Pooling tips is fine, as long as none of the tip pool goes to management. Tipping out the busboys, and BOH is better for everyone at a high end restaurant. Sure it means as a server I didn’t get to keep the entirety of the rare large tip that I got, but it also meant I didn’t walk out empty handed when I had a night full of stiffs.
If even $0.001 is going to management, however, that is stealing tips.
Pooling tips is fine, as long as none of the tip pool goes to management. Tipping out the busboys, and BOH is better for everyone at a high end restaurant. Sure it means as a server I didn’t get to keep the entirety of the rare large tip that I got, but it also meant I didn’t walk out empty handed when I had a night full of stiffs.
If even $0.001 is going to management, however, that is stealing tips.