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We keep our drive tip jar inside to avoid this and the front one is next to the POS so to steal it they would have to almost reach over the counter.

We’ve had people steal the entire plastic containers that the tips go into. We’ve gotten into the habit of putting the tips away into the tip bag once the jar has around $10 or so in it. Any bill larger than a single pretty much immediately goes into a deposit bag. We’ll drop the deposit usually at around midday and close.

Put existing tips in a trenta cup frequently away from the customers and leave an empty jar out.

ban the person who steals tips. the.. end?

My friends used to work at a now closed starbucks location that was constantly hit with lots of theft and incident reports, their solution was tip jars with false bottoms- when someone tried to take the jar, all they got was a mess. This obvs isn't the best solution because it makes a big mess of coins everywhere when someone tries to steal it, but the thieves are usually trying to get out in a hurry and the big crash from the spill was usually enough to send them scurrying out without the tips! It had it's pros and cons

my store keeps the coins in the jar and puts the bills up in another place out of customer reach

my former store switched to locking tip boxes that are secured to the counter with industrial Velcro! Not only do they *look* pretty hard to run away with, but they had me pull on it to test it and it would take a decent amount of struggle to get it out of the door. I’m pretty sure it was just an Amazon purchase with the p-card 🤷‍♂️

Along with taking out cash as soon as its put in, I've worked at a location where the tip jar was a jar mug with a handle that had a very narrow mouth making it hard to reach inside. The manager then ran a cord through the handle and attached it to the till so no one could walk off with the whole cup but it could stay up front.

Our store had to get new tip boxes locked to the order moniter 💀