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Harvard Club servers sue over tips

Say they get no share of 17% surcharge

By Katie Johnston

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 11, 2011

The exclusive Harvard Club of Boston is being sued by its wait staff, who say they have been cheated out of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips. According to a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, members of the private alumni club pay a 17 percent on food and beverage bills that the club states is collected “in lieu of a gratuity.’’ But workers say they don’t get a cent.

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