Did you work at a Walk-On’s as a server or bartender?
You may be owed wages.
Our firm filed a lawsuit under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act on behalf of tipped employees, like servers and bartenders, who worked at Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux. The lawsuit seeks to recover unpaid wages and unlawfully kept tips, among other things.
In this case, “tipped employees” are workers paid less than the applicable statutory minimum wage, plus customer tips. For example, servers and bartenders paid less than $7.25 per hour.
The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that:
- Walk-On’s keeps a portion of its tipped employees’ customer tips to offset certain business costs. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Walk-On’s keeps $1 of its tipped employees’ tips each time it pays employees through a software called “Kickfin.”
- Tipped employees are required to to share their tips with employees who had no interaction with customers, like bussers.
- Tipped employees are required to perform substantial amounts of non-tipped work (such as opening and closing “side work”) both before the restaurants are open to customers and after customers are no longer being served, while still being paid a sub-minimum, tipped hourly wage. Some examples of non-tip-producing work are janitorial/cleaning and stocking work performed before the restaurants were opened to customers—when no customer tips could be earned—and similar work performed after employees were done serving customers.
- Walk-On’s failed to provide tipped employees with the required notice before taking a tip credit towards their minimum and overtime wage obligations.
If you worked as a tipped employee at a Walk-On’s within the last 3 years and wish to learn more or join this case, you may call us at 615-982-8012 or email us at wageteam@barrettjohnston.com.
You may also get in touch with us by filing out the “Get In Touch” form below. In your message, please tell us the approximate dates you worked at Walk-On’s, the location(s) you worked at, and your job title.
