Exposing Tipping Culture

[BeatMan]

tipping culture is an excuse used by restaurants to steal tips, refuse to pay wages and other evil!

• A Texas restaurant operator allegedly used portions of employee tips to pay for business expenses such as condiments and to-go packaging in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a lawsuit filed July 19.
• DOL filed the case, Su v. Tejas Chocolate, LLC, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. It claimed Tejas Chocolate and its associated entities maintained tip pools in which all employees who worked for the defendants for at least 90 days were included, but that employees received only a portion of collected tips.
• The agency sued for injunctive and monetary relief on behalf of affected employees, stating that keeping tips to pay for expenses violates the FLSA regardless of whether an employer takes a tip credit. The owner of the restaurants denied the claims in a statement to the Houston Chronicle.

https://www.hrdive.com/news/texas-restaurants-used-employee-tips-condiments-packaging/722299/


A federal judge has ordered a Michigan restaurateur who operates several Barrio Taco locations to pay nearly $1 million in back wages and damages to employees after finding the company shortchanged workers.

Barrio, a Cleveland, Ohio-based "taco, tequila and whiskey" bar and restaurant chain, franchises locations in several Michigan cities, as well as in Ohio, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Florida.

On Oct. 30, U.S. Judge Paul Maloney issued a summary judgment against Sparty Tacos LLC, TC Tacos LLC, GR Tacos LLC, and franchise owner Jacob Hawley after the U.S. Department of Labor claimed the restaurants operated an illegal tip pool system "for at least two years," provided tips to employees who don't typically receive tips — invalidating a tip credit, failed to pay earned time-and-a-half overtime, and failed to keep "true and accurate records."


https://www.lansingstatejournal.com...gment-traverse-city-grand-rapids/77196347007/



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[RoryN]

PB Deplorables don't leave tips.

They thought this thread would be about cows.

 

[Politruk]

PB Deplorables don't leave tips.

They thought this thread would be about cows.

This is the Lit. It's about . . . something else.

 

[TrailerHitch]

This is the Lit. It's about . . . something else.

Only because you Hypocrite, Troll, Hack, piece of shit, don't give a fuck about American workers being robbed by their employers. You post and comment on mostly repetitive meaningless shit and then have the stones to rip someone else for a topic you don't like. Why don't you just Fuck right off?

 

[BeatMan]

and the same MAGA crowed that is against the H1B visas that are replacing American workers which cheap labour also support tipping culture where restaurants use tipping as an excuse to pay low wages and engage in wage theft

 

[Politruk]

Trump wants to end taxes on tips . . . will that at least help?

 

[TrailerHitch]

and the same MAGA crowed that is against the H1B visas that are replacing American workers which cheap labour also support tipping culture where restaurants use tipping as an excuse to pay low wages and engage in wage theft

I hate businesses getting away with paying FAR below minimum wage by using tipping as an excuse. It should be federally illegal to pay anyone less than minimum wage. Further too many tight wad assholes don't tip a sufficient amount to come close to fill the gap. You have to be a real shitty, asshole, waitperson, to not get at least 20%, and I often tip 30% or more.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Trump wants to end taxes on tips . . . will that at least help?

Only if employers stop stealing or mixing employee's tips.

 

[RoryN]

piece of shit...fuck...shit...Fuck right off

^^^
Triggered MAGAt garbage.

I often tip 30% or more.

No one believes you can afford to tip that much, banjo boy.

 

[Lazaran]

and the same MAGA crowed that is against the H1B visas that are replacing American workers which cheap labour also support tipping culture where restaurants use tipping as an excuse to pay low wages and engage in wage theft

BeatMan is finally starting to get it…

 

[Sean Renaud]

Tips are yet another part of our racist past. We can and should do away with that nonsense or at the very least the part where the company can pay below minimum wage.

 

[Politruk]

Tips are yet another part of our racist past. We can and should do away with that nonsense or at the very least the part where the company can pay below minimum wage.

Any move in that direction will prompt some business association of restaurants to scream that it would force half of them to close their doors. Same thing that always happens when an increase of the minimum wage is brought up.

 

[Bn2f]

Only if employers stop stealing or mixing employee's tips.

You’re an anti-union, picket line crossing scab who votes for republicans who don’t hide their hatred for workers organizing. Sit down, Felicia, and STFU.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Wat carries cash for tipping when eating out in restaurants. He puts the cash in the waitperson's hand along with the signed card receipt/invoice gizmo to assure that the person may do with his/her tip as s/he sees fit and to assure that s/he isn't stuck with the bill in case some bad happens with the card paperwork for the food.


