Pooy ...since our talk this morning been doing figures ..... the consequences are a bit too scary to keep avoiding ...when I left the wages expenditure for the restaurant was approx 125k (Op at 7k) plus your allowance say 7k (phones, diesel etc etc) making 132 plus elec etc making about 155k lowest total monthly expenditure which equates to approx 5300 per day meaning to be generous then you need to take over 10k every day from sales to break even .....................you now have a new cook (say15) and helper (say10) , have lost Op but still have Nui so I have calculated the new figures at over 170k which is about 6k per day needing to take (from customers) every night over 12000 bt.....which means also taking a 100,000 per week on average over the course of a whole year without any income for yourself........why would anybody want to do that.....to survive with such a workforce who spend so much time sitting around it is necessary to reduce their hours as soon as possible and if it means that on a few days (about 8 in a month) it is not possible before 4pm to do a steak for a falang then so be it. (in the example below this would only occur if someone wanted a falang meal on monday (day off anyway) and on only 2 other days between 11am-4pm))......................the following example will only reduce the monthly wage by a little over 20k (by about 24k if the 9 finish below is added)but its a start............. the days off are not correct and are changeable also you will see the second helper is not included in these calculations so before 4 there is 1 cook teams (2 people)plus an extra helper every day............ days off have to be worked out carefully