Full-Service Restaurants

Full-service tips, fully sorted.

Servers, bartenders, bussers, hosts, runners – every role tipping out, every shift, every location. Ferry handles the math and your pooling rules, automatically. Your closing manager can actually close.
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200+
BJ's locations on platform
66%
Cash-carrying cost reduction
30
States
Same day
Fastest go-live
Server in an apron at a full-service restaurant that pools tips across servers, bartenders and support staff.
WHO IT'S FOR

Full-service restaurants of any size, with any structure

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Single-location operators looking to professionalize tip-out before scaling
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Independent groups with 3–25 locations across one or more states
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Casual chains using full-service formats (note: Restaurant Groups page covers multi-brand operators in more depth)
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Restaurants with bar programs, complex tip-outs, or seasonal menus that change pooling structures
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Restaurant staff member reviewing shift tip-outs on a tablet.
Full-service restaurant manager checking a shift's tip pool on a tablet.
THE SHIFT-END SCENE

You know how this ends.

It's 11pm. Your closing manager has the till count, the credit card tip totals, three servers waiting for their cash, a busser whose shift ended at 9pm asking when they get paid, and a tip-out math problem that involves percentages of percentages. They're not bad at math – they're tired, the spreadsheet is wrong because Maria called in sick at 4 and someone manually adjusted her hours, and there's a customer at table 12 who still hasn't paid. That's the daily reality of full-service tip-out. Every location. Every shift. Every night. Ferry takes all of it off the floor.
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THE POOLING ISN'T BROKEN. THE PROCESS IS.

Full-service pooling isn't simple, and pretending it is doesn't help

Most full-service restaurants run percentage or point based pools – servers tip out a fixed share to bar, bus, host, and runner. But the rates differ by role, by shift, sometimes by location, and sometimes by who's actually working that night. A bartender working a Saturday brunch isn't pulling the same tip share as a Friday dinner shift. A host covering the door at lunch shouldn't be pooled the same as a host juggling a mile-long wait list  on a 10-top weekend.

Ferry handles all of it:

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Tip-out percentages by role and job code
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Different rates for AM vs PM, weekday vs weekend
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Per-location overrides where state law or restaurant policy requires it
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Late shift adjustments, call-ins, and split shifts handled automatically
You set the rules once. Ferry applies them every shift, every location
Manager briefing servers, bartenders and support staff before a full-service shift.
Two restaurant staff reconciling tip reports on a laptop after service.
A RECORD OF EVERY SHIFT

Full-service is where tip credit gets complicated

In tip credit states, a server's hourly wage plus tips has to reach minimum wage, and who can share in the tip pool depends on the state. Working that out by hand after every shift is where mistakes creep in.

Ferry applies the pool rules you set at the calculation layer and keeps a complete record of every shift. If your CPA, your accountant or your franchise office asks how tips were split, the answer is only a few clicks away.

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Your pool rules, applied the same way every shift
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Tipped vs non-tipped role classifications
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Records per shift, per location, per employee
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HOW FERRY HANDLES IT

Connect once. Run forever.

POS integrations
Toast, Micros, Aloha, Clover, Square. Tip data, transactions, and shift records flow in automatically.
HCM/Time & Attendance
Job codes, shift times, employee details – pulled in clean, no re-keying.
Tip Logic Filter
Your pooling rules applied to every shift, every role, every location, automatically.
Reporting per shift
Records on demand, not at the end of the quarter when something's already gone wrong.
Ferry Pay (when you're ready):
Tips on the card at shift end, no envelope, no manager carrying a float
Full-Service Restaurants

At one location? Ferry still works for you

Fewer rules, fewer roles, faster setup. Ferry handles single-location operations with the same calculation engine – just with less to configure on day one.
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See Ferry in action for full-service restaurants.

Live same day. No HRIS integration required. Start with Ferry Tip Manager and grow from there. See how BJ's Restaurants runs Ferry across 200+ locations, or explore the full tip management software guide.
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