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Wrong Check!
This
scam involves hoodwinking guests into paying slightly higher yet similar checks
is a sure way to increase a waiter’s slice of the money pie and cover themselves
at the same time. Waiters look for ripe candidates that don’t glance at the
check at all. The waiter then produces a guest check that is closely similar to
the actual check, but is higher in total price.
Recommended Aloha System
Process:
Aloha
allows the reprint function of a check to be turned on
and off by access level. Only give this functionality to managers and not
servers.
Aloha
Manager offers an audit report
that allows the owner to track the number of checks that have been re-printed
and the number of checks that have been reopened by employee.
Enterprise.com has an audit report
that should allow managers to see how many checks were reprinted by each
employee for a specified amount of time.
Our Man In Amsterdam
In this scam, the waiter settles up a sizable cash check, but doesn’t
finalize the transaction. The waiter brings this to the attention of the buddy
manager. The manager voids the transaction leaving the waiter with all the cash.
The cash is then split between the manager and waiter.
Recommended Aloha System
Process:
Enterprise.com offers a void report
that can notify an owner of how many voids occurred and the monetary value of
those voids. If the numbers get high like in this scam example, the owners know
they have a problem.
Enterprise.com also offers a void alert
that produces the same information as above.
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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