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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 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

Oops! 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

Video Surveillance Attacks Shrink
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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
>> 
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