The time sign is also known as: time clock, time sign, schedule board, or hour sign.Whatever the name, it is an indispensable tool for your bakery.
The time sign combines practicality and aesthetics. It allows you to indicate the time while decorating your bakery.
It provides your customers with information about your shop’s opening and closing times. Choose a strategic location — the schedule board should be placed on the front of your bakery. Why not display it on your door or window? What matters most is that it’s at eye level.
Did you know that the time sign originates from a small portable clock? The word pendule comes from the verb suspendre (to hang), hence the time sign to be hung up.
Why use a time sign?
It is important to inform customers so they don’t come by outside your bakery’s opening hours.
Who likes passing by a closed bakery with nothing written out front? This oversight could harm your business and the image your bakery conveys. It’s disappointing for customers to find the door closed several times. To avoid this kind of inconvenience and risk losing customers, you should choose a time sign.
It will give clear information about your opening and closing times.
"You have to give time some time", so why not offer your bakery a time sign? Whether they are in a hurry or like to take their time, each of your customers is dependent on the passing of time.
You’ll find on Etal-Shops time signs with clock hands, and others where you write with chalk or marker.
Indicating store opening hours — what does the law say?
As a shopkeeper or artisan, you’ve probably wondered how to organize the days and hours your store is open. The answer to this fundamental question is often a compromise between your work-life rhythm, customer traffic times, and the relevant legislation.
Currently, there is no strict national regulation on store opening hours in France. But that doesn’t mean there are no rules to know and follow. In fact, local decrees, regulations specific to certain professions, or even the Labor Code influence store opening times in France.
France does not have a general law governing store hours, unlike many other European countries. However, at the local level, departmental regulations (prefectural decrees) or municipal regulations (municipal decrees) may impose specific constraints.
Each retailer must therefore consult the appropriate authorities or the local business federation to learn the applicable local rules.
In practice, it is mainly the Labor Code and its limitations that regulate store opening hours.
Thus, in stores where there are employees, the Labor Code imposes the strictest constraints starting at 9 p.m.
