INVESTIGATIONS

Casual Dining/Chain Restaurants

Q. How may employers in the casual dining/chain restaurant industry be breaking wage and hour laws?

  • Failing to pay correct overtime and or minimum wage rates;
  • Failing to give proper tip credit notification;
  • Assigning non-tipped work (cooking, cleaning and maintenance) to tipped employees;
  • Distributing tips to ineligible employees;
  • Failing to pay overtime to salaried assistant managers;
  • Improper deductions.

Q. What positions may be affected?

Servers, bartenders, runners, barbacks, assistant managers, cooks and kitchen crew may all have claims.

Q. What is a casual dining restaurant?

A few examples of casual dining/chain restaurants are:

  • A&W Restaurants
  • Applebee's
  • Au Bon Pain
  • Baja Fresh
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Burger King
  • Cafe Rio
  • California Tortilla
  • Charley's Grilled Subs
  • Cheeburger Cheeburger
  • Chicken Out Rotisserie
  • Chili's
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • CiCi's Pizza
  • Corner Bakery Café
  • Cosi
  • Daphne's Greek Café
  • Denny's
  • Donatos Pizza
  • Dunkin' Donuts
  • El Pollo Loco
  • El Taco Tote
  • Fatburger
  • Fazoli's
  • Firehouse Subs
  • Five Guys Burgers & Fries
  • Freebirds
  • Friendly's
  • Fuddruckers
  • IHOP
  • Jason's Deli
  • Jimmy John's
  • Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  • McAlister's Deli
  • McDonald's
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Nathan's
  • Noodles & Company
  • Panda Express
  • Panera Bread
  • Penn Station
  • Perkins
  • Pick Up Stix
  • Pizza Hut
  • Pollo Campero
  • Portillo's
  • Potbelly Sandwich Works
  • Qdoba Mexican Grill
  • Rax
  • Red Robin
  • Red Lobster
  • Round Table Pizza
  • Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Ruby Tuesday
  • Rumbi Island Grill
  • Skyline Chili
  • Sbarro
  • Shake Shack
  • Smashburger
  • Spicy Pickle
  • Starbucks
  • Steak 'n Shake
  • Sticky Fingers
  • Subway
  • T.G.I. Friday's
  • Taco Bell
  • Taco John's
  • Tijuana Flats
  • Tim Hortons
  • Wendy's
  • White Castle
  • Wingstop

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