Wicked Cantina — Tip Share Policy Review & Acknowledgment

Effective September 3, 2026. Applies to Anna Maria Island, Sarasota and St. Petersburg. This replaces all prior tip share notices and pay card notices.

How your tips reach you — read this first One setting decides whether you get your tips immediately or on payday: whether the Toast Payroll Card is set as your default payment option. Payroll Card set as your default: you receive your tips directly and immediately, straight to your card, with no waiting on the pay cycle. Payroll Card NOT set as your default: your tips are held and paid to you on your standard weekly paycheck instead. You earn the same tips either way. The only thing that changes is how soon you have them.

Your role at a glance

SERVER — Contributes 7% of beer, wine and liquor sales to the Bartender; 1% of food and N/A beverage sales to the Host; 0.5% to the Expo; 0.5% to the Busser. Receives every tip on your checks except those contributions.

BARTENDER — Contributes 0.5% of food and N/A beverage sales to the Host; 0.25% to the Expo; 0.25% to the Busser. Receives 7% of beer, wine and liquor sales from every Server and Shift Manager, plus an equal share of the Online Ordering pool.

HOST — Contributes nothing. Receives 1% of Server food and N/A beverage sales; 0.5% of Bartender food and N/A beverage sales; an equal share of the Online Ordering pool.

EXPEDITOR — Contributes nothing. Receives 0.5% of Server food and N/A beverage sales; 0.25% of Bartender food and N/A beverage sales; an equal share of the Online Ordering pool.

BUSSER — Contributes nothing. Receives 0.5% of Server food and N/A beverage sales; 0.25% of Bartender food and N/A beverage sales.

SHIFT MANAGER — (when taking Tables, and no other manager is on duty) Contributes 7% of beer, wine and liquor sales to the Bartender. Receives nothing. Managers do not receive from any tip pool, ever.

The rates

Alcohol and food are treated separately. Beer, wine and liquor sales are used only for the Bar Tip Share. Food and N/A beverage sales are used only for the Host, Expo and Busser pools.

Bar Tip Share — to the Bartender. Base: beer, wine and liquor sales. Server pays 7%. Bartender pays nothing. Shift Manager pays 7%.

Host Pool — to the Host. Base: food and N/A beverage sales. Server pays 1%. Bartender pays 0.5%.

Expo Pool — to the Expeditor. Base: food and N/A beverage sales. Server pays 0.5%. Bartender pays 0.25%.

Busser Pool — to the Busser. Base: food and N/A beverage sales. Server pays 0.5%. Bartender pays 0.25%.

Online Ordering Pool — 100% of the tip on every online order goes into this pool and splits evenly, one point each, among the Bartender, Expeditor and Host clocked in when that order was opened. Bussers and servers do not share in online ordering tips.

What this looks like on a real shift

Example 1 — Server, Friday dinner. Sales rung: $1,000 food and N/A beverage, $400 beer, wine and liquor. Bar tip share 7% x $400 = $28.00. Host pool 1% x $1,000 = $10.00. Expo pool 0.5% x $1,000 = $5.00. Busser pool 0.5% x $1,000 = $5.00. Total contributed $48.00 — every other dollar of tips on those checks stays with the server.

Example 2 — Bartender, same night. Food and N/A beverage rung at the bar: $600. Host pool 0.5% x $600 = $3.00. Expo pool 0.25% x $600 = $1.50. Busser pool 0.25% x $600 = $1.50. Total contributed $6.00. The bartender also receives 7% of every beer, wine and liquor sale rung by servers and shift managers that night, plus an equal share of every online order tip while clocked in.

Example 3 — One online order. A $72 online order comes in with a $12 tip. Clocked in when the order was opened: 1 Bartender, 1 Expo, 2 Hosts — four people, one point each. $12.00 divided by 4 = $3.00 each. Hours already worked make no difference to the split.

Seeing your own tips in the MyToast app

Your tip share, pool by pool. Open MyToast, select the Shifts tab, use the date selector to move to the week you want, then tap the arrow on a completed shift. Your Tips Receipt shows the pool-by-pool breakdown of what you contributed to each pool and what you received from each pool, along with your hours, breaks and declared tips.

Your paycheck. Select the Pay tab to land on Paychecks, then tap the arrow on any paycheck for gross and net pay, hours, earnings, deductions and taxes.

At clock-out. On the Toast terminal go to the main menu, select My Account, then Shift Review for your sales, the tips you earned, and any cash to turn in or collect.

Good to know

If nobody is clocked in to a receiving role when an order is opened, that share stays with the employee who earned it.

Managers receive nothing from any pool, at any location, at any time. Shift managers contribute to the bar tip share and take nothing back. This is zero tolerance.

Service charges are not tips and are not part of tip share — catering service fees, the 18% added to parties of 10 or more, and delivery fees are handled separately through payroll.

Think your tip share is wrong? Raise it through HotSchedules within 24 hours and we will pull the numbers and correct it.

One setting decides whether you get your tips immediately or on payday: whether the Toast Payroll Card is set as your default payment option. With it set as your default, your tips go straight to your card with no waiting on the pay cycle. Without it, your tips are held and paid on your standard weekly paycheck. You earn the same tips either way — the only thing that changes is how soon you have them. If you answered No or I'm not sure, see a manager and we will walk through it with you.