Tuesday, September 3
Pizzeria employee defrauds 39,000 euros from cash register
For over a year, one member of staff at a Berlin pizzeria was probably one of the happiest employees in the city. Between December 2021 and May 2023, a worker at a pizzeria in Alt-Glienicke is believed to have been operating a scheme whereby he defrauded his employer of more than €2,200 every month.
The trick worked like this: the employee would reduce the purchase price of an order in the cash register system of the delivery service, but would charge the customer full price. The difference between the two amounts, he kept for himself. The exact sums charged would vary for each order, but investigators state they were between €10.04 and €128.94. Over the entire period, the employee is thought to have tampered with the purchase price of over 1,255 transactions.
But no good thing lasts forever. After some time, the branch manager noticed that something was wrong and, upon checking the duty roster, his suspicions landed on one staff member. The 24-year-old man has now been charged with the theft of over €39,000 across the entire period.
