No yawning, swearing or stretching if you work at this restaurant – unless you want to be fined up HKD20, according to a photo posted to a Facebook group for Hong Kong restaurant workers.

The photo shows a list of offences and their corresponding fines for staff who work at Lei Garden restaurant in Sha Tin, reports the SCMP. The list is dated May 2013.

The menu of banned behaviours includes using toothpicks and cutting their fingernails, which indeed would be pretty unappetizing to see, but it makes us wonder how often staff were grooming during work hours to begin with…

If you’re a chef and you cook up a bigger portion than normal, you’re fined HKD100. A supervisor who fails to accurately inform a customer the price of a dish is fined HKD50. When your manager complains about you, that would cost you HKD100.

It is illegal for employers to deduct their employees’ wages for making a mistake.

And the fine that the government can impose on companies that commit such an offense? Up to HKD100,000 and one year’s jail. Sounds about fair.

Photo: Lei Garden

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