I got the same memo from my parents growing up:
If you’re early you’re on time
If you’re on time you’re late
If you’re late you’re FIRED!!
That is it!!
I have a ‘dedicated’ pickup twice a week (same business, different locations) for businesses that don’t open till 0930. Even at my age when ‘they’ say see you first thing in the morning and then say we open at 9 or so, they get the ‘look’.
By 0900 I am seriously thinking about ‘lunch’ or midday ‘snack’.
Anyhoo on occasion - if I get ‘sent’ elsewhere - the Manager will call to see if I am OK if not there when she gets there at 0845 or so. (Old school has same work ethic)
Today’s ‘youngish manager’ tends to not show up till 0929 for an 0930 opening then is upset if a couple of people waiting to get in.
Of course they have their ‘Starbucks & Donut’ EVEN if on the occasion they may get hung up and not show till 0945 or so.
Like the food in the supermarket that just magically appears on the shelf or ‘in the back’ they somehow learned that the business doesn’t have to be manned until the time it says on the door.