How does 2 Bros Pizza—the popular New York hot-cheese-n-crust-for-just-a-buck joint—keep its prices so nice? By underpaying its employees and working them to the bone, according to a new lawsuit.

The class-action lawsuit, filed against dollar-slice emporium 2 Bros on behalf of more than a dozen cashiers, pizzamakers, and the like, alleges that workers were paid minimum wage or less with no overtime for workweeks that often hit 60 or 70 hours. From the New York Daily News:

Gabriel Bailon, who worked as a piemaker and cashier at the chain’s flagship pizzeria on St. Marks Place and saw 2 Bros. become a citywide staple, said he and other employees were talked into staying with phony promises about raises, but their bosses never came up with the dough.

The cheap pizza chain did cut workers’ hours this year, “but they gave me less money, too,” said Bailon, who would typically work from 11 in the morning until 11 or 12 at night, six days a week.

Another longtime worker, Ruben Aca, worked 72 hours a week at the eatery’s Lexington Ave. locale, where he said he was paid a flat $480 a week — or $6.66 an hour — for two years. The suit says he got a raise to $600 a week in 2014 — but still works 60-hour weeks.

As the Awl notes, the suit comes a month after the New York Times exposed the unspeakably bad conditions faced by workers at New York’s low-price nail salons. Next time something strikes you as so cheap as to seem almost criminal, that’s probably because it is.

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