The Official Status Update Thread: Part 92 - Neverending Winter

[SEIndSAM]

Gonna call it a night Gang, hope that you all have a great one!!

 

[mom45]

Gonna call it a night Gang, hope that you all have a great one!!

Good night Sam

 

[Sylvain]

Exactly. You ring in the food, the kitchen gets the order, and then the ticket for whatever you rang in prints off for you to give to the table

I thought I was too stupid to understand this scam.

 

[GregD]

Night Sam

 

[jdmack79]

I thought I was too stupid to understand this scam.

I don't get it either. INGOers just must be bad at scamming.

 

[Sylvain]

No, he pays $50, but the waitress rings it up as a $8 meal. Keeps $42!

In this scenario the waitress would just get a $8 meal from the kitchen and the custumer wouldn't pay $50 for a $8 meal he diddn't order.

 

[RedneckReject]

In this scenario the waitress would just get a $8 meal from the kitchen and the custumer wouldn't pay $50 for a $8 meal he diddn't order.

Yeah I'm lost too

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

Exactly. You ring in the food, the kitchen gets the order, and then the ticket for whatever you rang in prints off for you to give to the table

After the customers pays for the food, what's happened to their receipt that the waitress keeps?

 

[Sylvain]

 

[RedneckReject]

After the customers pays for the food, what's happened to their receipt that the waitress keeps?

The only receipts we ever kept were credit card slips. Our computers kept track of how much money we owed (or got back if every paid with credit and tipped) at the end of the night.

 

[Sylvain]

After the customers pays for the food, what's happened to their receipt that the waitress keeps?

Usually the waitress will give the receipt and the money to the cashier.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

Usually the waitress will give the receipt and the money to the cashier.

Now what happens if she gives the cashier the $8 soup and salad receipt she got earlier that she never turned in?

 

[GregD]

Time for bed

 

[RedneckReject]

Now what happens if she gives the cashier the $8 soup and salad receipt she got earlier that she never turned in?

Not possible where I worked. We didn't turn anything in until the end of the night. The computer kept track of everything we rang in, which tickets were paid with cash and which were paid with credit, how much we were tipped on credit cards, etc. There was no way for us to deceive the system there. And even in the case you're talking about, no one would notice that it was a huge meal instead of soup and salad? How do you ring things into the kitchen without it being in your system somewhere?

 

[Sylvain]

Now what happens if she gives the cashier the $8 soup and salad receipt she got earlier that she never turned in?

Well if there's the time on the receipt she couldn't use it again.
And the cashier would notice a table haven't paid their $50 meal who was delivered.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

Not possible where I worked. We didn't turn anything in until the end of the night. The computer kept track of everything we rang in, which tickets were paid with cash and which were paid with credit, how much we were tipped on credit cards, etc. There was no way for us to deceive the system there. And even in the case you're talking about, no one would notice that it was a huge meal instead of soup and salad? How do you ring things into the kitchen without it being in your system somewhere?

How do keep track of the cash? By what the waitress rings up right? If she rings up a $8 meal that was really a $50 meal, how would you find out? With cash the only paper trail is the receipt. That the waitress punches in!

 

[Sylvain]

Not possible where I worked. We didn't turn anything in until the end of the night. The computer kept track of everything we rang in, which tickets were paid with cash and which were paid with credit, how much we were tipped on credit cards, etc. There was no way for us to deceive the system there. And even in the case you're talking about, no one would notice that it was a huge meal instead of soup and salad? How do you ring things into the kitchen without it being in your system somewhere?

Yeah if you just left the kitchen with a $50 meal the cashier is waiting for you to show up with $50.
I dont see how this scam is possible, unless the waitress had the $50 meal made in a van across the street, and not in the kitchen.

 

[Sylvain]

How do keep track of the cash? By what the waitress rings up right? If she rings up a $8 meal that was really a $50 meal, how would you find out? With cash the only paper trail is the receipt. That the waitress punches in!

If she rings up a $8 meal then the guy who actually ordered a $50 gets no food and he's not going to pay for nothing.

 

[RedneckReject]

How do keep track of the cash? By what the waitress rings up right? If she rings up a $8 meal that was really a $50 meal, how would you find out? With cash the only paper trail is the receipt. That the waitress punches in!

Yeah but if I ring up an $8 meal then that's what the kitchen makes

 

[mom45]

How do keep track of the cash? By what the waitress rings up right? If she rings up a $8 meal that was really a $50 meal, how would you find out? With cash the only paper trail is the receipt. That the waitress punches in!

I think it depends on the ordering system. So many restaurants now have the server order the meal via computer and that computer ticket/order is what the kitchen uses to prepare the meal. Once it is ordered and in the system, the server would have to enter payment of some form, and I'm not sure how you trick the system in that scenario.

I worked at a restaurant for a while that did not use a computerized system. It would have been very easy to do the sort of thing you are talking about. A verbal order or handwritten ticket to the kitchen to prepare the food. Collect the money and punch in something of lesser value when ringing it up in the register and pocketing the rest. We still have a number of restaurants in our area where it is done that way.