NEWS & EVENTS

For restaurants, more lawsuits on the menu – improper payments, other infractions make them easy targets; some look to open outside New York.

As part of our continued growth, Fitapelli and Schaffer LLP is proud to announce the completion of our new office located on the 12th Floor of 475 Park Avenue South, New York, New York.

On August 8, 2010, Brian Schaffer of Fitapelli & Schaffer was a featured guest on CBS Eye on New York.

Nine former employees of the Peruvian-themed restaurant chain Pio Pio of New York, which operates restaurants in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, accuse the company of failing to pay workers minimum wages and overtime, in violation of state and federal law, a lawsuit filed today in New York federal court alleges.

The owners of the prestigious 1 Oak club in New York violated state and federal labor laws by failing to pay workers minimum wages and confiscating portions of service charges and tips, a lawsuit filed today in New York federal court alleges.

Makeup artist at Scores, Penthouse Executive Club claims strip joints stiffed him on fees.

A lawsuit filed Monday alleges that the Giuseppe Cipriani’s famed event, catering and restaurant enterprise violates federal and New York state labor laws, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.

A lawsuit filed Wednes day against the “five star” Mama Mexico restaurants in New York and New Jersey alleges that the restaurants failed to pay kitchen workers minimum wages and overtime compensation, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.

Tips or no tips, a former waiter is suing a well-known Brooklyn Heights diner for back wages that he claims he wasn’t paid.

An amended lawsuit filed Monday alleges that the “five star” Mama Mexico restaurants in New York and New Jersey violated federal and state labor laws by withholding minimum wages, overtime compensation and misappropriating employee tips, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.