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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

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Full History - 2021 - 12 - 16 - ID#ri3lte

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I hope you’ve all been remembering to claim your tips! 😶 (self.starbucksbaristas)

submitted by tittysprnklsz

KidKonundrum 104 points 1y ago

Hehe yeah sure totally….

Boofasaurus_rex 55 points 1y ago

I mean…. I claim the digital tips…. That are reported on my check…. Idk what other money y’all are even talking about 👨🏻‍🦯

maddawgg710 14 points 1y ago

👩‍🦯

[deleted] 29 points 1y ago

What really happens if we don’t, out of curiosity

tittysprnklsz [OP] 43 points 1y ago

To be perfectly honest, I don’t actually know. I just messaged my work group chat to find out lol but I imagine some kind of penalty since it is technically against the law to not report or underreport cash tips.
I doubt any barista anywhere is diligent about it. I used to do it every week and now, if I even remember, I’ll log in occasionally and just claim like $100-$150 cause that seems about right to sum up 4 weeks. If tips are good lately

jazzysoranio 31 points 1y ago

I mean, technically we were actually supposed to be doing it even before last year. What Starbucks used to do is report the bare minimum automatically for everyone and then it was our responsibility to go in a adjust it to make it accurate. The only thing that changed is that they don’t do it automatically anymore so now you have to report it back for Starbucks so that they’ll input whatever you submitted to them on your W-2. Now, I’m not a lawyer or an accountant or any other kind of financial experts but from what I understand the chances that literally anything will happen to you for not reporting your tip income are almost nothing just because there’s no practical way for the IRS to audit your actual tip info. I mean, I guess they could try to get copies of your store’s tip reports but I don’t even know how long those records are kept, and even then, only your scheduled hours are digitally reported anywhere, the actual rate you would get per hour isn’t actually reported anywhere, it’s usually just penciled in by hand and calculated by whoever is doing the tips.

dazedinreverse 29 points 1y ago

I literally wasn't told until I asked my manager how to do it since I overheard a coworker talking about it. Weeks after I was hired

[deleted] 12 points 1y ago

You can always go back through the tips forms where you initialed and add them up! Tedious but it’ll be accurate. I quit this month so I don’t really care to report the tips I made for 4 weeks but I understand the importance.

mckanoot 15 points 1y ago

My store has little envelopes with your name and weekly deposits for the whole year. There a binder thing we keep in the safe that keeps everyone's tip envelopes we just add it at the end of the year and that's what we claim.

tittysprnklsz [OP] 11 points 1y ago

That’s a good idea! It would definitely be tedious but with my paranoid self I may have to consider it 👀

JeanLucPicardsAss 2 points 1y ago

Tips forms? Lol

IAMACHRISTMASWIZARD 1 points 1y ago

$100??? We get like $4-$15 every two weeks😭

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

Your store must not be as busy or have customers who like to tip 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’m saying $100 over 4 weeks which would break down to $25 which is actually less than I make from tips usually now that I think about it. We have a ton of regulars and we are consistently in the top 3 for customer connections in my district so I imagine that is a major factor.

bottlehalffull 1 points 1y ago

Crazy! We make around $1 per hour we work at my store. My tips last week were $50 because regular customers put $20 bills in as our Christmas tip.

Ainoway 14 points 1y ago

Former and current partner hello 🙋 when I quit the first time, I thought I had collected all my tips, I got told I had $1.50 in tips waiting for me to pick up for the one random shift that overlapped into the next tip week, I told them I didn’t want to go out of my way for a $1.50 so to keep it and throw it back in the jar. Three months later I actually got an official cheque from Starbucks sent to my house for $1.50 😂

pres_ofcanada 10 points 1y ago

Starbucks doesn’t report the income because… well they don’t really know what your cash tips are. They could find out but legally they are not required to report cash tips like they are legally required to report wages. Cash tips are on you to report and if you don’t, we’ll probably not a lot is going to happen. You work at Starbucks which means you have relatively low income and the IRS is not going to spend thousands of dollars chasing you down for a couple hundred bucks you might owe in taxes for a years worth of cash tips.

Just remember though you are legally required to do so and the penalties can be severe if you are found to be defrauding the government.

