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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
When servers have to tip out dont they have to distribute tips to lots of people behind the scenes or is that in other states not Florida?
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No. It is Federal law that a tip received by a server is the property of the server, not the restaurant. If the restaurant requires a server to share their tip income with non-tipped employees, they are stealing money from the server. Pooling tips is legal, but the pool can only be shared among the tipped employees. The Department of Labor and the Fair Labor Standards Act define "tipped employees" as those who regularly receive more than $30 per month as tips.