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[Nightowlz]

DH picked up a pound each of smoked turkey breast & brisket this weekend at the BBQ place. The bill was $36.05. He gave the cashier $40. I guess she entered $36 instead of $36.05 so she told DH she would have to see if she could figure out how much change to give him. LOL!!! He told her $3.95 so she says ok $3.95 I'm glad someone around here can add. It's really sad she could not figure it out.

[Desertdi]

Modern cash registers SHOW the amount of change to give the customer

[GCR18]

It's sad.  I had a bill for $6.25 and gave the cashier $11.25 because I wanted a $5 bill back.  It totally confused the cashier.  She gave me back the single, then 4 ones.

[luv-the-Q]

They do not teach how to count back change in school anymore.  That was one of the first things we learned.  When all this technology goes, and it will, we are sunk.

[hckynut]

Yes I can, and mostly in my head, with rounded out numbers like-10-15-20 and so on. I became very proficient at this when I was 12 years old working at a drive-in restaurant.

Had to pass a timed and accuracy test with the boss to get this job. I was a car hop, but this particular job was working inside between the kitchen and ice cream/malts, coffee etc. area.

Car hops would bring in their tickets with orders marked on pre-printed menu sheets. I had to add them up in my head and write the cost on the ticket itself.

Then I had to get the ticket filled/get a tray/make sure that i loaded all proper food and drinks on the tray and bring it up to the cashier. Get 15-20 items on a ticket and be able to add them up in my head quickly so I could keep up with loading the trays and get the food out the door.

Too many mistakes and you lost that job and back to just being a car hop. I never got the boot and did pretty much every job in that restaurant from 7th grade through most of high school.  Not quite as good now, but better than most that want to challenge for fun.

hckynut(john)

[qualitygal]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

DH picked up a pound each of smoked turkey breast & brisket this weekend at the BBQ place. The bill was $36.05. He gave the cashier $40. I guess she entered $36 instead of $36.05 so she told DH she would have to see if she could figure out how much change to give him. LOL!!! He told her $3.95 so she says ok $3.95 I'm glad someone around here can add. It's really sad she could not figure it out.

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This is why I hate to get into some conversations with cashier's, so they can figure those sort of things out, if they can. Hopefully, if they can't they have a calculator handy. That's so scary.

[proudlyfromNJ]

No. Have never had a head for math. I call myself math challenged. Oh, and I am 68 so I guess it isn't always today's kids.

[Mominohio]

Learning how to figure the change for a purchase is so easy, but no one is taught how anymore.

I learned because when I first started working in fast food, there was no electronic register to figure it for you. 

I taught my kid, when we had garage sales, and when we worked the snack bar at the baseball field. 

[Nightowlz]

They need to stop using a calculator at school. As long as they enter the correct amount in the register they are ok.

I started working at 13 & had to be able to count change back.

Most of my working life I did bookkeeping so I can add.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Modern cash registers SHOW the amount of change to give the customer

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@Desertdi

Yes, they do ..... but that doesn't mean that cashiers shouldn't know how to make change!   lol