Wage Theft

The restaurant empire of Seattle chef Tom Douglas will pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit for tip credit violations.

Three restaurants in Syracuse, New York will pay $184k to 103 employees for cheating their workers out of minimum wage and overtime pay.

Award-winning chef Jose Andres has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that workers at his NYC food hall Mercado Little Spain are being cheated out of wages.

Barbara Simpson, a 59-year-old mixologist and seasoned music industry veteran, is suing Live Nation for age discrimination.

Waverly Inn has been sued by a former waiter for failing to pay the lawful minimum wages, misappropriation of tips and retaliation.

Two Japanese restaurants in Philadelphia were ordered to pay $1 million in back wages and damages to over 200 employees for minimum wage and overtime violations

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.

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.”

True Food Kitchen, a popular West-coast restaurant backed by Oprah Winfrey, has agreed to settle a wage theft lawsuit brought by former servers for $900,000.