Very-_-Disappointing 3 points 1y ago

Starbucks doesn’t do anything

It’s the IRS who wants the info

If they think your lack of reporting is worth investigating then they will do it and you can have penalties since you are not paying taxes on that income when you don’t report it

[deleted] 1 points 1y ago

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FfierceLaw 16 points 1y ago

I don’t think that the employer reports them so the only way you’d get found out is if you were audited and small chance of that. Not that it’s not the law but the irs has bigger fish to fry than a barista’s $1200 in annual tips. Would make news if they did that

BothWeb1004 3 points 1y ago

I never break $800 in tips yearly, and my median is $500. 1,200 would be nice. 😄

gryyfin 1 points 1y ago

Starbucks reports tips to the IRS on behalf of all hourly partners at the rate of 50 cents per hour worked im pretty sure. Unless you report that you received more or less than that

coffeegirrrl 1 points 1y ago

That was in the olden days. Now they process and report MOP tips only. Cash is up to the partner

gryyfin 1 points 1y ago

Nah I swear to god I saw something saying that on my manager’s desk

jamie2298 16 points 1y ago

My store doesn't really get tips and I'm about to quit soon. I got 27 dollars in 3 months. Should I still claim that? Even if it's that little?

[deleted] 12 points 1y ago

I don’t believe so if you earned less than 20 dollars per month.

jamie2298 3 points 1y ago

Thank you! Our store is high volume but we don't get many cash tips. The most I'll make in a week is 9 dollars.

whatisprofound 15 points 1y ago

Our DM heard about our tip rate and said "well at least you won't need to claim them on your taxes like other stores." Wow. Thanks gurl, really helpful.

No-Pearl000 12 points 1y ago

i’ve been here for 3 months and didn’t know what this meant so that’s how my barista experience is going

Ordinary-Theory-8289 3 points 1y ago

Literally nobody reports their tips lol

official_koda_ 10 points 1y ago

Hmmm what tips? 👩‍🦯

miakodank 9 points 1y ago

I feel like it’s on the company for not telling us and also logging it themselves like , they write it on paper why

Dramatic_Celery_2262 8 points 1y ago

I thought it got put into our checks?

b99__throwaway 3 points 1y ago

some digital tips go onto your checks but cash tips are held in the safe until you pick them up. OP means logging in to the partner hub and “claiming” then there so sbux can put it on your W2 for you. technically you are required by law to do this (and if not federally then definitely by almost every state) but i honestly don’t know anyone who does

TheFriendlyFeminist 7 points 1y ago

It is my personal belief that the IRS has bigger fish to fry than my part-time tips

Leaffrost101 7 points 1y ago

Work in a license store and none of us could find the form needed to log the tips. And after a hear they added an option to report tips in the time out clock which I now do after every shift

Beautiful-Director 6 points 1y ago

wait what are we suppose to do with our tips?

Zadaki 6 points 1y ago

This is a huge problem at my store. Legitimately almost no one has (and myself haven’t been keeping up with it), and am unsure how to resolve the issue. My plan was to claim an average of x dollars a week on my tax forms when I do my taxes and just round higher for safety.

medusas-garden 5 points 1y ago

I do tips for my store every week, half the time I forget to collect my own tips much less report them lol

SuggestionShot1312 3 points 1y ago

i didn’t pickup my tips from the corporate store i worked at almost a year ago.. in another state.. lol i wonder if they just gave them to someone else

tittysprnklsz [OP] 3 points 1y ago

Most likely it was added in with whatever weeks tips. When I moved and transferred to another store my previous boss venmoed me my last cut of tips. I think they’re supposed to reach out but alas, not every SM is as nice. A coworker of mine just moved to Germany without collecting her tips so my boss is going to try and Venmo her or else it will be added to ours 😈

Cheef-Queef 3 points 1y ago

Can’t you just claim them on a w-2?

