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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 schemesand 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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