New York restaurant staff are no push over

New York is clearly a city that restaurateurs should enter at their peril. After all the recent Gordon Ramsay shenanigans, with uppity staff blogging on the internet about measly tips and irked neighbours moaning about pollution, we hear that top-drawer nosh house Daniel (run by chef Daniel Boulud) is the latest site to hit a spot of turbulence.

Last week, seven workers from South America and Bangladesh filed a lawsuit alleging that they were denied promotions because of their "ethnicity, race and national origin". Boulud disputes the allegations but the two recent cases show that New York staff are clearly no pushover.