{"id":12901,"date":"2026-09-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:10:04","slug":"quebec-minimum-wage-2026-restaurants-and-tipped-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/quebec-minimum-wage-2026-restaurants-and-tipped-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Minimum Wage 2026: What the May 1 Increase and the Tipped Rate Mean for Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12901\" class=\"elementor elementor-12901 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c87b56a7 e-con-boxed snappy-art e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c87b56a7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"65e7ddb4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-005b30c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"005b30c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-eyebrow-wrap\"><span class=\"snappy-pill\">Streamline operations<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc15bf1b snappy-h1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cc15bf1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quebec Minimum Wage 2026: What the May 1 Increase and the Tipped Rate Mean for Restaurants<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-135fd1c4 e-con-boxed snappy-art e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"135fd1c4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-351ff006 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"351ff006\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-byline\"><div class=\"snappy-by-author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"snappy-avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wilson-wu-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Wilson Wu\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" loading=\"lazy\"><div><p class=\"snappy-by-name\">Wilson Wu<\/p><p class=\"snappy-by-role\">Chief Revenue Officer, Snappy<\/p><\/div><\/div><p class=\"snappy-by-meta\"><span>September 22, 2026<\/span><span class=\"snappy-dot\">&middot;<\/span><span>16 min read<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-965e5ccd e-con-boxed snappy-art snappy-row e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"965e5ccd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de895bda e-con-full snappy-col snappy-main-col e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"de895bda\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69bdc2eb snappy-lead elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69bdc2eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Since May 1, 2026, Quebec&#8217;s general minimum wage is $16.60 an hour, up $0.50, and the minimum for tipped employees is $13.30, up $0.40. For a restaurant, those two numbers sit on top of a third: Revenu Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s 8% tip attribution rule and the TP-1086.R.1-V filing due at the end of February. This guide puts all three in one place, with the math for a team of 12.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec sets a separate minimum for tipped employees, which most other provinces do not, so the usual &#8220;minimum wage went up&#8221; article does not fit here. An owner in Montreal, Laval, Gatineau or Quebec City has to get the general rate, the tipped rate and the tip declaration right at the same time, and all three run off the same sales record. That is the operational point of this piece: the wage increase is a payroll event, but the way you survive it is a data event.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32c00ea0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"32c00ea0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-key\"><p class=\"snappy-key-label\">Summary<\/p><ul>\n<li>Quebec's general minimum wage rose by $0.50 to <strong>$16.60 an hour<\/strong> on May 1, 2026, and the tipped-employee minimum rose by $0.40 to <strong>$13.30 an hour<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/nouvelles\/actualites\/details\/le-taux-general-du-salaire-minimum-passera-a-1660-lheure-le-1er-mai-2026-68123\">Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The tipped rate is roughly <strong>80% of the general rate<\/strong> (13.30 divided by 16.60 is 80.1%, derived from the government rates). The gap is <strong>$3.30 an hour<\/strong>, up from $3.20 before May 1.<\/li>\n<li>If an employee's declared tips are <strong>less than 8% of eligible sales<\/strong>, the employer must attribute the difference to that employee as an attributed tip, and file form <strong>TP-1086.R.1-V<\/strong> for each regulated establishment with the RL-1 summary for the year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). That summary is due no later than the <strong>last day of February<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impots-ici.com\/en\/les-pourboires-au-quebec-obligations-des-patrons-et-employes\/\">Imp\u00f4ts ici<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>On an illustrative team of 12 paid at minimum (7 tipped, 5 at the general rate) averaging 32 hours a week, the rate change alone adds about <strong>$169.60 a week, or $8,819 a year<\/strong>, before employer contributions.