billing for lunch?

hl_tree

hl_tree

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New Fairfield, CT
When I go out on a job that is being billed hourly I do not charge for the time I am on lunch break. When I hire cranes, the company does not charge me a half hour for lunch. The guy who I have been using for my bucket work on the other hand, he does charge me for lunch. How do you guys handle this?
 
Lunch break is like the word says a break from work and should not be charged to the client in any way.
If you take to long lunch breakes some companies will only take half a hour of the total and charge the rest of the time you let them relax longer ;-)

If you start billing for lunch breaks the less coffe you probably get ;-)

Keep it nice and fair and the customers will keep on coming and respect you even more and thats the foundation of a solid and professional company.
 
Maybe his hourly already factors in the subtraction for lunch over the day.

I've got a 62' WH short wheel base rear mount if you need it within a reasonable distance from my area, Matt.
 
We don't charge customers directly for lunch or other substantial breaks...in other words, if we stop work completely for lunch then that time is not "counted" when we work on an hourly basis.

That said, though, we often pay our guys for thier lunch break either as an incentive or because, even though they are eating, that time is not thiers; they are still on call. Consequently we do try to recover those costs.

In such cases thier lunch time costs are figured into our overall pricing analysis and built into our pricing model.

So, technically, we bill for lunch.

Clear as mud I suppose....

I suspect that your crane people and the others who don't directly bill for lunch have already factored lunch into thier hourly rates.

Your bucket guy is just more direct about it in obviously counting that time in the bill.
 
Here the hourly rate for an arborist isn't great and I think I can get a lunch each day without being paid for the time it costs. The overall efficienty off a good month work with a minimum ammount of waisted and uncovered time and work will do just enough to earn a descent living.

If companies will charge me for lunch that's probably the last time they did busisness with me. They hourly rate supposed to cover a lot of things, but you have to ask crazy prices to cover just everything. If there is enough left at the end of the month and you have had a lot of nice and enthousiast clients it is good as gold !

Enough is enough - more makes people less

Climb safe and have great lunch breaks ;-)
 
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We don't charge customers directly for lunch or other substantial breaks...in other words, if we stop work completely for lunch then that time is not "counted" when we work on an hourly basis.

That said, though, we often pay our guys for thier lunch break either as an incentive or because, even though they are eating, that time is not thiers; they are still on call. Consequently we do try to recover those costs.

In such cases thier lunch time costs are figured into our overall pricing analysis and built into our pricing model.

So, technically, we bill for lunch.

Clear as mud I suppose....

I suspect that your crane people and the others who don't directly bill for lunch have already factored lunch into thier hourly rates.

Your bucket guy is just more direct about it in obviously counting that time in the bill.

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My bucket guy raised his rates on me this spring, $15 per hour "just because I can." So that's a lot of the reason behind why I am starting to question his pricing in comparison to others.
 
I charge for lunch. I have never told anyone, and no one has ever asked. If you work hard, no one should ever question you taking a timeout to feed the beast.
My contractors tell me their rate, I don't question it. If I don't like the rate, I go elsewhere.
If I am contracting for someone, and they say "Make sure you take out half hour for lunch" then I do that, and I dont question it.

What im saying is. THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. My economics teacher would love that


Exception: a little old lady makes me deviled eggs and sandwiches and lemonade... probly not gonna charge her for lunch
 
Lunch, whats lunch? We generally eat as we work. I had a funny pic of our crane guy with half a baloney sandwich in his mouth and the other in his front shirt pocket haha. 1 guy on our crew doesn't eat lunch at all unless I'm buying..
 
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