The World of Beer at 432 Market Street operated for the past two years before closing Sunday.
World of Beer closed in downtown Chattanooga on Aug. 28, but its memory lives on – especially for employees who finally got paid Thursday, and for a local media company that’s suing the franchisee of the craft beer tavern for $8,650 in unpaid advertising bills.
The missing pay for World of Beer employees was subject of TV news coverage after Cory Love, who worked at the 412 Market St. location since January 2015, posted on Sept. 3 on his Facebook page that employees hadn’t been paid for their last two weeks’ work.
“No one is getting paid what is owed to us,” Love posted, saying then that bar staff was owed $800 and the back of house, or kitchen staff, was owed more than $2,000.
“My kitchen manager has SIX KIDS. SIX. KIDS. And you aren’t paying us?” wrote Love, who worked as a waiter. “I have a written message from my boss saying that us getting paid at this point is a trivial matter. Trivial!?”
But Love said Thursday that employees are being paid – though some credit card tips were still owed.