April 24, 2019
Smokey Bones has reached a $2.7 million settlement with workers to end claims that the chain took a tip credit against the minimum wage while requiring servers and bartenders to do considerable nontipped work, according to a Tuesday filing in South Carolina federal court.
October 26, 2017
A South Carolina federal judge Wednesday granted conditional class certification to about 6,500 current and former Smokey Bones bartenders and servers in a suit alleging the restaurant took a Fair Labor Standards Act tip-credit against the minimum wage while requiring employees to do considerable nontipped work.