DCWageLaw managing attorney Justin Zelikovitz discusses the “misleading” automatic gratuity policy of D.C. restaurant Dacha in this June 2019 interview with Washingtonian:

The distribution of automatic gratuity is currently a gray area in DC. … “The intention may be good. It’s perfectly legal to say we’re going to pay you minimum wage or above, and we don’t do tips here,” says Zelikovitz. “But certainly from the customer’s perspective, it’s misleading. And to the extent employees believed that was something they were going to be paid, that would be legally problematic.”