You must designate which employees contribute tips to a tip-share pool and which employees receive tips from the tip-share pool. Typically, employees who receive tips directly from the guests, such as servers, contribute to a tip-share pool, and employees, such as bartenders, bussers, and host staff, receive a share of the tips from the tip-share pool. Bartenders may also contribute to the tip-share pool to reward the bartender assistants and bussers who assist them.

To allow employees to contribute and/or receive tip share:

• Select Maintenance > Labor > Jobcodes.
• Select a job code that either contributes or receives tip share from the 'Jobcode' drop-down list.
• Select the Financial tab.
  
• Under the 'Tips' group bar, select Contributes to tip-share pool, if the job code contributes to a tip-share pool upon check out. For example, the servers who work upstairs contribute to the tip-share pool that the bartenders, bussers, and host staff share.
• Select Receives from tip-share pool, if the job code receives tips from a tip-share pool upon check out. For example, configure this option for bussers to receive a percentage of the tip-share pool.
• Select Suppress the tip-share received amount on the employee clock out chit to prevent the ‘Tipshare received’ field from appearing on the employee clock-out chit. This option prevents confusion due to conflicting tip-share received amounts. For example, Elliot, a server, contributes to the tip-share pool. He clocks out after the employees who receive tip share, rendering the tip-share amounts on the clock-out chits incorrect. If the option is cleared, the amount reflects the tipshare paid from the FOH only, and does not reflect any tip share distributed afterwards, either automatically or manually from the BOH.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for any job code that either contributes to a tip-share pool, receives from a tip-share pool, or contributes to and receives from a tip-share pool.
• Exit the Jobcodes function.

Continue to "Creating a tip-share pool."