Some restaurants want the ability to contribute and distribute to multiple tip-share pools. Additionally, these restaurants want the ability to exclude categories from the tip-share pool. For example, a server has a table that has a $10.00 food sale and a $10.00 beer sale. These restaurants want to remove the $10.00 in food sales and to calculate only on the $10.00 beer sale for the bartender job code. The system allows you to contribute and distribute to multiple tip-share pools and exclude categories from the tip-share pools, and contribute a percentage by category.

Enabling tip pool category

You must enable the tip pool category feature so you can see and use all tip-share pool by category options in the user interface. You can view a ‘Categories’ tab in the Tip-Share Pools feature, in which to select a category and define the tip pool percent to contribute, and to activate a new tip-share pool category in Event Schedule.

To enable tip pool category:

• Select Maintenance > Business > Store.
• Select the Store Settings tab.
• Select the Labor group located at the bottom of the screen.
  
• Under the 'Employee settings - Tip share' group bar, select Enable tipshare pool category contributions.
• Click Save and exit the Store function.

Including a category in a tip-share pool

In the existing Tip-share Pools feature, we have added a new ‘Categories’ tab. From there, you can select a category and define the tip pool percent in which to contribute. In our example, the Aloha Cafe removes the $10.00 food sale from the bartender and wants to calculate solely on the $10.00 beer sale for the bartender. You can define percentages, such as 2%, for your alcohol sales; unlike the Jobcodes tab, where percentages must equal 100%.

To include a category in a tip-share pool:

• Select Maintenance > Labor > Tip-share Pools.
• Select a tip-share pool from the drop-down list.
• Select the Categories tab.
  
• Select the category from the 'Available' list and click >> to move the category to the 'Included' list.
• Type the share of pool percent to contribute.
• Repeat Steps 4 through 5 until the desired categories appear in the ‘Included’ list.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for each tip-share pool you want to define the tip pool percent to contribute.
• Exit the Tip-share Pools function.

Activating tip-share pool for category event

Use your existing Event Schedule to define a tip-share pool category. The 'Set Tip Share Pool for Category' feature allows you to schedule as many tip-share pool categories during specific day parts. Define the job group that contributes the tip-share, the day part, and the tip-share pool ID for one or more events.

To activate a tip-share pool category during a specific day part using an existing event schedule:

• Select Maintenance > System Settings > Event Schedule.
• Select the event schedule from the drop-down list.
• Select the Events tab.
  
• Click the Add drop-down arrow, select Set Tip Share Pool for Category from the Type list box, and click OK.
• Under the 'Events' group bar, select the activation schedule that begins at the desired start time from the drop-down list. For example, 'Always.'
• Under the 'Set Tip Share Pool Category' group bar, select the job group to specify which job group contributes to the tip share when this event is active.
• Select the day part for which you want to activate the new tip-share percentage. For example, 'Lunch.' To run a tip-share event the entire day, select 'All' as the day part.
• Select the tip-share pool ID containing the employees to receive the new tip share percentage.
• Click Save.
• Repeat this procedure for any other tip-share pool categories you want to configure.
• Exit the Event Schedule function.

Using multiple tip-share pools and categories

When a contributor clocks out, you can view the total contribution amount that represents contribution to multiple tip-share pools.

To contribute a tip-share amount:

• When you are ready to check out of the system, touch Checkout from the Working with Tables screen, or a floor plan in use. The 'Are you ready to run your checkout?' screen appears.
• Touch Yes. The Enter Tipshare Amount screen appears with the system calculated tip-share value.
  
• Touch OK to accept the default tip-share amount.
• Continue your clock out process.
  
• Enter your declared cash tips.
• Continue your check out in the usual manner.

Distributing multiple tip-share pools on the BOH

• Navigate to CFC.
• Select Functions > Tip-share Distribution.
• Select Today and click OK.
  
  1.Select all employees. There is a Tipshare Pool ID column at the end.
• Click Next.
  
• Click Distribute.
• Click Exit.

Continue to "Using multiple tip-share pools and categories."