Upward Projects, the Phoenix-based hospitality group behind Postino, Windsor, Churn, Federal Pizza, and Joyride Taco House, has partnered with TipHaus to automate tip management and give its teams faster, more transparent access to their tip earnings across its 40-plus restaurants.
For a multi-concept group running distinct brands across multiple states, tip management had long meant manual, time-consuming tip reconciliation, with each concept carrying its own rules and pay structures. Since adopting TipHaus in the fall of 2025, Upward Projects has replaced that manual work with a single automated system that calculates and distributes tips through the tools the group already runs, Toast and Crunchtime, and gives hourly team members next-day tip access to their earnings through Earned Tip Access®.
“At Upward Projects, our people are at the heart of everything we do, so giving our teams faster, more transparent access to their tips was an easy call. Before TipHaus, reconciling and distributing tips took our team members and managers about 2 hours per day; with TipHaus it takes a fraction of that time, saving us roughly 30 hours a month per location. With Earned Tip Access and digital payouts, our hourly employees can also access their earnings the next day, giving our teams a more modern pay experience while lifting significant administrative weight off our managers,” said Brian Anderson, Vice President of Technology at Upward Projects.
“The app also gives our team members greater visibility into their earnings, which saves our managers time running and explaining reports, and the payroll export merges seamlessly with our payroll provider, making it easy for our team to verify and confirm earned tips,” Anderson added.
TipHaus integrates directly with Toast and Crunchtime, pulling sales, shift, and labor data automatically so that tip calculations run without manual data entry at each location. Rather than forcing a rigid, one-size-fits-all model, TipHaus configures to the specific rules of each concept, allowing Upward Projects to standardize oversight across the group while honoring how each brand operates. Through Earned Tip Access, employees can reach their earned tips the next day, giving teams a modern, transparent pay experience.
“My wife and I are regulars at Postino for weekend brunch, so we have seen firsthand how much care Upward Projects puts into its guests and its teams. Behind the scenes, they run several distinct concepts, each with its own systems and tip structures, and we specialize in shaping TipHaus around what each one needs instead of asking them to work within our platform’s limits. By automating that complexity across the group and integrating with the Toast and Crunchtime systems they already use, we help Upward Projects deliver consistent, accurate payouts and give their teams faster, more transparent access to their earnings. It is a privilege to support a group whose restaurants we love,” said Kirk Grogan, COO and Co-Founder of TipHaus.
As Upward Projects continues to grow its collection of concepts, its partnership with TipHaus supports accurate, consistent, and efficient tip management across the group, freeing managers to focus on hospitality and giving team members a faster, more modern pay experience.
