Drink slapped with a class action by former servers, bartenders
Six former Drink servers and bartenders say their former employer made them eat the costs of walk-outs, unsigned credit card receipts, and register shortages in a class action filed this week in Hennepin County District Court. The suit says supervisors also altered time sheets in order not to pay them all the hours they worked. Since they only made minimum wage to begin with, the practice meant they made even less than minimum wage. 
Among other things, the suit says management would sporadically "announce that the 'till was off' and would require all bartenders who were working to pay ... to make up for the alleged shortages, which generally ranged from $40 to $200" and "refused to provide documentation of the ... shortages."
Drink has locations in both Uptown and downtown. Spin Nightclub, which is under the same ownership as Drink, is also named in the suit. The six employees worked for both the Updown and downtown Drink locations.
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