<\/li>\n<li>Quebec has <strong>18,520<\/strong> commercial restaurant establishments employing <strong>more than 253,000<\/strong> people (2024 figures), <strong>58.2%<\/strong> of them independently owned (2018 figure). <strong>423<\/strong> Quebec restaurants declared bankruptcy in 2024, <strong>63.2%<\/strong> of all Canadian restaurant-sector bankruptcies, per the ARQ (<a href=\"https:\/\/restauration.org\/portrait-de-lindustrie\/\">ARQ<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Across Canada, <strong>44%<\/strong> of restaurants were operating at a loss or at break-even at the end of 2025, a Restaurants Canada figure reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldesherbrooke.com\/2026\/05\/31\/7-000-restaurants-fermes-au-canada-en-2025-et-4-000-autres-fermetures-estimees-en-2026\/\">Journal de Sherbrooke<\/a>. Those are Canadian numbers, not Quebec ones, but the wage increase lands on a margin that is already thin.<\/li>\n<li>The lever an owner controls is hours per shift: measure labour against sales every day, take repetitive tasks off the floor, and reconcile tip declarations monthly instead of once in February.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d497383 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-toc--minimized-on-tablet snappy-toc-inline elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"2d497383\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h2&quot;],&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;numbers&quot;,&quot;minimize_box&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;minimized_on&quot;:&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;no_headings_message&quot;:&quot;No headings were found on this page.&quot;,&quot;hierarchical_view&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;min_height&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"table-of-contents.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__header\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-toc__header-title\">\n\t\t\t\tOn this page\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__toggle-button elementor-toc__toggle-button--expand\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-toc__2d497383\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-label=\"Open table of contents\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-chevron-down\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M207.029 381.476L12.686 187.132c-9.373-9.373-9.373-24.569 0-33.941l22.667-22.667c9.357-9.357 24.522-9.375 33.901-.04L224 284.505l154.745-154.021c9.379-9.335 24.544-9.317 33.901.04l22.667 22.667c9.373 9.373 9.373 24.569 0 33.941L240.971 381.476c-9.373 9.372-24.569 9.372-33.942 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__toggle-button elementor-toc__toggle-button--collapse\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-toc__2d497383\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-label=\"Close table of contents\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-chevron-up\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M240.971 130.524l194.343 194.343c9.373 9.373 9.373 24.569 0 33.941l-22.667 22.667c-9.357 9.357-24.522 9.375-33.901.04L224 227.495 69.255 381.516c-9.379 9.335-24.544 9.317-33.901-.04l-22.667-22.667c-9.373-9.373-9.373-24.569 0-33.941L207.03 130.525c9.372-9.373 24.568-9.373 33.941-.001z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"elementor-toc__2d497383\" class=\"elementor-toc__body\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__spinner-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"elementor-toc__spinner eicon-animation-spin e-font-icon-svg e-eicon-loading\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M500 975V858C696 858 858 696 858 500S696 142 500 142 142 304 142 500H25C25 237 238 25 500 25S975 237 975 500 763 975 500 975Z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0e4cafd snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d0e4cafd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Are the New Rates Since May 1, 2026?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf11a897 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bf11a897\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec announced that the general minimum wage would rise by $0.50 on May 1, 2026, to $16.60 an hour, and that the minimum payable to employees remunerated by tips, often called the Quebec server minimum wage or tip credit rate, would rise by $0.40 to $13.30 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/nouvelles\/actualites\/details\/le-taux-general-du-salaire-minimum-passera-a-1660-lheure-le-1er-mai-2026-68123\">Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). Both rates have applied since May, so if a payroll run in your restaurant still shows $16.10 or $12.90 for any employee, you have a back-pay problem, not a planning problem.<\/p>\n<p>The government notice states the prior general rate of $16.10. The prior tipped rate in the table below is derived by subtracting the stated increase from the new rate, and the gap row is simply the difference between the two rates.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3554334e elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3554334e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-table-wrap\"><table class=\"snappy-table\"><thead><tr><th>Rate<\/th><th>Before May 1, 2026<\/th><th>Since May 1, 2026<\/th><th>Increase<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr class=\"\"><td>General minimum wage<\/td><td>$16.10<\/td><td>$16.60<\/td><td>+$0.50<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"snappy-alt\"><td>Tipped-employee minimum<\/td><td>$12.90 (derived)<\/td><td>$13.30<\/td><td>+$0.40<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"\"><td>Gap between the two rates<\/td><td>$3.20 (derived)<\/td><td>$3.30 (derived)<\/td><td>Widens by $0.10<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41c201aa snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41c201aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Two things in that table matter more than the headline rates. First, the tipped rate did not rise by the same amount as the general rate, so the gap between a server and a line cook at minimum widened by $0.10 an hour. Second, the tipped rate is now a little over 80% of the general rate, which is why Quebec&#8217;s wage math does not work like the provinces that pay one minimum to everyone.