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While sex harassment by household Hollywood names dominate media coverage, little attention has focused on the sex harassment in the restaurant industry.

Former employees have sued the New York City location of Mission Chinese for unpaid wages and for being “a hotbed of racial discrimination.”

Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse in New York has been sued by servers claiming the restaurants failed to compensate them for overtime hours worked.

Il Mulino Manhattan, Il Mulino Tribeca, and Il Mulino Upper East Side were sued by former servers who claim that the restaurants cheated them out of their pay.

A sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the Louisville, Kentucky based restaurant chain, Indi's Fast Food Restaurant, has been settled for $340,000.

Pechman Law Group has filed two lawsuits against three locations of Mamoun’s Falafel in New York and New Jersey.

Le Bernardin, owed by celebrity chef Eric Ripert, has been sued for sexual harassment and wage theft violations.

Joshua Chaisson, co-founder of Restaurant Workers of America, writes an interesting piece on the Daily News about the benefits of the tipped minimum wage.

Fairfield restaurant to pay $244,930 in back wages and liquidated damages to eight employees, as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor.

With the minimum wage increasing across 18 states this January, some restaurants are having a tough time keeping up with the rise in labor costs.