Cafe Michelangelo, Inc.

Cafe Michelangelo, Inc.

SERVING THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA AREA AND BEYOND


 

This lawsuit seeks to recover unpaid wages for individuals who worked as servers at the Cafe Michelangelo restaurant located in Philadelphia, PA. The servers allege that the restaurant violated state and City wage laws by paying them a tipped minimum wage of $2.83 per hour and requiring them to tip-out certain ineligible employees of the restaurant as well as perform excessive side work. It is anticipated that the restaurant deny that it violated any laws.

Case Updates

SEP 6, 2019

Today we filed a class action Complaint in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of servers at the Cafe Michelangelo restaurant located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A copy of the Complaint is below. It is anticipated that the restaurant will deny that it violated any laws.

NOV 8, 2019

Today the Court issue the scheduling order below setting forth the deadlines concerning class certification.

JUL 10, 2020

If you have any questions about this lawsuit, please call our office at (215) 866-1551.

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  • "Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters."
    Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters.
    - Ricci v. Newrez LLC, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 186727, at *23 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 17, 2023)
  • "Significant experience"

    Attorney Andy Santillo and his co-counsel are “patently qualified” attorneys who “have significant experience with wage payment and collections cases, knowledge of wage-and-hour law, and have clearly done significant work already in this case throughout discovery and the preparation of the motions and opposition papers now before the Court."

    - MARTINEZ V. AMAZON.COM SERVS. LLC, 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 209566, *28, *42-43 (D. Md. Nov. 18, 2024)
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    W&S and its co-counsel "have an established record of competent and successful prosecution of large wage and hour class actions."

    - Lapan v. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169508, *7 (D. Mass. Dec. 11, 2015)
  • "Experienced wage and hour class action litigators"

    W&S and its co-counsel "are experienced wage and hour class action litigators with decades of accomplished complex class action between them and that the Class Members have benefited tremendously from able counsel’s representation."

    - Craig v. Rite Aid Corp., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2658, *45 (M.D. Pa. Jan 7, 2013)