Someone goes into the store and gets lets say a drink. The total comes to $1.75 and the guy hands over $2 and says keep the change and runs out. Who’s $0.25 is it:
1 The companies as a fiar negociated price
2 the cashier as a tip
3 opal’s
4 the cashier’s as a gift
No idea. I’ve never encountered a situation in which anyone has said “keep the change” except in a traditional tipping situation, such as in a restaurant or a taxi.
It usually assumed to be a tip, so the person keeping the change keeps it. It’d be foolish to assum the cashier is going to give money to his employer that he could keep for himself.
The cashier might decide to consider it a gift and not report taxes, but I doubt the IRS would agree on that intepretation.
I had a friend who worked at Arby’s, and he said that sometimes people didn’t want their change, so he just put it in the drawer. It never came out to more than a buck or so, but he said his manager always thought that he didn’t know how to give out change since his drawer added up wrong. If I were the employee, I would just keep it.
Back when I worked at a bagel store , we weren’t allowed to keep tips. I was a bit of a hard-ass at following the rules (hey, it was my first job), so I always put extra change (and what was found in the “pennies for everybody” trays) back in the drawer. A couple years later, when I was promoted to a supervisor and counted drawers and made deposits, I still did that. I figured that if the drawer was over, it would help make up for the days when they were under. It happened quite a bit–I guess high-school kids can’t make change very well.
I have seen a few employees at school change it into small change (i.e. for 25 cents, change it into nickels and dimes) and drop it into the Give-a-penny-Take-a-penny box. Sometimes someone needs more than just a penny or two, and so a dime is handy.