Category Archives: Theft Prevention

Slip and Falls Losses

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Slip and Fall InjuryA new study commissioned by Cintas Corporation and conducted by Harris Interactive, found that nearly one in three American adults are unlikely to dine at a restaurant where someone they know had slipped and fallen.

David Collette, director of marketing and strategy for Cintas Foodservice, says slip-and-fall accidents aren’t just costly in terms of losing customers, but they can also potentially be costly in legal expenses. This is especially true for mom and pop restaurants or small chains. If a small restaurant gets sued for a slip and fall it can wipe out all of their profits for a year or more.

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Do Not Be A Target of Cybercrime

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Protect You Business Against CybercrimeTrustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, published this week the Trustwave 2012 Global Security Report.   This report’s findings are based on more than 300 data breach investigations and 2,000 penetration tests performed last year by Trustwave’s advanced security team SpiderLabs. For the second year in a row, findings show the food and beverage industry is the top target for cybercriminals with 44% of investigations. This report states that industries with franchise models are most at risk in 2012.

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How Video Tools Can Save You Money

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Digital Video RecordingYou cannot afford to leave your business unprotected. By incorporating Digital Video Recording (DVR) technology, you can monitor everything that is going on in and around your store. It is common sense that DVR technology can be a great tool when it comes to loss prevention and employee safety. However, video surveillance can help you increase your profits and point out ways to streamline operations.

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Pinnacle Hospitality Systems Helps with Loss Prevention

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Into the Blues Bar and Restaurant (formerly called Trattoria Pizzeria Luce) in Hollywood, Florida offers great Italian and American food to guests in a comfortable atmosphere. The restaurant’s signature thin crust pizza is a South Florida favorite. Gourmet brick oven pizzas with toppings like arugula, prosciutto and shaved parmesan keep customers coming back for more. Other menu items include the popular Greek salad, the 12 ounce New York steak and White Wine and Garlic Salmon. Beyond a wide selection of appetizers, salads and pastas, Into the Blues also offers a full service bar for beer, wine and cocktails like the house martini.

The popular pizza place in Downtown Hollywood continues to deliver great food and great service. To ensure excellent customer service, Into the Blues Bar and Restaurant has installed restaurant point of sale systems. The POSitouch POS systems help staff to send orders to the kitchen faster for speedier service. When it’s time to ring up the bill, servers can split multiple checks and process credit card transactions seamlessly. Restaurant POS software is especially helpful at the bar for keeping track of discounts and daily specials like 2 for 1 happy hour drinks. Having restaurant POS is critical for loss prevention, as owners are able to save countless dollars gone to theft each year with a smart software system like POSitouch.

All hospitality businesses benefit from having a computer POS system. Pinnacle Hospitality Systems is the exclusive provider of POSitouch restaurant POS in Florida, and can answer any questions regarding installation and service.

Streamline Operations and Increase Loss Prevention with POSitouch Restaurant POS Software

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With the ability to be interfaced with Surveillance technology, restaurant software such as POSitouch POS systems provides restaurants with top-of-the-line security measures.  Hospitality management can view data in the POS system in timing with the digital surveillance. 

Transactions, comps, sales, clock-in and clock-out, voids, deletes and a number of other activities performed at the POS system are easily monitored. With this implementation, the amount of theft and wrongful accusations decreases, and your bottom line profits increase.

Pinnacle Hospitality Systems is a provider of hospitality solutions such as point-of-sale systems for restaurants, bars, clubs and more.

Located in south Florida, Pinnacle Hospitality Systems ofers point-of-sale solutions for businesses within the hospitality industry. Pinnacle  Pinnacle provides businesses in the hospitality industry with installation and servicing of restaurant POS, bar POS, point-of-sale systems for night clubs, country clubs, and hotels.  Performing beyond basic point-of-sale tasks, these systems can incorporate the best restaurant loss prevention and security in the hospitality industry.

By having the ability to track and measure your business’ profits, losses and progress, your POS system will help streamline the day-to-day operations of your business, increasing a flow of business and consistency.  With consistency in service and operations comes a stronger form of customer service, and in turn an increase in customer loyalty can be expected.

