Breakfast shop cashier - the five-minute register opening checklist: float, volume, keys, receipt rolls, and price-board sync, every item with a pass standard

Generate a register-opening checklist for a breakfast shop cashier,
started 15 minutes before open, core items done in 5. Every item
tickable, with a pass standard; equipment items carry a "how to
open anyway when it's broken" fallback.

My store: scan-to-pay dominant (aggregated QR + register system),
cash roughly [10%] of tickets, one delivery-platform printer.

The checklist, in order:

1. Float
- Count into denomination slots: standard is "matches last
  night's close count," loaded into the divided tray and locked
- The key goes on the cashier's neck lanyard (a float that
  can't be found mid-rush equals no float)
- Fallback: this morning's count comes up short - open anyway,
  write the gap in the handover book, settle with the manager
  after close; do not audit last night's books on the spot

2. Payment speaker
- One live test: pay [one cent] from your own phone and listen
  - volume passes when "audible from the kitchen with the soy
  milk grinder running," not when the settings slider reads high
- Refund the cent immediately; both transactions noted in the
  day's remarks
- Fallback: speaker silent - mount the "please show your
  payment screen" sign at open, confirm arrivals in the phone's
  merchant view, report for repair after the rush

3. Register keys
- Dry-run every combo and repriced key (preview the price,
  don't settle it)
- Standard: every key changed last night gets tested; unchanged
  days get [3] spot checks
- Fallback: a key rings the wrong price - disable it, type the
  price manually, flag it with a sticky note, fix after close

4. Receipt rolls and printers
- Register roll: standard is "you can see the spindle" - no
  spindle visible means the last curl is running
- Delivery printer: one test ticket, legible
- Fallback: printer dead - watch delivery tickets in the
  platform app, hand-copy ticket numbers onto the pickup
  counter

5. Price board and repricing
- Today's price changes and temporary 86'd items: board and
  system reconciled one by one
- Standard: board, system, and (if applicable) the delivery
  platform all agree; any two disagreeing means sell at the
  lower price NOW and escalate to the manager
- Sellout notice: items known to run late (first tray behind)
  get their "available from X:00" sign hung in advance

6. Counter set
- Three bag sizes, cups, straws placed; one cloth, one hand
  sanitizer, fixed spots
- Change tray in the fixed right-hand slot (the spot is fixed
  so whoever covers your break can find it blind)

Constraints:
- No "check that equipment is working" - every item tickable
  yes or no
- Fallbacks must be executable as written, not "report for
  repair" and stop
- Fits half an A4 page, laminated, standing inside the register
  counter

Why it is written this way

Register problems have an asymmetry to them: found during setup they're all minor, surfacing mid-rush they're all incidents - the same silent speaker is a settings tweak at 6:15 and a crowd watching you dig through a phone at 7:20. The checklist's essence is moving the moment of discovery forward 65 minutes. The six items are ordered by blast radius: float and speaker first because either one paralyzes the whole line; counter placement last because it slows rather than stops.

The one-cent live test is the checklist's central standard: a volume-slider number doesn't equal audibility in a working room, and "audible from the kitchen with the grinder running" is the acceptance test of the actual environment - which incidentally walks the entire payment chain (scan, arrival, announcement, refund) end to end, covering more than any single-item check. Refund-and-note immediately keeps those two test transactions out of the evening's variance table - clear test traces spare the close-out two "unexplained" small amounts.

The fallbacks exist for the same reason as on the manager's opening checklist but from a different angle: the cashier is the one person who cannot leave her post to handle a problem mid-rush, so every fallback must be executable while continuing to trade - mount the sign, watch the merchant view, type the price, hand-copy the number. In the price-board item, "two disagree, sell at the lower price NOW" is the arbitration rule written in advance: when the posted price and the charged price conflict, the customer-favorable side always wins in the moment and the difference is chased later - what this protects isn't pocket change, it's the register's credibility with the whole line watching.

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