On Tuesday, New York’s most famous restaurant-rating couple, Tim and Nina Zagat, weighed in on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times with an essay decrying what they clearly see as a scourge plaguing the city’s finer eateries: a bevy of class action lawsuits in which restaurant servers claim they are being shortchanged in various ways by management.
The news peg for the Zagats’ opinion piece was the New York Department of Labor’s new “Proposed Hospitality Wage Order,” which was published for public comment in October and is due to take effect January 1. The regulation would, among other things, change the rules governing the practice of tip-pooling by restaurants.
