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I am reminded of the absolutely enormous detection of embezzlement as restaurants switched to cash registers, a switch which was not motivated by concerns of embezzlement. https://t.co/Jbl3RnoJSd
(The combination of physically absent manager, socioeconomic realities of employee population, and no bookkeeping of marginal pizza created meant that places which believed they were high-trust environments were in fact not.)
(Ran into this once at Ardy’s in college on a debate team trip. Employee came out to take our order and said “OK that’s $20.” Me: “$20 and what?” Employee: “$20 will do. I’ll go tell kitchen.” *leaves* Me: “We’re leaving.” Teammate: “What.” Me: “Not eating a stolen burger.”)
($20 goes into the pocket, everyone gets paid as normal, highly likely nobody counts burger patties and reconciles against shipping manifest plus transactions, employee repeats this frequently until discovered or indefinitely.)
(I Googled for representative examples of the signage and have discovered that the “call us” has disappeared from most of it in the U.S. Example for people who might not have eaten at US fast food a lot: ) https://t.co/EYQsTzAx8V
