Click to Print  Get a Handle on Your Overhead  Technology is
making it easier for you to keep tabs on your business's
resources. April 21, 2009  For many businesses, recessions
strike with a double whammy. Sales fall as fraud rises,
squeezing profits at both ends. But unlike those in previous
recessions, many of today's entrepreneurs are recovering lost
revenue with new technologies that track output down to the last
mile, french fry and drop.  And for the companies that provide
those technologies, business is booming.  In the bar industry,
inventory loss is measured through shrinkage: the difference
between a bottle or a keg's maximum possible output and the
output actually recorded in sales. Shrinkage has many causes--
anything from heavy pours to outright theft--but the effect is
always the same: less money in the till.  Shrinkage reduces bar
supplies by an average of 25 to 30 percent, says Vanessa De
Caria, vice president of operations for BEVINCO. BEVINCO
conducts weekly audits of drink inventories at bar