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Would you steal from these refined ladies?
Hooters, the restaurant chain famous for employing waitresses with visibly erotic bustlines, is in hot water this morning. It seems eight former Hooters employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the boobs-and-food eatery, claiming that "management systematically stole their tips at four Bay Area restaurants." (Which, if you know anyone in the service industry, is rumored to be a practice not as uncommon as it should be.) And this wasn't some scant change either; the ex-Hooter employees say that the management theft "amounted to about $40 per day per restaurant over the past four years."
The ladies' suit specifically says that restaurant's general manager, Donald Speckhals, swiped tip money that was supposed to go to bus boys, bartenders, and hostesses. Said "slush fund" stealing is alleged to have happened at San Francisco, Fremont, and Campbell Hooters. Which: vile.
But what say you, service industry readers? Have you too come across this kind of thievery at more, shall we say, artisan eateries?
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You're asking us? I could have swore SFist wrote about a case of exactly this in the past 6mos.
Yeah, thats a tough one, where I work they started taking 3% off the top from servers tips to pay for credit card charges. A somewhat common practice but illegal nonetheless. No one really raises a stink for fear for their job, but it sucks, what should we do?
Make a complaint to the labor board. You'd be surprised what kinds of remedies there are for employees who get f**ked over by their employers.
When a friend of mine quit his job, his boss held his paycheck for about a month. The Labor Board assessed a penalty of about $10K.
At least Hooters employs conjoined twins.
This is why REAL waitstaff wear uniforms that have pockets...
Hooters girls can count?
It takes a couple of years - and a few borrowed digits - but, YES!
Did you know that the Hooter's gals wear stockings with their dove shorts? Very Lynda Carter...