<prompt> Human: Hi everyone, hoping someone can provide some useful insight, tips or experience to help me help my dad!A bit of background, my parents live together, theyre in their 40s and I have a younger sibling in high school. My mother has a chronic illness meaning she struggles to help my dad with his job, or get a job elsewhere for that matter. They run a tiny 15ft x 7ft staff canteen by themselves, which only seats 30 at a time, so customer turnover rate is quite high takes 10 seconds to tend a customer, and they get about 10 minutes to eat. They feed around 100 heads twicethree times a day. In September I left home for University, and prior to leaving, any days I had in school where I had no lessons I would go work with him to relieve the pressure. But now Ive gone, hes really struggling and just looks like death incarnate.So the basic rundown of the canteen is that my dad does almost everything, he; Cooks everything Preps everything Learns and fixes most broken appliances because the kitchen is bottom of the list in the maintenance departments priorities Shops for all his produce Transports all produce on a daily basis Runs the financial side of the business Ensures he complies with food hygiene and operating regulationsThe only thing he doesnt do is the washing up, which my motherother employee does, but obviously with her chronic illness she struggles to keep up with the pace. Sometimes he has a part time employee in who does the washing up, but she has children so she doesnt get into work until 9:30 on the days shes in work because she has to take her kids to school, plus he really struggles to have enough money spare to pay staff.Money isnt necessarily an issue, but hes a contracted employee - therefore he gets a salary from the company and any staffing, stock or operation is his responsibilitycost, they simply provide him with a tiny kitchen bare in mind the size I mentioned earlier includes the worktops and appliances, so floor space is maybe 3ft wide by 15ft long and customers to feed. We arent in any debt, but we dont have any savings or fixed assets whatsoever car is on its last limb, costing 2000 a year to maintain, and we cant afford a new one.I must mention as well he only has two 8ft tall fridges to store his stock in, and a small chest freezer - one fridge for drinks and one for food - so the idea of buying in bulk and storing is not an option, the fridges are rammed with one day worth of stock. We cant buy in advance and get it delivered, unless we could save up to buy a chest fridgefreezer - but that would have to come out of our own pocket, and wed have to pay to run it ourselves.My dad has asked for the company to build a extension onto the kitchen so he can have more storage and prep area, but they said the kitchen runs well as it is, so a extension isnt necessary.Now, Ill give a brief rundown of my dads day-to-day life.TimeActivity:--:--5:00Wake Up, get ready5:30Call butchers and order meats6:00Drive to butchers and pick up meat7:00Arrive at work, unpack 12 bags of fooddrink and start prepping breakfast7:50Make up ordered toasties usually 108:00Have food ready Full English, enough to serve 100 heads8:05Smoke break8:15Service starts10:00Service ends, smoke break10:05start prepping lunch and cleaning up kitchen canteen from breakfast trays have to be soaked to remove greasefat so cant cook anything until 10:3012:00Finish lunch prep for 100 heads, restock drinks fridge12:15Service starts14:00Service finishes, clean up from lunch15:00Finished clean up, stock check and clean canteenkitchen.16:00sometimes he will have to stay to offer teacakecoffee if the workers have to stay later if not he is home at this time17:00After changing out of work clothes, picking my sibling up from her bus and walking our dog he gets ready to shop19:30Has gone to all supermarkets to get his stock for the next day20:00Showers and has a tiny portion of dinner, starts tallying up money owed from people on booking rather than cash payments21:00Finishes book keeping and relaxes22:00Spends some time with my sibling and helps her with homework23:00Goes to sleepAs you can imagine, this takes a toll on the system. He does this every weekday and shops on a Sunday so he has stock for a Monday. Hes done that for the past 7 years, and in that time has never had a sick-day, and only 4 weeks of cumulative holiday excluding Saturday. Hes lost 4 stone since he started, hes a 6ft man who weighs 10st. His blood pressure is through the roof, he eats one tiny portion of dinner a day and keeps awake on lots of coffee and sugary snacks.Im personally into fitness and health, so I try to introduce him to healthy foods that he can snack on - but after cooking all day he cant stand to cook again, let alone eat food.Im seriously worried for him, because the doctors have said that if he keeps doing what hes doing his heart is likely to give out any time from the physical and mental stress he puts himself through. He hates his life, but hes such a family man that he does it so theres food on the table and that I never went without so I had the resources to allow me to go to University.Im open to absolutely any ideas, proposals, tips, tricks or anything that I can tell him to make his life somewhat easier!EDIT: Thanks to everyone for their kind contributions and time they took to write any responses. Ive had a thorough read through all the comments and have had a lot of people back up my thoughts, and also have helped shed some light on other things like legality. Also, Id like to apologise to any people who have conceived that Im being stubborn. I dont mean to be whatsoever, Im just trying to engage in active conversation and Im doing my best to provide further insight, which is coming across as more stubbornness. So again, sorry if I made things difficult for some people. Again, thanks to everyone for their time and effort, I hope my dad can take something away when he finally reads this.Assistant: Hes doing the amount of work that someone who owns a restaurant like this would be doing, and getting the money for.If hes not making at least 60-70k right now, I would immediately look for a new job.Human: Hes doing the work, but on his own - no prep staff. Hes probably making about 40k a year, but like I said he has to reinvest at least 45 of it.Assistant: he has to reinvest at least 45 of it.So hes making 8k a year to work 14 hourday workdays 6 days a week.Lets calculate this out. If he gets one day off a week he works 312 days a year. At 14 hours a day, he works a total of 4,368 hours a year. If hes getting 40k, that works out to 9hour. The minimum wage in the UK is 7.85hour.If hes really spending 45 of his earnings, hes only making 1.83hour for his work.Does that sounds fair?Your dad is being taken advantage of so much its ridiculous. He could get a no-skill minimum wage job working 8 hours a day 5 days a week and be better off than he is now.Human: I know man, hes being cheated but its all of his own doing, hes cut costs as much as possible by using multiple stockists for his produce. At the end of the day no-one else can be held accountable for the money because at the end of the day its up to him to decide if he wants to offer the best food he can. Hes set the bar so high for himself that if he decided to cut breakfast out and only offer toasties then the CEO would likely fire him or whatever the business lingo is for stop contracting himAssistant: Dont be so scared. No one would do all of your dads work for 40k a year without help and his whole situation. 4 weeks holiday taken in 7yrs!Human: I know, hes a slowly rusting and dying machine in that respect. But thing is hes irreplacable, but theyd soon replace him if they needed to. The kitchen is a negligible aspect of the company, as long as workers keep working then they can be eating vending machine or fresh hot food!  <response>: Your dad needs to be on Kitchen Nightmare 