Wednesday 30th July A quiet morning. Bentley the Basset Hound is walked and I am at my desk for just before 8.30am. Notes are made for Johanna for the day, relief is still tight and we advise that availability is poor from now until middle of August at which point there are a few chefs coming available. So far at 12.15 Johanna has knocked out three relief jobs. Tomorrow is also the month end which entails statements being produced, again Johanna is working at that along with our invoices man Ian who comes in a few evenings a week and I am owe at fiver to having borrowed said money from him last night at the local Proudfoot Club where we had a committee meeting. In my defence I did buy him a can of cider and myself a nice bunnahabhain malt whisky for a snip at £2. I drank it with ice as is my wont. The production of invoices, credit control and monthly statements plays a reasonable part of our business. We are fortunate that our accountant looks after payroll which is mainly for those in the office and some chefs at a quarry over by Oban who are on our payroll also for some reason! Notes are then made for Callum Graham, our seasonal summer helper who has stayed on quite a long time whilst we recruit for a chef recruiter to make up our team again. Callum downloads applicants for a variety of jobs, I check them with him, he answers the busy phones, calls chefs re jobs and spends a good time taking references. He is also setting us up on Skype as we move steadily into the 21st century. The relief database is checked. The Chefs In Scotland bank account is checked and corresponding invoices are marked as paid with luck in our exel spreadsheet. Sometimes the amounts paid do not quite match the amount on the spreadsheet. Hey Ho. The Stock Exchange is checked to see how the small portfolio of shares is doing today. Anglo American, Berkeley Mineral Resources, Infinis, Iomart, RBS, William Hill (from whose website I am self-banned) and Vodafone. Emails are done, accounts email them my own email to reply and make appropriate plan of action. Print and update daily vacancies. These are the permanent jobs that we are proactively looking for fill. Three copies, one for each of us in the kitchen. Plan of action for the day. This involves today writing a brief letter for the lady who is going to stay at the Chefs In Scotland Cottage from Friday with her husband and two dogs, over in Crocketford on the other side of Dumfries. Chasing up chefs regarding interviews and doing a search for a job which we have been asked to look for at Baxters In Fochabers over by Aberdeen, result so far is one candidate submitted with two references. A 27 year old man who is ready and available for work. Next up is a bowl of home-made lentil soup and start working on our current quarter’s turnover which will be complete as of 5pm tomorrow. 4 people are tied in to bonuses on that. I like arithmetic. All in all a quiet life.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:31:31 +0000
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