Friendly
Delivery
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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