I just started working for this company that hired me to be their bar manager. They are trying to be a different type of restaurant and bar then what we have in the area. My issues aren’t just with how they are handling tipping, but this is where I will start. So for instance “tipping” isn’t encouraged but “allowed”. We have one of the paragraphs at the bottom of our menu that states “we pay a living wage and blah blah blah this is why everything is expensive.” My bartenders and bar backs were asking about the tips because they regularly see 2 big ass beer steins full of money, yet are being told “tips are split”. The cash tips are all taken by my bosses to be split up and the credit card tips too. My thing is the TAXES for credit card tips and how can the be reporting them if they go through my POS under a certain employee but then that employee isn’t receiving that amount either through a payout every night or tips added to their check. She is adding it up and splitting it amongst the employees (all employees). Okay so obviously some of these people are 18-20 and are nervous to speak up so approached me vs our boss, which is fine I’m their manager and I’m at least glad they felt comfortable to bring it to me. So I also voiced their feelings and my opinions on it. My boss did not care to hear anything about what I was feeling or how the employees felt. Straight up said “they should be glad they are getting tips period for what I pay them. And if I had my way about it no one would get tips and we were going to keep that money as profits for ourselves.” Then proceeded to send out a very very lengthy message about how I brought it up and explaining away everything and even edited the “employee manual” to change the tipping rules, because they were never in there to begin with. Is any of this legal or just shitty owners. I know I can’t prove the cash tips but the credit tips are in the system. We use Toast POS. Either way I am disappointed because I thought this was going to be different then my other jobs and I was gonna be apart of something that wasn’t shitty, but in the few weeks we have been open a lot of reg flags!