Accommodation & Food Services · Commack, NY
Good Taste Buffet
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $280,563 in back wages owed to 62 affected workers across 2 wage-theft cases.
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- Violations cited
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- Back wages owed
Good Taste Buffet in Commack, NY has been the subject of 0 OSHA workplace inspections and 0 citations since 2010, according to enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Labor. Separately, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found $280,563 in back wages owed to 62 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- F Wage & hour compliance: $281K in back wages owed across 2 WHD cases ($140K per case), vs. national p10 $2K (best) / p90 $58K (worst) among 91,622 employers with a WHD case on file.
Channels are separate federal datasets: a dimension marked not applicable simply has no record in that dataset for this employer, not a good or bad score.
Good Taste Buffet in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Good Taste Buffet at rank #87 of 22,851 employers ($280,563 owed). Good Taste Buffet carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #87 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($280,563).
How Good Taste Buffet Compares
Good Taste Buffet in Commack, NY has no OSHA inspection on record with PlainWorker. An absence of federal inspection activity is not the same as a clean safety record, it typically means this employer has not yet been selected for inspection under OSHA's targeting programs. By comparison, Misoya Bistro in Medford, OR has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Good Taste Buffet to date. The Accommodation & Food Services sector average runs $670 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Good Taste Buffet owed $280,563 in back wages to 62 employees across 2 cases and 76 violations. WHD enforces federal labor laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), covering minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards.
Industry Safety Context: Accommodation & Food Services
How Good Taste Buffet compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Good Taste Buffet | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.2 |
| Violations | 0 | 0.5 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $670 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $2,941 |
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What to do with this record
Use Good Taste Buffet's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Good Taste Buffet against Misoya Bistro, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Good Taste Buffet's inspection and penalty record is typical for Accommodation & Food Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Accommodation & Food Services sector
- Good Taste Buffet also carries $280,563 in Wage and Hour Division back-wages, a separate enforcement track from OSHA safety violations. How wage-theft enforcement works
Figures reflect closed OSHA and WHD federal enforcement actions on record (2010–2026); not every workplace issue results in an inspection or investigation.
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Data as of 2026. Source: U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD).
Source: OSHA Enforcement Data
Inspection and violation records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, covering the period 2010–2026. Includes inspection dates, violation types (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), and penalty amounts. Penalties shown are current assessed amounts and may differ from original citations due to settlement, contest, or reduction.
Source: Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Compliance actions from the WHD, covering enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations. Back wages represent amounts owed to affected employees as determined by WHD investigations.
Employer Matching
Employers are matched across OSHA and WHD datasets by name, state, and city. Employers included in PlainWorker have 2 or more OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages. Data is updated monthly from data.dol.gov.