Florida Restaurants Refused to Pay Servers for Work Before COVID-19 Closings, Case Claims
by Erin Shaak
Allen v. Tableside Restaurant Group, LLC
Filed: April 13, 2020 ◆§ 8:20-cv-00843
A lawsuit claims Tableside Restaurant Group unlawfully refused to pay servers for time worked just before its restaurants were subjected to COVID-19-related closures.
A proposed class and collective action claims Tableside Restaurant Group, LLC unlawfully refused to pay servers for time worked just before its restaurants were forced to close for eat-in service due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The plaintiff says that the Florida-based business—which operates Lemon Tree Kitchen, Libby’s Neighborhood Brasserie, Muse at the Ringling, Circo and Oak & Stone—announced on April 3, 2020 that the restaurants’ servers would not be paid “any wages whatsoever” for the period between March 17 and March 31, 2020, when the eateries were still open.
According to the case, the defendant owes servers not only minimum and overtime wages for this span, but all misappropriated tips that were collected during the two-week timeframe. The lawsuit alleges violations of both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and Florida law.
The plaintiff looks to represent all waiters, waitresses, or servers (or those who held similar job positions) who worked for Tableside Restaurant Group within the last two years.
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