Restaurant Safety and Security

The Wife Just Needed Some Chocolate Cake

Restaurant Safety & Security

Closing time is not the time to let your guard down, the guests are gone, you can relax theoretically speaking and it feels like the curtain has dropped on your final scene of the busy evening. It is finally beer thirty.

You are tired need a smoke even though you don’t smoke anymore, the cooks are cutting corners trying to get home, or lolligagging milking the clock.

The second to the last table of guests are leaving and you are only concerned with checking out the waitstaff and setting the openers up for success. No body watching, nobody is paying attention, I sneak in through the front door, right in front of the two young waitresses closing the dessert station, the three cooks cleaning the hotwells of the open kitchen, nobody looks up, nobody sees me? How can this be?

Al Stewart’s “The Year of The Cat” is the perfect background music for my late night  coup, my plan my wife at the last moment needed…. “The Chocolate Cake”. No really this local restaurant has the best chocolate cake. My Concern I was able to infiltrate their night security to achieve my selfish indulgence.

This is a quiet town a low crime state, not the norm for the rest of the country where security guards are needed in some lobbies of some chain restaurants.  After I slipped in the front door after the last guests left, I go to the Hostess stand and see the closing checks and credit card receipts laying on the counter.  I then look for the guy in the tie, the Restaurant Manager.

Restaurant Security Plan

Still this scares me, do not neglect your The Locksley nightclub, bar, and restaurant security handbook” target=”_blank”>restaurant security for the sake of saving a few bucks on labor. ( If you need information on restaurant security try this source…The Locksley nightclub, bar, and restaurant security handbook) for the sake of the time clock. Back in my OG days (Olive Garden) Corporate got, what we thought was a bug up their “butts in seats”.

Corporate hired a new head of security, we received our auto-shipped (Translation;…nobody had a clue it was coming)  security manual, then the training videos and yes meetings the meeting…with the D.O.

It was then we realized that a manager was shot and killed at a Red Lobsters back east. I think it was the prior year, did not matter the impact lasted even 15 years later the habits are in grained.

The interesting part is that the threats did not work, the threats of being fired on the spot if the D.O. walked in the backdoor and no manager was present, the threat of constant performance counselings for back door security issues, were not as effective as the “video”.

Restaurant Security Is More Then Cameras

But the videos, the crime scene, the interviews of the employees, the effect on the community, the actual death of not only a family man a father a husband a tragic event one and that is not discussed much in the news. The effects business, the lively hood, the ability of the other employees to support themselves and their loved ones. I was convinced, I became “uber paranoid” after that.

The video was so effective it also reminded me that random acts of violence  can and will occur anytime to any of us. That bad people live in a good world and will not hesitate to hurt you, just for cash, just for kicks. I know get a job get off your A– , be a man and… never mind.

Restaurant Safety Is More Then Monitoring The TDZ

Please do not sacrifice your safety, or the safety of your restaurant employees, your cash (Check your restaurant insurance policy), your business your life. Restaurant Security Camera’s can give a false sense of security. If you do not have a The Locksley nightclub, bar, and restaurant security handbook” target=”_blank”>restaurant security plan, get one, if you do not know where to start  let Restaurant Proz help you in creating a custom security plan for your restaurant

Be Safe!
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