Florida Eatery Buffet City Sued by Ex-Chef Alleging Minimum Wage, OT Violations

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City Buffet, Inc. and two individual owners have been named as defendants in a proposed collective action filed by a hibachi chef who claims his former employers paid him at a rate lower than the required minimum wage.  

The complaint says the plaintiff was employed at the defendants’ Osceola County, Florida restaurant Buffet City from January 2014 to February 2016. The man claims to have worked 72 hours each week for a monthly salary of $1,800, which the case alleges translated to an average hourly rate of $6.25, well below the required minimum wage. As such, the complaint argues the former employee is owed at least a full minimum wage rate for the 40 hours he worked each week, as well as time-and-a-half overtime pay for 32 hours each workweek.