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New York's 'best restaurant' agrees to pay waitstaff $500,000 after investigation finds it withheld tips

One of Manhattan's most expensive restaurants, Thomas Keller's Per Se, home of the $310 tasting menu, has reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General to pay $500,000 to members of its waitstaff after an inquiry found it withheld their tips.
“Today’s agreement ensures that workers at Per Se will not continue to be cheated out of their hard-earned tips — tips that customers intended for them,” Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in a statement.
The settlement was reached following a 2013 investigation, which found the restaurant had pocketed the 20% service charges on private banquet and dining customers' bills over a 21-month period in 2011 and 2012. Instead of going to the waiters — who, according to the AG's Action of Decision (AOD), make between $16.60 and $28 per hour — the service fees were used for operational costs.
A press release from the Attorney General's office states that a customer who emailed Per Se to ask whether the 20% service charge was, indeed, the waiter's tip was told that "service/gratuity is certainly included in the pricing.”
The AOD states that the restaurant changed the wording on private-dining checks to reflect the fact that service charges were for operational costs, not gratuity, in September 2012.
A spokesperson for Per Se gave the following comment on the settlement:

In an unintentional oversight, Per Se, unaware of a new state regulation, did not update the description of the operational charge in its private dining event agreement during a 21-month period in 2011 and 2012.  Nearly three years ago, in September 2012, Per Se modified this contract language at its own initiative and has been in compliance since that time. We have reached an agreement with the New York State Attorney General’s office to resolve this issue.

Our employees were never short-changed and no monies intended for employees were withheld. Our employees are among the best compensated in the restaurant industry because they are the best in the business. The Attorney General’s office’s own findings state that the charge was used in part to pay Per Se’s workers their industry-leading wages — a waiter at Per Se, for example, including overtime and gratuities, makes approximately $116,000 a year.

This matter relates to the words that Per Se used to describe its private dining operational charge during a 21-month period three years ago. According to the Attorney General, Per Se should have made it clearer that this charge was not a gratuity. Per Se revised this language on its own, well before it ever heard from the Attorney General’s office, and has been in compliance for nearly three years.

In 2011, The New York Times famously called Per Se "the best restaurant in New York City."

Read more at this source: http://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-kellers-per-se-to-pay-wait-staff-500000-2015-7#ixzz3eoEcgdL2

Beyonce and Jay Z divorce: Halo singer 'furious' over paternity test demand from aspiring rapper Rymir Satterthwaite

American singer and songwriter Beyonce  Knowles is allegedly upset with
husband Jay Z after aspiring rapper Rymir Satterthwaite claimed he is his father.

Last month, the 21-year-old alleged in a New Jersey court that his mother Wanda
Satterthwaite had an affair with the 45-year-old rap mogul, whose real name is
Shawn Corey Carter, in the 1990s and got her pregnant.

Adding on, the suit also alleges that Jay Z has been avoiding a paternity test
for the past four years.

According to Grazia magazine, the 33-year-old Halo singer is not happy
with the allegations.

"Beyonce is a mess right now. She's furious that she's been put in this position
once again. It's one rumour after the next. Jay Z says it's not true, but she
seems to feel humiliated and under a lot of strain. She's not in a good place,"
a source said.

"Beyonce feels overwhelmed and embarrassed. She's fiercely protective
of her family and wants to preserve the image of her picture-perfect
marriage. It's important that Jay Z takes a paternity test to prove this
latest rumour wrong so they can draw a line under it," the insider revealed.

The source said that even if Jay Z agrees to the test, the couple's
marriage will not be the same like before.

"Beyonce and Jay Z have been keeping it together in front of fans,
but it's getting harder. She's doing everything she can to make this
right, but deep down Beyonce knows that whether or not Jay
agrees to these tests, their marriage is going to be forever
tarnished. Everyone is really worried for her and are unsure
how much longer she can go on like this," the insider said.

Reports of the Grammy Award-winning singer and Jay Z's
troubled marriage have been doing the rounds for some time now.

Last year in May, during the Met Gala after party at New York
City's Standard Hotel, Jay Z's closeness with designer Rachel Roy
allegedly provoked his sister-in-law, Solange, to fly into a rage.
Footage of Solange physically attacking Jay Z in an elevator
at the hotel emerged soon after.Here's how you can get your ex back.

Source: 
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/beyonce-jay-z-divorce-halo-singer-furious-over-paternity-test-demand-aspiring-rapper-rymir-1491113