Save Time This Holiday Season By Making One Simple Change at Your Restaurant

For most people in the hospitality industry, the holiday season is filled with busy nights, bustling crowds, and inevitable burnout. While extra business may mean more money coming into your restaurant, it can also cause operational headaches if you’re still dealing with outdated processes.

Luckily, making this one small change ahead of the holidays can ensure everything runs smoothly—and still deliver superior service to your guests. 

Ready for the holidays to be less chaotic and more merry? 

Stop Wasting Time With Cash Tips

This holiday season, make one simple yet transformative change: cut down on cash. If you’ve been tipping out your employees in cash for many years, you might be hesitant to make a change. But cash tip payouts are costing you unnecessary hassle—and that translates to wasted hours that could have been spent on the guest experience. 

Picture a holiday season where you get to say goodbye to…

Bank runs 

If you’re currently paying tips in cash, frequent bank runs are likely a part of your day-to-day operations. But how much time could you save if you no longer had to send managers to the bank for cash?

Stuffing envelopes 

At the end of a long, busy shift, the last thing your managers and servers want to do (on top of sidework) is stuff envelopes with cash, count tips, and distribute them to other employees. 

Reconciling the Till 

With cash, there’s no clear audit trail to let you know who has been paid out and if it’s been done accurately, resulting in excess time spent trying to reconcile the till. We’ve talked to plenty of customers who have told us that trying to verify payout accuracy while using cash was a nightmare. 

Your Competitors Are Saving Time With Fast, Digital Payouts

With Branch, you can send tips, mileage reimbursements, and other one-off payouts to employees digitally after each shift—at no cost. Workers can choose to get their payouts sent directly to their Branch account—which is a debit card and digital wallet with fee-free options—or to an existing bank account. The choice is theirs. 

Both options allow you to streamline the tip payout process with a fast, digital solution that saves you hours each week and lets you focus on the guest experience.

We’ve talked to plenty of customers who have told us that switching to digital tip payouts with Branch was more seamless and intuitive than they thought. Doing so helped them say goodbye to bank runs, stop stuffing envelopes at the end of the night, and provide peace of mind that payouts are accurate and trackable each and every shift. 

Just listen to what some of our hospitality customers have to say:

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CJ Dimino, Director of Restaurant Operations, Hop City:

“It saves between 1-2 hours of management time each day. Now the tip payout process takes 10 minutes, tops.”

Stephanie Forsberg, Director of HR, Highland Ventures:

“The process is largely automated, which reduces the administrative burden on our team. It's saved our team time and allows us to provide better service to our guests.” 

Kailee Aitkin, HR Manager, Tom’s Watch Bar:

“It’s definitely saved our managers time when closing the restaurant. And it’s improved reporting for all of our payroll processes.”

Ready to Save Time And Stress Less?

We know how much you have on your plate this holiday season. Give your managers the gift of time back in their day, and give yourself peace of mind by making tip payouts fast and simple with Branch. 

See what Branch can do for you

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