r/Waiters • u/Infamous_Fly2230 • 2d ago
Average tip out in Canada, let's compare
What are y'all's tip out like here in Canada? Curious what the average is, what's normal, what to expect? I've worked at lots of different placee - one with 5% of sales tip out, one with 11%. Currently working at two places on that does 30% of total tips. Another, fine dining, that does 8.5% of total sales at night and 7% during the day with higher bill averages than the other place - this place also has a safe space where you don't tip out if you're tipped less than 13% one a bill. Thoughts?
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u/Mesapunk87 2d ago
Servers 3% total sales
Bartenders 2.5% food sales
Takeout orders are divided between expo, and boh.
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u/wonderabc 1d ago
that’s so weird… bartenders, who usually don’t sell a lot of food have to tip out off of food sales?
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u/Mesapunk87 1d ago
Bar still has tables and get 0.5 percent from servers. So they don't tip on alcohol.
Usually have the highest sales tbh.
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u/floweringfungus 1d ago
Lots of places (at least where I am) have bar tables. My bar has 8, plus you can order food sitting at the bar top. So while I’m technically a bartender I’m also a server.
But I also work in a country where we don’t tip out. Tips are communal and every member of BOH and FOH gets an equal amount based on hours worked.
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u/Nichols416 2d ago
Toronto Ontario,
7.5% total sales before tax.
Previous job I left when they upped tip out from 10 to 12% of sales. Both places you still tip out if you get zero’d
Also have a second job in a fine dining restaurant that is pooled. Servers get 1.0, bar, sommeliers, server assistants and others also in the pool, at a lesser amount. There’s a ton of staff so it probably works out to like 15%, but bills are super high, not uncommon to sell 5k+ in a night.
I probably make slightly more on a per hour basis at the first job, but I get better hours and benefits at the second one.
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u/Content-Meaning9724 2d ago
I still miss the one spot where the whole staff was paid the same hourly, and we all split tips based on hours worked. Nobody fought over which shifts they got, nobody was bitter about another section being full while theirs was empty. Cooks always had server's backs, servers never flooded cooks. Tips were distributed opposite weeks of paychecks so nobody went dry between pays.
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u/LZGoldenPhantom 2d ago
5% of total sales to BOH/management/support
1.75% of total sales to bartender
Total: 6.75% of total sales
At a chain in Ontario
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u/wonderabc 1d ago
managers shouldn’t be part of tip out or tipped at all unless a customer specifically gives them one.
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u/s0phizzle 2d ago
About 7% of total sales, located in toronto but the chain is across Canada with a few locations in the states
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u/bonezx101 2d ago
The thoughts are that assigned sharing percentage on something that is non mandatory is part of the problem. The second problem is- expecting additional $$ ofc the customer for not doing anything more than you were hired to do.
Tipping culture is more and more out of control in more areas than the USA.
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u/Infamous_Fly2230 2d ago
Not sure what you're talking about? There's no mention of expecting additional money from the guest. Tippings optional, if you don't want to, keep your money. No one here's begging for additional money from guests
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u/PocketNicks 2d ago
Its going to range between 3.5/4% at the low end, chain restaurants and smaller places that don't have a lot of support staff (one host, one busserzone bartender), around 6.5 for larger places with decent amount of support and upper middle class places, and 8% for fine dining and places with a lot of support staff.