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Tip Allocation: A Compliance Study Tor Restaurants, John M. Tan-As, Raymond S. Schmidgall

Hospitality Review

Survey research of the commercial food service industry with regard to tips and tip allocation revealed that 50 percent of restaurateurs require that employees report a minimum amount or percentage of sales and over 50 percent which allocate tips report them as employee income. The authors discuss these results and point out other problems.