Simplify Tip Pooling
Free Tip Pooling Templates for Hospitality & Restaurant Leaders
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You didn't get into the hospitality business to spend hours on spreadsheets and manual calculations. You're here to create amazing experiences for your customers and your team.
Simplify the tip payout process starting with our free, customizable tip pooling (and tip sharing) templates below.
Managing tip pooling and tip distribution shouldn't be complicated.
Whether you're running a bustling sports bar, upscale fine dining establishment, fast-casual restaurant, or busy pizzeria, our free tip pooling templates can streamline the entire tip sharing process.
These restaurant tip distribution templates work for any hospitality business that needs to fairly divide tips among servers, bartenders, bussers, kitchen staff, and hosts. Download our customizable tip out templates and eliminate manual tip pool calculations.
Need more information about Tip Pooling? We’ve got you covered.
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Hours-based Template
Easily calculate tip distribution based on hours worked
Points-based Template
Assign point values to each role in your restaurant and generate end-of-shift tip payouts with ease
Shift-based Template
Streamline shift-level tip pooling by calculating and distributing tips across your entire staff
Perfect for All Kinds of Restaurants & Bars
Our tip pooling templates adapt to your business model:
Fine Dining Restaurants
Coordinate tips between servers, sommeliers, food runners, and back-of-house staff with precision
Sports Bars & Pubs
Manage high-volume tip sharing between bartenders, servers, and kitchen teams during busy game nights
Fast-Casual & QSR
Distribute counter tips and delivery fees fairly among cashiers, kitchen staff, and drivers
Pizzerias
Balance tips between delivery drivers, phone operators, pizza makers, and dining room staff
Nightclubs & Lounges
Calculate complex tip pools for bartenders, bottle service staff, security, and VIP hosts
Chain Restaurants
Standardize tip distribution across multiple locations with consistent, scalable processes
No matter your restaurant type, our templates can help ensure each team member gets their fair share of pooled tips.
How to Use Our Templates
Download Files
Choose the template that suits the needs of your business. You have the option to download as a CSV or a Google Sheet.
Input Data
We’ll give you detailed instructions for each tab in the template to ensure your tip payouts are accurate.
Let Us Do the Heavy Lifting
The tip template will do all of the work to calculate each employee’s tip pool and share making it easy to tip out workers the correct amount.
BONUS - Get Workers Paid Fast
Use Branch to send fast, cashless tips directly to your entire workforce at the end of each shift. No more trips to the bank or stuffing envelopes with cash.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A tip pooling template is a pre-formatted spreadsheet that helps hospitality businesses accurately calculate and distribute tips among staff.
These templates are universal based on process type, and can be used by any restaurant that pools tips to streamline tip pooling for managers and payroll. This includes fine dining, family & casual dining, pizzerias, or any other restaurant or chain of restaurants that participates in tip pooling.
Yes. These templates are offered in both CSV and Google Sheet formats that you can easily customize to fit your specific business needs and tip pooling arrangement.
Yes, our tip pooling templates are free to download and use. They are designed to help you streamline your tip management process.
If you are looking for a cashless tips solution, we’ve got the tools needed to pay your entire workforce immediately after their shift ends without using cash. Get a Demo →
Once you’ve used a template to calculate the tip payouts, you’ll need to pay out your workers with cash or add the tips to payroll. While different states and localities have their own rules, with Branch, you can send cashless tips directly to your employees, eliminating the need for cash and saving you a trip to the bank. Learn more about cashless tips here.
No, you don’t need to be a Branch customer to download or use these templates.
Regardless of frequency of pooled tips—daily, weekly, or biweekly—this template can help managers save time, improve accuracy, and ultimately deliver a better tip pooling experience for your entire team. This template can be paired with other payment solutions to streamline and accelerate tip payouts for the entire team.
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