Patrick Lockett, a former New Orleans restaurant operator and Katrina refugee, has sued GBL Soul Food Express, an East New York fried chicken–and–collard greens joint, for allegedly breaking minimum-wage and overtime laws. In the suit, Lockett claims to have been paid $600 per 40-hour week to work as a cook. But he often worked far more than 40 hours and was not properly compensated, the suit alleges. (GBL denied these allegations in court.) In an interview with Lockett, the cook told Grub Street of the bizarre kitchen culture that made his job even more difficult. His co-workers (one of whom he says made just $100 per week as a dishwasher) were all members of the neighboring Greater Bright Light Baptist Church, and their boss at the restaurant, H. Devore Chapman, was the pastor. Lockett claims the pastor repeatedly pressured him to join the church and foisted female co-workers and congregation members on him, while Lockett’s wife was ill, to do the same.