Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Yankee Stadium Tips Taken By Owners, Servers Allege

Yankee Stadium Tips Taken By Owners, Servers Allege "In the more desirable seats at Yankee Stadium, an already pricey $10.50 draft beer will run you an eye-popping $12.60 thanks to an involuntary 20 percent 'service fee' tacked on to the original price. If the sticker shock doesn’t make that brew bitter enough, consider this: Despite what you might expect, that extra $2 and change isn't going to the hustling server who sold it to you, according to a new lawsuit.

Legends Hospitality, the concessionaire co-owned by the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, and Goldman Sachs, allegedly pockets the 20 percent service fee attached to food and drink in violation of New York law, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by three Yankee Stadium servers this week. If certified as class action, the suit could involve more than a hundred servers and hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims."

Apparently everything is Goldman Sachs' fault. It's one thing to tack on an extra stupid fee for money grubbing purposes. It's another to do so in a way that makes servers lose their tips.

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