topic Re: Just a Poll - how many of you are now paying Tips out on Paychecks? in Back Office & Team

Just a Poll - how many of you are now paying Tips out on Paychecks?

MattSimpson — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:21:11 GMT

Hello, Toast Community! I'm writing just to see how many restaurants have moved to paying employee tips out on pay checks?

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JimmyD99 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:06:27 GMT

Yep

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YB — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:13:49 GMT

We are paying tips (non-cash) on paychecks, and we're also pooling them.

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holycannoli — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:05:40 GMT

what is your method for tipping out pooled tips? do you use percentage breakouts that you calculate separately? or another method?

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YB — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:44:10 GMT

Originally, we had percentages of targeted sales (alcohol/beverage sales for the bar, etc.). This led to issues with cash tips (with staff arguing over what was supposed to be tipped out, etc.). Basically, we treat our bartenders as servers, and barbacks as bussers. Bussers are tipped out at 4.8% of total F&B sales, and Runners are tipped out at 2% of total F&B sales. That amount is split evenly between the runners, as we only have two of them (sometimes three), but the runners we divide by time. So we take the total tip, and divide by the total number of busser hours worked that shift. That amount is then multiplied by the number of hours each busser works (it used to be split evenly, but we ran into problems with bussers leaving early without completing side work, so this gives them an incentive to stick around. 🙂 )

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Manoj — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:37:15 GMT

yep

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holycannoli — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:12:12 GMT

Sounds like a good way to go about it. Thank you!!

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Ashes — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:45:41 GMT

We do! Breakfast cafe and our fine dining restaurant.

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adamj — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:37:44 GMT

We have moved all tips to checks. and are recommending for our clients as well. It is also important to note, when employees are applying for government assistance or even a new apartment, showing tips on checks helps to demonstrate a higher level of income.

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JevVan — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:25:34 GMT

We do and have for a few years. We are a self serve restaurant so we pay out the tips based on the percentage of employee hrs worked/all tipped employee hours.

If the tip pool is $500 and there total hours worked by tipped employees for the pay period is 1000, then each employee will receive $0.50/hr worked this pay period.

Toast Tips doesn't do this so we calculate it manually which we have been doing for years anyway.

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Flourdustpizza — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:18:15 GMT

Yes on paychecks.