Bar Vegan, Pinky Cole’s Atlanta spot, allegedly paid tipped employees $2.13 an hour while requiring them to give up 25 percent of tips they earned.
A former staffer of Pinky Cole, the proprietor of the well-known Slutty Vegan burger franchise, is suing her on the grounds of being cheated out of 25 percent of her tips at one of the establishments.
Morgan Georgia, who worked at Cole’s Bar Vegan restaurant in Atlanta’s Ponce City Market for over two years, claims the eatery withheld her share of earned tips while compensating the employee at a rate far below the federal minimum wage, according to
“What do I gain withholding someone’s hard earned money when my blessings overflow EVERYDAY? When I’m helping people EVERYDAY! When I’m using my resources to put people on EVERYDAY.. employees included!” Cole continued. “My life’s work is in service, and this negativity don’t match my name.”
She called the accusations a wicked narrative and said she was defying her lawyer’s recommendation to keep quiet since her standing was at stake.
“At the end of the day, my name means more to me than any money that could EVER go in my bank account,” Cole asserted, “and I will NEVER let anybody destroy that.”
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