Could be that the justification for the lefty collectivist tip-grabber has been "You didn't serve that."
Is this something in the Italian culture? Years ago I worked at an Italian restaurant in NYC and they forced me to hand over my tips.
undoubtedly this cheap basturd Mario is an Obama voter and here he is screwing legal/illegal immigrants and Americans
paying 5 million just like that! Probably on installments.` But his businesses are generating $$$$$$. I’ll bet old Mario is worth at least 40 million.
After the lawyers get their half the 1,100 workers will get a couple of grand each. They had better hope they didn’t just bankrupt their employer.
The basic scam was this>>>
Waiters and bartenders gets tips. Busboys have always traditionally gotten some of this tip money. What Mario Battali forced waiters and bartenders to do was fork over some of their tips to the cooks and other kitchen personnel to supplement what Mario etc pays his cooks
ALSO — I believe Mario etc forced waitresses and bartenders to kickback to managers and owners say 10% of tips for the privilege of working in such a place where the meals and tips are larger so you can make more.
I am surprised such a pro-union area like New York would tolerate “handing over tips”. In anti-union Florida and the South....Batali would be lucky to find people to work for him...even luckier if they did not fill his body with lead.
Could be that the justification for the lefty collectivist tip-grabber has been "You didn't serve that."
Mario is a flaming gay, I can’t stand his cooking either.
I once knew a waitress who also had to hand over her tips to the owner. I never understood how the owner got away with that.
I’ve dined at one of Batali’s stupid “celebrity” restaurants in Manhattan (not by my own choosing) and the food was awful and overpriced. He gives Italian cuisine a bad name. Plus, the Food Network is hardly watchable anymore because it is run by a rainbow of politically correct jerks.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has agreed to whip up a $5.25 million payment to the captains, waiters and other workers at his restaurants who claimed they had been stiffed out of tips.
What am I missing here? Batali settled this and no one ORDERED him to pay anything. Why would the author appear to have LIED in the headline?
I thought most of the nationwide restaurants make you “pool” tips and then spread the wealth at the end of the night. If I think the waiter/waitress is exceptional and might keep it - I leave a normal tip on the bill and slip them a little something on the way out.
We watch a show on TV called The Chew occasionally. Kind of entertaining.
Mario is one of the regulars.
I find him annoying . Butting into other host’s shtick . If they are working w/ a guest, Mario is lurking around, moving this or that, using a napkin on the guests, etc.
He usually cooks some dish during the show. Rarely does one look appetizing.
Oh, and the few times politics have come up, no doubt, he’s a raving lib.
Never liked that sleazy guy. On his show he always seemed hopped up on something. What a creep.
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