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Servers accuse proprietor of withholding on-line suggestions, later resolved  

By Editorial Board Published March 26, 2025 4 Min Read
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Servers accuse proprietor of withholding on-line suggestions, later resolved  

EAST LANSING, Mich.(WLNS)— Workers at Altu’s Ethiopian Delicacies have accused the brand new proprietor of the institution of stealing their on-line suggestions. 

6 Information spoke to former server Nathan Herendeen, who says clients can order on-line and select to tip in-house, the supply drivers, or each. 

Altu’s Ethiopian Delicacies. (WLNS)

Herendeen says that as an alternative of the information ending up within the servers’ pockets, they might go straight to the brand new proprietor, Gutu Lencha’s, checking account, which is notable since servers in Michigan eating places make a decrease minimal wage that’s purported to be bolstered by suggestions. 

“We used to work very effectively collectively; like he had known as me his proper hand at one level. It is solely till this stealing of suggestions that we have had plenty of confrontation,” mentioned Nathan Herendeen. 

Herendeen says, like many eating places, clients would add recommendations on their on-line orders. 

”You possibly can click on on that to see how a lot it was, together with processing charges and a tip. Since Dec. 31, folks have been ordering and tipping,” mentioned Herendeen. 

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Altu’s webpage.

Herendeen says the wait-staff hasn’t seen a number of months of $2,000 price in on-line suggestions, and says he confronted the proprietor. 

“I asked him, ‘Hey, where are all these tips going?’ and he says, ‘They’re going into my account.’ And I said ‘That seems illegal,’ and he says ‘That’s not illegal,’” said Herendeen. “’Don’t worry about it.'”

Herendeen says a number of days after elevating the problem, the proprietor fired him for firm wellness and buyer coverage, however he doesn’t imagine that.

“The one obtainable info is identify, telephone quantity, and complete. I haven’t got info to bank cards,” mentioned Herendeen. 

Sean Egan, Deputy Director of Labor on the Michigan Division of Labor and Financial Alternative, says suggestions are just for servers. 

“Tips are for the individual employees that are given the tips,” said Egan. “Management, whether it’s assistant managers or owners, cannot participate nor take those tips.”

6 Information reached out to Lencha on Monday, however he declined to look on digital camera or reply questions. He issued a written assertion, saying Altu’s lately began a web-based tipping system and is “working to resolve any issues related to the new system.” 

Herendeen says Lencha additionally despatched a textual content message Monday saying the servers may get their suggestions, which date again to Jan. 9 via March 23. He says he’s relieved that he and his coworkers will get a lot of the cash they’re owed. 

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The textual content from Lencha. (Nathan Herendeen)

“It seems like we caught him and confronted him that he was stealing cash,” mentioned Herendeen. 

Herendeen says there are nonetheless suggestions lacking from Dec. 31 via Jan 8, and provides that he has filed a criticism with the Michigan Division of Labor and Financial Alternative.

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