Legal Opinion
Kilgore v. Outback Steakhouse of Florida, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 2, 1998No. 97-5902PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Outback Steakhouse of Florida, Inc. (“Outback”) requires its servers to give a share of their tips (a “tip out”) to Outback, which then distributes this entire “tip pool” between hosts/hostesses (“hosts”), bus persons, and bartenders. Plaintiffs are hosts and servers at Outback who challenge Outback’s tip pool arrangement under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) minimum wage provisions.1 After the parties consented to referral to a magistrate judge for final disposition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), the magistrate judge granted summary judgment to…
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