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The Buffet Scam

Suggestive Stealing

and
The Scoundrels

Houston…We Have A Problem
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Leftovers

Evil Incorporated

The Recycled Check Manuever

The Verbal Totals Scam

The Handwritten Checks Scam

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The Private Reserve

The Pawn Game

Oops! Wrong Check!
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Our Man In Amsterdam

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The Potemkin Voucher

The Package Deal
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In this scam, the Service staff has access to your inventory or kitchen supplies and steals them to use for personal use or sells them outside of the workplace.

Recommended Aloha system process:

Lock down your inventory.  Most effective establishments will have walk-ins storage areas and freezer containers locked with limited access only by management staff. This would be the most effective way to keep products from “walking out the door.”

Utilize Aloha Quick Count. Aloha Quick Count offers a quick and easy way to track inventory items from the FOH. You can enter opening counts, closing counts, waste, etc all from the point of sale terminal. The system will automatically deduct product from quick count as it has been sold giving the establishment an on hand count at the end of the service period. Management should do a closing count and calculate for any discrepancies. At the minimum level of Quick Count use, every establishment should be tracking high cost items via this process. Such items include steak and seafood.1

Utilize Aloha BOH Inventory. Aloha Inventory offers a complete comprehensive way for an establishment to track and manage all products at specific stocking locations. The control system assists you with managing purchases and receivables, creating count sheets by locations, processing usages and indicates items and areas of high variance.2

1 Reference: Chapter 3 in the Aloha QuickService for store settings / Quick Count
2 Reference: Aloha Inventory Manager’s Guide

Excerpted from "How to Burn Down the House: The Infamous Waiter and Bartender's Scam Bible by Two Bourbon Street Waiters" by Peter Francis & R. Chip Deglinkta. © 2003 Promethian Books

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>>  Works Alone or with Aloha. See specific video events alone or side-by-side with Aloha
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>>  View video at home or from any Internet connection
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