Working in restaurant, bring own float?

System

It sounds like a dodgy way of covering shortfalls. You pay the owner for what was bought and if tou have less float than you started with then its your problem.

Saves owner tring to take any shortfalls from your pay

Very sneaky.

Jomo

You'd think the employer would have put more effort in explaining this to the new employee. In this instance it doesn't appear to be the case.

Also, I would think it more appropriate to supply the float to new employees for at least the first week or until they had received their first wage.

C_Mababejive

If i were you ,i'd also nip into the butchers on the way and buy a huge tray of best fillet and if you can manage it,a 50Kg sack of spuds from the greengrocers. This joker is taking the p*ss. He wants you to operate a float so that shortfalls are yours and not his.

Jomo

C_Mababejive wrote: »

If i were you ,i'd also nip into the butchers on the way and buy a huge tray of best fillet and if you can manage it,a 50Kg sack of spuds from the greengrocers. This joker is taking the p*ss. He wants you to operate a float so that shortfalls are yours and not his.

On the other hand it encourages employees to be more aware as mistakes will ultimately cost them.

Placing this sort of responsibility on an employee isn't necessarily a bad thing, it is just an incentive to perform better (as commission is for sales staff).

custardy

man years in catering. never ever heard of such a thing

custardy

Jomo wrote: »

On the other hand it encourages employees to be more aware as mistakes will ultimately cost them.

Placing this sort of responsibility on an employee isn't necessarily a bad thing, it is just an incentive to perform better (as commission is for sales staff).

on the flip side. it makes staff putting and taking money out of the till a normal event.
So a few 'pocket transactions' could make it a nice little earner
plenty of places I have worked have a no personal money on you while on duty, for just such a reason

Jomo

custardy wrote: »

on the flip side. it makes staff putting and taking money out of the till a normal event.
So a few 'pocket transactions' could make it a nice little earner
plenty of places I have worked have a no personal money on you while on duty, for just such a reason

I've eaten in quite a few restaurants where moneybelts are the norm, tills do not come into it!

Russe11

Any tips you get go straight into your float :-)

pelirocco

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It's going to depend entirely on your contract.

My staff end up paying for fuel and parking, then get reimbursed at the end of the month, and there's something similar on many peoples contracts, in a variety of industries.

CK

Really? I wouldn't dream of waiting until the end of the month to reimburse my employees if they had to use their own money for company expenses , I feel very guilty if they even have to wait until the end of the day ! If they have had to buy fuel I transfer the money into their account as soon as the tell me .

Its not my employee's place to bankroll my company

agrinnall

pelirocco wrote: »

Really? I wouldn't dream of waiting until the end of the month to reimburse my employees if they had to use their own money for company expenses , I feel very guilty if they even have to wait until the end of the day ! If they have had to buy fuel I transfer the money into their account as soon as the tell me .

Its not my employee's place to bankroll my company

You must have a very small company if you can afford to spend time immediately processing staff expenses. Any organisation with more than a few employees will have a defined procedure, and I would normally expect that to involve a cut-off date each month by which time expense claims have to be submitted, and a later date when payment is made. A wait of up to 6 weeks to get expenses back would be quite usual.

Of course, if there are large or consistent expenses to be met then it might be sensible to issue employees incurring those expenses with a company credit card so that neither the company nor the employee is paying anything until the statement arrives.