Practical Grocer Volume 1; A Manual and Guide for the Grocer, the Provision Merchant and Allied Trades (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...books have to correspond with the totals on the sheet, and the whole amount to balance with the cash in the till minus the amount which the cashier started with as change in the morning. In businesses where the bulk of the trade is of a credit description, and where there are sometimes as many as iooo accounts every week to be made up, the office of clerk is separate from that of cashier, and there is perhaps more than one clerk in the office. Their duties, however, are sufficiently obvious from what has been said. Besides the counter and office staffs, there are cellarmen, porters, and vanmen. The duty of the cellarmen is to receive cellarmen, heavy goods as they arrive from the wholesale houses. Porters, &c. tQ check them and put them in their places, to keep the cellar, warehouse, and stock-rooms in order, carefully noting in a book kept for the purpose any lines which are running low. Their duty also extends to assisting in mixing tea, roasting and grinding coffee, and in filling bins, canisters, and drawers in the shop, cleaning fruit, and all the various details involved in preparing much of the stock for sale. In those businesses where wine and beer bottling is done on the premises, the cellarmen also have this important work confided to them. The primary work of the porters and vanmen consists in delivering goods, the former by hand and the latter by means of the van and horse. The porters arrive in good time in the morning to open shop, push up the shutters and take down the more modern gates, and then proceed to sweep the floor, clean the glass of windows and doors, polish the brass-work, scrub the provision counter under the direction of the provision hand, and then take out the orders which have been received by post or were ordered overnigh...