Inside
The Buffet Scam

Video Surveillance
Attacks Shrink

Aloha Makes it Easy

Stay In Touch With Us

Hot Links
TableService

QuickService

Video Surveillance

Radiant Systems

Aloha

Contact
(800) 665-9222

Sales: ext. 2

Support: ext. 3

Supplies: ext. 4

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 Maneuver

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

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
and
The Potemkin Voucher

The Package Deal
and
The Finishing Touches

The Wagonwheel

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
This scam involves promotional coupons being used for free money to servers – when an owner decides to get coupons, the wait staff takes a lot for themselves. The wait staff may clip as many coupons from publications as possible and keep with him/her during their shift. After the customer has paid their check, the waiter applies the coupon to a check with the appropriate item. This leaves the waiter with the cash incentive intended for the customer and makes the owner/manager think that a lot of people are taking advantage of his promotional coupons. This also works with Gift Certificates.

Recommended Aloha System Process:

Enterprise.com allows for an audit report that tracks promos applied to checks by employees.

Restrict discounts to manager approval.

Enterprise.com also allows for an alert to be created notifying the owner that a predefined threshold has been reached of promos being applied to checks.

eCard provides reports on eCard activity by the same employee. eCard also protects the restaurant by allowing the manager to define the amount of times a card can be used on the front of house without manager approval. (This occurs before the employee even gets caught on the reports or by the alerts.)

The Potemkin Voucher
The Scam is selling the same credit card slip to other servers for cash. A waiter prints an extra copy of the credit card voucher. He then takes the original voucher to fellow servers for cash. He finds another server who is willing to buy a copy and tells him the customer walked out with the original.

Recommended Aloha System Process:

Aloha keeps a record of transactions by employee. When an employee finalizes a sale and closes that check, they are responsible for that credit card voucher at the end of the shift during the checkout process.

Aloha can also activate payment reconciliation where employees have to verify every credit card voucher they received by entering them during the checkout process. If they don’t match the Aloha reports for that employee, a manager is notified before the employee can clock out.

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
Shrink is a $27 billion retail headache that is getting worse. With every dollar recovered from shrink, the bottom line receives it as profit. Abacus Video Surveillance attacks shrink and improves customer service by offering a combination of innovative solutions that reduce shrink and improve customer service—all in one product.

Abacus Video Surveillance is exciting because it allows video to be captured side-by-side with Aloha transactions. Abacus offers an integrated POS and video solution that joins digital recording with the capturing and data mining of POS transactions. The search tool combines fast and easy search of archived video with the POS operation; each transaction and the accompanying video appear on the same screen. Using up to 36 cameras, data can be scrutinized on up to 60 different items, such as date, time, server, transaction type and amount. Suspicious transactions can be identified for alerts. The system is ideal for franchise operators because numerous locations can be monitored in real-time from any Internet connection.

>>  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.
>>  View video in real time and store up to a month of video for later
      viewing.
>>  View video at home or from any Internet connection
>> 
No monthly fees

Aloha Makes it Easy
Whether it's fine dining or fast casual, Aloha can help you increase sales, control operating costs and build customer loyalty through innovative technology solutions including point of sale, back office, enterprise reporting, gift cards, and loyalty programs. Abacus can design a solution that's just right for you. Call us and get a free quote: (800) 665-9222 or visit us on the web at www.abacuspos.com.

Stay In Touch With Us
From the Aloha Point of Sale system and state-of-the-art Radiant hardware to our 24/7 Customer Solution Center, we’re your total solution provider. Let us show you how we can save you money and give you peace of mind. Just call (800) 665-9222 or visit us on the web at www.abacuspos.com

Abacus. You can count on us.

What They're Saying About Abacus

"For us, Abacus is not just another vendor, they're a valued strategic partner."

See more testimonials

 


    If you have a question or comment about Aloha Tips and Tricks,
    please contact Abacus at
info@abacuspos.com.