Need to manage your Patio tips separately from your Dining Room tips? The best way to manage tips for specific revenue centers is to create unique Job Codes for those areas and then create specific rules using those job codes.

To begin, we'll need one set of job codes for Patio staff and a second set of job codes for our Dining Room staff. Our front-of-house support staff (Bussers, Runners, and Barbacks) will also need two sets of job codes, one for the Patio workers and one for the Dining Room workers.

Hosts and BOH (Cooks, Prep Cooks, and Dishwashers) will be working for both revenue centers, so we will not need to create any unique job codes for those workers.

Once those job codes are created, it is a simple matter of making sure the employees clock in to the correct job codes each shift and creating the Tip Distribution logic for each revenue center. The Tip Distribution Logic for our scenario might include the following Tip Sharing Rules and Tip Pools:

Once the rules are configured with percentages, effective dates, and distribution frequencies, the employees can clock in to the correct revenue center job code for their shifts, and our Tip Distribution Logic will handle the rest!

If this is too painful to manage on an operational level, we can create custom logic for our customers. Customizations are suitable for multi-unit operators (5+) that run the same concept, i.e., chains.