If you follow celebrity chefs you may know the name of Susur Lee, a Hong Kong-born Canadian who has risen to celebrity-dom over a number of years and now runs at least two downtown restaurants with his sons. Now the CBC has a story about how his places made wait staff pay for mistakes like breaking a glass or delivering to the wrong table by forfeiting part of their tips. It is an egregious thing no doubt and worse than that, says CBC, against the law in Ontario. The story is long and at some points makes it sound like Lee was flogging his waiters. He wasn’t. Life in Toronto. CBC
