{"id":393933,"date":"2026-09-08T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393933\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:02:08","slug":"labor-florida-restaurant-owed-workers-732000-in-back-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393933\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor: Florida restaurant owed workers $732,000 in back pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pompano Beach restaurant not only paid workers less than the minimum wage, but didn\u2019t properly pay employees who worked overtime, the U.S. Department of Labor said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said Thursday that it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/whd\/whd20260903\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> recovered $732,976 from Lucky King<\/a> LLC, the owner of Miyako Japanese Buffet, 1157 S. Federal Hwy. That\u2019s money owed to 31 employees \u2014 an average of $23,644.39 per worker.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky King \u201cpaid most employees a monthly salary between $1,000 to $3,000, even though employees typically worked more than 40 hours per week. The department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division investigators determined the employer also failed to pay minimum wage for all hours worked and maintain required records, all in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State corporation records say Lucky King is <a href=\"https:\/\/search.sunbiz.org\/Inquiry\/CorporationSearch\/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&amp;directionType=Initial&amp;searchNameOrder=LUCKYKING+L140000380850&amp;aggregateId=flal-l14000038085-b75958f2-11d5-4841-886b-dd70cbe1f036&amp;searchTerm=lucky+king&amp;listNameOrder=LUCKYKING+L140000380850\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">managed by Hui Fang Zhang<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t returned a phone message from the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p>As a restaurant, Miyako\u2019s last three inspections have ended in \u201cFollow-Up Inspection Required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the violations noted on the latest inspection, Aug. 26, was \u201cEstablishment charging operational charges without properly disclosing the information on the menu\/web\/app and the bill\/receipt.\u201d Miyako\u2019s policy of automatic 15% tips for groups of eight or more is on a board at the front of the restaurant, not on the receipt.<\/p>\n<p>Also, onions got hit with a Stop Sale order after the inspector saw a \u201ccan of Red Bull stored in a pan of cooked onions in a flip top cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees who believe their employer might have committed federal pay violations can call Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division at 866-487-9243 (4US-WAGE).<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788894128_156_695 Miami Herald sig 072115 Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David J. Neal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David J. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pompano Beach restaurant not only paid workers less than the minimum wage, but didn\u2019t properly pay employees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-393933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}