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    The company that runs the Edina Grill, the Groveland Tap, the Lowry and the Freehouse says it is rolling back a controversial deduction on tips for waitstaff.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Blois Olson

    Fluence Media
    651-276-1678


    Blue Plate Restaurants Raise the Bar By Committing
    to a Living Wage for Employees.


    St. Paul, Minn - The owners of Blue Plate Restaurant Company today announced that they
    are going to pay a living wage for all non-tipped employees, and have resumed paying the
    credit card fees on servers tips immediately they were collecting from tipped employees since
    August 1
    st
    .

    We have always listened to our guests and our community. Blue Plate is a family of small
    neighborhood restaurants and we value the hard work of our employees more than
    anything. Before we were founders we were servers. Stephanie and I have built hundreds of
    meaningful relationships with our employees and guests. Its our core; our people understand
    our values. Weve reflected and decided to try a different approach that will give our
    communities a clear indicator of who we are as a business, owner David Burley said.

    Beginning September 1
    st
    , Blue Plate will pay a living wage of $9.69 per hour to all non-tipped
    employees A 21% increase above the new state minimum wage. Further while Blue Plate full
    time employees will receive health care as part of the Affordable Care Act, Blue Plate also
    offers a 401K plan with a 4 percent match and meal benefits including discounts for friends
    and family.

    We built Blue Plate with simple economics; we built it with a genuine passion for great food,
    hospitality and meaningful connections with our guests, Burley said. That commitment is
    shared by our employees and thats a business model that works.

    In addition to moving to a livable wage, Blue Plate will be bringing employees together in a
    more formal manner in the coming months to share ideas and innovations and ensure that our
    restaurants take food and hospitality to a new level.

    We live in the neighborhoods that we serve, and we are in the restaurants daily, said co-
    founder and owner Stephanie Shimp. Its important that we listen to and learn from guests
    comments. We want to ensure that we grow based on our food and THE values that we wear
    on our sleeve everyday.




    At the Minnesota State Fair and all Blue Plate restaurants, Burley and Shimp will welcome
    customers and all Minnesotans to have discussions about food, hospitality and anything else
    that is on their minds.

    Blue Plate is debuting the Blue Barn at the Minnesota State Fairs new West End Marketplace
    this week.

    ###

    About Blue Plate Restaurant Company
    David Burley and Stephanie Shimp, two servers working together at The Nicollet Island Inn
    during the 1990s honed their skills in one of the Twin Cities premier restaurant/hotels. They
    pooled their resources, formed a simple business plan and in 1993 the duo opened
    the Highland Grill. They purchased Groveland Tap. Not long after, they opened their third
    location in Edina. Over the last few years the growth has continued. Longfellow Grill was
    opened in 2005. In 2006 Edina Grill relocated around the corner at 50th and France, doubling
    in size and adding on a full bar. The fifth restaurant 3 Squares opened in May of 2008 in Maple
    Grove, bringing the neighborhood grill to the northwest portion of the Twin Cities. Scusi, the
    small plate Italian concept is in the Mac-Grove neighborhood of St. Paul just across the
    street from Groveland Tap. The Lowry opened August 2011 in Uptown as the new urban
    diner. The Freehouse, which includes a brewery, opened in December of 2013 and the Blue
    Barn, opens as a new food vendor at the 2014 Minnesota State Fair.

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