Location: Florida.
hi. i have been working for a foodtruck, for 2 owners, for some months. when they hired me, they told me i make my hourly wage + tips. great. i worked for some time without thinking much and stayed collecting my tips from my tip jar. on an amazing day for me, thats about 20-30 bucks but amazing days dont happen often. i am always grateful regardless and express my gratitude to them, even for pennies in tips or less. these folks dont have to give me extra but they do. i hope its because they like my attitude toward them and they think i make ordering easy/fun. now, recently ive been noticing just how much they make in digital tips on the ipad. they told me i had to present the ipad when customers pay because its their right, okay i understand, and i do that of course. i only keep cash tips. they keep all digital tips, and most folks pay with card. i notice many times (because i handle all the payments and have to reset the sale screen thing when they're done) that lots of our customers tip 5-10$ an order. i honestly thought tipping was just becoming more sparse or maybe it is the area i live in. i didn't know, i've never worked in food service. they have mentioned to me before they had previous employees who would get way less tips than me frequently because of their attitude, them staring at the tip jar all day, things like that. wouldn't that mean digital tips are way less as well? and recently they have started looking over to ask how i did on tips. it sort of is bothering me. especially when they make remarks of how well off they are just from the few days they do it monthly. its an extremely part time job for me, i'm their only window girl and i lost my job of 8 years straight early this year. i dont want to wrongfully feel upset over this if its coming from a place of jealousy, of not being financially secure. im struggling quite bad and they know of it so the remarks sting a little more. i talked to my pops and he said he doesn't think that's supposed to work that way and that i'm better than him for biting my tongue when it bothers me. they have vaguely said & i feel like they wouldn't get nearly as good of tips if 1) i wasn't their window girl, and 2) customers knew they weren't tipping the window person who's talking with them. am i wrong and is this legal?
tldr: i am a window girl- am i being stupid? is it okay for my foodtruck bosses to keep all digital tips, while i keep cash tips?