You set the tip-out structure when you opened your second location. By location five, the GM at store three had tweaked it to suit her bar staff. By location ten, the new ops director discovered that two stores had been calculating the busser tip-out wrong for a year. By location twenty, your CFO realized nobody actually knew what was happening at shift end across the portfolio.
That's the multi-location reality. Without centralization, tip-out drifts. Stores invent local workarounds. Every region does it a little differently. And nobody at HQ can see the whole picture.
Ferry is how you stop that drift.
Restaurant groups
Configure once. Apply everywhere.
For restaurant groups, tip-out shouldn't be a 50-spreadsheet problem. Ferry centralizes tip configuration at the group level and applies it everywhere – with regional overrides where state law requires it, and full visibility from a single dashboard.
200+
BJ's locations on platform
66%
Cash-carrying cost reduction
30
States
Same day
Fastest go-live
WHO IT'S FOR
Different brands. One platform.
If you operate multiple restaurant brands under one group, Ferry handles them as separate entities within a single platform. Brand A can run percentage pooling. Brand B can run a point system. Brand C can have its own state-specific overrides. All managed from one config layer, all visible from one dashboard.
Per-brand tip configuration
Brand-specific role and job code mappings
Cross-brand reporting at the group level
One platform, multiple operating models
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One config. Every store.
Tip rules set at HQ. Applied everywhere.
Set your tip pool structure once at the group level. Server tip-outs to bar, bus, host, runner – the percentages, the role mappings, the shift definitions. Ferry pushes that configuration to every location automatically. New store opens? Same rules apply from day one. Existing store hires a new manager? They don't get to invent their own version.
Group-level tip pool configuration
Role and job code mappings consistent across stores
Shift definitions (AM/PM, weekday/weekend) standardized
New locations inherit the group config automatically
Cross-location visibility
See every store from one dashboard.
Tip distribution by location. Payout timing by region. Tip-outs by role. Outliers flagged automatically. Drill down by region, by brand, by store, or by shift. Records of every calculation on demand.
This is the dashboard your CFO actually wants – not a deck of monthly summaries, not a spreadsheet pulled together by an analyst, but live data across the entire portfolio.
Tip distribution by location, region, or brand
Tip-outs by role across every location
Payout timing visibility (tips, EWA, Ferry Pay Card)
Drill-down reporting from group to store to shift level
HOW FERRY HANDLES IT
The full stack for groups.
POS integrations
Toast, Micros, Aloha, Clover, Square. Multi-location data ingestion handled at the group level.
HCM/Time & Attendance
Group-level employee and shift data, pulled clean.
Rules engine
Tip credit, tipped minimum wage, and mandatory pool rules tracked across every state Ferry operates in.
Reporting
Group dashboards, regional rollups, store-level drill-down. A record of every shift, by default.
Ferry Pay (when you're ready):
Tip distribution at shift end across every location, on the same payment infrastructure.
proven at scale
Ferry was built for groups like yours
Every brand in your group runs a little differently – its own concept, its own POS, its own way of splitting a tip-out. Ferry runs the same calculation engine across all of them, so each brand keeps its own rules while you get one consistent process and one clear view of the whole group – shift end automated, accurate, and done without a manager lifting a finger.
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"Since launching this card program, we've reduced our cash-carrying costs by over 66 percent and increased both team member and manager retention rates to pre-Covid levels."
200+
BJ's locations on platform
66%
Cash-carrying cost reduction
30
States
JG
Jake Guild
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer, BJ's Restaurants
See Ferry in action for restaurant groups.
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, read our guide to multi-location tip payouts, or explore the full tip management software guide.
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