Tip-Out Sheet
Last CallYour split, your roster, your night — worked out to the penny.
Nobody agrees on how tips get split, because there is no standard — there is only what this house decided. So it gets rebuilt in a spreadsheet, or done on a legal pad at one in the morning by somebody who has been on their feet for ten hours.
At close, the tips have to be divided: what comes off the top for the bar, the bussers and the runners, off which sales figure, and whether what is left splits by hours or by points. Every one of those is the house’s own rule. Type them once, the sheet remembers them, and every night after that is four numbers and a roster.
About this tool
What Tip-Out Sheet solves
Splitting a night’s tips is not one calculation, it is a house’s own set of rules applied in a fixed order. Something may come off the top before anything is divided. Support roles — the bar, the bussers, the runners, the host — are each owed a percentage of a particular sales figure, and which figure is itself a decision. Whatever survives that splits across the pool, weighted by hours in some houses and by points in others. The Tip-Out Sheet takes those rules as input rather than assuming any of them, applies them in that order, and prints the arithmetic beside every figure. It counts in whole cents throughout and hands out the leftover pennies by largest remainder, so the shares always add back up to the money that came in — and it says on the page when they do. It refuses to suggest a rate, because that is the one thing the house is actually paid to decide.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.