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Speed, visibility, choice. Score how you pay out tips today. Most operators solve exactly 1 of the 3. Cash nightly is fast, but nobody can see how the number was calculated. Payroll-only is traceable and slow. Paycards solve half of it. We asked 6,787 hospitality employees which of the 3 they actually care about. The answer wasn't speed. Kirk Grogan has the full findings on October 7, plus a live look at how Earned Tip Access® handles all 3.

6,787 hospitality employees. 559 organizations. 1 question: what do you actually want from tip payouts? The 2026 Hospitality Tip Payout Report is the largest dataset we've gathered on tipped-employee preferences, and some of it contradicts what operators assume. Kirk Grogan presents the findings live on October 7, with a demo of Earned Tip Access® and open Q&A. Register now.

We started TipHaus in 2018 to solve a manager's problem. Tip reporting was eating hours. Calculations were manual, slow, and contested. Operators were spending long nights reconciling something that should be seamless and automated. That was the surface problem, and we solved it. Which introduced a second problem disguised as staff questions: "How was this calculated?" "Why did I get this amount?" "Who was included in the pool?" "How many hours did you use to calculate my share?" "Why did my coworker get more than me?" "Can you show me the breakdown?" "Can you double-check this for me?" Different versions of the same underlying question about transparency: Can I see and understand what I earned? If employees can't understand the numbers, managers get questioned and tensions can escalate. Getting the math right was the core premise, presenting it to employees in an easily understood and fair manner was the new challenge. Earning trust is always tough. The TipHaus Employee App has been a part of that answer for years. And last week, we introduced its biggest evolution yet: a fully native, upgraded mobile experience built on everything we've learned from engaging with hundreds of thousands of hospitality employees. No chasing down managers, quiet resentment, or silently questioning the numbers; just full transparency and in-depth reporting right in the palm of their hand. A massive thanks to shireen imani and her amazing staff at Chulita for working hands on with our team to make our latest version. And for making the best ceviche and margaritas on Venice Beach. Employee's rely on accurate tip and wage data every single day. And we are excited to put this app into the hands of millions of hospitality workers across the country. https://lnkd.in/gAZWMVng

We asked Aimee Ketola what benefit of TipHaus her team experienced the most impact from and her response was someone, who across thousands of customers, has never once been on our product demo. The servers, bartenders, and tip earners. Tip detail used to land on an employee's paycheck as a lump sum. Anthony's had reporting, but you had to ask someone for it and then wait on it... Now every employee at any of their 26 locations can open the TipHaus employee app on their phone and see exactly what they earned, and how, without managerial wait or interpretation. She said it moved the conversation from "trust me" to "here's exactly how this works." They sought a configuration so that a server assistant gets tipped the same way at every restaurant, because fairness across 26 locations was the goal. What Anthony's got on top of it was a staff who can verify that fairness themselves, from their pocket, whenever they want. Her bookkeeping team got about 7 hours every single week back, 28 hours per month. Every server and bartender got 8 or 9 minutes back at close, and those minutes go to guests instead of paperwork. August 25, 10am PT, Aimee and I are going to discuss it all live: The decisions, the benefits, and the needs of operators and their staff. Join me here: https://lnkd.in/g8eDbJGT

Cash tip payouts aren’t just a cash-handling problem. They’re a labor problem. I still hear versions of this conversation from restaurant operators weekly: CFO: We need to reduce cash handling this year. GM: Then we should probably stop doing daily tip envelopes. CFO: Wait—we’re still paying out tips in cash? GM: Every day. CFO: What does that involve? GM: Bank runs. Counting cash. Stuffing envelopes. Distributing them. Fixing discrepancies. CFO: Across multiple locations? GM: Yes. CFO: And when an employee questions their payout? GM: We check the spreadsheet. CFO: The spreadsheet? GM: The spreadsheet. The process may be familiar, but that doesn’t make it efficient... Managers should be running restaurants, NOT sourcing cash, reconciling envelopes, and fielding avoidable payout questions. TipHaus helps restaurant operators move from manual cash payouts to transparent digital tip distribution, reducing bank runs, cash handling, and back-office work while giving employees clearer visibility into what they’ve earned. For multi-location groups, this isn’t merely a payments upgrade. It’s an operational one. Still managing tips with cash and spreadsheets? Send me a DM or start a free trial below! https://lnkd.in/gXjnNa7S

Manual tip reconciliation eats hours every pay period. Across 26 locations, Anthony's Restaurants stopped doing it. Aug 25, 10:00 AM PT — their Director of Accounting, Aimee Ketola, walks through what actually changed. Hosted by TipHaus COO Kirk Grogan. On the table: - The real time cost of spreadsheet tip calculations at multi-unit scale - Getting every location on the same process - Fewer payroll corrections, fewer tip disputes - What to watch for on hidden fees when evaluating a switch A candid operator conversation, not a pitch. Live Q&A. Register even if you can't make it live — we'll send the recording.