Zizzi slammed by leading MP for 'taking money from staff'

Popular restaurant chain Zizzi has been slammed by leading MPs after employees claimed that the firm charges waiters if the company is ‘robbed’ or they make a mistake.

Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson has launched an online petition calling on the UK restaurant to “stop fining their waiters when customers ‘dine and dash’.”

On his online petition, addressed to Steve Holmes, Zizzi’s CEO, Watson writes; “Restaurant chain Zizzi is making waiters foot the bill if customers "dine and dash" or for other financial "mistakes". The money is usually taken out of staff tips.

“This is totally unacceptable. We must not allow this abuse of workers, which we commonly see in the gig economy, to penetrate into the mainstream.”