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

You probably can but I think it would bring about an incorrect percentage of what you would owe on your taxes since you’re putting in one lump (and guesstimated) sum.

ianbz 3 points 1y ago

I’ve been working here for 3 years and haven’t done it once :-) I’m scared

furry_anus_explosion 3 points 1y ago

I never did. Technically you could get audited and a fine, buttttt I’m just gonna hope that doesn’t happen lolol

dzToffeeNuts 3 points 1y ago

I worked for Starbucks for 8 years and not once did I claim tips on taxes. You are automatically taxed at a rate of 55 cents an hour on your pay stubs. At least thats how they did from 2012 to 2020.

calimac90 7 points 1y ago

They changed that part after you left. Digital tips get put onto our paychecks, and we are suppose to report the actual cash amount we get per week on the BOH computer. TBH the reporting tool is so terrible and clunky.

OneRoseDark 3 points 1y ago

Servers almost never claim cash tips. Nothing's gonna happen.

Ordinary-Theory-8289 6 points 1y ago

Yeah some people are way too paranoid about the 20-30 bucks a week they aren’t claiming when none of my server friends who can walk out with 300$ cash in a night report any lol

lilkiosk 2 points 1y ago

Tips? What are those?

cuteivory692 2 points 1y ago

At my store if you don’t claim your tips they’ll keep it in the safe for while till you claim it or come into work but if you don’t claim it after a while it’ll get recycled into the next batch of tips.

tittysprnklsz [OP] 1 points 1y ago

Not that kind of claim. I mean digitally claiming your tips in my partner info for taxes.

cuteivory692 1 points 1y ago

Ohhhh! A

fookyall 2 points 1y ago

Serious question: I make like $5-$8 a week in tips, is it really going to get noticed if I don’t report them?

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

No, it only matters if it’s $20 or more. You good!

cantthink51 2 points 1y ago

wait do they not get added to your paycheck? we have to go in and physically collect them?

edit: so I just collected them after working about an average of 12 hrs a week for about four months and I just got $223 worth of accumulated tips 😭

tittysprnklsz [OP] 1 points 1y ago

Digital tips are added but cash tips you should be getting every week and reporting it on my partner info but like everyone has said in the thread- no one really does it and it doesn’t sound like there are any serious repercussions

tittysprnklsz [OP] 1 points 1y ago

piscescrybaby4 1 points 1y ago

i can’t figure out how to claim mine. I know it’s on the one site where we can check our pay stubs and stuff but when i go to the page to claim tips and i click on the boxes nothing happens. and i have pop ups enabled for the site and i’ve tried this over and over. I have my own little log on pen and paper but i can’t figure out how to do it on the site lol

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

Unfortunately if you are doing it on your own device it will not work. You must do it on the store computer or maybe the iPad would work too.

piscescrybaby4 1 points 1y ago

thank you! unfortunately nobody told me that when I was hired 3 months ago so.. will need to figure that out!

tittysprnklsz [OP] 1 points 1y ago

It’s pretty easy! You log into my partner hub and you can access your partner info page from there. If you don’t see the option you can always use the search bar on the right side. Make sure you know your password! And when you put in your partner numbers you do not need to add the US part. Once you access your partner info page you can find the declare tips button on the left side I think it’s the last page or second to last page. You can change the date in which you received the tips in case you forget. I hope this helps!!

flipflopticktockhiss 1 points 1y ago

wait y’all get your own tips??? my store does a pool 🥲 i get $40+ after a shift on pos but i get $5 bc of our system

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

That’s an odd way to do it. The correct way is printing the tip report and calculating the hourly rate based on the hours everyone worked. So for example this week our hourly rate was .87cents (which is pretty decent) so .87 x 41.22 hours that I worked = $35 or $36 if you round up. Your way seems unfair

flipflopticktockhiss 2 points 1y ago

that sounds so much better…. i think we do it a similar way but the amount of tips each partner pulls in varies a lot… maybe that’s why

note: when you unassign a till, do you claim your digital tips or do you hit cancel?

tittysprnklsz [OP] 2 points 1y ago

What do you mean each partner pulls in? When you close out a till it shouldn’t give you the option anymore since digital tips have been added to checks now. I never get that notification anymore when I close a till, do you work at a licensee store?

flipflopticktockhiss 1 points 1y ago

nope i work corporate ! our till has the digital tip payout window when you close a till (at least last time it did), but as far as i’m aware the tips are still all pooled and divided amongst partners by clocked hours

BothWeb1004 0 points 1y ago

I put mine on my taxes and keep track of them all. It's the law.

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