Food

January 9, 2018 Six former employees of The Picnic Basket and Hokey Poké have filed suit against the eateries’ four operating companies and two individual owners over claims that they failed to comply with federal and state labor laws.

January 9, 2018 North Miami Beach eatery Bonafide Bakery & Coffee faces a former employee's lawsuit that seeks to recover allegedly unpaid time-and-a-half overtime.

January 9, 2018 Three former employees of Gourmet Unlimited have filed suit against operating company Green Gourmet Deli Corp. and two individuals with control of the business over claims that the defendants violated several provisions of federal and state labor laws.

January 8, 2018 According to a lawsuit, Pine Valley Farms and three bottling cos. advertise and sell bottled 'raw' water they pass off as derived from a natural spring.

January 5, 2018 A former busboy claims Down the Hatch and chain restaurant Atomic Wings owes unpaid minimum and overtime wages due to improper tip credit offsets.

January 5, 2018 A proposed class action filed in September 2017 alleging Fruit Bliss slack-fills packages of its products has been moved from California to New York.

January 2, 2018 A former employee of Lucerne Bakery, Inc. has filed suit against the Miami eatery and an individual owner over allegations that the parties violated provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

December 27, 2017 Thirty-five plaintiffs have put their names on a lawsuit in which they allege Chop't Creative Salad Co. held out on paying proper wages and tips.

December 26, 2017 The company that operates Florida's Aqua Grill faces a lawsuit in which two plaintiffs say tipped employees are owed unpaid minimum wages.

December 26, 2017 Per a lawsuit, The Big Slice of NY (formerly Bravo Pizza) allegedly failed to pay a cashier proper minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages.

December 22, 2017 A collective action case lays out a number of alleged FLSA violations at Charleston Grill by Belmond that the plaintiffs says robbed workers of wages.

December 22, 2017 Pizza Hut of Southern Wisconsin, Inc. is facing claims that it violated federal labor law by failing to properly reimburse delivery drivers for the use of their own vehicles.

December 22, 2017 12 Chairs Byn, LLC (which does business as 12 Chairs Café) and three individuals with control of the Brooklyn eatery are facing a former employee’s wage and hour lawsuit that claims they violated several provisions of state and federal labor laws.

December 22, 2017 A former employee of New York City’s Ko Sushi restaurant has filed suit against its former and current operating companies and three individual owners claiming the defendants violated state and federal labor laws.

December 21, 2017 The companies that run Brooklyn, NY Cuban restaurants Habana to Go and Habana Outpost are the defendants in a former food preparer's unpaid overtime suit.

December 20, 2017 Two former employees of Bay Terrace Plaza LLC have filed suit against the company and two individual owners over claims that they were not paid proper wages while working at the defendants’ restaurant.

December 19, 2017 Beaverton Foods, Inc., the maker of Inglehoffer brand food products, is facing a lawsuit accusing it of mislabeling its 10 oz. Inglehoffer Original Stone Ground Mustard Sauce as having 'No Preservatives' despite containing citric acid.

December 19, 2017 A New York man has filed suit against his former employers, Pirata Tapas, Inc. and three individual owners of the company, claiming they failed to comply with federal and state labor laws.

December 19, 2017 The White Plains, NY restaurant and its owners face a lawsuit filed by ex-delivery workers over a slew of alleged wage-and-hour FLSA violations.

December 19, 2017 Two former waitresses claim Tokyo Statesboro GA, LLC took improper deductions from employees' tips, among other alleged labor law violations.

December 19, 2017 Joint employers Sugar Factory Ocean Drive LLC; Down and Dirty Tacos & Tequila Bar Ocean Drive LLC; and Shared Services Florida LLC face an FLSA lawsuit.

December 19, 2017 A former pizza maker says he worked an average of 75 hours per week for RTK Management Inc. without receiving time-and-a-half overtime wages.

December 19, 2017 El Rey De Las Fritas Corporation is staring down a lawsuit from a former cook helper who claims she's owed unpaid time-and-a-half overtime wages.

December 19, 2017 The operators of Bodega Taqueria Y Tequila face a lawsuit from a plaintiff who claims he worked an average of 85 hours per week without proper overtime.

