Food Web’s First Mobile App Is Here: Tippo on iOS and Android

Tippo is now on the Apple App Store and Google Play. It is the first mobile app Food Web has ever shipped, and it does one job well: it takes the tip-out math off paper and out of spreadsheets, and puts it in the pocket of the person closing the restaurant. The first 99 restaurants lock in $9.99 a month for life.

Tip management has always been a back-office chore done at the worst possible hour — after close, when everyone is tired, the floor still needs resetting, and the math has to come out right anyway. Getting it wrong costs money and trust. Getting it right, by hand, costs time nobody has.

What is Tippo?

Tippo is a tip pooling and tip-out platform for restaurants, bars, and hospitality teams. You set your house rules once — by role, by hours worked, or by custom percentage — and Tippo handles the rest: it runs the split, produces a clean tip-out report, and keeps a record that payroll and staff can both trust.

Until now, Tippo lived on the web. It still does. The mobile app is the same account, the same tip pools, and the same reports — just reachable from the floor instead of the office. Managers can close out a shift on their phone. Staff can see what they earned once the shift ends, without asking anyone.

Why Food Web built a tip app

Food Web is Tippo’s technology partner. We build and ship the software; Tippo brings the restaurant expertise that makes the software correct. Neither half works without the other — a tip-out engine written by people who have never run a tip pool is a calculator with the wrong assumptions baked in.

That expertise has a name. Tippo was founded by Jenna Oosterholt, a restaurant owner who built the product she needed. We were introduced to Jenna by the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia (RANS), a Food Web partner. That introduction is the reason this app exists, and it is a good argument for why industry associations matter: the people closest to the problem know exactly who is living it.

The strategic reason is simpler. Food Web exists to help food businesses operate — commercial kitchens, bookings, payments, and the maps that connect them. Restaurants are central to that, and tip management is one of the clearest, most annoying, most universal operational problems they have. Building Tippo lets us hand restaurants something useful today, rather than something adjacent.

What you get in the mobile app

Everything Tippo does on the web, sized for a phone:

• Instant tip pool calculations by hours worked or role weighting.
• Front-of-house and back-of-house splits handled in the same pool, with the rules your house actually uses.
• Audit-ready distribution reports you can hand straight to payroll or your accountant.
• Tip-per-hour breakdowns so staff can see how a shift actually paid.
• Historical tip records kept for payroll and for proper record-keeping around controlled tips and tip committees.
• Real-time visibility for staff once a shift closes — which is usually where the arguments came from in the first place.

How much does Tippo cost?

$9.99 a month. The first 99 restaurants keep that price for life — a one-time lock, not an introductory rate that quietly resets in a year. There is also a 14-day free trial with unlimited staff, so you can run a real shift through it before paying anything.

That price is deliberate, and it is worth being explicit about why. Restaurant margins are thin — thin enough that a few hundred dollars a month of software is a real decision, not a rounding error. The industry has plenty of tools that solve a genuine problem and then price themselves out of reach of the independent operators who need them most.

Food Web’s position is that software should be reducing a restaurant’s operating costs or opening a new revenue line — not quietly becoming another fixed cost. Tippo is priced to be the cheapest line item on the bill and still be the one that saves the most hours.

How does Tippo compare on price?

We went and looked. Here is what the tip-management market actually publishes:

The most revealing row is the last one. Most of the dedicated tip-management specialists do not publish a price at all — you fill in a form, take a call, and find out what your restaurant is worth to them. There may be good reasons for that, but it is a strange way to sell a tool to an industry that runs on tight, predictable numbers.

Tippo’s price is on the website, in the app, and in this post: $9.99 a month. No call required. And for the first 99 restaurants, it does not move again.

How to get Tippo

Download it on the Apple App Store or Google Play, then create your account at tippo.ca. Setup takes minutes — add your team, set your split rules, and run your next close-out through it.

If you have ever recalculated a tip pool at 1am because the numbers did not tie out, this is the shift to stop doing that.

One more thing

This is Food Web’s first mobile app, and it will not be our last. Shipping to the App Store and Google Play is a capability, not a one-off — and now that it exists, it is available to everything else we build for food businesses.

Ninety-nine spots at $9.99 for life. Get Tippo on iOS, get it on Android, or start at tippo.ca.