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Workers at two branches of the American diner chain TGI Fridays are holding walk-outs over adjustments they are saying will price them lots of of kilos a month.
The agency has launched a new pay coverage at its family-oriented eating places, which redistributes customer tips from waiters to kitchen employees.
The Unite union has forecast a "summer of disruption" by sad staff.
The agency stated it pays its employees pretty and is working to search out a decision.
The 24 hour strike will have an effect on the Milton Keynes department of TGI Fridays and the Covent Garden, London department.
Flagging shopper spending on informal eating mixed with rises within the minimal wage are squeezing earnings at mid-market eating places like TGI Fridays.
In February the chain launched a system that takes 40% of tips paid by prospects on credit score and debit playing cards for redistribution to back-of-house employees.
Unite stated the intention was to cut back employees turnover in kitchens by giving them a pay rise with out growing prices.
But the union stated it will price ready employees on the minimal wage as much as £250 a month in misplaced revenue.
Dave Turnbull from Unite stated it wasn't a query of ready employees not eager to share with their colleagues, however was about "greedy" house owners who "no longer want to pay their hardworking staff anything above the bare minimum".
The union stated the motion could be repeated and unfold to additional branches on consecutive Fridays, beginning subsequent Friday on the Trafford Centre, in Manchester, and London's Haymarket Piccadilly.
TGI Fridays, owned by American personal fairness agency Sentinel, operates 83 eating places throughout the UK.
Mr Turnbull stated: "Unite is warning TGI Fridays of a summer of disruption if management don't do the decent thing and sit down with us to find a sensible solution to this dispute."
A TGI Fridays spokesman stated: "We believe all our team members should beand aretreated and paid fairly."
The spokesman stated the agency was working with employees to search out a decision and aimed to maintain the eating places working as regular regardless of the walk-out.
Two years in the past an authorities evaluation of tipping apply suggested that workers ought to retain all of the tips given by the general public. However there aren't any legal guidelines proscribing restaurant apply and redistribution amongst non-waiting employees doesn't contravene finest apply suggestions.
In March TGI Fridays was amongst 43 hospitality sector corporations fined for failing to pay employees the National Minimum Wage. TGI Friday's needed to repay £25 every to 2,300 employees for the acquisition of their black uniform footwear.