In places he eats/ate regularly where everyone became friends, Wat would often tip 50% or more. In cash. Blessings upon them and I hope they hid it from their uncle.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Wat's is not Teh Narrative . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

Wat carries cash for tipping when eating out in restaurants. He puts the cash in the waitperson's hand along with the signed card receipt/invoice gizmo to assure that the person may do with his/her tip as s/he sees fit and to assure that s/he isn't stuck with the bill in case some bad happens with the card paperwork for the food.


In places he eats/ate regularly where everyone became friends, Wat would often tip 50% or more. In cash. Blessings upon them and I hope they hid it from their uncle.

Same here. Pay with the card but tip in cash.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Same here. Pay with the card but tip in cash.

Yep. And we get service Above and Beyond, too.


I am very fond of my waitstaff, the established ones.

 

[ll74]

I prefer my servers to not get paid by anyone...especially the people who they serve.

 

[LLCox]

tipping culture is an excuse used by restaurants to steal tips, refuse to pay wages and other evil!

• A Texas restaurant operator allegedly used portions of employee tips to pay for business expenses such as condiments and to-go packaging in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a lawsuit filed July 19.
• DOL filed the case, Su v. Tejas Chocolate, LLC, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. It claimed Tejas Chocolate and its associated entities maintained tip pools in which all employees who worked for the defendants for at least 90 days were included, but that employees received only a portion of collected tips.
• The agency sued for injunctive and monetary relief on behalf of affected employees, stating that keeping tips to pay for expenses violates the FLSA regardless of whether an employer takes a tip credit. The owner of the restaurants denied the claims in a statement to the Houston Chronicle.

https://www.hrdive.com/news/texas-restaurants-used-employee-tips-condiments-packaging/722299/


A federal judge has ordered a Michigan restaurateur who operates several Barrio Taco locations to pay nearly $1 million in back wages and damages to employees after finding the company shortchanged workers.

Barrio, a Cleveland, Ohio-based "taco, tequila and whiskey" bar and restaurant chain, franchises locations in several Michigan cities, as well as in Ohio, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Florida.

On Oct. 30, U.S. Judge Paul Maloney issued a summary judgment against Sparty Tacos LLC, TC Tacos LLC, GR Tacos LLC, and franchise owner Jacob Hawley after the U.S. Department of Labor claimed the restaurants operated an illegal tip pool system "for at least two years," provided tips to employees who don't typically receive tips — invalidating a tip credit, failed to pay earned time-and-a-half overtime, and failed to keep "true and accurate records."


https://www.lansingstatejournal.com...gment-traverse-city-grand-rapids/77196347007/



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Here's a tip. Go to "custom tip" and punch zero.

 

[Politruk]

Any move in that direction will prompt some business association of restaurants to scream that it would force half of them to close their doors. Same thing that always happens when an increase of the minimum wage is brought up.

Which is always dishonest, BTW -- I've seen studies showing that raising the minimum wage does not increase unemployment.

 

[BeatMan]

It is the largest settlement against a restaurant since the D.C. Council granted the attorney general’s office the authority to bring wage theft cases in 2017, spokeswoman Marrisa Geller said. Four years ago, the Matchbox Food Group, which then operated Ted’s Bulletin restaurants, agreed to pay more than $142,000 in unpaid wages to workers in a settlement with the attorney general’s office.
Under the terms of the settlement, Swahili Village M Street LLC and its two principals — Kevin Onyona, founder and chief executive, and Emad Shoeb, chief operating officer — must pay 72 workers about $260,000 in restitution for what Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb alleges was an “egregious pattern of wage theft.” Schwalb’s office claims Swahili Village paid workers as little as $5 per hour (including tips), did not pay overtime wages, failed to distribute tips and provided no sick leave, as required by D.C. law. Many of these workers, the attorney general says, were people of color, including young African immigrants.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/07/16/swahili-village-dc-wage-theft-settlement/

 

[RobDownSouth]

Saw an ad tonight for some random free food deal at Arby's roast beef restaurants, if you use their app to order.

"Note: Taxes and tip are not included".

We're.... tipping at ARBY'S now?

"Fast" food?

Really?

 

[Lance_Castro]

I prefer my servers to not get paid by anyone...especially the people who they serve.

Cheap bastard.

 

[BeatMan]

WASHINGTON (7News) — The restaurant Swahili Village DC along with its founder and CEO Kevin Onyona, owe $526,973 to their employees and the District to resolve a wage theft lawsuit filed in 2023, according to Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb.

“This is a significant win for dozens of Swahili Village workers who were mistreated and continues our office’s commitment to combatting wage theft in the District of Columbia,” said Schwalb.

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) alleged in the lawsuit that Swahili Village DC stole tips and wages from servers, hosts, food runners, bussers and bartenders. It was also alleged that the company violated D.C. labor laws.

https://wjla.com/news/local/swahili...hili-village-restaurant-workers-dc-labor-laws

 

[BeatMan]