On a cool weeknight in February, DeVito restaurant on South Beach is humming. Beneath giant chandeliers of glowing glass, waitress Angela Suarez skips from the kitchen counter to a dozen different white-marble tables, carrying heaps of porcini gnocchi and pecorino cheese pasta.
Though the perky server is smiling brightly, inside she's boiling with rage. She recalls working about 60 hours the prior week, but the paycheck she picked up earlier showed only 38. So after midnight, when business has died down, she sneaks upstairs to a computer near the manager's office and logs in. Sure enough, the record confirms she's been stiffed, she claims. And part of her tips have been siphoned to a sommelier.
"They basically mistreat everybody around there," she says. "They're bad people."
Last month, Suarez, who is using a pseudonym because she fears retribution from a new employer, sued DeVito for cheating her out of tips and wages. In just the past …
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