TWENTY WAYS A BARTENDER CAN STEAL FROM YOU THAT CAN NOW BE PREVENTED BY USING AZBAR EQUIPMENT

1. Short ring- Under-ring the correct price of item and pocket the difference.
2. Undercharge customers or serve free liquor in hope of large tip.
3. Using lower-priced liquor and charging for call brands.
4. Charging customer regular prices, ringing up happy-hour prices.
5. Giving free drinks to employees in exchange for higher tips.
6. Free drinks to local merchants in exchange for merchandise.
7. Free drinks to cooks in exchange for food that is sold and pocketed without ringing in.
8. Collusion between cocktail server and bartender.
9. Serve and collect while register is reading between shift changes.
10. Z-ing out register tape early. Under-reporting of sales.
11. Short pour – Pour less than a shot to cover “give away” liquor costs.
12. Using one shot on two glasses.
13. Reusing register drink receipts.
14. Pouring drinks after closing time to get higher tips.
15. Phantom register – Extra register put in bar and items not rung in on main register.
16. Bartender exchanges drinks to cooks for dinners.
17. Ringing food items on liquor key in order to cover high liquor cost percentage.
18. Under pouring drinks by one-sixth, keeping track, and pocketing the cash for one drink every sixth drink.
19. Using jiggers brought in from home that are all smaller than standard pour, with the same objective as above.
20. Adding water (diluting) to liquor to get more shots out of it. Pocketing cash.

(This information was published in author, Robert Plotkin’s book “Preventing Internal Theft – A Bar Owner’s Guide)