Virginia Sushi Restaurant Rolled Up in Tip Theft Class Action

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Dotombori, Inc., which does business as Yoko Sushi in Oakton, Virginia, and its owners are facing a proposed class action claiming current and former employees were not paid at the mandatory hourly minimum or overtime wage, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Additionally, the defendants allegedly unlawfully deducted an “arbitrarily high credit transaction service fee” from the proposed class members’ tips, as well as $20 to $25 in tips for themselves for shifts when they performed chef and/or sushi chef duties. On top of these claims, the plaintiff says the defendant illegally took a tip credit on proposed class members’ wages to which it was not entitled and never gave the employees mandatory notice.