Staff Meals & Employee Purchases
Staff meal consumption through recipes, cash payments, salary deductions, employee price rules, and balance limit validation.
Staff Meals vs Employee Purchases
Staff Meals & Employee Purchases can be created by the Owner, Branch Manager, or Host.
Staff Meal: Consumes raw inventory ingredients according to standard recipe definitions. A Staff Meal is an operational meal allocation and is NOT a salary deduction.
Employee Purchase Pricing Rule: If an Employee Price Override exists on the menu item, it takes priority. If it is blank, the general Employee Purchase pricing rule configured in Staff Settings applies (Staff Settings may define the employee purchasing pricing method / margin). Do not default automatically to normal customer selling price unless the configured rule results in that.
Employee Purchase Settlement Methods:
• Cash: Recorded for financial and history tracking only; does NOT create any Payroll deduction.
• Deduct from Salary: Allowed only when the employee's current accrued salary balance is sufficient to cover the purchase amount. The deduction is recorded in the applicable payroll period where the transaction occurred.
Violation Deductions and Salary Purchase Deductions are tracked strictly as separate line items.
Salary Balance Sufficiency Enforcement
Salary-deducted staff purchases will not execute if the employee has insufficient accrued compensation to cover the cost.
Related Documentation Guides
Linking menu dishes to raw inventory items, specifying exact measurements for stock deduction.
Configuring raw material items, supported measurement units, low-stock alert thresholds, and cost per unit.
Hourly, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly pay types; attendance tracking, and Owner compensation calculations.