Steakhouse Chain Ordered to Repay Servers Pooled Tips Losses (1)

The company behind Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille will have to return tips to former Texas-based subminimum wage servers because of taking a cut for employees who worked before the restaurant opened, a federal judge said.

Perry’s Restaurants Ltd. must also fork over the difference between the $7.25 federal minimum wage and $2.13 subminimum it paid servers for each week it pooled their tips, Judge Robert Pitman said Monday.

Perry’s has been involved in Fair Labor Standards Act litigation continuously since 2009 and subject to a Department of Labor investigation involving tip pooling, the US District Court for the Western ...