I suggest closing Wednesday and getting your area set up. Make sure it's well stocked(Don't want to spend your time when you come in stocking syrups, cups, and sleeves), pull the two day pastries, I'm bring out new steaming pitchers and blenders, make sure you have milk stocked.
Any hours worked on Thanksgiving don't count towards overtime. You can work up to 40 hours for the other 6 days, plus however much you want on Thanksgiving. This goes for any holiday where you get holiday pay. One time I worked 54 hours in a week without getting OT - 40 hours, plus 14 hours on Memorial Day. I'm working 50.50 hours for the week of Thanksgiving this year. All of my Thanksgiving openers for Starbucks and Food Ave are also working on Black Friday, some of whom are working more than 40 hours.
Regardless they still have to approve OT for me because everyone is basically maxed out and I still needed to schedule people for Saturday :/
How much are you overspending on payroll? We still get the same amount of hours as a normal week (though I'm spending about 10% more). I actually had to give some of my team some cashier shifts just to get them to a 5th shift that week. Then again, this is the first time in 6 months that I've been fully staffed.
Sounds about right. This will be my 4th consecutive year of opening Thanksgiving and closing Black Friday. But this will probably be the first where I have Saturday off.
Good thing it is saved forever in my quote!
