The name explains it. I am a night manager for a small kitchen in Ohio and we all work front counter so we just pool our tips together, put them in the work safe and split them at the end of the week. Everybody is cool with it. Well, I received a message with a tag in our manager group chat this morning from the GM (who strictly works morning shifts). Basically saying if our “nightly checklists” aren't completed 100% every night she was going to keep our tip money and use said funds to run ads on indeed to find our replacements. Mind you, we have literally never used the checklists (because theyre suppose to be signed n dated by whatever manager runs the shift every night) since she wrote them out several months ago, before I was even promoted to this position. It's all fairly basic things anyways like wiping down surfaces, restocking, mopping etc etc. Which we do without needing the list, its all common sense kitchen things. She claimed we didn't do things like mop or wipe down anything, which I personally did myself and we have cameras, so I argued that. A few of the things were very basic mistakes like someone left their (closed) cup empty on the grill line from after the shift. Stuff like that. But my whole issue is her talking about keeping our tips to find replacements for us. Feels extremely unprofessional and before this, we weren't having issues. This was a one off thing. A few of our cooks are talking about quitting now and I personally feel like I might move on as well. Not sure how to feel about this one. I honestly thought withholding tips was illegal. Thoughts?