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The Series
The Buffet Scam

Suggestive Stealing

and
The Scoundrels

Houston…We Have A Problem
and
Putting Them On Ice

Leftovers

Evil Incorporated

The Recycled Check Manuever

The Verbal Totals Scam

The Handwritten Checks Scam

The "Playing it off" Scam

 Friendly Delivery

The Private Reserve

The Pawn Game

Oops! Wrong Check!
and
Our Man In Amsterdam

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and
The Potemkin Voucher

The Package Deal
and
The Finishing Touches

The Wagonwheel

The Package Deal
This scam involves meal vouchers in a buffet type environment in hotels. Servers count all vouchers that they collected and access a voucher screen to enter in the correct amount of all the vouchers they have received (ex. $12.50). The server enters in $112.50 instead of the $12.50 and uses the excuse that it was a slip of their finger that entered the wrong number.

Recommended Aloha system process:

Aloha allows for payment reconciliation to be activated by job code at the end of each shift. Before that server can clock out, they have to verify that all of the forms of payment they received that day, match the total that Aloha has recorded in the Back of House. If these totals don’t match, then the system will prompt for a manager password before the employee can clock out.

The Finishing Touches
The Scam involves adding Automatic gratuity and not letting the guest know. The waiter smears the gratuity stamp so it cannot be read. The waiter then writes or circles the final total and writes a message to the customer to distract them. The waiter then writes the final total on the back of the check and serves it with a distraction (mints).

Recommended Aloha system process:

Enterprise.com allows the auto gratuity to be tracked by tender type and an alert created for this line item. If this amount is beyond a pre-defined amount, it will notify the owner.

Print an “additional tip” at the bottom of a check, if an auto grat has been applied. This will further alert the guest that it’s already been applied.

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

Video Surveillance Attacks Shrink
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>>  Works Alone or with Aloha. See specific video events alone or side-by-side with Aloha
      transactions.
>>  Quick, easy searches on up to 60 items, such as voids, server name, date, time, or tender
      type.
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>>  View video at home or from any Internet connection
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