{"id":431,"date":"2013-04-30T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:59:34","slug":"riki-restaurant-nyc-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/riki-restaurant-nyc-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"RIKI Restaurant NYC Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Complaint.docx\">Click Here to View Complaint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On April 30, 2013, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against the owners and operators of Restaurant Riki, Box Snack Riki, and Riki Yakiniku Izakaya (collectively referred to as the \u201cRiki Restaurants\u201d), for failing to pay minimum wages, overtime wages, spread of hours pay, and for misappropriating customer tips intended for their servers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0According to the lawsuit, the Riki Restaurants <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>have violated numerous provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (\u201cFLSA\u201d) and the New York Labor Law (\u201cNYLL\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In order to minimize labor costs, it is alleged that the Riki Restaurants, currently located at 141 East 45<sup>th<\/sup> Street in midtown Manhattan, do not pay their servers for all hours worked, refuse to pay \u201cspread of hours\u201d when servers\u2019 shifts span longer than 10 hours, and deny servers overtime premiums when they work over 40 hours in a workweek.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Additionally, it is alleged that the Riki Restaurants require their servers to pool the tips they earn with restaurant ownership and nightly musical performers in violation of the FLSA and the NYLL.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you work or worked at Restaurant Riki, Box Snack Riki, or Riki Yakiniku Izakaya within the past 6 years, please contact the New York City employment lawyers at Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer, (212) 300-0375, to discuss joining the case.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For additional information about your rights under the FLSA or NYLL, please visit our site, <a title=\"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/<\/a>, or schedule a free consultation, (212) 300-0375.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here to View Complaint<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn April 30, 2013, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against the owners and operators of Restaurant Riki, Box Snack Riki, and Riki Yakiniku Izakaya (collectively referred to as the \u201cRiki Restaurants\u201d), for failing to pay minimum wages, overtime wages, spread of hours pay, and for misappropriating customer tips intended for their servers.\u00a0 \u00a0According to the lawsuit, the Riki Restaurants \u00a0have violated numerous provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act &#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":[32,31,23,1,22,25,24,27,21,28,26,34,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","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-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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