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Suit charges Park Square restaurant withholds tips from waiters
By adamg on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 9:07am
Abdel Abla, a waiter at Maggiano's Little Italy, 4 Columbus Ave., yesterday filed suit against its parent company, alleging it charges gratuities to private parties that aren't turned over to food servers.
The suit, filed in US District Court in Boston against Brinker Restaurant Corp. said this violates the Massachusetts tip law and the state's minimum-wage law, because restaurants are only allowed to pay workers less than the minimum wage if they turn tips over to them. Although only Abla is named in the suit, it was filed with the hopes of becoming a class-action suit against Brinker, which runs Maggiano's Little Italy restaurants across the country.
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Pissed!
This pisses me off because I held a private function there a few years ago, and was never told that the tip would not go to the waitstaff and bartender that worked our event.
We should probably wait to see what the chain says
The suit was only filed yesterday, so Brinker hasn't had a chance to respond yet.
Old news
This firm has been filing these kind of tip-pooling suits against restaurants in MA for years now. Sometimes they shake the restaurant down for a quick settlement, sometimes they get dismissed.