The active Cheesecake Factory class action settlement is Lowe v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc., a $1,208,000 fund for people who applied for jobs at Cheesecake Factory in Washington state between January 1, 2023, and March 24, 2025, when the posting didn’t list a wage range and the applicant wasn’t hired.1TCFRI Settlement. Frequently Asked Questions Two older settlements — one over credit card receipts, one over janitorial wages — are already closed, and two New York wage lawsuits were pushed into individual arbitration and never produced a class payout.
The Washington Wage Transparency Settlement
Rory Lowe sued in King County Superior Court on October 19, 2023, alleging Cheesecake Factory violated Washington’s pay transparency law (RCW 49.58.110) by leaving wage scales out of its Washington job postings.1TCFRI Settlement. Frequently Asked Questions The company agreed to fund the settlement without admitting wrongdoing.2TCFRI Settlement. Settlement Home Page
Who Qualifies
You’re in the class if all three are true: you applied for a Washington job at Cheesecake Factory between January 1, 2023, and March 24, 2025; the posting didn’t disclose the wage or salary range; and you weren’t hired.1TCFRI Settlement. Frequently Asked Questions
How Much You Can Get
Approved claimants share the net fund equally after attorney fees and costs come off the top. One published estimate put the individual payment around $1,318.94, though the real number depends on how many valid claims come in and what the court awards in fees.3Top Class Actions. $1.2M Cheesecake Factory Wage Class Action Settlement Payments are treated as non-wage statutory damages and interest, so recipients receive a 1099 rather than a W-2. Class counsel requested $356,360 in fees, costs, and expenses; Lowe requested a $17,500 service award.1TCFRI Settlement. Frequently Asked Questions
Deadlines and Status
Judge Tanya Thorp granted preliminary approval on March 24, 2025.2TCFRI Settlement. Settlement Home Page The deadline to file a claim, object, or exclude yourself was June 20, 2025, with the claims administrator Simpluris, Inc. accepting online submissions through the settlement website or claims by mail or email. The final approval hearing was set for September 19, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in Room W-941 of King County Superior Court.1TCFRI Settlement. Frequently Asked Questions The docket for that date shows a motion hearing and an order granting class certification.4Trellis Law. Lowe vs Cheesecake Factory Restaurants The settlement website had not posted a final approval ruling as of mid-2026, and no payments had been confirmed distributed. If you filed a valid claim by the June 2025 deadline, the next step is checking with Simpluris on payment timing.
The Closed Receipt Privacy Settlement
The $4.75 million Muransky settlement in Los Angeles County Superior Court (Case No. 19STCV43875) resolved claims that certain point-of-sale terminals printed too many card digits on receipts, in violation of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act. The class covered holders of roughly one million unique EMV chip cards used at affected locations between November 10, 2016, and February 4, 2017, with estimated payments of $28 to $56. The claim deadline was March 31, 2022, and the court granted final approval on September 9, 2022. Claims are no longer being accepted.5Top Class Actions. Cheesecake Factory Receipt Privacy $4.75M Class Action Settlement
The Janitorial Wage Theft Settlement
This one is not a class action open to the public. In October 2023, Cheesecake Factory and two janitorial contractors agreed to pay $1 million to resolve a California Labor Commissioner’s Office investigation into 589 janitors underpaid at eight Southern California restaurants. Investigators found janitors worked up to ten hours of unpaid overtime a week after their eight-hour shifts ended.6Restaurant Dive. Cheesecake Factory, Contractors Agree to $1M Settlement for Underpaying 589 Janitors Cheesecake Factory paid $750,000, Americlean Janitorial Services Corp. paid $200,000, and Zully Villegas (doing business as Magic Touch Commercial Cleaning) paid $50,000, all held liable under California Labor Code Section 2810.3.7California Department of Industrial Relations. Labor Commissioner Reaches $1 Million Settlement The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund was still working to locate eligible workers as of January 2024. If you worked as a janitor at those locations, that’s the entity to contact.
New York Biweekly Pay Cases: No Class Payout
If you worked at a New York Cheesecake Factory and heard about lawsuits over biweekly instead of weekly pay, neither produced a class settlement. In Gonzalez v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurant, Inc. (E.D.N.Y., Case No. 2:21-cv-05017), Judge Pamela K. Chen granted the company’s motion to compel arbitration in March 2024, reversing a 2023 ruling, and the case was terminated that August.8Law360. Gonzalez v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurant, Inc.9CourtListener. Gonzalez v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurant, Inc. In Ramos et al v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., Case No. 7:22-cv-02786), which added time-shaving and unpaid overtime claims, Judge Philip M. Halpern stayed the case in August 2022 and sent the disputes to individual arbitration.10PACER Monitor. Ramos et al v. The Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc. No class was certified in either case. Workers with claims would need to pursue them individually through arbitration.