Bojangles > Popeyes

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Hey ... she failed to follow the rules, multiple times. She violated corporate policy, multiple times.

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Those are awful policies that put employees in danger. I've had my share of retail and fast food type jobs, and I was always instructed to give the robber the money. Having an employee killed because you don't want to lose the money in your tills is terrible PR.

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Those are awful policies that put employees in danger. I've had my share of retail and fast food type jobs, and I was always instructed to give the robber the money. Having an employee killed because you don't want to lose the money in your tills is terrible PR.

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Listen ... on this one I am uniquely qualified on this board to comment. Some here know I made money in the restaurant business, not the least of which were a few Bojangles from SC to TX.

You have your cashiers dump their drawers regularly, especially of their $50 and $20, to prevent such things from happening.

Robbers park outside and count customers and count minutes between drops. They know when to hit your cashiers that way.

If we caught our cashiers not dropping their cash regularly, and not necessarily routinely but regularly ... we would either move them off the cash register or let them go.

This girl, as precious as she is and as pregnant as she is ... she had to go. She had been warned several times.

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More to the point, the restaurant will never contain as much money as what they would get sued for for endangering an employee and wrongful death or negligence. That payout would be 7 figures.

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Policy, and this has already been tested in the court system ... is that the less money you allow to accumulate in that drawer, the safer you are.

The issue here is not the fact that she gave the robber the money. Of course, we always instructed our people to never, not ever, try to be a hero. No amount of money is worth losing one of our employees. But you had to follow the rules. You had to drop the big bills frequently ... and most of our cashiers would take a moment and drop them in the safe as soon as they took them in.

That's the rules. They work. Every fast food franchise knows about'em.

I hate it for the little girl ... I hope she learns her lesson. It could have been much worse.

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No amount of money is worth losing one of our employees

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especially money that is not directly yours.

I'm a vegan, we talking chicken here? Because here in east Tennessee there's far more Bojangles than Popeyes.

Is $400 that much to have in a register?

You'd have to start with $200 or so in the register to start a shift. I'd guess $200 in sales is less than 30 minutes of sales during a rush.

Always depended on the store location.

You maintained a drawer based on location and shift. The bean counters made the determinations.

When I sold out to my cousin in Texas all but two of our stores were considered boutique stores .... meaning upper middle class districts where, at the time, debit and credit cards were far more prevelent than cash.

The average drawer 1st shift drawer was primed at $80.00 in cash, mostly fives and ones, and $120.00 in change.

Cashiers were allowed to keep one twenty from the take in the drawer, but they had to dump any twenty and above in the slot and they had to dump ten $10s at a time even if it was every fifteen minutes on third shift .... basically after dark and until closing.

If, after dark, a manager did a spot audit on your drawer and they caught you with more than $100.00 cash (paper) in your drawer ... you would be pulled off the register.

$100 is a lot of paper change. Three $10s, ten $5s, twenty $1s.

Rolled quarters, dimes, nickles and pennies were available from the spit and managers could dial-up small bills in change if needed .... it rarely was.

Many stores used to do drawer exchanges during rush hours and we had a few stores with four registers although we only had all four going during lunch time in daylight hours or weekend nights after ballgames.

Most stores shut down to one register after dark otherwise .... and many Wendy's have even gone to single registers 90% of the time.

Popeyes tended to operate in lower end districts and they had a much higher rate of armed robbery than any other franchise I can think of because of their market.

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Listen ... on this one I am uniquely qualified on this board to comment

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Is $400 that much to have in a register?

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It's not an unthinkable amount if they got popped with a rush. Most of my till experience was working at a Starbucks and it was rare to get that much in a till except on a weekend afternoon. People pay in cards and all $20s were dropped into a locked drop box. More often than dropping, I had to open the safe and add money to tills as a shift went on because of change on $20s. Baristas couldn't open tills, only a supervisor with keys.

All of this was in place to reduce the risk of robbery. I don't know Popeye's policies, but requiring drops is a common practice.