Restaurant Openly Admits They Steal Tips From Their Employees, Gets Shut Down

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
May 4, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

There's evil, and then there's restaurants stealing tips from their employees. Restaurants already don't pay their workers enough to live on most of the time. Tips are usually the only way restaurant employees make above minimum wage, and when you take that away, they have next to no pay to take home. When restaurants do something this slimy, they try to hide it. Who could forget the Kitchen Nightmares episode where Gordon Ramsey exposes the restaurant owner who steals his servers' tips? The owner was like a worm trying to wiggle off a hook. Instead of being embarrassed about stealing their employee's tips, one chicken restaurant decided to print on their receipt, "All tips or given by gratuities the patron are not the property of the employee, but instead belong to the employer." Luckily, bad things can happen to bad people, and this restaurant got shut down for unknown reasons, but breaking the law probably had something to do with it. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/Trigger Hippie77 1d i.redd.it ● ● I bought chicken wings from this place once and saw this on the receipt. Never went back and today they closed permanently. Good riddance.
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    Handwriting - Notice: All tips or given by gratuities the patron are not the property of the employee, but instead belong to the employer.
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    Font - 010 XxRocky88xX • 23h At least they tell you "hey we are 100% gonna steal our employees money to line our pockets" instead of the more common "lie and say employees get tips then pocket the extra cash" route ... Reply 922
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    Font - seraph_m This is probably why they closed. DoL entered the chat and cleaned those thieves out. I'm sure the IRS isn't far behind. 21h ● .. 4342
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    Rectangle - minimax34 • 1d . not legal in most states ... Reply 1.1k 1.1k
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    Font - freaktheclown. 23h Not legal in any state. Federal law says tips belong to the employee. an employer cannot keep employees' tips under any circumstances; managers and supervisors also may not keep tips received by employees, including through tip pools https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/tips G 4894
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    Font - Assist Electronic7007 • 18h Whoa so if you're a shift supervisor still on hourly wages not salary and still waiting tables you can't be part of a tip pot? .. 497 97
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    Font - freaktheclown. 17h If you're actually waiting, then you can keep the tips for you: managers and supervisors may only keep tips that they receive from customers directly for services that the manager or supervisor directly and "solely" provides But no, you can't be part of a tip pool. 4153
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    Font - K_Sleight 21h ● Pizzahut, when ordering for delivery makes a note that the delivery fee is not a tip, nor used to pay the driver in any way. Mighty transparent of them, but it does mean you're charging me an extra 7$ on a 25$ ticket (26%?) To no fucking benefit of the person doing the job, and encouraging I tip them more because you greedy fucks are greedy fucks. ... Reply 228
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    Font - C64128 20h I used to work for Pizza Hut in the early 2000's and then Papa Johns after that. At that time there wasn't a delivery fee. At the start the pay was minimum wage with $1 per delivery. When the gas prices kept on increasing, the pay per run went up very little. Gas was $1.49 when I started. Made decent money for the hours worked. Eventually Papa Johns started adding a delivery fee that kept increasing. That fee is pure profit for them. They didn't lose any money on deliveries. Cr
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    Font - jcoddinc. 21h Been to a bar that did something similar but reason being they pay livable wage and any tips go to a different charity every month. Wait staff seemed ok with it and talked about it positively. Reply 88
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    Font - Mods_R_Cockholsters • 21h That's just a way for the business to get a write off on taxes for giving to charity. Just like every place that asks you to donate a dollar to whatever charity of the month and they get tax breaks on the money we give. 458
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    Rectangle - TerraVestra • 1d What goes around comes around. Reply 21
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    Font - TetraCubane. 12h Restaurant one if my buddies went to here in NYC was doing that. The waitress told him not to bother tipping because she wasn't going to get the tip. Owner overheard and she got fired on the spot. When my friends got upset and told the owner that what he was doing was wrong, he kicked them out of the restaurant. We went on Google Reviews and dropped hundreds of 1 star reviews but somehow they were all removed. Reply 42 ...
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    Font - plupien 21h So... How's your employee morale? Reply ● 42
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