Wednesday 11.20.13

LY Lunch Sales:$2544
TY Lunch Sales:$1549

+/- :down 39%

LY Dinner Sales: $4292
TY Dinner Sales: $4559
+/- :up 6%!!!

***NOTE about sales: This week last year was Thanksgiving week. So looking at LY's sales we should keep that in mind for next week- anticipate large lunch crowds (equivalent to a weekend lunch)

Weather:overcast, chilly.

Any Special events going on?:Just a Wednesday

Who worked?:
Lunch: Lynn, Jason, Ali and Kate CL. Jason SA, Lindsey SA, Junko Host
Dinner:Jason, Ali, Eileen, Sophia, Stephanie CL. Nagisa, Perfaijer SA and Zach's last stand

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Slow to start. Never filled up. From what it looks like it was a typical Wednesday lunch. Cut Ali at 1pm, and Jason at 1:15, leaving on Lynn and Kate. Cut Lynn at 1:40 along with Food runner, host and SA
Dinner: Slow slow start. But then went on a wait around 6:30. Had a 6 top walk in in addition to the 8 top reso. Finally made cuts after it started to slow down around 8:45. Went to 3 servers on by 9, and 2 servers on by 9:20. Cut Nagisa and Zach at 9, and perfaijer at 9:30. Had a walk in 8 top at 9:30 and they just left (11pm) and a few other tables come in at about ten til. Other than that it was a smooth night. Little to no comps.

Any VIP's in?
Tom from Eden East. he's so nice. 

Comps of note:
Ran a sides contest at lunch, Jason won. Free lunch!
Ran a pork belly nigiri and tuna sampler contest for a free dinner. Eileen won.
Jason SA was in with some Kome bucks
I comp'd some items for Tom too

R&M needs?:
The plumber came in today and the issue is bigger than we expected. I reached out to John LaTouf about it, but have yet to hear back. It's an issue that they are going to investigate via a smoke test. They will do the test Tuesday morning at 8:30 (I can be there for it) to figure out where the methane is leaking from (sewer smell). In the meantime I bought a candle and it works in eliminating the horrid smell. So just light it when it gets smelling bad- it's in the lobby.

Kayo- any way we can order just the lids for the soy sauce containers? Another one ran away tonight.

Made a Gift Card Selling Chart with stars for every $50 they sell. Paid out Ali her first $25 today from the change bank, so I marked it on the spreadsheet. The star stickers are in the top drawer in the office, in case anyone sells any tomorrow.

I have scheduled some facebook posts about sake. So no need to post anything tomorrow unless it's a special or something. I'm doing posts twice daily about sake using the Sake Handbook