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Preventing Internal Theft


Preventing Internal Theft
A Bar Owner's Guide – 2nd Edition

Paperback: 104 pages
Author: Robert Plotkin
Publisher: BarMedia
ISBN: 0-945562-24-1
Product Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.
Item Number: PIT171

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What others are saying about Preventing Internal Theft?

"Reduce your vulnerability to theft by knowing exactly how bartenders steal and how you can stop it. The facts are clear. This book will pay for itself many times over, even before you finish reading it. This information is invaluable to the beverage operator."

Cheers Magazine

"Plotkin identifies more of the most common and creative pilferage schemes – and ways to thwart them. For just $19.95 – the cost of this book – you'll save literally thousands."

Service that Sells Newsletter

"Have you had a spike in pour cost percentages? The bar is one of the most profitable areas of the restaurant business and very vulnerable to theft. 'Preventing Internal Theft identifies the most common pilferage schemes—and ways to thwart them. A thieving bartender can literally steal a business into financial submission'."

TH Strenk, Restaurant Business





Book Description


More than ever before, preventative measures are necessary to ensure that your revenues make it to your bottom line. Reduce your vulnerability to theft with easy to implement procedures and measures with this all new 2nd edition of our best-selling book on theft behind commercial bars and how to prevent it.




Inside the book


Introduction

Chapter 1: Exploring the Causes of Theft
    
The Process of Rationalizing Theft

Chapter 2: Bartender Theft
   
 Illicit Practices and Schemes

Chapter 3: Preventative Measures
    Section I:
Prevention Through Beverage Operations Analysis and Inventory Control
       
 Pour Cost Analysis: The Profitability Barometer
        Analyzing Pour Cost
        Bar Productivity: Spotting the Fingerprints of Theft
        Analyzing Productivity
        Inventory Control: Creating an Internal Audit Trail
        Cradle to Grave Accounting
    Section II:
Theft Prevention Through Policies and Procedures
    Section III:
Theft Prevention Through Proactive Management
        Mid-Shift "Z" Readings
        Maintaining a Separate Source for Making Change
        Implementing Cash Controls
        Bar Staff not Privy to the Operation's Pour Costs
        Use of a Drop Box
        Bottle Tagging
        Drink Ticket Ledger Maintained
        Use of Mirrors and Track Lighting
        Hidden Video Cameras
        Hydrometers
        Spotting or Shopping Services
        Liquor Portioning Guidelines and Techniques
        Screening Prospective Employees
        Top Ten Indicators You're Getting Ripped Off


Chapter 4: How Other Employees Steal
    Section I:
How Cocktail Servers Steal Working Alone
    Section II:
How Cocktail Servers Steal Working with Bartenders
    Section III:
How Food Servers Steal
    Section IV:
How Managers Steal

Chapter 5: Defending Against Other Employee Theft
    Section I:
Preventing Cocktail Server Theft
        Use of a P.O.S. System to "Precheck" Cocktail Server Drink Orders
        Productivity Analysis for Detecting Cocktail Server Theft

    Section II:
Preventing Food Server Theft
        Use of a P.O.S. System to "Precheck" Server Drink Orders
        Management to Maintain Ledger of Server's Guest Check Serial Numbers
        All Server Claims of Spillage Should be Investigated
        No Beverages for Personal Consumption Given to Servers from the Bar

    Section III:
Preventing Manager Theft
        Delegation of all Cash Handling Responsibilities and Reconciling Register or P.O.S. to the Bookkeeper
        Securing the Operation's Inventory from Manager Theft


Chapter 6: Limiting Losses Through Human Resource Management
    Hiring the Best Bartenders the First Time Around
    An Employee Handbook and Its Affect on Internal Theft
    Reducing Bartender Turnover and Its Affect on Internal Theft
    Reducing Bartender Turnover
    Mismanagement of Employees and Its Affect on Internal Theft
    Substance Abuse and Its Affect on Internal Theft
    The Legal Aspects of Employee Disengagement





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