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WAITERS protested in central London yesterday, calling on Pizza Express to stop pocketing an estimated £1 million a year that should go to the company’s poorly paid workers.
Demonstrators gathered at the chain’s Leicester Square restaurant to demand that it “give us our dough” in response to the company practice of deducting an 8 per cent admin charge from customer tips paid with a credit card.
Seven years ago, a campaign by Unite forced a change in the law to stop the misuse of tips to top up pay to the minimum wage, but this has not prevented Pizza Express from making about £1 million a year from the credit card charge, according to the union.
A Unite survey of waiting staff in London found that 88 per cent feel cheated out of tips, 20 per cent are on zero-hours contracts and 63 per cent receive the minimum wage of just £6.50 an hour.
