A Newark restaurant has been fined $144,000 for failing to pay dozens of waiters, cooks and busboys overtime, state officials said.

The Swahili Village Bar and Grill company paid back $62,335 in overtime and $62,335 in damages for underpaying 84 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement.

In addition, the restaurant was fined $44,100 for “willful violations,” officials said. It was not immediately clear when the violations occurred.

The restaurant, located at the corner of Center and Mulberry streets across from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

“Food service workers are too often the victims of employers who withhold wages and deprive them of their hard-earned pay,” said Paula Ruffin, director of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour District, in a statement. “When the wage practices of employers like Swahili Village Bar and Grill violate federal law, we will hold them accountable and do everything we can to recover the wages owed to workers.”