4 Florida restaurants with the same owner had to give over $250,000 of back pay to staff after the Department of Labor said they only paid servers tips

• Four Florida restaurants were ordered to pay $253,044 to 93 workers following an investigation.
• The DOL said the restaurants didn't pay wages to servers or pay other workers overtime.
• Low wages drove workers out of the restaurant industry during the pandemic.

Four Florida restaurants paid a collective $253,044 to workers after the US Department of Labor found that they didn't pay any wages to their servers and denied other staff overtime premiums.