A Texas federal district court granted former servers’ motion for partial summary judgment on their Fair Labor Standards Act claims against Reservoir Restaurant Inc for minimum wage violations and unlawful kickbacks, finding the restaurant violated the FLSA’s tip credit provisions by taking a $1 per-shift fee from servers’ tips for business expenses and failing to prove it operated a lawful tip pool where tips were distributed solely to customarily and regularly tipped employees.
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