Multiple Employees at Times Square Olive Garden File Charges Alleging Racial Discrimination
Olive Garden storefront.Photo: Getty Images Multiple workers at anOlive Gardenin New York City have filed charges of race- and gender-based discrimination against Darden Restaurants, Inc. at the state’s Human Rights Division and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The company denies all of the allegations. As a result of himself and other Black employees allegedly receiving “less in tips from customers based on our race as Black servers,” Jones, 43, says that “Darden’s policy of paying the sub-minimum tipped wage has a disparate impact on me and similarly situated servers....