Andrea Ide v. Neighborhood Restaurant Partners, LLC, et al, No. 15-11820 (11th Cir. 2016)
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Case: 15-11820 Date Filed: 07/01/2016 Page: 1 of 3 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 15-11820 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:13-cv-00509-MHC ANDREA IDE, on behalf of herself and all other persons similarly situated, known and unknown, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC, APPLE CREEK MANAGEMENT CO., INC., Defendants - Appellees. ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ________________________ (July 1, 2016) Case: 15-11820 Date Filed: 07/01/2016 Page: 2 of 3 Before WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR, and GILMAN, * Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Andrea Ide filed suit against Apple Creek Management Company, Inc. and Neighborhood Restaurant Partners, LLC (collectively, the Defendants) on behalf of herself and similarly situated tipped employees of the Defendants “for Defendants’ failure to pay [those servers, bartenders, and hosts] earned minimum wages.” Ide argued, in relevant part, that (1) the Defendants should bear the burden of proving that the Defendants were entitled to take the “tip credit” under Section 3(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 203(m), and (2) Ide and similarly situated tipped employees should not have been paid at the tip-credit wage rate for performing duties of non-tipped occupations unrelated to their tipped occupations. The district court denied Ide’s motion for conditional certification of a collective action under the FLSA and subsequently granted summary judgment to the Defendants. Ide appeals both rulings. After thorough review of the record and the parties’ briefs, and having had the benefit of oral argument, we find insufficient evidence in the record that Ide performed duties unrelated to her tipped occupation for which she was not properly compensated, irrespective of who bore the burden of proof. See 29 U.S.C. §§ 203(m), (t), 206(a)(1); 29 C.F.R. § 531.56(e); see also Fast v. Applebee’s Int’l, * Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. 2 Case: 15-11820 Date Filed: 07/01/2016 Page: 3 of 3 Inc., 638 F.3d 872, 876–79 (8th Cir. 2011). Thus, Ide’s arguments regarding conditional certification under 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) are moot. Accordingly, we affirm. AFFIRMED. 3
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