Is a tip pool illegal if it covers 2 different locations?
I work in a restaurant who recently opened up a second restaurant in another part of town. Usually, we participate in a tip pool where all the counter service employees share in all tips made dependent on how many hours they've worked. This made sense while there was only one location. Now that they have opened up this second location they are still engaging in this tip pool but across both locations. This second location is significantly less busy. So while I'm making 90% of the tips at the location I'm at, we're splitting those tips equally across both locations. Just to be clear, this means employees at location 2 are receiving tips from customers who are visiting location 1. Is this legal? Some employees have shifts at both locations. Would their tips have to be calculated based on hours worked at each location?
I work in a restaurant who recently opened up a second restaurant in another part of town. Usually, we participate in a tip pool where all the counter service employees share in all tips made dependent on how many hours they've worked. This made sense while there was only one location. Now that they have opened up this second location they are still engaging in this tip pool but across both locations. This second location is significantly less busy. So while I'm making 90% of the tips at the location I'm at, we're splitting those tips equally across both locations. Just to be clear, this means employees at location 2 are receiving tips from customers who are visiting location 1. Is this legal? Some employees have shifts at both locations. Would their tips have to be calculated based on hours worked at each location?