To clarify, Federal law states that any tip received by a "tipped" employee, as defined by the IRS, is the property of the tipped employee. If any of that money is required to be shared with any non-tipped employee or management it is theft and a violation of Federal law. It is legal for a restaurant to require tipped employees to pool their tips to be shared with other tipped employees, but no one else can receive the pooled money.
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