The famous Soda Pop Game is played with a POS system, by splitting tickets. Only instead of splitting the cost between two people at a table, the drinks are split off to an open ticket. This server theft works when patrons are paying with cash. Let’s say Table #1 orders two meals and two sodas. Before the server presents the ticket, he casually asks whether
What a tablet system can do for you that a terminal can’t. The tablet will allow you to track your inventory, integrate with QuickBooks, and reconcile your credit cards automatically with your sales totals. In addition, the tablet will enable you to clock in employees and export hours to your payroll service company. Online ordering is directly integrated with the inventory in your store. In
The credit card terminal is going to the land of the dinosaurs. It doesn’t cost much more to buy a tablet than a terminal, and the tablet has the power to run your whole business management and marketing along with your payment processing. Monthly licensing fees are charged by the software companies ranging from $39.95 to around $495.00. The basics of point of sale, inventory
During this time of social distancing and businesses shutting down, some credit card processors are freezing merchants’ funds. Why do they do this? The answer goes back to understanding our system of credit card processing. Merchants are so used to taking credit cards and seeing money go into their bank account that they think credit card transactions are cash transactions. After all, if it looks
Mobile processing isn’t just for businesses that are only mobile; it is also for brick and mortar businesses. If you are a retail shop, then can you understand how it might be advantageous to take the cash register to the customer? This could capture more impulse sales. Also, a mobile payment station can speed up check out times. This will alleviate lines and save your
As technology gets smarter, we have noticed that the individual credit card terminal is slowly being replaced by the POS cloud-based tablet systems. The original credit card terminal was separate from the cash register, and the first step that made sense was to put them together. As a result, the register could automatically reconcile with the payment terminal, saving merchants time and money. Secondarily, the
Time is money. And time is a valuable resource, as the adage goes, therefore it is better to do things as quickly as possible. When it comes to running your restaurant establishment, training new employees with a manual paper system or cash register system, wastes a lot of time and frustrates customers. I recently went to a restaurant where a supervisor was following a newly
Sometimes waiter theft is planned and sometimes it is merely an oversight that ends up costing a restaurant owner money leaking from his bottom line. For example, the “Soda Pop Game” is a planned waiter scam to move money from the restaurant owner to his own pocket. “Beverage Amnesia” is an oversight when the restaurant gets slammed. The Infamous “Soda Pop Game”! This employee theft
Last Father’s Day, I stole $100 from a local restaurant. I didn’t wear a ski mask and wave a pistol in the cashier’s face. I didn’t break into their safe during the dark, dark night. I didn’t have to do anything that dramatic. In fact, it was like taking candy from a baby. Now, before you start thinking you’re reading a report written by a
Scams Behind the Bar — Is Your Restaurant Losing Money on Bartender Baloney? According to Preventing Internal Theft – A Bar Owner’s Guide, by Robert Plotkin, there are nearly two dozen areas of vulnerability that can be exploited behind the bar. Bartenders can give away free drinks, over-charge or under-charge the clientele, pocket the sales proceeds of unrecorded drinks, substitute well liquor for call brands,
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