Operators of NY Restaurant The Triple Crown Accused of Paying Employees No Wages

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Calshea Restaurant Corp and two individual owners have been named in a proposed class action that claims the defendants paid their employees less than the federal minimum wage. The plaintiff in the case says she worked as a server at the defendants’ New York City restaurant, The Triple Crown, and was paid only in tips she earned from customers. According to the complaint, restaurant workers participated in two tip pools – one for cash and one for credit – with management deducting eight percent from credit card tips before distributing the rest among employees. The suit argues that servers should have been paid the full minimum hourly wage and were instead provided with no wages at all.

The complaint claims the defendants further violated state labor law by neglecting to maintain records of employees’ hours and failing to provide them with accurate wage statements.