Gothamist: Telepan Servers Claim Managers Are Taking Tips

david.beckhum@gmail.

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:51:05 -0500

Managers try their best to let guests to enter their resterant and earn more money, the waiters also want to pay ness and get much. Yesterday, one of my friends on EbonyFriends.com told me she had a so bad meal in a resterant.

bella

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:02:10 -0500

I used to work at Falai (the restaurant itself on Clinton) and not only would the manager take a cut of the the floor tips (twenty percent off the top!) but they would also garnish the kitchen wages by skimming off the tip pool. Super shady, and super illegal...as per New York State law. We were paid under the table so the servers weren't even making an hourly wage. The waitstaff didn't handle any checks or tender any payments...we had no idea what we sold on any given night. There was no transparency whatsoever. It was hard to believe...a high-end, fully-booked restaurant backed by a well-known chef that stole from its employees...I left after two weeks...

ts

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:55:09 -0500

Oy vey. Might have to reconsider my Boerum Hill policy, then. Kittichai is still out of course, with the thigh high and pigtail staff decline.

ck

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:35:49 -0500

I hear Boerum Hill is the next hot spot. The dress code is thigh highs and pigtails for all the girls there.

ts

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:32:28 -0500

Well I certainly won't be going back to Kittichai anytime soon, then. Or anything in Boerum Hill.

server

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:13:09 -0500

at bar tabac on smith street in boerum hill the managers make 3/4 in tips what the servers do. if the servers make $100 in tips the managers make $75. at the end of the week paychecks always magically come out to $0 and never reflect actual hours worked. servers never get overtime or even paid for their full hours worked.

Schadenfreudian Mensch

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:23:50 -0500

Some don't even pay a salary. You're basically working for tips.

Anon

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:49 -0500

NY1 is doing a follow-up story tomorrow.

Jo

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:38:48 -0500

It's a common industry practice. Shameful, but one story per year won't make it go away.

ck

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:25:03 -0500

Kittichai does this, too. I'm sure no one cares, but now you know. I imagine it happens often. I always thought it sucked when a busboy would be going home with even less then his average of $20/night (~9hrs) because a mgr felt it necessary to grab a few xtra bucks.