April 15, 2021, In The News

Courthouse News Service Report (and others) report on Gerstein Harrow’s lawsuit against Darden Restaurants claiming that tipping violates anti-discrimination laws.

Jason Harrow, an attorney with the Los Angeles firm Gerstein Harrow LLP who represents the group, said in an interview Thursday that the lawsuit does not aim to end tipping completely but to move toward a system where servers are not so heavily reliant on tips. “We think of it as restaurant policy 2.0,” he said. “The idea is to make tips a benefit and not make it literally so that servers and bartenders need to do whatever it takes to not go hungry.”

Read the full article HERE.