El Potro Mexican Restaurant on Buford Highway has been ordered to pay 10 employees more than $110,000 in back wages after a U.S. Labor Department investigation.

Investigators found the restaurant violated the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. According to a release from the department, the restaurant paid its servers, bussers and kitchen staff a flat bi-weekly salary without regard to the number of hours worked.

For bussers and servers, this minimal salary was not sufficient to meet the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour or even the minimum cash wage for tipped employees of $2.13 per hour when divided by the number of hours they worked. The employer also failed to pay overtime pay for hours worked beyond 40 in a work week.