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f61ff1c0 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f61ff1c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Who Counts as a Tipped Employee Under the Law?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea9f97e6 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea9f97e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A tipped employee in Quebec is a worker who is paid, in part, through tips as part of the normal course of a shift, the group the government notice calls &#8220;personnes r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9es au pourboire&#8221; and classifies at the lower $13.30 rate (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/nouvelles\/actualites\/details\/le-taux-general-du-salaire-minimum-passera-a-1660-lheure-le-1er-mai-2026-68123\">Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). The CNESST publishes the binding definition and the conditions attached to it, and that page is the one to open before you classify anyone; do not apply the $13.30 rate by job title or by habit.<\/p>\n<p>The practical test most owners run when deciding who qualifies for the tipped minimum wage in Quebec is simple: does this role customarily receive tips from guests in the normal course of a shift? A server on the Plateau or a bartender on Grande All\u00e9e clearly does. A dishwasher, a prep cook or a cashier who never touches a tip does not, and planning their pay at the tipped rate is the fastest way to create a CNESST complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Grey areas exist, and they are exactly where a small operator gets hurt. Counter staff at a casse-cro\u00fbte in Laval who occasionally receive a tip jar, a host in Gatineau who is included in a tip pool, a runner in Quebec City who is paid a share of the room: each of these is a question for the CNESST, not a guess. Write down the classification you chose for each role and the reason, so the answer is on file if anyone asks in February.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcfdbd43 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fcfdbd43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">How Does Revenu Qu\u00e9bec's 8% Tip Attribution Rule Apply?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f04f216c snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f04f216c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Revenu Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s 8% rule requires an employer to allocate additional tips to any tipped employee whose declared tips fall below 8% of that employee&#8217;s tippable sales for a given pay period (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). The employer reports the allocation each year on form TP-1086.R.1-V, an Employer&#8217;s Statement of Tips and Tippable Sales filed for each regulated establishment with the RL-1 summary for the year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). That summary is due no later than the last day of February (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impots-ici.com\/en\/les-pourboires-au-quebec-obligations-des-patrons-et-employes\/\">Imp\u00f4ts ici<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Two details from the same Revenu Qu\u00e9bec guide belong on the same page. The 8% rate can be lowered if it is too high for your establishment, by filing a Request for a Reduction in the Allocation Rate (form TP-42.15-V), and an employer who fails to pay or remit an amount attributable to tips it failed to allocate &#8220;is liable to a penalty equal to 50% of the amount&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In plain terms, Revenu Qu\u00e9bec assumes a tipped employee earns at least 8% of their sales in tips. If the declared figure comes in under that floor, the shortfall is treated as if it had been received, and it is reported for that employee. What that attributed amount does to the employee&#8217;s own return and to your employer contributions is a question for your CPA; the mechanics of the comparison are what you control.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison has two inputs and you own both. The sales side comes from your POS, which in Quebec is already recording every transaction for <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/mev-web-srm\/\">WEB-SRM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tip side comes from what each employee declares, which for card tips your system can capture automatically and for cash tips depends on staff writing them down. When those two records disagree, February becomes a reconstruction project, so the fix is to run the 8% comparison per employee every month and deal with gaps while people still remember the shifts.