I don’t understand this policy. A employee is allowed one discounted meal a day. What difference does it make if it’s given to a friend or family member? Either way, one discounted meal is provided. If the employee wants to skip a meal it’s not costing Taco Bell anything.
I had a job that restricted us from being seen on break. My boss felt it reflected badly on the store for customers to see employees sitting around. We left on lunch breaks or sat in the dingy break room.
Well, $5.50 might be chump change to you, but but it’s a half-hour’s worth of work here. So laugh all you want, but for the kids working for minimum wage there, $2 makes a huge difference from $5.50.
The benefit is for employees. It’s no different from providing any other benefit. Only employees can have money put into their Taco Bell 401(k). Only employees are covered by their life insurance.
If they make a plausible reason for staff to be walking off with product, then people could be robbing you blind, dontcha think? If no one sees what goes in the bag? And they eat it off premise?
It’d be too easy for the others to say, ‘He said it was for his sister!’ No Take Aways isn’t uncommon in the industry, for this reason.
I worked at a well known pizza place in high school. We made every variation of pizza we could think of. After a while it got boring. So one night we had a competitor’s pizza delivered. It was delicious.
Once while I was waiting in line at my favorite burrito place, I overheard one of the staff placing a call to some other carry-out place (I think it might have been pizza), suggesting a trade for lunch. And hey, the burrito place provides lunch for six, the pizza place provides lunch for six, why should they care that it’s not the same six that are working there?
Was that meant for a different thread? I think we’re talking about a corporate policy, here, not a legal decision.
Ah, I missed that. In that case, I’d say that the Taco Bell policy might well be a stupid policy (I could see more debate on that), but that there’s no law that says that companies aren’t allowed to have stupid policies, and so a court siding with the company would be correct.
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Oh, and I hadn’t noticed that this thread was in CS. Corporate policies are not an art form. Moving to… hm. It looks like it’s mostly “what do you think about this policy”, so I guess that’d be IMHO.
In the 80s when I worked there we got one free meal as long as we ate it on break. We could leave but it was one meal which was I believe at the time something like a taco/burrito, frijoles, and cinnamon crispas with a medium Pepsi product. I got written up once for bringing in a canned drink that wasn’t a Pepsi product. That to me is far more ridiculous than forcing someone to eat their discounted meal in the building.
be still my heart. The boss is just to generous. LOL