Payroll services for Restaurants and Cafes

Yes. Tips your employees report to you count as wages for federal payroll taxes. You withhold the employee's share of Social Security and Medicare taxes, plus income tax, on reported tips, and you pay the employer's share of Social Security and Medicare.

Employees who receive $20 or more in tips in a month must report them to you by the 10th of the following month. The federal "no tax on tips" deduction applies to employees' income tax. It doesn't change the Social Security and Medicare taxes owed on tips.

SurePayroll supports tip reporting in payroll, and the Full Service plan files and deposits your payroll taxes.

Most restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops use payroll software that supports tipped employees, more than one pay rate per employee, and shift-based hours. Look for tip reporting, payroll tax filing and deposits, and payroll you can run between shifts.

SurePayroll is built for small businesses with tipped and hourly teams. You can run payroll from your phone, and the Full Service plan files and deposits your payroll taxes.

Yes. If someone works as both a barista and a shift lead, or a host and a server, SurePayroll supports multiple roles and pay rates for that employee. You enter hours for each role and pay them together in one payroll run.

Under the FLSA, the overtime threshold is 40 hours in a workweek, not a pay period. If you pay biweekly, you run two separate 40-hour calculations inside one paycheck. You set your workweek: the day and time it begins.

Once set, it doesn't flex around your schedule or your busy periods. For tipped employees, you calculate overtime on the full minimum wage rate, not the tipped minimum wage rate. That means overtime for a tipped employee is at least 1.5 times $7.25 ($10.88) per hour. If someone earns more than one rate in a workweek, that affects their overtime rate.

Yes. You can switch payroll providers at any point in the year. For year-end forms, you'll need each employee's year-to-date wages, tips, and taxes withheld, plus a record of the payroll tax deposits and filings already made this year.

SurePayroll setup support includes entering prior wages, at no additional charge. Switching at the start of a quarter or at year end means fewer prior-quarter details to carry over.