By Ben Fractenberg
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CHELSEA — An ex-cocktail waitress at Chelsea’s swanky lounge 1 Oak plans to sue her former employer for misleading patrons — including Leonardo DiCaprio and Kanye West — about where service charges for bottles of liquor go, according to the New York Post.
Former 1 Oak emplyee Tarale Wulff, 33, alleges the West 17th Street lounge duped patrons into thinking the 20-percent markup on bottle service actually represented tips “paid to the service workers," the Post reported.
"In reality, a percentage [is] distributed to nonservice employees, such as doormen" in violation of state law, according to Wulff's class-action lawsuit, which she was expected to file Monday at Manhattan federal court.
Wulff was fired from 1 Oak in February after a dispute involving a patron's expired credit card, the paper added. She is seeking unspecified damages for herself and at least 50 current and former workers at the club.
1 Oak’s publicity firm did not immediately offer a response to the allegations.
