A tip-out on sales doesn't care what you were tipped
With a percentage tip-out, what it's a percentage of matters more than the number. Take one busser tip-out on $2,000.00 in sales:
| Night | Tips | 3% of sales | 3% of tips |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good tables | $410.00 | $60.00 (14.6%) | $12.30 |
| Slow, cheap tables | $250.00 | $60.00 (24%) | $7.50 |
On sales, the busser gets $60.00 both nights, and on the slow night that's 24% of what you made. On tips, the busser's cut moves with yours. Neither is wrong, but if your house tips out on sales, a table that stiffs you still costs you its share. That's worth knowing before you take a section of six-tops on a Monday.
Tipping out the bar on bar sales
A bar tip-out on bar sales follows the drinks the bartender actually made for your tables. With $520.00 of your $2,000.00 at the bar, 5% is $26.00. If your checkout report shows bar or beverage sales on its own line, that's the number to type in "Of which bar sales".
Flat tip-outs hit slow nights hardest
A fixed $10.00 to the host is 1.7% of a $600.00 night and 6.7% of a $150.00 one. Pick "Fixed amount" for it here.
When tip-outs are bigger than your tips
It happens on slow nights with tip-outs on sales: $20.00 in tips against $60.00 to the bussers leaves you −$40.00 on tips. The calculator shows that honestly instead of stopping at zero, and so does the TipCup app: the difference comes out of your wages for the shift.
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