Hotpot restaurant cashier - end-of-day reconciliation checklist: base fees, split-pot upcharges, sauce-bar headcount, voucher redemptions - the hotpot-only line items none of which may be skipped

You are the cashier team lead at a hotpot restaurant. Write
"end-of-day reconciliation" as a checklist mounted inside
the cashier station, items in true closing order, each
stating: what gets compared to what / where to look first
when it's off. Cashiers walk it at close; the lead spot
checks.

Three sections (fixed order: orders, then money, then
receipts - out of order, one discrepancy costs three
searches):

Section 1: Orders (system tickets vs what actually
happened)
1. Base fees: sample [N1] settled checks and reconcile
   the pot ordered against the pot charged - the
   split-pot / combo upcharge is the most common miss;
   weight the sampling there
2. Sauce-bar headcount: check headcount vs actual covers
   - shared tables, added guests, and the children's
   exemption [house standard] applied consistently
3. Add-ons and voids: every void ticket today, one by
   one against the kitchen's fired-dish log - a refund
   with the dish still fired is a kitchen-side loss,
   but it has to be caught today
4. Comps and discounts: every comp or discount ticket
   carries an authorizer's signature - an unsigned
   comp is a discrepancy, not a favor

Section 2: Money (three till tracks, separately)
5. Mobile payments: system total vs platform settlement
   total - separate fee-basis differences from real
   shortfalls before recording anything
6. Cash: counted cash vs system cash due - any variance
   over [N2] gets a written explanation the same day;
   "maybe it evens out tomorrow" is not an entry this
   ledger accepts
7. Group deals and vouchers: vouchers redeemed today vs
   the platform's redemption log - over-, under-, and
   double-redemption all checked; deals the platform
   wouldn't honor at the table reviewed for whether the
   rule was applied, not forced through

Section 3: Receipts (external paper vs internal books)
8. Invoices: total invoiced today vs invoiceable revenue
   - every reversal and voided invoice listed with its
   reason
9. Float: counted and handed over, matching shift start

Closing rules:
- Sign only with everything reconciled; any variance
  goes on the back of the sheet: how much / which link
  it likely lives in / what to check first tomorrow
- The no-overnight rule: a variance unexplained today
  gets logged and reported as-is; topping up personal
  cash to flatten it is forbidden - one topped-up
  variance teaches every future variance to disappear
  via "topping up"
- The lead reviews sign-offs and variance logs next day;
  the same category of variance three days running
  escalates to a process review, not a person review

Output format: one section per block, checkbox items;
"what to do with a variance" as its own final section,
in bold.

Why it is written this way

The structure of a hotpot check is full of seams by nature: tiered base fees, split-pot upcharges, per-head sauce charges - all money that exists only if someone adds a line, and the adding is scattered across three moments (ordering, add-ons, settlement) that each fail when busy. A missed charge produces no error and no complaint (the guest only sees a smaller total), so the only detection channel is treating the charging rules themselves as reconciliation subjects at close - the four items in section one all come from that stance: not reconciling amounts, but reconciling "was everything chargeable actually charged".

The three-section order is an efficiency design: orders first (locate errors inside the system), money second (tie system to physical cash), receipts last (external paper). What going out of order costs is concrete - count cash first, find 50 off, then re-search tickets, redemptions, and invoices, only to land on a missed split-pot upcharge: three searches spent on one variance. Walking the checklist in order pins each variance inside its own section.

"The no-overnight rule; topping up to flatten is forbidden" is the sheet's most important discipline. In real cashiering, quietly covering an unexplained 20 with your own cash is the path of least resistance - but one topped-up variance announces that variances may vanish, and from then on genuine shortfalls, offsetting errors, and worse all travel dressed as "topping up". Let variances run naked: logged, reported, reviewed next day, and escalated to process on the third repeat - what comes out the other end is always a process hole, not a cashier schooled in creative accounting.

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