Pittsburgh Virtual Tip Jar Help Support Service Industry Workers

Give Someone a Tip

Many of us would regularly be patronizing bars, salons, restaurants, and other businesses that have been ordered closed. Even if you are socially isolating, you can help to support our local service industry staff. Consider sending a "tip" to your favorite bartender, server, stylist, aesthetician. Use the form linked below to find their Venmo/Paypal info. Note that you can find service industry workers using the drop-down menu to select a place of business, or choose to have any number of entries randomly selected to send tips to. If you don't see your favorite service industry folks listed, encourage them to come and fill out the form (see below). Please circulate widely.



The information on this list is self-reported by members of the community and this information is provided "as is". The Center for Ethics and Policy does not monitor or verify accuracy of the information on this list, and makes no representations or warranties regarding this list. Individuals who wish to send a tip are encouraged to independently verify the legitimacy of the recipient of the tip.

Get On the List

The city of Pittsburgh has ordered all bars, restaurants, and other non-essential businesses to shutter. Many of our friends and neighbors depend on tips to make ends meet. This virtual tip jar is for local service industry staff - employees at bars, restaurants, salons, etc - to post your Venmo or Paypal information so that customers, neighbors, and Pittsburgh community members can continue to support you. Please note: Any information you share will be made publicly available.

For a comprehensive, community-generated list of other resources around Pittsburgh for support during COVID, click here

Other community Virtual Tip Jars

Want to do this in your city or help build infrastructure to support this work?

To replicate a quick-and-dirty version of this project for your city, click Here

To contribute to work in progress on the open source project building better UX for these virtual tip jars, email: tipyourserver [at] therabble.co

To remove your information from the list, email: pghtipjar [at] gmail.com