<\/p>\n<p>This is distinct from two other Quebec rules that use the same sales record. <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/bill-72-quebec\/\">Bill 72<\/a> governs how the tip suggestion is presented to the guest, and WEB-SRM governs how the sale itself is recorded and transmitted. All three are covered later in this piece, because an owner filing in February needs to see them as one calculation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-daab8e3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"daab8e3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-cta snappy-cta-mid\" data-snappy-cta=\"mid\"><p class=\"snappy-cta-h\">The new rates are fixed. Your paid hours are not.<\/p><p>Bring your own roster and shift hours to a call with our Montreal team, and see exactly where the extra payroll hours and tip records are landing.<\/p><a class=\"snappy-btn\" href=\"#snappy-form\">Show me my payroll hours<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d09761d3 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d09761d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Does the Increase Cost a Team of 12?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc6f2052 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bc6f2052\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For an illustrative team of 12 paid at minimum wage, averaging 32 hours a week, the May 1 rate change alone adds about $169.60 a week, or $8,819 a year, before employer contributions.<\/p>\n<p>The real number for your restaurant depends on how many of your people are actually paid at the minimum and the hours they work. The table below shows only the rate change multiplied by hours, for a team at the applicable minimum working an average of 32 hours a week across full-time and part-time schedules.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa7b7b64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"fa7b7b64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"snappy-table-wrap\"><table class=\"snappy-table\"><thead><tr><th>Role group<\/th><th>Headcount<\/th><th>Rate change<\/th><th>Hours per week (illustrative)<\/th><th>Added cost per week<\/th><th>Added cost per year (52 weeks)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr class=\"\"><td>Servers and bartenders (tipped rate)<\/td><td>7<\/td><td>+$0.40<\/td><td>32 each, 224 total<\/td><td>$89.60<\/td><td>$4,659.20<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"snappy-alt\"><td>Kitchen, dish and counter (general rate)<\/td><td>5<\/td><td>+$0.50<\/td><td>32 each, 160 total<\/td><td>$80.00<\/td><td>$4,160.00<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"\"><td>Whole team<\/td><td>12<\/td><td><\/td><td>384<\/td><td>$169.60<\/td><td>$8,819.20<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-584bb7da snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"584bb7da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Roughly $8,800 a year, the real cost of Quebec&#8217;s 2026 minimum wage increase for a small restaurant team, sounds manageable until you place it against the margin it comes out of. Restaurants Canada, reported by the Journal de Sherbrooke, put 44% of establishments in the sector at a loss or only at break-even at the end of 2025, and more than 90% of operators cite food cost as a top challenge (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldesherbrooke.com\/2026\/05\/31\/7-000-restaurants-fermes-au-canada-en-2025-et-4-000-autres-fermetures-estimees-en-2026\/\">Journal de Sherbrooke<\/a>). By August 2026 the picture had not improved much: &#8220;41% of operators are losing money or merely breaking even, up from 36% in March&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/agrifoodanalyticslab.substack.com\/p\/canada-is-still-losing-restaurantsnot\">Agri-Food Analytics Lab<\/a>). Those are Canadian numbers, not Quebec-specific ones, but there is no reason to think Quebec sits comfortably above them.<\/p>\n<p>Three things push the real number higher than the table. If any of your staff sit above minimum and you keep their differential intact, their raise is on top.<\/p>\n<p>Employer contributions are calculated on wages and are not in this table, so ask your CPA for the loaded figure. And if you hired for the summer season in Vieux-Qu\u00e9bec or on Saint-Laurent at the new rate, the increase has already been in your cost base since May, whether or not you priced it in.<\/p>\n<p>The regional texture matters too. A Gatineau operator competes for staff with Ottawa across the river, so the question is not just what the Quebec minimum is but what a server can earn on the other side of the bridge. A family restaurant near Centropolis in Laval has a very different tipped-to-untipped mix than a bistro on Mont-Royal, and the mix, not the headcount, is what sets the cost of this increase.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-623c4464 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"623c4464\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">How Do Bill 72 and WEB-SRM Fit the Same Calculation?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fca0384a snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fca0384a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Quebec restaurants carry three provincial rules that most other operators never think about, and all three depend on one sales record. WEB-SRM is Revenu Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s mandatory sales recording system for restaurants; Snappy&#8217;s POS is compliant with it. Revenu Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s regulatory impact analysis describes the solution as a certified sales recording system that collects the operator&#8217;s transaction data and sends it securely and continuously to a cloud environment, named MEV-WEB, which validates and keeps that data before passing it on to Revenu Qu\u00e9bec (<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-contenu.quebec.ca\/cdn-contenu\/gouvernement\/MCE\/dossiers-soumis-conseil-ministres\/2023-0198_air.