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I don't eat at Marathon Grill because they're notorious even in an industry which is notorious for this kind of thing:

Marathon Grill, the popular Philadelphia restaurant chain, has agreed to pay nearly $21,000 in back wages to workers - half of them Mexicans - who were not paid overtime or were not paid at all, the U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday.

Also yesterday, Community Legal Services filed the first of what it said would be several complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that Marathon Grill discriminated against its Mexican employees by failing to pay them overtime.

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"We've seen a pattern of them cheating employees out of their last paychecks - nickel and diming their way to higher profits," said Nadia Hewka, the Community Legal Services lawyer who filed the EEOC complaint. Her nonprofit agency represents low-income clients.

Some employees who quit or are fired return two or three times to the restaurant to collect their checks but are turned away, she said. "They are counting on people giving up."

And, she said, "in my experience, the workers who were not paid overtime were always the Latinos." They were also the ones, she said, who were too scared to file public complaints.