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Giulio Cesare Ristorante, a long-time Italian restaurant on Long Island was hit with a lawsuit alleging wage theft and tip violations.

Celebrity chef Chris Santos has been sued for wage theft by former bussers of his popular restaurant Beauty & Essex.

A restaurant chain has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a wage theft case that alleged that 300 immigrant workers were cheated out of overtime wages.

Attorneys Lillian Marquez and Laura Rodriguez appeared on ABC’s Tiempo to discuss wage theft in the restaurant industry in New York and waiterpay.com.

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill has agreed to pay $2.5M to settle wage theft claims of approximately 7,050 servers at Firebirds restaurants across the country.

The minimum wage increase, which raised the hourly wage for restaurant employees to as high as $15.00, may have negative consequences for those workers.

Fig & Olive restaurants in New York have been sued by servers, bussers, food runners and bartenders for wage theft violations.

Francisco’s Centro Vasco, an old-school seafood restaurant that operated in the Chelsea from 1979 to 2018, has agreed to settle a wage theft lawsuit for $700K

Wage theft at NYC diners was the subject of a Gothamist article, which notes that this is “a problem that plagues thousands of restaurant workers in NYC.”

With the year coming to an end, it is important to be aware that the minimum wage rate for New York State restaurant employees will increase in 2019.