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Please list anything in the above post that is selling, and what is it that I'm selling.

I'm telling you FACTS. If your worker's comp is 32% then adjust the figures above.

If you pay $40,000 to your crew leader then you pay $12,800 in worker's comp. In effect you really pay him $27,200 ($13.08/hr).

Your helper gets $35,000 and you pay in for worker's comp. $11,200 so he gets $23,800 ($11.44/hr).

Not to mention your California worker's get six weeks (240 hours) of paid family leave per year. That means that your crew leader will cost you $3139.20 per year, not to mention 6 weeks of down time. (or he can take 1 day every week for 30 weeks).

Your helper will cost you $2745.60 per year and his lost productivity per year as well.

The point I'm making David is this: Your crew has to be efficient in order to make your company money. You must have several crews cleaning several restaurants a day.

I'm not the one selling a one man cleaning crew. It was being done before we came along. It is being done by people that we've never met. It's being done by people that we haven't trained. It's being done, because it's a means of controlling costs and still providing a high quality job.

Now, obviously you enjoy paying 32% worker's comp, 7.5% Fica Taxes + whatever benefits that you provide on top of 6 weeks of paid family leave.

PS. Notice, no sig file is attached. The only thing I'm selling is the truth. Your threats to edit my posts or delete them doesn't stop me from telling the truth.

Rusty
 
A McDonalds manager would make a higher percent if he cooked and sold his burgers. This isn’t rocket science, if you have plans to grow you must have a employee ethic. I for one at 58 have no desire to work on system each night. I pay my managers well and I expect a good days work and I know the times that is expected. Both my GM and myself cut the cards.

In California with the high Workers Comp. rate the customer is requiring it, because the single non insured worker could and have come back on the customer.

Growth of any company depends on the owner and his KEY employees who share his vision and goals. If you wish to stay small-go for it. My company is a far from being large-we are able to compete because we are of the size that we can contend for any job within the market of Northern California.


Happy Grease
 
Rusty,
You will take the 495 and go to the bank. That's the problem. You will do anything to get your money regardless of hood cleaners ethics. Money money and money. We all are in for the money but if we sacrifice our professions at any cost, I am afraid this profession will not pay off anymore. Like I said earlier, at this rythm, one will be forced to hire illegal and non trained employees to clean for $5/Hr. Would you be happy, someone else cut your throat for less than you are currently charging your customers. One of my goal is to value my job.
 
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I think you misunderstand my post. I said that a hood cleaner could do it for $495. We usually charge $1000- $2000 for a multi hood Japanese restaurant. We have several that we clean currently for this price.

My point was, an average person may work 40 hours and earn $500 for the week. Here, we, complain because somebody had the audacity to only charge $495 for 6 hours worth of work.

Rusty
 
Good point! You get some soup!!!!
 
I guess I have gotten used to the on eman system. I can see the advantages and disadvantages of both systems. I enjoy my work and am glad to be self employed.

In reference to the question I asked earlier abaout " How long it takes and what you charge for a 2 hood 10 filter job", one floor, freestanding building. I am just comparing Tennessee prices to Californias. It takes me 3 hours and I get $275 for it. Do you wrap the hoods with plastic and funnel it into a trash can? Or let it hit the floor, equipment etc. then clean it all up. Just curiouse.
 
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Still it depends-we hang with plastic and we drop to the floor. Depends on the job. If you have good floor drains and the hoods are hard to drape-then drop to the drain.

California price would be around $90-100 per hour.

David
 
Sounds about like the same price to me, if the time is about the same. How long would that job take you?
 
$300 plus is not the same as $275. I might bill the accout $350 and have a 3 man crew complete it in 2hr. plus-it just depends on lots of issues. Even the second job or the placement of this job might even play into the price up or down.
 
Oh well at least I have an idea how long it would take. If I can do it in 3 hours and save the money for there labor then thats more in my pocket. Not much difference in the time.
 
Great use one man!
 
I have found a couple of companies that use the "No Man" approach. Just put a sticker on the hood and call it clean. This saves time and labor cost, but is not very effective on grease removal. :p
 
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