Overview
- Carrie Nation must pay more than $143,000 and The Dubliner over $278,500 in restitution and civil penalties, according to the Attorney General’s office.
- The AGO’s Fair Labor Division found the restaurants charged a 3% service fee from late May 2023 through early June 2024 without distributing the proceeds to service employees.
- The AG said up to 84 workers were affected, with repayments to impacted staff beginning before any citation was issued.
- Investigators reported both establishments cooperated with the probe and are now in compliance with applicable wage and service-fee rules.
- East Coast Tavern Group attributed the issue to a point-of-sale description error, said the fee was intended as a hospitality surcharge, denied wrongdoing, and accepted the settlement.