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Navigating Tipping Fatigue

Modern Restaurant Management

Picture this: You’re at self-checkout where you just scanned, bagged and paid for your own groceries when the screen asks, “Would you like to leave a tip?” Tipping expectations have skyrocketed, and consumers are pushing back. Restaurants must rethink their approach to tipping to retain staff and keep customers happy.

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Avoiding the Four Biggest Traps of Restaurant Payroll

Modern Restaurant Management

As an example, a restaurant owner doing payroll by hand may incorrectly record overtime pay and tip records, which subsequently leads to tax errors. Check out how New York State distinguishes between employees and independent contractors here. In general , hourly employees can earn overtime pay—at a rate of at least 1.5

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Reduce costs and labor with automated tip distribution

Restaurant Business

Inaccuracies in wage distribution, particularly in regards to tips, can not only cause legal issues for restaurants, but they can also alienate workers if they aren’t being paid properly—which can exacerbate labor woes even further. Labor saving techniques, such as tip distribution automation, can help ease this issue for operators.

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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Even before the pandemic, there was a growing trend for the food distribution system to move from global to local. Here are 10 tips for promoting sustainability in the food industry. This means embracing sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste management. Now, we see that drive accelerating.

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Tip Pooling Tools to Easily Manage Tips at Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Tipping practices are in constant conversation in the restaurant industry. Attempts have been made to eliminate tipping altogether, but many restaurants ended up reverting back to a traditional tipping system. Tip pooling is another way that restaurants have changed up the system to make it fairer for everyone involved.

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

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There's no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to distributing tips among restaurant staff, but there are a few different methods that are commonly used. Find the full guide to restaurant tip outs here. Tip Out Methods and Systems. Tip Out Methods and Systems. Who receives tips.

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. A guest's tip subsidizes wages for most of America's restaurant workers. In most other parts of the world, tips are not expected—and in some cases, it's considered rude to tip. History of Tipping: How did gratuity become integral to our restaurant culture?