed its BLT Steak and BLT Burger restaurants, over claims he infringed its trademarks with his new burger place in New York’s Hamptons.

BLT Restaurant Group said in a complaint in federal court in Manhattan today that Tourondel and his partner, Michael Cinque, opened a restaurant in Sag Harbor in July that “mimics plaintiff’s well-known line of restaurants.”

Tourondel, formerly the chef of Cello in New York, worked for BLT Restaurant Group until February, according to the complaint.

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