Chefs and restaurateurs want to know how to theft customers' prevention of identity, and speak at the meeting in August 2007 to the Myrtle Beach Chapter of the American Culinary Federation Jay Shavitz Infinity Computer Systems. He explained that the theft of credit card information can occur in restaurants.

This is called credit card skimming, he said, and some restaurant servers are recruited by crime rings. Bad to the server in your pocket "skimmer". When the server receives acredit card and take it to Scratch in a terminal restaurant's credit card, the card also gives a quick shot through the skimmer. Skimmer receive card information from his magnetic card and save.

"The skimmers can take 200-300 credit cards," says Jay, "and retrieve information on their computers at home and send out of the country."

Restaurants account for about 90 percent of all credit card skimming, he said, because aThe restaurant is virtually the only environment in which the payment by credit card has been removed from the views of customers'.

Jay explained that the system his company sells can be used to take orders table (the server can write to screen mini-computer) and doubles as a portable terminal credit card. In this way the card was never out for the customer. The unit batteries' are good for about nine hours so the unit can get through three rounds to twobatteries. It 'even possible for a band-size printer for receipts, customers can print on site.