She never did get her cousin’s till to do anything more than hold money and count the day’s takings and eventually bought the cheapest modern system she could find. It had a barcode scanner and stock control application built in and she was forced to admit that she should have bought one in the first place. She never would say whether she got her money back from her cousin or not, but hinted that she had made a loan of it to him.
Once the residents had moved into the hotel, which they did a floor at a time, there had to be a receptionist on duty twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Lek could cover her job from the shop with the aid of a security camera pointed down the lobby from behind the desk while she was working, but they had to hire people to cover the night shift. Their solu
