Bob Evans Underpays Tipped Staff, Servers Say

Bob Evans Restaurants LLC underpays employees who earn part of their incomes through customer tips, former servers say in a new lawsuit.

The family restaurant chain pays servers a wage below the standard minimum for time they spend on tasks that don’t generate customer tips, such as stocking condiment stations, former servers Christopher Carr and Shureene Newsom say in a complaint filed Sept. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. That lower wage should only be allowed for periods when they’re engaged in duties that generate tips, such as waiting on customers, the complaint says ...