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec, regulatory impact analysis<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Bill 72, assented to on November 7, 2024 as An Act to protect consumers against abusive commercial practices and to offer better transparency with respect to prices and credit (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assnat.qc.ca\/en\/travaux-parlementaires\/projets-loi\/projet-loi-72-43-1.html\">Assembl\u00e9e nationale du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>), changed how tips are presented to guests. The Office de la protection du consommateur states that suggested tip amounts in the form of a percentage &#8220;must be calculated on the price before GST and QST&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opc.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/consumer\/topic\/price-discount\/tips\/\">Office de la protection du consommateur<\/a>), not on the tax-included total. That lowers the base the tip suggestion runs on, which in turn affects what your tipped employees declare, which in turn feeds the 8% comparison above.<\/p>\n<p>The same OPC page applies the rule to any merchant that suggests tip amounts, &#8220;such as on a payment terminal&#8221;, and allows only the suggested amounts plus an option for the guest to set the amount, presented &#8220;in a consistent manner, without inciting the consumer to select one choice over another&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opc.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/consumer\/topic\/price-discount\/tips\/\">Office de la protection du consommateur<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the chain in order and the dependency becomes obvious. WEB-SRM records the sale. Bill 72 sets the base for the suggested tip on that sale. The 8% rule compares declared tips against eligible sales from that same record. The minimum wage sets the base pay under all of it. If your sales data is clean, every one of these is a report. If it is not, every one of them is a project.<\/p>\n<p>That is the argument for running the whole thing on one system. A POS that already records every transaction for WEB-SRM is also the record you need for the tip comparison and for labour cost per shift, and the reports that sit on top of it are where you read the answer. <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/quebecs-10-no-show-fee-charge-for-restaurants\/\">Quebec&#8217;s no-show fee<\/a> is a fourth provincial rule that lives on the same reservation and payment data, for operators who take bookings: the Office de la protection du consommateur allows a maximum of $10 per person for a reservation not honoured, only for groups of at least 2 people, and no fee at all if the guest cancels at least 3 hours before the scheduled time (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opc.gouv.qc.ca\/commercant\/pratique-commerce\/reservation-restaurant\/\">Office de la protection du consommateur, page in French<\/a>).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7003afa8 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7003afa8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Which Hours Can You Recover Without Cutting Service?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-065dc311 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"065dc311\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A $0.40 or $0.50 increase per hour cannot be absorbed by trimming a shift here and there, because the trimmed shift comes back the moment the room fills. The way to offset a minimum wage increase without cutting service is to remove work from the floor that does not need a person, so the same team covers the same service in fewer paid hours. Here is where operators find those hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/restaurant-labor-cost-percentage-for-profitability\/\">labour cost<\/a> per shift, every day.<\/strong> Most owners see labour as a percentage of sales once a month, from the accountant, when it is too late to change anything.<\/p>\n<p>Snappy&#8217;s Team App gives an owner live sales tracking, month-over-month comparison and staff clock-in and clock-out from a phone, with full reports. With clock-ins and live sales in the same app, you can work out labour against sales while the shift is still running, and see a Tuesday lunch on Wellington in Verdun running heavy while it is still Tuesday lunch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take order entry off the server.<\/strong> Dine-in QR and Order-from-Table let guests order from the table, which changes what a tipped employee does during a rush from transcribing orders to actually serving. The server still owns the table; the POS owns the keystrokes. On a busy patio in Mile End in July, that can be the difference between three servers and four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer the phone without a person.