Carve Café Hit with Ex-Employees’ Wage and Hour Suit

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Three former employees of Carve Café claim in a proposed collective action that they were deprived of lawful minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages.

According to the suit—which names Carve Café’s operating companies, owners and manager as defendants—the plaintiffs worked as a cashier, a food preparer, and a “grill man” at the eatery’s two Manhattan locations. The plaintiffs allege they regularly worked more than 40 hours per week but only received straight-time pay for this time. The case claims that, as a result, the employees’ effective hourly rates fell below the required minimum wage. According to the complaint, the defendants also violated state law when they failed to pay spread-of-hours wages for shifts lasting longer than 10 hours.

The suit goes on to claim one plaintiff is owed three days’ worth of unpaid wages and that the defendants owe another plaintiff reimbursement for clothing he had to purchase for his job.