A Back Bay restaurant, which recently celebrated a Michelin nod, is facing a class action lawsuit from one of its bartenders and two servers who claim the restaurant shorts the tip pool and pays tips out to ineligible employees, including managers and dishwashers.

La Padrona, an Italian restaurant which opened last year with chef and Jody Adams at the helm, earned a recommendation from Michelin for its inaugural year in Boston and has previously been recognized by The New York Times .

On the heels of the Michelin recommendation, however, Kelsey MacKinnon, Clara Herman, and Nadia Agourram filed the lawsuit against the restaurant’s leadership as part of 40 Trinity Place Restaurant Group LLC. Adams, identified as co-owner Josephine Adams in the lawsuit, co-owner and manager Jonathan M

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