December 19, 2017 A former server alleges in a lawsuit that Nan Jane, LLC, which runs Sea Salt, improperly applied the FLSA's tip credit provision, among other claims.

December 15, 2017 In the lawsuit, the plaintiff claims he typically worked 62 hours per week at the pizzeria without proper minimum, overtime or spread-of-hours wages.

December 15, 2017 MIchael's Family Restaurant, Inc. and its execs allegedly failed to pay servers overtime wages while maintaining an illegal tip pool, a lawsuit claims.

December 14, 2017 According to a suit, Cedar Park Cafe in Philadelphia 'rarely, if ever' paid hourly wages to servers, instead leaving the workers to rely solely on tips.

December 14, 2017 Three former employees claim Time Square's Hard Rock Cafe fails to pay proper wages and all group party/private event gratuities.

December 13, 2017 A former server alleges Lola's Gourmet failed to pay minimum and time-and-a-half overtime wages while applying an improper tip credit to workers' pay.

December 12, 2017 CVK Restaurant Corp. and two individuals who operate Murray Hill Diner are facing a proposed collective action filed by a former dishwasher and delivery worker who claims he was not paid proper wages.

December 8, 2017 A former employee of Uno Restaurant Associates, Inc. has filed suit against the company and an individual owner over claims that the defendants failed to pay their tipped employees properly.

December 8, 2017 Alleging multiple wage and hour violations, two plaintiffs say Nargis Cafe forced tipped workers to pay the restaurant a 'large portion' of earned tips.

December 8, 2017 Gomez Enterprises USA Corp. is on the receiving end of a proposed collective action filed by a current employee who works as a dishwasher, food preparer, and delivery worker at the defendant’s restaurant Café 37 and claims he is not paid proper wages.

December 8, 2017 An ex-employee claims in a lawsuit he sometimes worked as many as 84 hours per week without proper pay from Red Hook Gourmet Deli.

December 8, 2017 Southern Star Restaurant Management faces a suit alleging it both failed to pay overtime and violated the FMLA by denying an employee's request for leave.

December 6, 2017 A former food runner claims in a lawsuit he worked an average of 60 hours per week without being paid time-and-a-half overtime wages.

December 6, 2017 A former tipped employee claims Let's Eat Out 'knowingly and deliberately' applied an impermissible tip credit to workers' hourly pay.

December 6, 2017 A consumer alleges Iovate Health packages one of its plant-based protein powder products with too much unnecessary 'slack fill.'

December 5, 2017 A Pennsylvania woman alleges Five Guys systematically pays female employees less than their male counterparts for the same job roles.

December 5, 2017 A former delivery worker claims in a lawsuit that Tasty Fast Food Inc. and its owners failed to pay mandatory minimum and overtime wages.

December 4, 2017 JJ Food Market Corp. and an individual owner have been accused of violating federal and state labor laws by failing to pay employees proper wages.

December 4, 2017 A former assistant manager has filed a lawsuit in Arkansas against Allied Food Industries, Inc., which operates a Burger King restaurant in Little Rock, over claims that she wasn’t paid proper overtime wages.

December 4, 2017 An Arkansas man has filed a proposed collective action alleging he and other assistant managers at Jason’s Deli weren’t paid proper overtime wages when working more than 40 hours per week.

December 4, 2017 Eight companies that operate Little Caesars restaurants in Brooklyn, along with an individual owner, are facing the claims of two former managers who allege that they were not paid proper overtime wages.

December 1, 2017 Two former general managers claim their actual job duties should not have exempted them from overtime pay under federal law.

December 1, 2017 Seven operating companies and an individual owner of Maru restaurants have been named as defendants in a former employee’s collective action that takes issue with the restaurants’ pay practices.

December 1, 2017 Tandoori North Inc. and two individual owners have been named as defendants in a proposed collective action lawsuit filed by a current employee of their restaurant Indigo Indian Bistro who claims the parties have denied him proper wages.

December 1, 2017 Four operating companies of NY restaurant 11 Hanover Greek and four individuals are facing a proposed collective action filed by former employees who claim the defendants violated several provisions of state and federal labor laws.

November 30, 2017 Panera Bread Company has been accused in a proposed collective action of misclassifying its assistant managers as exempt from overtime wages in violation of federal and state labor laws.