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 ...

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 mandatory tip policy that distributes pooled tips to managers and supervisors they say violate federal labor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When you tip someone, do you really know where those dollars are going? When someone at the deli makes you a bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll and you throw a dollar into the Styrofoam cup by the cash ...

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 ...

A college student working at Outback Steakhouse found a creative way to maximize his earnings. But it's raising questions ...

NEW YORK Proper record keeping of employees work times and a defined position on tip pooling procedures can help protect restaurateurs from a variety of lawsuits that typically add costs and stress to ...

On March 23, 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law Senate Bill 73 (“SB 73”) expanding the group of employees eligible for tip pooling by allowing employers to include non-tipped employees in ...