{"id":1173,"date":"2006-06-15T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/no_youre_right_--_tip_pools_are_pretty_mafia-like.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:06:24","slug":"no_youre_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/no_youre_right.html","title":{"rendered":"No, You&#8217;re Right &#8212; Tip Pools Are Pretty Mafia-Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimelibrary.com\/gangsters_outlaws\/mob_bosses\/gotti\/house_12.html\">Famed mafia steakhouse<\/a> Sparks has been served with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/sparks_wait_staff_sues_over_sirloin_tips_regionalnews_dan_mangan.htm\">a $5 million lawsuit alleging a very mafia-like tip scheme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sparks Steak House got whacked with a lawsuit accusing the famed Manhattan eatery of shorting waiters out of a sizzling $5 million in tips.<\/p>\n<p>The class-action suit claims Sparks over at least the past six years has illegally deducted money from the &#8220;tip pool&#8221; &#8212; which is supposed to be shared only among about 60 waiters &#8212; to pay other workers not entitled to that money.<\/p>\n<p>Workers who were allegedly paid illegally out of the waiters&#8217; tip pool by Sparks include bartenders, the wine-cellar master and banquet manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sparks has taken a prime cut out of the waiters&#8217; tips for years,&#8221; said Louis Pechman, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the Manhattan federal court suit, which alleges labor-law violations.<\/p>\n<p>The suit&#8217;s only named plaintiff is Gerald Duchene, a 14-year Sparks waiter who left the restaurant&#8217;s employ last November. But court documents indicate that about 100 current and past Sparks waiters affected by the &#8220;unlawful scheme&#8221; in the past three years also are plaintiffs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed mafia steakhouse Sparks has been served with a $5 million lawsuit alleging a very mafia-like tip scheme: Sparks Steak House got whacked with a lawsuit accusing the famed Manhattan eatery of shorting waiters out of a sizzling $5 million in tips. The class-action suit claims Sparks over at least the past six years has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}