Tip Sharing / Tip Pools
Type of Distribution | How it Works | Use Cases | Who Uses Them | Scenarios |
Tip Pools | Tip pools allow you to distribute a pool of tips among a job code or group of job codes. | Good for positions with shared workloads, creating a team mentality between tip earners, and recreating point-based systems within TipHaus. | A common methodology for bartenders and baristas | Two bartenders; one is ringing sales, and the other is at the well. All the tips are pooled together, and each bartender takes a cut of the pool. |
Tip Sharing Rules | Distribute a percentage of tips from one group of job codes to another | Good for sales-based rules, directly tipping out support staff, and rewarding tip earners based on their personal workloads. | A common methodology for servers | Server tips out 3% of food sales to the kitchen and 2% of drink sales to the bar, each server retains the rest of their tips. |
Tip pools will activate after tip sharing, so you have the option of stacking a tip pool on the backside of a tip-sharing rule. For example, this would be done for two bartenders sharing 3% of their food sales with the kitchen and then pooling their tips.
Tip-sharing and tip pools work in very similar ways. You can think of tip pools as a way for tip earners to split tips evenly and tip-sharing as a way to reward non-tip earners by taking from tip earners, i.e., taking from servers to give to cooks.