Top 5 Reasons Your Restaurant Needs Security Cameras

1. Stop Employee Theft: Strategically placed security camera surveillance systems significantly lower employee theft, which is so common in an industry known for high turnover rates.
2. Protect Customers and Employees: Security cameras act as a deterrent against robberies and break-ins and help to prosecute those who do attempt to steal from you.
3. Avoid Liability and Fraud: By recording everything that goes on within your restaurant, you can protect your bottom line against fraudulent injury claims.
4. Offer Remote Access for Managers: Many security cameras let managers monitor their stores from any computer. This allows you to know the store is running smoothly even while you’re not around.
5. Make Customers Feel Safe: People are much more likely to visit a store where they feel safe. By using visible security cameras, you provide customers with the peace of mind that keeps them coming back.

How Employees Justify Stealing

As business owners, we like to think about our employees as upstanding, well intentioned people who would never even dream of stealing from us or doing anything that harms the business. For the most part, that’s exactly what happens.

Unfortunately, there are enough bad apples that an estimated billion (that’s billion with a b) dollars is stolen by employees each WEEK!

How can that be possible?

As it turns out, some people are great at finding excuses and justifications for their bad behavior.

Some of the most popular ones we hear are:

• “I deserve a higher paycheck anyways”
• “Everyone else is doing it so why shouldn’t I?”
• “It’s not like anyone is going to miss a few small items”
• “This is payback for all of the bad things the company has done to me”
• “The opportunity is too great to pass up”
• “They don’t have any way to catch me so why not?”
• “Their insurance covers the loss anyways so it’s no big deal”
• “They just pass the price on to the customers so the company isn’t harmed”

Using excuses like these, employees in businesses of every size and industry are stealing from their employers every day. Until you implement measures to stop the theft like security camera surveillance systems, there is little that can be done to prevent it.