Megu Restaurant Hit With Tip and Overtime Lawsuit

Servers at Megu restaurant have filed a lawsuit claiming that the upscale Japanese restaurant violated various federal and state law pay requirements. Lawyers for the workers claim that the restaurant improperly forced waiters and waitresses to share their tips with sushi chefs who had no contact with customers. The lawsuit also claims that the restaurant altered the servers’ time sheets so that they were not paid for all the time they worked. The class action complaint in this case seeks tip credit damages, disgorgement of the tips that were improperly taken from the tip pool, payment of unpaid overtime, attorneys’ fees, and other remedies.