A former server at Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room is suing the upscale Crossroads restaurant, claiming wage and tip theft.
Krisda Siriwangchai filed a class-action complaint in February in the U.S. District Court of Western Missouri against Raven Concepts LLC, the company under which Corvino does business. His suit claims that the restaurant’s policies had the effect of paying tipped employees — servers, runners, hosts and bartenders — less than what they were entitled to under the law.
Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room did not respond to a request for comment, but its attorney, Greg Ballew of Fisher Phillips LLP, denied the allegations in a court response filed last month.
Siriwangchai, a 2017 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, worked at Corvino from 2018 to 2022. He alleges violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act as well as wage-related and “unjust enrichment class” claims under Missouri law. Those include:
Minimum wage violations. Like many restaurants, Corvino claims a “tip credit,” which means it is allowed to pay its tipped employees $6 per hour — half of the Missouri minimum wage of $12 per hour — so long as those employees’ combined hourly wages and tips meet or exceed $12 per hour. But, the lawsuit alleges, Corvino’s tipped employees were regularly required to “work substantial amounts of time on non-tip-producing activities,” such as polishing glasses, preparing linens, and performing end-of-night closing...
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