Should an Islamic bank be allowed to force a Christian owned US business to comply with Shari'a?

Depends mostly on where and what country that business is located.

They should have looked elsewhere for a loan then. After the original contract ran out, then that ownership rule was forced onto the company by the bank.

I see it didn't take long for Arcapita to sell their investment either.

Which goes to show you that profits are the bottom line in business and not moral or immoral laws.

Well, if they own the restaurant, I guess they have the right to make it follow any plan they choose, even if this makes the business fail.

Of course, they will suffer the consequences of making a business they own fail. One would think that they'd check out the market conditions before buying a restaurant chain....

And hey, there are a lot of things besides pork you can eat for breakfast. Pancakes, grits, eggs, waffles, toast, biscuits and gravy [doesn't have to be pork gravy], hash browns, steak, etc. And I assume there's no prohibition against "ham" and "bacon" made from other kinds of meat....

Somebody wasn't thinking ahead!

>>> So this means that in the future, as franchisees' contracts come up for renewal, they too will be prohibited from selling pork? Wow!

It does seem unfair that the franchisee had no option in the matter, and no knowledge of the fact that this would happen.

I really don't know anything about franchise law, but the Bank may have committed a legal faux pas here. I'm sure that a franchisee does have some rights.

BTW, this isn't the universal attitude of Muslim business people. I have heard and read of Muslim restaurant owners and managers who consider it their duty [opposite of haram!] to serve appropriate foods to non Muslims, and even to taste the pork products to make sure they are up to standards! So, though they wouldn't eat pork as a normal matter, they must taste it [if their job calls for this] and serve it to customers.

This isn't a religious question, this is a legal one.

The owner of the corporation have the right to make whatever decisions they want.

As you said, outlets who have not renewed their franchise contracts as yet were still permitted to sell pork products. Therefore, as a condition of the renewed franchise license they will have to comply with the new regulations if they want to remain a franchisee.

Simple.

Church's Chicken went broke??

But on their website it says there are thousands of active franchises:

http://www.churchs.com/company-history.html

I live in Houston and see them everywhere.

To answer your question, if the bank owns a company, the bank has the right to dictate how that company should be operated.

The franchisees or executives shouldn't have decided to sell shares, or seek financing from, a bank that has Sharia based restrictions.

If they sign the contract they're legally obligated to following it. There's an importance to reading the fine print.

No, but you should be able to circumvent the company headquarters and buy the pork products more directly from another source.

There's two Church's in my town. Care to give a reference?

Psh. Please. Last time I went to Church's the employers were mean to me. And the chicken sucked really bad. I just go to Popeye's!

Capitalism in action.

Nope.

why did the chicken cross the road???