Working in restaurant, bring own float?

Veawen

I have decided to look for other jobs whilst keeping this one as I do need the money. But definitely not staying there for that money ph, with providing my own float, with other things I figured out yesterday. Poor communication from management.

rockiedog

I would like to know what company the OP works for?
Probably PH or Ns??

Elvisia

Is it possible the restaurant isn't part of the chain but is a franchise, in which case it may just be something that manager decided to do, rather than a chain policy. Might be worth asking someone at head office?

lemontart

Not your place to provide float at all it is theirs he is taking the pith to say the lease.

CKhalvashi

ohreally wrote: »

Why do you feel it necessary to burden your staff especially when in the past you've hinted the business is profitable.


http://www.fuelgenie.co.uk/info/homepage.aspx

Because most of them are overpaid anyway, and I like to keep money in the bank for as long as possible.

90% of those who claim back fuel get a free (apart from HMRC tax), fully insured and fully fuelled car from us, and most take it abroad at least once a year on personal, so I don't feel it's too unreasonable.

CK

nickcc

lemontart wrote: »

Not your place to provide float at all it is theirs he is taking the pith to say the lease.

Unfortunately no float no job. Grandson just started his first job (whilst doing a three day a week college course) in a large restaurant chain, waiting on tables and cleaning toilets part of the job. Daughter (and ourselves) think that this is just what he needs to help him grow up. I started work at 14 as a trainee mechanic, hard work but if you were prepared to do what was asked of you the benefits far exceeded your original expectations.

ash28

jtr2803 wrote: »

Very much the case in my experience too, even in local government where more often than not, expenses would take almost two months to be paid.

I work for a large company now and we only pay expenses monthly by BACS. It would be impossible for us to pay within 7-14 days, it would mean multiple BACS runs and would tie up most managers time with claim checking and authorisation.

This thread is the first time I have ever heard of payments being made on an almost instant basis.

The comment about company credit cards also made me smile, hell would freeze over in our company before company credit cards were issued!!

I've worked for 2 very large companies and both paid expenses separate to salary.

Both paid expenses weekly - have your claim in by Tuesday lunchtime and expenses paid on Friday.

Why should it be the accepted norm that employees have to wait, sometimes 6 weeks for the return of money they have spent on the company's behalf. To say it's not possible to pay within the week just isn't true.

I have also had a company credit card - rather a charge card - American Express and you could choose to have the bill sent directly to the company or to yourself and claim through expenses in the normal way.

I've never heard of employees having to provide their own float before with the exception of bus drivers/conductors. I imagine with the plethora of "correct change only" buses a float becomes largely unnecessary.

For me it would depend on the what the float was for and how much the employee had to provide.

Pizza delivery or similar would be acceptable other than that type of work I can't see the need for it, as surely money goes through the tills which should be provided with a float.

rjhammond91

I work in a restaurant which is part of a large restaurant chain and we don't need to provide our own float. We are given moneybelts at the start of our shift and when we need to get change we change up the money in the till which then gives us a float.

Not sure if it's "illegal" for them to ask you to provide your own float or not, but doesn't sound right to me.