<\/strong> Snappy&#8217;s AI phone line for general inquiries answers every call from the restaurant&#8217;s own FAQ and needs no other Snappy product. Every hours-and-parking call a host does not take is a minute back on the floor. Ask Snappy whether the line is available for your location and in the language your guests call in before you plan around it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop walking tickets.<\/strong> A kitchen display system routes orders straight to stations, so nobody is paid to carry paper. A self-serve kiosk at a counter-service spot in Laval or Sainte-Foy does the same for the front of house. None of these replaces a cook or a server; each removes a task that was being paid at the new rate.<\/p>\n<p>The backdrop is severe enough that this is not optional. The ARQ reports that restaurant survival rates after the fourth year run about 6% below the average for other industries, and that 423 Quebec restaurants went bankrupt in 2024, up 4.2% from 406 in 2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/restauration.org\/portrait-de-lindustrie\/\">ARQ<\/a>). Nationally, roughly 7,000 restaurants closed in 2025, and a spring forecast of a net loss of about 4,000 restaurants in 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldesherbrooke.com\/2026\/05\/31\/7-000-restaurants-fermes-au-canada-en-2025-et-4-000-autres-fermetures-estimees-en-2026\/\">Journal de Sherbrooke<\/a>) was later revised to a net decline of between 1,500 and 2,500 (<a href=\"https:\/\/agrifoodanalyticslab.substack.com\/p\/canada-is-still-losing-restaurantsnot\">Agri-Food Analytics Lab<\/a>). Even the revised figure is a lot of dining rooms.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cf43cdd snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2cf43cdd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Should You Ask Your Accountant Before the February Filing?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa5b2fb1 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa5b2fb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Before the February filing, bring your CPA the specific questions below on tipped-role classification, the 8% comparison and the loaded cost of the increase, not vague concerns. The TP-1086.R.1-V goes in with the RL-1 summary for the year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>), due no later than the last day of February (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impots-ici.com\/en\/les-pourboires-au-quebec-obligations-des-patrons-et-employes\/\">Imp\u00f4ts ici<\/a>); raise them in the fall, not the week before the deadline, because several require data you have to collect between now and then.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Which of my roles are correctly classified at the tipped rate, and which are not?<\/strong> Have the CNESST definition open when you ask. Get the answer per role in writing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For each tipped employee, where do declared tips sit against 8% of eligible sales, month by month?<\/strong> If your POS can produce this, bring the report. If it cannot, that is the first thing to fix.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How are card tips and cash tips being captured, and are both flowing into the declaration?<\/strong> Card tips recorded by the POS are usually clean; cash declarations are where gaps appear.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the loaded cost of the May 1 increase for my team, including employer contributions?<\/strong> The table above is the wage delta only. Your CPA has the rest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Did any employee work at the old rate after May 1, 2026?<\/strong> If so, how do we correct it now rather than have it surface later.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does my tip-suggestion screen comply with Bill 72, and does my sales recording comply with WEB-SRM?<\/strong> These are the two other Quebec rules riding on the same sales record, and your accountant will want to know your POS handles both.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One last point on the calendar. February is a slow month for many dining rooms, which makes it the worst possible month to discover that six months of tip declarations need to be rebuilt by hand. A monthly reconciliation is a short job; a February reconstruction is not.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df7a1b49 snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"df7a1b49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Frequently Asked Questions About Quebec Minimum Wage for Restaurants<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4150ce0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"d4150ce0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-3551\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3551\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><svg class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><svg class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What is the minimum wage in Quebec since May 1, 2026?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3551\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3551\"><p>The general rate is $16.60 an hour, an increase of $0.50, according to the Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s announcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/nouvelles\/actualites\/details\/le-taux-general-du-salaire-minimum-passera-a-1660-lheure-le-1er-mai-2026-68123\">Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). It applies to every employee who is not covered by the separate tipped-employee rate.