The Bao and Uluh Restaurant - Settlement Notice 

Fitapelli & Schaffer LLP announced that the Class Action Settlement against the NYC restaurants known as The Bao and Uluh received preliminary approval by Judge Lewis J. Liman of the Southern District of New York on July 17, 2025, and the court-authorized Settlement Notice was mailed to eligible Class Members beginning August 21. The settlement resolves this case for the total amount of $1,750,000. Official notice of the settlement was sent to all Servers, Bussers, Runners, Bartenders, Barbacks, and other similar employees who worked for The Bao and Uluh between October 15, 2015, and October 1, 2023.

The lawsuit specifically alleged that Defendants failed to provide tipped workers with adequate notice of the tip credit, required tipped workers to perform a substantial amount of non-tipped sidework without paying them the full minimum wage, required tipped workers to pay for uniforms without proper reimbursement, unlawfully deducted wages based on walkout, breakage, or wrong orders, failed to pay tipped workers at the minimum wage and overtime rate, required tipped workers to participate in a tip pool that included tip-ineligible workers, and failed to provide proper wage notices and accurate wage statements.

A sample settlement notice may be viewed here. See Order here.