What are you all up to
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With some restaurants like Brio, dinner2go have accounts so that we do not have to pay on collection. In that situation the food is ordered in advance and we are given a time of when the food is ready for collection. However, there is no account with Macdonalds and KFC, so the food is not ordered until we get to the front of the queue. Then we have to order and pay for the food ourselves.
If it's a cash on delivery order, we get the money back from the customer. However, many customers pay dinner2go online. When that happens we have to claim reimbursement from dinner2go which is a slow process.
If the order is a cash on delivery with a restaurant where we do not pay on collection, dinner2go usually ask us to keep the cash to offset the amount they owe us.
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How about some photos of your handy work?
David
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Getting payment from dinner2go is the most frustrating aspect of this job. We often have to remind them twice if not three times of the amount due which includes delivery fees and the payments we have made mainly to kfc and Macdonalds. We have to keep receipts of all payments made for customer orders. We then have to add these up and submit the total to the boss. We do this every day after finishing our shift. Sometimes three to four days paperwork accumulate before they send the payment to us. During this time, we are financing their customer orders with our own money.
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The financials behind this all seem a bit strange. I can see how dinner to go make money out of the enterprise with those they have an account with, as there will be some dirt of kick back. However, at KFC and MD where you are ordering as a normal customer and just charging a delivery fee, which you keep. Where is the profit? Are the prices for the food on the dinner2go web site for these outlets inflated?
Anyway off for a swim before lunch at the leisure club. OH to gym as she does not do swimming. Personally I think it is safer, last time I went in the gym I slipped adjusting the saddle on one of the bikes and hurt my back. Water is a bit more forgiving.
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Had a look at the Dinner2Go web site - it's all slightly bizarre.
I cannot find a delivery charge anywhere, although it does mention that the minimum order is £10 excluding delivery charge.
It is all very unclear how you go about paying.
There are some very strange rules about when something is missing from your order - D2G take no responsibility for this, but will do their best to get the restaurant to provide the missing item - but you will have to pay for delivery....unless they decide to waiver the charge.
As for the delivery driver having to order the food and pay the restaurant.......???!!!
I noted the point Malcolm made about D2G letting the driver keep payments from customers as part of his delivery fees........tax fiddle or what!?
This organisation seems to break every employment and tax law going.....not an organisation that I'd want to be associated with at all.
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What a lovely day once again, that's 4 days in a row now
Mum sat out in the garden yesterday for lunch and caught a bit of sun, she was all glowing when I took her back to the home, she really enjoyed her day out. With the good weather I've been out in the garden for most of the day but oh boy do I ache, garden is starting to look tidy though, this is the first opportunity I've had as its been way too wet and muddy to try and attempt anything. Think I will look at hiring a scarifier the grass is full of dead grass and moss.
Need to get off here and get on with some more work, can't waste this nice weather it could be snowing tomorrow
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Photos? That might be a step too far for me on here!!
Just imagine individual boxes, melamine faced chipboard base, sides and back, thick hardboard top, each with a drawer inside them. Drawer kit has runners and sides, then you make your own back and base, so they can be whatever width you need.
Each box (pod) sits between the legs that support the base unit above, and pushes back against the wall and fits behind the line of the existing plinth.
If you google plinth pod or plinth drawer, you can see various different designs.
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On KFC and Macdonalds orders, dinner2go charge a higher price on each item.
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she is having these handles inset into the top edge of the drawer front, not the push to open/close idea.
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Outside - more slurry spreading and rolling.
Inside - several roles, including
Farm secretary - lot of calls/emails to deal with
Cook (meat and veggie meals for dinner)
Baker - cake tins are empty
Media person - sorting and scanning old photos of farmlife in days of old.
Cook - what shall we have for supper?
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Just sitting in the garden having eaten all fresco lunch. Returned from a great R&R break where the thermometer hit 19cin the sun but it didn't allow for the very stuff continual northeasterly wind which rocked us for our entire stay! Walked along the sea wall almost to the see but the wind was a devil. Met a young lady who was walking the coast she'd started from St Peters Bradwell when we met her a couple on miles off of Burnham on Crouch, just her and her dog Oscar. Had done 2500 miles so far but had3 months officer the winter, restarting from Sheringham earlier this month. I have her webpages details which I'll dig out later. Washing get on and with the lighter evenings I'm hoping get to get both loads washed and dried today.
Hope everyone had a lovely mothers day. I heardfromboth my two my son rang at 8.05am NEW time 😲. We had some great walk around the fields probably longer than it might if been as I'd memorised the route and it was a bit hazy towards the end LOL. Watched the hen harrier and the short-eared owl from the comfort of the motorhome. Didn't see the barn owl this time. But lots of skylarks and hares.
Milliehull I hope your granddaughters reading went well.
Helenandtrevor glad you had a good break and visit to son.
Tammygirl good to have you back. Sorry about the wind but got an idea of how that must be, aren't Canaries renown for wind?
KjellNN love the idea of pods in the plinths I'm all for good storage and making use of every inch. However curious as to what she'll store in there? Plus access only for the agile 😉.