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-3552\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3552\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><svg class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><svg class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What is the minimum wage for tipped employees in Quebec?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3552\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3552\"><p>It rose to $13.30 an hour, up $0.40, leaving a $3.30 gap with the general rate (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/nouvelles\/actualites\/details\/le-taux-general-du-salaire-minimum-passera-a-1660-lheure-le-1er-mai-2026-68123\">Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). Whether a given role qualifies for the tipped rate is defined by the CNESST, so confirm before classifying anyone.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-3553\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3553\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><svg class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><svg class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What is Revenu Qu\u00e9bec's 8% rule?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3553\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3553\"><p>If the tips an employee declares are less than 8% of that employee&#8217;s eligible sales, the employer must attribute the difference to the employee as an attributed tip (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>). The employer reports this each year on form TP-1086.R.1-V, filed with the RL-1 summary (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/documents\/en\/publications\/in\/IN-250-V%282020-05%29.pdf\">Revenu Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>) and due no later than the last day of February (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impots-ici.com\/en\/les-pourboires-au-quebec-obligations-des-patrons-et-employes\/\">Imp\u00f4ts ici<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-3554\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3554\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><svg class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><svg class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">How many restaurants does Quebec have?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3554\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3554\"><p>The Association Restauration Qu\u00e9bec counts about 18,520 commercial restaurant establishments employing more than 253,000 people (2024 figures), 58.2% of them independently owned (2018 figure) (<a href=\"https:\/\/restauration.org\/portrait-de-lindustrie\/\">ARQ<\/a>). For a city-level view, see our post on <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/blog\/how-many-restaurants-in-montreal\/\">how many restaurants are in Montreal<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-3555\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3555\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><svg class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><svg class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What can a restaurant owner do about the increase?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3555\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3555\"><p>Measure hours per position against sales every day rather than once a month, take repetitive tasks such as phone answering and order entry off the floor, and reconcile tip declarations against the 8% threshold monthly so the February filing is a report rather than a rebuild. The wage rate is set by the province; the hours are set by you.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d78c093a snappy-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d78c093a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Short Version<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4bf6738 snappy-prose elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b4bf6738\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Quebec&#8217;s general minimum wage is $16.60 and the tipped-employee minimum is $13.30 since May 1, 2026. The tipped rate sits at roughly 80% of the general rate, and the 8% tip attribution rule plus the TP-1086.R.1-V filing in February mean a Quebec owner has three wage-and-tip numbers to get right, not one. All three depend on the same sales record your POS is already keeping for WEB-SRM.<\/p>\n<p>For an illustrative team of 12 at minimum, the raise alone is about $8,800 a year before employer contributions, landing on a sector where the ARQ counts 423 bankruptcies in 2024 and where Restaurants Canada counted 44% of Canadian operators finishing 2025 at break-even or worse. You cannot change the rate. You can change how many paid hours it takes to run a service, and you can only do that if you can see labour against sales while the shift is still happening.<\/p>\n<p>Know your labour cost per shift, every day. Whether you run a bistro on the Plateau, a family room in Laval, a lunch counter in Vieux-Hull or a terrasse in Saint-Roch, our Montreal team can show you what that looks like on your own numbers. <a href=\"https:\/\/gosnappy.io\/contact-us.html\">Talk to our team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is general information for restaurant operators. It is not tax, accounting or legal advice. 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