Former Employees Allege Storyville American Table Owes Unpaid Minimum, Overtime Wages

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Two former employees of Jennings Gate Restaurant Inc. claim the company, which operates Storyville American Table, and two individuals with control over the Huntington, New York eatery owe unpaid minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages. The plaintiffs, who worked in back- and later front-of-house roles at the restaurant between summer 2016 and October 2017, claim they were paid for their back-of-house work at a standard hourly rate that never varied regardless of how many hours they worked each week. For their front-of-house work, the plaintiffs say they were paid $40 per day, plus a portion of shared tips, irrespective of how many hours they worked past 40 every week. Neither the plaintiffs nor similarly situated workers were provided with mandatory wage or tip credit notices, according to the suit.

Both plaintiffs were allegedly fired by the defendants in October 2016 in retaliation for complaining of unpaid wages, the lawsuit says, with one plaintiff supposedly advising other waiters that the defendants were “shorting the busboys and busgirls of tips.”