NYC Restaurant Green Summit Hit with Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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Four plaintiffs have filed a proposed collective action against the owners and operators of New York City restaurant and catering company Green Summit, which formerly did business under the name City Barn Kitchen, in an effort to recover allegedly unpaid wages. The lawsuit claims that although the plaintiffs were employed and accounted for as tipped delivery workers, they were required by the defendants to spend more than 20 percent of their workdays performing non-tipped tasks unrelated to their delivery duties. As such, the lawsuit claims, the plaintiffs and members of the proposed collective were paid at rates below the federal minimum, and are owed supposedly unpaid overtime and spread-of-hours wages.

The lawsuit additionally alleges the defendants—Green Summit Group LLC; City Barn Group LLC; Black Lexington Group, LLC and two individual owners—maintained a policy and practice of taking unlawful deductions from employees’ wages and tips. According to the plaintiffs, the defendants pocketed roughly four percent of every delivery workers’ daily tips while never reimbursing employees who purchased “tools of the trade,” including bicycles, locks, tires and sets of lights, with their own funds.