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Bay Area restaurant closes after facing $5.2M in wage theft fines

Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet is latest in series of worker-abuse cases in San Francisco Bay area

The Daly City, Calif., restaurant Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet reportedly closed this week, laying off between 70 to 80 workers, about seven months after being fined nearly $5.2 million by the California Labor Commissioner for wage theft. 

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