Gunawan v. Sake Sushi Restaurant

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that plaintiff was “entitled to the reimbursement of the portion of her tips the Restaurant improperly required her to share with the chef”
• acknowledging that “[t]o the extent the federal and state statutes now provide for essentially identical remedies with respect to liquidated damages, it is harder to argue that they are designed to compensate a plaintiff for disparate harms”
• calculating overtime damages at 50 percent of regular rate, per hour worked in excess of 40
• refusing to infer the required connection to interstate commerce simply because a restaurant has sales exceeding $500,000
• calculating unpaid minimum wages by dividing monthly rate by monthly hours of work performed
• “[I]t remains the plaintiffs burden to demonstrate that those uncontroverted allegations, without more, establish the defendant’s liability on each asserted cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fermin v. Las Delicias Peruanas Restaurant, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-19· cited 182×
• Inclan v. New York Hospitality Group, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2015-03-26· cited 98×
• Division 1181 Amalgamated Transit Union—New York Employees Pension Fund v. D & A Bus Co.
  E.D. New York· 2017-09-12· cited 65×
• Montano v. Montrose Restaurant Associates, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-08-28· cited 59×
• Santana v. Latino Express Restaurants, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2016-07-28· cited 49×
• Serrano v. Chicken-Out Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2016-07-22· cited 36×
• Gortat v. Capala Bros.
  E.D. New York· 2013-06-12· cited 34×
• Ayala v. Tito Contractors, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2015-03-04· cited 30×
• Gesualdi v. Seacoast Petroleum Products, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-30· cited 25×
• Frontier Park Co. v. Contreras
  E.D. New York· 2014-08-05· cited 6×
• Vict. Leevson, Michael Leibzon, Matana Enters., LLC v. Aqualife United States, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2017-11-01· cited 6×
• McNamara v. Associated Press
  S.D. New York· 2014-08-21· cited 4×
• Alaina Simone Inc. v. Madden
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2021-12-28· cited 3×
• Texas v. Garner (In re Garner)
  M.D. Florida· 2014-09-05· cited 3×
• Cabrera v. Schafer
  E.D. New York· 2016-11-28· cited 1×
• Lopez v. A. Napco & Son Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2014-08-07