The Fair Labor Standards Act has long provided that an employer may satisfy its federal minimum wage obligations for a tipped employee by applying the employee’s tips as a credit toward the minimum wage and, in doing so, directly pay such employee less than the general minimum wage. If the employer’s wages plus the employee’s tips do not equal or exceed the minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference. Moreover, in order to take advantage of the tip credit, the employer is required to notify its tipped employees that it is taking the tip credit and to provide certain information pertaining to the credit.