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Handwritten Checks ScamIn this scam the waiter would hand write a ticket that contained self-serve items and present that to the customer for payment. The customer would pay and the waiter would pocket the cash since the self-serve items have never been rung into the system. This only works with a cash payment and is highly risky because management and customers could recognize it as invalid receipt. Recommended Aloha system process: Waiter performance measures should be set up on the system. Aloha provides the ability for management to monitor server performance through performance measures. Performance measures allow for tracking of sales targets and comparisons against objectives of each measure. You can define up to 99 performance measures. These measures can be easily viewed on the FOH server sales report or checkout report. It would be recommended to configure a “Sales to Guest” or “Sales to Check” performance measure(s) by waiter job code on the Aloha software. This way management can spot check any specific percentage discrepancies that look to be out of range. If a certain waiter is not ringing in sales and is passing hand written checks they will show a low sales percentage in this performance measure. Corrective action and monitoring should take place.1 Managers should routinely visually spot check tables and review corresponding waiter checks for accurate items, including order time of items. Managers can easily access any waiter’s check(s) from a FOH terminal and review the check under Financial/View Tables. The manager can then make sure that there are appropriate checks for each table. If the waiter has multiple tables open and there are no checks in the system then this waiter should be monitored. He may be hand writing checks, if not, he should be told that when items are ordered they need to be immediately entered into the system.2 Create table signage indicating that if a customer is not provided with a receipt, the meal or complimentary item is on the house. Many establishments post signs such as “If you do not receive a receipt, your meal is on us.” This is done to make sure that cashiers or waiters are ringing in items through the POS system. Utilize a hostess station that enters the number of customers seated at a table and starts a check. Having a hostess seat open a table through the system will create an open check and guest count that the waiter will have to do something with. Using this process in conjunction with performance measures would show discrepancies in per check/person averages on the system indicating possible waiter fraudulent activity to monitor. 1
Reference: Chapter 4 in the Aloha
QuickService & TableService Manuals for Performance Measure configuration. 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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