Zuma, a high-end Japanese restaurant in Back Bay, was cited $1.8 million after the state Attorney General’s Office accused the business of violating state tipping laws.

Restaurant management allegedly allowed some employees with managerial duties to take from the tip pool. Tip pooling, which is when a restaurant combines tips earned by tipped employees and divides the money among certain employees, is legal in Massachusetts if the employees involved are service workers — typically the front-of-house, non-managerial staff.

“Even if managers and supervisors help to serve customers, they cannot share in a tip pool on a day when they have any managerial responsibilities,” said the office of AG Andrea Joy Campbell in a press release Monday.

The AG’s office said the tip pool violation occ

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