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Employee theft is a significant concern for businesses of all sizes. It can erode profits, damage morale, create a climate of distrust, and literally shutter a business. Fortunately, modern technology offers effective tools to combat this issue. Here are five key features within the Aldelo Express system that can help you protect your bottom line and stop employee theft:
1. Digital Time Cards: Accuracy and Efficiency at Your Fingertips
In the digital age, digital time cards are essential for every business. Even a single dishonest employee can significantly hurt a business’s bottom line. One crucial feature of Aldelo Express is its digital Labor Module with digital time cards – a valuable tool for any business, regardless of size. Using the Aldelo Express Labor Module is a simple process, easy to teach, and offers enhanced efficiency for managers:
In the digital age, digital time cards are essential for every business. Even a single dishonest employee can significantly hurt a business’s bottom line. One crucial feature of Aldelo Express is its digital Labor Module with digital time cards – a valuable tool for any business, regardless of size. Using the Aldelo Express Labor Module is a simple process, easy to teach, and offers enhanced efficiency for managers:
- Reduced Errors: Say goodbye to messy handwritten timesheets and calculation errors. Digital time cards provide accurate records, minimizing discrepancies.
- Improved Reporting: Gain clear insights into employee hours with comprehensive reporting, quickly and clearly synchronized into back-office labor reports. This data is crucial for payroll processing and identifying potential issues.
- Easy Corrections: Management can easily correct any errors, ensuring accurate pay for employees.
2. Smart Employee Scheduling: Control Overtime
Effective labor scheduling is a powerful tool in protecting a business against employee theft. Aldelo Express's digital scheduling feature supports:
Effective labor scheduling is a powerful tool in protecting a business against employee theft. Aldelo Express's digital scheduling feature supports:
- Quick and Easy Setup: Creating and managing schedules is simple and effective.
- Digital Sharing: Save time by easily emailing schedules to your employees.
- Overtime Reduction or Elimination: Optimize scheduling to minimize overtime costs and prevent employees from "riding the clock," or ensure staff rotation to eliminate overtime altogether.
- Significant ROI: The potential savings from controlling overtime can be substantial. For example, preventing just six employees from regularly clocking in even 10 minutes early can save you hundreds of dollars each month.
Using the Aldelo Express Labor Module is a simple process, easy to teach, and offers enhanced efficiency for managers
3. AI Facial Recognition: Eliminating Buddy Punching
Buddy punching, where one employee clocks in for another, is a common form of time theft. In addition to PIN and QR code-based employee time card logins, Aldelo Express offers an AI Facial Recognition Login solution that effectively eliminates employee “buddy punching.” This security feature can also be applied to manager functions, providing added security for manager authorization when conducting orders voids, approving discounts, or processing refunds – further strengthening the restaurant’s security. Plus, enhancing your business’s security helps create a culture of timeliness and accountability.
4. Required Beverage: Preventing Soft Drink Theft
Theft isn't always taking cash. One common form of theft is servers giving away complimentary soft drinks in hopes of larger tips. But this directly impacts your bottom line. Aldelo Express's optional "Required Beverage" feature addresses this threat by:
Theft isn't always taking cash. One common form of theft is servers giving away complimentary soft drinks in hopes of larger tips. But this directly impacts your bottom line. Aldelo Express's optional "Required Beverage" feature addresses this threat by:
- Mandating Beverage Entry: Requiring a beverage entry for each entree prevents servers from giving away drinks for free.
- Simple Implementation: Implementing and using this feature takes only a few taps in the back-office and at a point of sale terminal (tablet, countertop, or mobile!). The feature can even be applied to Masa+ Online Orders and customer-facing Kiosks.
- Guaranteed ROI: The savings from preventing soft drink theft are immediate and measurable. For example, if a server gives away just four $3.50 drinks a day, that adds up to $420 in lost revenue per month! By implementing this feature, restaurants can earn hundreds of additional dollars of revenue a month.
5. High Tip Warning: Identifying Potential Issues
Unusually high tips can sometimes be a red flag for theft, particularly when combined with potential soft drink giveaways. Aldelo Express's "High Tip Warning" feature allows you to:
Unusually high tips can sometimes be a red flag for theft, particularly when combined with potential soft drink giveaways. Aldelo Express's "High Tip Warning" feature allows you to:
- Set a Threshold: Program a specific tip percentage that triggers a warning.
- Track High Tips: Generate reports to identify servers with consistently high tips.
- Investigate Potential Theft: Data in back-office reports can help managers uncover potential issues like unauthorized giveaways or refunds.
Bonus: Cashier Blind Balancing for Enhanced Cash Control
While it requires a little more effort, Aldelo Express's Cashier Blind Balancing feature provides an extra layer of security. By requiring cashiers to count and record the denominations in their till before and after a shift, you can balance the till against sales without revealing the expected amount. This helps identify discrepancies and deter theft.
By implementing these six Aldelo Express features, you can significantly reduce your risk of employee theft and protect your business's financial health. These tools provide a powerful combination of prevention, detection, and control, giving you greater peace of mind and allowing you to focus on growing your business.
Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410
While it requires a little more effort, Aldelo Express's Cashier Blind Balancing feature provides an extra layer of security. By requiring cashiers to count and record the denominations in their till before and after a shift, you can balance the till against sales without revealing the expected amount. This helps identify discrepancies and deter theft.
By implementing these six Aldelo Express features, you can significantly reduce your risk of employee theft and protect your business's financial health. These tools provide a powerful combination of prevention, detection, and control, giving you greater peace of mind and allowing you to focus on growing your business.
Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410
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