The integration of a POSitouch POS system for your bar, restaurant or club’s business model simplifies the structure of your business, simplifying the experience for employees and customers.

Implementing POSitouch restaurant POS systems with your venue, service staff and bartenders are able to provide consistent and quick service, helping to reduce the cost of labor while increasing your customer count.  POSitouch restaurant POS systems for bars and restaurants improves the profit bottom line, providing a smooth flow of business. In addition, security measures are simpler to monitor, with a number of options available for your restaurant point-of-sale system.

Software for security and restaurant loss prevention includes POSitouch restaurant POS systems. This restaurant software system is impossible to hack or be tampered with. All transactions on POSitouch hardware are written to electronic Read-Only Memory.

Restaurant Software Solutions Offer a Number of Loss Prevention Strategies

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Throughout the busy season for businesses in the hopsitality industry, restaurants, bars and clubs face a number of risks involving loss and theft.  When staff is kept busy tending to customers, many activities go unnoticed, whether it’s employee theft or theft by patrons. 

Losses include false discrimination claims by individuals looking for a loophole in security measures in order to gain from a lawsuit against your company.  If your business does not have restaurant camera surveillance linked to a restaurant POS system, then you have severe holes in your restaurant security and restaurant loss prevention measures.

Businesses within the fast-paced hospitality industry are at risk for being a common target in discrimination lawsuits.  A simple solution to streamline business operations, POSitouch restaurant POS systems monitors activities that occur within the restaurant.  From digital surveillance tracking activity at the registers, to loss prevention data being tracked on the system, restaurant point-of-sale systems provide unsurpassed levels of security.

In the hospitality industry, customer service is king, and a memorable guest experience is queen.  Superior loss prevention strategies and consistency in the customer experience help your business rise above its competitors. A restaurant POS system is the most effective security and loss prevention measure a business can put into place.

Installing digital surveillance systems in addition to utilizing the powerful restaurant software of a POS system, the ultimate defense against false discrimination cases, employee theft, customer theft and fights on the premises is created. A number of problematic situations that can occur for a numper of hospitality businesses are prevented and eliminated.  A POS system combined with restaurant suveillance is your best defense against false accusations.

Pinnacle Hospitality Systems is the leading hospitality industry provider for point-of-sale systems

As leading industry provider of restaurant point-of-sale systems in Florida and Alabama, Pinnacle Hospitality Systems gives restaurant management a simple, streamined solution, whether working withh a small independent restaurant or a chain of corporate restaurants.  Restaurant software monitors and accounts for all daily business details and transactions.

First Restaurant Loss Prevention Webinar a Success

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Earlier this month, Pinnacle Hospitality Systems, provider of restaurant POS systems to Alabama and Florida, collaborated with iControl Enterprise in presenting a restaurant loss prevention Webinar.  As an enterprise solution for integrating POSitouch restaurant POS systems, iControl offers a number of restaurant loss prevention tools that alert management of events deemed important.  The loss prevention tools provided by this restaurant software includes management alerts and enterprise reporting tools that are accessible through the internet.     

This webinar was presented by senior manager of Risk Management for Caribou Coffee Company, Mike Carlson.  The focus was on Restaurant Loss Prevention Strategies, and Carlson discussed how, within a year, he brought the profits of Caribou from negative to postive profits simply by using POSitouch to help decrease employee theft.

As more webinars occur, a new area of iControlEnterprise.com will be opened, allowing restaurant management professionals to view archives of webinar footage.  As an important educational tool for hospitality management professionals, these webinars aim to improve restaurant loss prevention awareness and increase bottom line profits.

One of the simplest loss prevention tools a restaurant can implement is a restaurant POS system. There is no better way to manage and control expenses and profits, while strengthening loss prevention strategies.

With a full set of customizable reporting tools, iControl allows you to arrange and organize specific data such as geographic area and specific time increments, menu items, department, inventory, food cost, or a specific department.

With Pinnacle Hospitality Solutions POSitouch software integrated by iControl Enterprise, your restaurant can have a personally-tailored POS system acting as a communiation and loss prevention tool. Expose and eliminate opportunities for loss and theft by combining your restaurant POS system with digital surveillance.