Casual Dining/Chain Restaurants
Q. How may employers in the casual dining/chain restaurant industry be breaking wage and hour laws?
- Failing to pay correct overtime and or minimum wage rates;
- Failing to give proper tip credit notification;
- Assigning non-tipped work (cooking, cleaning and maintenance) to tipped employees;
- Distributing tips to ineligible employees;
- Failing to pay overtime to salaried assistant managers;
- Improper deductions.
Q. What positions may be affected?
Servers, bartenders, runners, barbacks, assistant managers, cooks and kitchen crew may all have claims.
Q. What is a casual dining restaurant?
A few examples of casual dining/chain restaurants are:
- A&W Restaurants
- Applebee's
- Au Bon Pain
- Baja Fresh
- Buffalo Wild Wings
- Burger King
- Cafe Rio
- California Tortilla
- Charley's Grilled Subs
- Cheeburger Cheeburger
- Chicken Out Rotisserie
- Chili's
- Chipotle Mexican Grill
- CiCi's Pizza
- Corner Bakery Café
- Cosi
- Daphne's Greek Café
- Denny's
- Donatos Pizza
- Dunkin' Donuts
- El Pollo Loco
- El Taco Tote
- Fatburger
- Fazoli's
- Firehouse Subs
- Five Guys Burgers & Fries
- Freebirds
- Friendly's
- Fuddruckers
- IHOP
- Jason's Deli
- Jimmy John's
- Jerry's Subs & Pizza
- McAlister's Deli
- McDonald's
- Moe's Southwest Grill
- Nathan's
- Noodles & Company
- Panda Express
- Panera Bread
- Penn Station
- Perkins
- Pick Up Stix
- Pizza Hut
- Pollo Campero
- Portillo's
- Potbelly Sandwich Works
- Qdoba Mexican Grill
- Rax
- Red Robin
- Red Lobster
- Round Table Pizza
- Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
- Ruby Tuesday
- Rumbi Island Grill
- Skyline Chili
- Sbarro
- Shake Shack
- Smashburger
- Spicy Pickle
- Starbucks
- Steak 'n Shake
- Sticky Fingers
- Subway
- T.G.I. Friday's
- Taco Bell
- Taco John's
- Tijuana Flats
- Tim Hortons
- Wendy's
- White Castle
- Wingstop