{"id":338,"date":"2012-08-10T20:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:39:17","slug":"daniel-boulud-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/daniel-boulud-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"DANIEL BOULUD LAWSUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Stamped-Complaint-12-Civ.-6156-AKHHP.pdf\">Click Here to View the Lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 10, 2012, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against The Dinex Group and Daniel Boulud, the world-renowned celebrity chef.\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that Boloud&#8217;s restaurants, including Bar Boloud fail to pay proper minimum wage, overtime and spread of hours to tipped restaurant workers.\u00a0 Many of these violations stem from non-tip eligible employees participating in the tip pool, including polishers, expediters and the Maitre&#8217; D.\u00a0 Under New York law, we are seeking to represent all tipped employees for the past six years.\u00a0 Many celebrity chefs have faced similar lawsuits in recent years, including Mario Batali and Bobby Flay.\u00a0 For more information regarding the lawsuit, please contact Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer at (212) 300-0375 or visit www.fslawfirm.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here to View the Lawsuit<br \/>\nOn August 10, 2012, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against The Dinex Group and Daniel Boulud, the world-renowned celebrity chef.\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that Boloud&#8217;s restaurants, including Bar Boloud fail to pay proper minimum wage, overtime and spread of hours to tipped restaurant workers.\u00a0 Many of these violations stem from non-tip eligible employees participating in the tip pool, including polishers, expediters and the Maitre&#8217; D.\u00a0 Under New York law, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,31,23,1,22,25,24,27,21,33,28,26,34,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bartender","category-busboy","category-class-action","category-employment-law","category-flsa-2","category-gratuities","category-minimum-wage-2","category-ny-labor-law","category-overtime-2","category-service-charge","category-spread-of-hours","category-tips","category-unpaid-wages-2","category-waiter","category-waitress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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