Configure once. Apply everywhere.

For restaurant groups, tip-out shouldn't be a 50-spreadsheet problem. Ferry centralizes tip configuration at the group level and applies it everywhere – with regional overrides where state law requires it, and full visibility from a single dashboard.
200+
BJ's locations on platform
66%+
Cash-carrying cost reduction
30
States covered
Days
Typical go-live time
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Different brands. One Platform

If you operate multiple restaurant brands under one group, Ferry handles them as separate entities within a single platform. Brand A can run percentage pooling. Brand B can run a point system. Brand C can have its own state-specific overrides. All managed from one config layer, all visible from one dashboard.

Per-brand tip configuration
Brand-specific role and job code mappings
Cross-brand reporting at the group level
One platform, multiple operating models
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Without a central system, every store invents its own.

You set the tip-out structure when you opened your second location. By location five, the GM at store three had tweaked it to suit her bar staff. By location ten, the new ops director discovered that two stores had been calculating the busser tip-out wrong for a year. By location twenty, your CFO realized nobody actually knew what was happening at shift end across the portfolio.

That's the multi-location reality. Without centralization, tip-out drifts. Stores invent local workarounds. Compliance becomes a regional gamble. And when the DOL letter arrives, "we trust our managers" isn't a defence.

Ferry is how you stop that drift.
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Tip rules set at HQ. Applied everywhere.

Set your tip pool structure once at the group level. Server tip-outs to bar, bus, host, runner – the percentages, the role mappings, the shift definitions. Ferry pushes that configuration to every location automatically. New store opens? Same rules apply from day one. Existing store hires a new manager? They don't get to invent their own version.

Group-level tip pool configuration
Role and job code mappings consistent across stores
Shift definitions (AM/PM, weekday/weekend) standardized
New locations inherit the group config automatically
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Man focused on laptop, surrounded by financial documents and a calculator in a dimly lit workspace.

See every store from one dashboard.

Tip distribution by location. Payout timing by region. Compliance status by state. Outliers flagged automatically. Drill down by region, by brand, by store, or by shift. Audit-ready records on demand.

This is the dashboard your CFO actually wants – not a deck of monthly summaries, not a spreadsheet pulled together by an analyst, but live data across the entire portfolio.

Tip distribution by location, region, or brand
Compliance status across all states of operation
Payout timing visibility (tips, EWA, Ferry Pay Card)
Drill-down reporting from group to store to shift level
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HOW FERRY HANDLES IT

The full stack for groups.

POS integrations
Toast, Micros, Aloha, Clover, Square. Multi-location data ingestion handled at the group level.
HCM/Time & Attendance
Group-level employee and shift data, pulled clean.
Compliance engine
Tip credit, tipped minimum wage, and mandatory pool rules tracked across every state Ferry operates in.
Reporting
Group dashboards, regional rollups, store-level drill-down. Audit-ready by default.
Ferry Pay (when you're ready):
Tip distribution at shift end across every location, on the same payment infrastructure.

Ferry was built for groups like yours

Every brand in your group runs a little differently – its own concept, its own POS, its own way of splitting a tip-out. Ferry runs the same calculation engine and compliance tracking across all of them, so each brand keeps its own rules while you get one consistent process and one clear view of the whole group – shift end automated, accurate, and done without a manager lifting a finger.
Talk to sales
★★★★★
"Since launching this card program, we've reduced our cash-carrying costs by over 66 percent and increased both team member and manager retention rates to pre-Covid levels."
200+
BJ's locations on platform
66%+
Cash-carrying cost reduction
30
States covered Days / Typical go-live time
JG
Jake Guild
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer, BJ's Restaurants

See Ferry in action for restaurant groups.

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