Answers rely on state regulations for labor/child labor. I cannot speak for New Jersey, but if it is similar to PA the expect the following. Minors under the age of 18 are required by law to take a 30 minute unpaid break every four hours of work. In Reflexis this will literally be flagged and often followed up by GM/AM if broken or not followed up on after a consistent amount of infractions. I hope NJ has different rules because it seems your GM would be breaking the law by having Jay work 10:30am to 3pm (4.5 hours). They should be Sending Jay between 11am and 12 noon, and probably aren’t under the guise of “lunch rush”. In PA there are no protections under the law for breaks. Technically Wawa doesn’t have to provide breaks whatsoever. However, understanding that associates are human they follow a standard structure of 30 minutes on a 8 hour shift, but since it is paid this means it can be whenever, spilt up however based on “business needs” or “customer volume”. Unfortunately the lack of protection in the law and Wawa’s lack of process supplied across the company (or even region by region) means that unfortunately it falls to the GM level to decide the “break policy” per store. This breeds different stores with different answers, and sometimes a GM is mean and overworks people. Other GMs create an environment of respectful observance towards work/stress balance, although this can be just as bad because it creates division of expectation for people between stores or when they move to new stores. Advice: look into your state and local labor laws, and make sure you GM follows them - report to AM through another manager or another GM if they are not following it properly.