Liquor loss
As Schank loss is referred to in the restaurant the shrinkage during commercial serving of beverages which the profit reduces the catering operation.
Reasons for the loss of serving can include:
- Booking errors or forgotten bookings on the POS system
- Spilling glasses
- Broken bottle
- Overflow, especially when serving spirits
- unintentionally z. B. with increased stress
- intentionally to attract a regular audience or to increase your own tip
- Too much foam or splashing when tapping the barrel
- Loss of cleaning in dispensing systems and so-called "night watchmen" (drinks from the previous day in the line of a dispensing system are thrown away)
- Drinks theft or excessive use of staff drinks
Loss of serving can be minimized by various measures, but not completely prevented. Booking errors can be avoided by setting up technical dispensing controls, which require a mandatory cash booking prior to serving. In particular, in a mandatory use of spirits can jiggers (Barmessbecher), spouts or liquor guns portioning be prescribed with-accurate centilitres.
By switching from open to bottle drinks, the loss of drinks can also be minimized considerably. However, this is usually associated with higher procurement costs and a considerable amount of time spent on serving.
Measures that are not permitted in terms of consumer protection are deliberately falling short of the filling line ( dispensing fraud ) or, in the case of cocktails and long drinks, the excessive increase in the proportion of ice cubes .
The amount of tapping lost is also relevant under tax law. The tax office allows for all-inclusive drinking losses between 3% and 5%. Exact tests showed, however, especially in large discos in individual cases, that more than 10% were lost due to careless tapping, spilling and knocking over the glasses. If unauthorized free drinks are given to third parties by the staff, the loss of drinks can increase to 20% to 30%.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beer dispensing losses cloud profits ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at padelat.de, accessed on February 6, 2012
- ↑ a b Tax audit problems at discotheques at dr-barthel.de, accessed on February 6, 2012
