jimpson wrote:As far as the system of chits for each drink order goes the cheating by the customer throwing away or eating or otherwise disposing of chits is easily caught as the cashier has a copy and can and should check the total that the customer/waitress comes up with against the cashier copy total. That should also catch the "putting a chit in another customers"chit pot.
In practice it doesn’t work like that.
As each different customer places a drinks order, a bill is written out from the bill book and the pink cashier’s copy remains in this bill book. So to check a customer’s total using the cashier’s copies would mean hunting through the bill book to find the corresponding pink bills - they won’t all be together in the book. This could take a long time. And if a customer had removed one of his bills, you wouldn’t be looking for a copy in the cashiers bill book.
When a customer wants to pay his total bill, the cashier totals up the amount from the customer copies. Hence the scope for cheating by the customer. Usually the staff are fairly good at spotting any customer’s attempts at removing bills but the odd one does slip through.
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[quote="jimpson"]As far as the system of chits for each drink order goes the cheating by the customer throwing away or eating or otherwise disposing of chits is easily caught as the cashier has a copy and can and should check the total that the customer/waitress comes up with against the cashier copy total. That should also catch the "putting a chit in another customers"chit pot.[/quote]
In practice it doesn’t work like that.
As each different customer places a drinks order, a bill is written out from the bill book and the pink cashier’s copy remains in this bill book. So to check a customer’s total using the cashier’s copies would mean hunting through the bill book to find the corresponding pink bills - they won’t all be together in the book. This could take a long time. And if a customer had removed one of his bills, you wouldn’t be looking for a copy in the cashiers bill book.
When a customer wants to pay his total bill, the cashier totals up the amount from the customer copies. Hence the scope for cheating by the customer. Usually the staff are fairly good at spotting any customer’s attempts at removing bills but the odd one does slip through.
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