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Tip Pooling


A tip pool is an arrangement where you agree to contribute a portion of your tips to  support staff  such as the bus person, host or bartender. The Pool House traditionally only includes tipped employees who are directly involved with service such as food runners, waiters, waitresses, host, bartenders, and buss persons. Listed below are some of the most common methods for pooling tips. Regardless of what type of pooled house the employer may use, tipped employees must be informed of the tip pool practice before they start working.

- Tip Pool Method #1   This method is to require wait staff to contribute a agreed upon percentage  amount portion of their tips based on actual tips received  and/or sales.
Ex.   Server agrees to a tip out amount of 15% to busser based on actual tips received If a server made $100 in tips, they must at least tip out 15 percent of tips to a bus person.  In this scenario, the server can elect to tip out more but they can not fall below the agreed upon amount to be disbursed among the staff.  The server also provides the employer with the amount of tips they received after tip out and the amount disbursed. The servers are provided with the daily sales information and know exactly how much food/wine they sold.  They retain tips and surrender only the tips required by the tip pool.  This is by far the fairest and best tip pool arrangement for both the  food server and employer.
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