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

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