Used staff’s pay to cover bills - Server/Bartender Cultivar Employee Review

1.0
5 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Truthfully it was a decent restaurant. Good food, good drink selection, good service

Cons

The owners, Mary Dumont and Emily French-Dumont, used staffs pay (including tips that had been turned in to be split between among the house) to pay fines for a late liquor license, and withheld staff’s “pay checks” telling us all that it was a problem with the payroll company, along with other excuses to put us off. Eventually the employees stopped showing up because we hadn’t been paid in weeks, I lost my apartment. We got together with a few attorneys to sue for the money we earned and after months we were sent a check with amounts lesser than what was owed, and we were informed that Mary and Emily filed for bankruptcy so we wouldn’t be getting anything else.

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5.0
27 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Staff and team structure overall

Cons

Lack of business and growth

5.0
20 Mar 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It was a great woman owned business until it sadly closed. From what I experienced, they had unsupportive business partners but we were busy right up until the last lunch. We love you, ladies!

Cons

Selfish co-workers who are trying to sue the owners and spread lies of non-payment. The same people who showed up hungover all the time and are now refusing to cash their last checks to try to prove that the owners never paid them. The business closed and we were all paid

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