I am new to this forum and am hoping someone here can help me. I do not know if this is the right place to post or if this forum is meant for this type of dilemma but I do not know where else to turn or find advise.
I am a bartender at very high speed bar/restaurant well at least high speed during happy hour and when vacationers are around. I have been bar tending for over a decade and my drawers are always spot on and I take pride in that fact. This has been the case since I have been working at this particular location. Well at least till the owner of the restaurant fired the manager and took on the day to day operations. He is a very hard man to deal with and is very quick to anger, so when my drawer started coming up short I just fixed it with my tips and did not mention it. It started with just $20-$40 and it has steadily been increasing... now upwards of $100+. This has also been the case with other bartenders also. We average drawers in the $1500-$2000 range. When we get into happy hour we are cranking sales in and we ring drinks under non-specific names ( for example domestic beer, import beer, mixed drink, or premium mixed drink) not by our choice but this does allows us to be very quick. I would say 80% of checks are quick sales.
I really think I have weeded out all other ideas of what could be going wrong and am beginning to strongly believe that the owner is ringing in fake sales from a separate POS station. I do not want accuse the owner of this but it is the only thing that makes any sense.
I was hoping that someone could offer advise on how to covertly check to make sure this is not what is happening. I have thought of manually counting checks and cross referencing with my Check out slip but i do not want to miscount and make a false assumption based on that. Or by somehow marking all my new checks somehow (adding guest covers or something to that extent) But this would be worthless because I do not have the power to reproduce checks.
I believe that the owner assumes we are padding the drawers and might be trying to make up for it by adding sales otherwise he might just be doing it to steal outright. I am an honest bartender and would never dream of stealing so this is extremely unjust.
I know that these systems are made to limit the ability of employee theft and can not find much information anywhere about how to make sure that everything on the owner/manager side is on the up and up. Also I understand that these forums are made for administrators of POS. However I really hope someone can lend me some advise because I really feel like my honesty is being trampled on in this situation.
Thank you for any and all advise!
