FREE GUIDE · 2027 EDITION
What cash tip-outs really cost your restaurant, and how the best hospitality brands calculate, track, and pay tips digitally, same day.
FREE GUIDE · 2027 EDITION
What cash tip-outs really cost your restaurant, and how the best hospitality brands calculate, track, and pay tips digitally, same day.
What's Inside?
Guests stopped paying in cash years ago, but most restaurants still run the nightly tip-out on it: bank runs, hand math, staff waiting on the clock, and a paper trail that's hard to defend. This free guide shows owners, GMs, and the ops, finance, and HR leaders behind the tip-out what that habit costs, and what to do instead.
“After using Kickfin, we would absolutely not go back to cash.”
George Loren, Owner/Operator, Loren Food Group
Beyond the tips themselves: manager time on bank runs, paid staff time waiting on tip-out, armored-car or delivery fees, shrink, and turnover. The guide includes a worksheet to put a monthly number on it for each location.
Paying tips electronically at the end of each shift, straight to each employee's own bank account, 24/7/365, with the tip math calculated from POS data and every payout recorded.
The 2025 federal deduction lets qualified workers deduct up to $25,000 in reported tips for 2025 to 2028. Only properly reported tips qualify, so accurate records now directly affect what employees keep. (General information, not tax advice.)
