Ok now kids, this one is kind of important. I’m really tired of you looking like complete incompetent morons when giving back change. It’s really very very simple.
First, the cash drawer setup.
Your drawer should be configured thusly: (from left to right) In the coin cubbies:
- Pennies
- Nickles
- Dimes
- Quarters
If you have 1 or 2 extra cubbies, use them for rubber bands or paper clips. Now the cash:
- Ones
- Fives
- Tens
- Twenties
Again, if you have extra slots, use it for credit card vouchers, coupons or checks. Bills larger than a $20 ALWAYS go under the drawer.
Now, when it comes time to give me, the customer, my change, you have to start by looking at the amount due. Let’s say that I purchase $17.37 worth of goods and give you a twenty.
STOP! Do not subtract! That takes too long and really, you aren’t that good at math. The object here is to work UP to that twenty, your goal to be to get to the next largest denomination until you reach your target. Using the example above:
- 3 pennies to get to next dime
- 1 dime to get to next quarter (.50 = .25×2)
- 2 quarters to get to the next dollar
- 2 dollars to get to the twenty
Get it? No? Ok, here is one more example. I just bought $2.12 worth of stuff and gave you a twenty:
- 3 pennies to get to the nickle (.15)
- 1 dime to get to the quarter (.25)
- 3 quarters to get to the dollar
- 2 dollars to get to the five
- 1 five to get to the ten
- 1 ten to get to the twenty
Simple right? Ok, now just do it! I mean, really, you high school kids picking through the drawer and the local fast food look like idiots and it is really starting to bother me. It’s not that hard!
Do you know someone that has change counting issues? Send them here and I’ll take care of them.
Thank you, as always, for you time.
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