Roasting Plant franchisee suing for $9.5 million, citing fraudulent profit forecast

February 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Mike Shehadi, owner of two local Roasting Plant coffee shops, is suing Roasting Plant founder and CEO Mike Caswell, Thomas Hartocollis, the company's chief sales and marketing officer, and the New York-based parent company itself for fraud. Shehadi claims that the amount of profits he was promised were...