Answerphone message from window chap, oppps meant to text him while we were away. New units going in tomorrow - that means last of window cleaning 😲.
Hitting the ground running as usual 😂😂😂
Malcolm the more I have to read about your job the more bizzaire it seems. No wonder he has trouble getting drivers- I think he needs investigating by so many authorises not least HMRC. I know that answer so don't worry about a reply - I presume your subsidy is interest free too. Great work if you can get it 🤔
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After a dull start, it's brightened up a bit this afternoon.
I cut the grass today, after having serviced the lawnmower yesterday (I asked a local lawnmower dealer how much it would be for a service and he said a figure that startled me - over £100!!). Not that hard to change the oil, clean the air filter, clean and re-gap the spark plug, sharpen the blade up a bit and give it a good clean. It's now running better than ever.
Then I washed the front of the caravan. The birds have been having a field-day relieving themselves from the tree above.
Mrs H has been doing industrial quantities of washing, after our three weeks away.
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IanH sorry forgot to mention you in despatches 🤔. Glad you had a good time. I hope Mrs H manages all the laundry hopefully soon be dry and ready for the next stage. Cut our grass before we went away 5 days ago will need another before too long. Hubby just finished removing duck weed from the pond. He reckons it's therapeutic 😆 we've just had 5 days R&R wondering what it says about my company 😂😂
As an aside I noticed as I 2as typing my previous missive the p at the bottom said p scan. Who knows? Who cares?
Sitting enjoying the sun waiting for next load of washing to finish. Bliss. Having a bit of a catch up on here but lots to go as had to stop using mobile data for trivia so could message with daughter. I needed have been quite to tight with it but you never know!
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B2........I am also interested to see what she puts in the drawers!
However my role is just to carry out the work, not to question anything!
Certainly it will not be anything tall as the headroom in the drawers is only about 10cm. I would think probably things like baking trays and possibly tins (of food) ....taller tins could be stored on their sides.
She has a lot of baking stuff as her hobby is making wedding and birthday cakes, and she has stuff stored in her utility room and loft even though she has quite a large kitchen, so was desperate for more space.
As the drawers are fully enclosed, they should be reasonably dust free, and as the runners are fully extending, they come all the way out for easy access. There is no getting away from the fact they are low down, but she is young and fit.
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Like TG, this is our 4th dry and sunny day in a row. Did a bit of gardening this morning, muscles we did not know we had are now aching!
After weeding at the front, OH had me dig up and move a large hardy geranium that was taking over a raised bed, it has now been banished to a bare patch round the back.
There is a lot needing done out there, and little time now in which to do it before we go away, so if we are to be able to see the house on our return we will need to call on our occasional gardener to come in while we are away.
OH used to look after the whole garden herself, I am not a particularly keen gardener, but in the last few years, especially after 2 broken shoulders, her gardening has been severely curtailed.
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Lovely day spent in Cornwall at Caerhays Castle and beach. Stunning spring plants and trees. Got to go home early, one of our old dogs not too good.
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Another lovely day ,we walked into town, spring has really sprung, all the flowering ornamental trees that are planted on all our grass verges in blossom,took some redundant electric items into charity shop, bit of shopping then got some sandwiches and drinks from M&S for lunch and sat by fountain, then walked home again, its just a mile each way
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Brue from an earlier post it sounded like you too suffered strong winds. We had them all 5 days we were away. Luckily blowing hard when we arrived so parked shortest end to the wind. We still rocked most nights and days. We left today, wind eased to nothing overnight, a joy, but we had thick mist and it didn't lift until 1030 plus as no breeze 😂. I don't envy you we've lost several hours wondering if well be the same way up in he morning 😲. Our first trip out we were parked beside a river on a C&CC site made hubby join me in the facilities building for good few hours. Didn't put us off though we also woke to 5 inches of snow on the same trip. Baptism of fire 😂😲😂. I laugh now 😉
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I can't believe how much greener the bushes on the roadside were in just five days. My favourite time of the year. Full of hope and promise. 😆 garden is looking beautiful even if I say so myself. Sun just dipping behind trees as it's still lowish in the sky so going to ajourn indoors very soon as sun is warm but air is cool.
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brue, sorry to hear that one of your old dogs is not so good. Hope he/she will be better soon.
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Wow that's good for you. We've had rain a bit Wednesday and lots Thursday where we were 20 miles from home. Just checked our water butts delighted to say full again but ground still dry as we had winds at home too.
Hard work gardening as much as i love it. I often wonder when I watch escape to the country when a newly retired couple ask for large house big garden or a couple of acres how they'll manage down the line, especially if they've only ever had small flat or house and garden. I'd be looking for less cleaning and borrowed views 😆 how else do you get away in the van?
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As our time at home is quite restricted, by the call of the c/van
, a big house and big garden are not on any agender for us,and where we live the older we get the more we appreciate our little house and little garden ,but we have good transport links including direct buses to two hospitals, doctors and shops 150yds away , that we will be able to use when less mobile or not driving,1
