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Managers at a trendy East Side bar being sued for weighing their waitresses - and allegedly firing them for packing on a few pounds - also kept a computer record that rated female employees based on "personality," "sales" and "body," a former worker told The Post yesterday.
"It was a rating system between 1 and 10," said Ella Garnett, who said she saw the document several years ago while waitressing at the Sutton Place Bar and Restaurant.
When she saw her own name next to an average score of only 7.3, "I was mad," Garnett said.
One heavyset co-worker, she said, scored a 10 for personality, but just a 3 for body. That waitress was fired soon after.
The Second Avenue watering hole "was a very sexually charged place," Garnett said. "They were a pretty filthy lot."
One day, Garnett said, she was in the office of executive manager Alan Bradbury, who pointed out a closed-circuit surveillance system that was recording bar owner Rich Kassis having sex with a woman in a VIP room. On other occasions she saw managers using the security cameras to watch strippers use sex toys during bachelor parties in the VIP room, Garnett said.
Kassis, Bradbury, the bar and several other managers are named as defendants in a $15 million sexual-harassment lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court by former waitresses Kristen McRedmond and Alexandria Lipton.
The suit alleges managers this summer asked female employees to reveal their weights, and told McRedmond and several other waitresses to get on a digital scale to be weighed.
Joel Simon, a lawyer for Sutton Place, has denied the allegations in the suit.
Asked about Garnett's new claims yesterday, Simon said, "This is the first time I'm hearing these allegations, and, again, my understanding is that the allegations are fictitious."
dan.mangan@nypost.com
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