Red Robin to pay $600K for harassment at Everett location

EVERETT – Restaurant chain Red Robin agreed Friday to pay four former Everett restaurant workers $600,000 to resolve a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

A line cook, 45, at Red Robin’s restaurant at 1305 SE Everett Mall Way was allowed to sexually harass female workers on a daily basis with offensive sexual comments and unwanted remarks about their bodies, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle in September 2022. The man reportedly also leered and touched them without their consent.

When the female workers objected to his conduct, he allegedly retaliated against them by calling them sexist slurs and refusing to give them their food orders, interfering with their ability to do their jobs.

One of the four victims was an 18-year-old line cook who had just graduated from high school, court documents said.

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