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With holidays around the corner, staff see more tips coming in. But is everyone getting their fair share? Hear two different ways industry leaders are approaching creating equality in their team’s tips:

Equal tip sharing with BOH. An advocate for fair wages, Ji Hye Kim shares the way she pays staff above industry standard in Michigan:

“Base pay for both FOH and BOH is $12 to $15 and tips gets divided by number of hours… that adds about $9 to $10 an hour. Once you get over the fear of having some of your pay fluctuate, the fluctuation is small enough that your pay is actually fairly consistent.”

Weighted tip pool with BOH. Katie Button started with an equal split before moving to a weighted structure with transparency around base pay rates and opportunities to improve:

“We’re able to share tips across the team, but we give a little bit higher tip percentage to those workers who have the opportunity to sell… We’ve coupled that with clear base pay rates and abilities to achieve raises based on education and training. So, in the BOH as you learn new stations, that’s how you get bumps. There are moments to move up… people see an opportunity to gain more money as well.”

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Check out this year’s top episode of The Pre-Shift featuring President of bartaco, Anthony Valletta. We talked embracing tech, his unique approach to training and career development, and radical wage structure.

It’s January 8th and you’ve had three covers by 4pm. You could embrace your inner slacker (you earned it), or you could save this and get ahead of 2024—while you still can.

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