Luby's Restaurants has paid $366,864 in back wages to 1,680 current and former waiters, cashiers and checkers after a government investigation. The U.S. Department of Labor found that some workers ...

Employees in a restaurant setting often receive tips, and employers often take a “tip credit” toward the minimum wage that they have to pay (allowing the employer in Arkansas to pay $2.63/hour to the ...

Tip pooling can play a big role in creating a great restaurant culture—and it doesn’t have to be complicated. It started during the COVID-19 pandemic—and it’s still happening. Attracting and retaining ...

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Tip pools have proved a controversial wage-and-hour topic, especially “nontraditional” tip pooling in which employers distribute pooled money among workers both in traditionally tipped roles, like ...

Different restaurants engage in different tipping practices: some stipulate all tips a server gets are the server’s alone. Some have to give a percentage of their tips to the bar staff—an amount that ...

Employees at Café Corazón are suing the popular local Latin cuisine chain owners over a mandatory tip policy that distributes pooled tips to managers and supervisors they say violate federal labor ...

In the viral video that has amassed over 40,000 views as of Monday morning, user Katootsie (@I_cant_and_I_wont) made the allegations and questioned the restaurant’s tipping policies. “I think this is ...

Employees at Café Corazón are suing the popular local Latin cuisine chain owners over a tipping policy they say violates federal labor law. The employees say managers kept a portion of the tips they ...

A recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that allows food service employers in Oregon and Washington to require employees to participate in a “tip pool” is being welcomed by the industry ...

Following a conversation with a well-known counter service restaurant in Schenectady, local Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara is introducing new legislation that would give fast-casual restaurants the ...