Travis Kelce won’t be sitting through any depositions over this one. But the car wash chain he quietly bought into back in 2020 just got dragged into a proposed class-action lawsuit over bonuses that a former employee says never showed up in full.
Tristen Cole Reeves, a 28-year-old from Converse, Texas, filed suit against Club Car Wash Operating LLC on May 27 in Bexar County District Court, asking a judge to certify the case as a class action on behalf of roughly 100 current and former employees he believes got shorted the same way he did. The suit, assigned to state District Judge Nadine Nieto, seeks more than $2 million in damages.
According to Reeves’ complaint, he signed a written employment agreement last year promising him a bonus once he hit certain performance benchmarks. That payment was due in March. Instead of the full amount, Reeves says he received a quarter of it, $7,257 against a promised $29,028, a shortfall of $21,771. He claims the explanation came during an April 28 Microsoft Teams call, when an area manager and a regional manager told staff that bonuses would be paid out at just 25 cents on the dollar…