Friday PM 12.6.13

LY Lunch Sales:$1839
TY Lunch Sales:$2217

+/- :up 21%

LY Dinner Sales: $4544
TY Dinner Sales:$6135
+/- : up 35% woohoo!!
$100 in GC Sales too

Weather:Frigid and cold. High of 45

Any Special events going on?:Just this weather.

Who worked?:
Dinner: Eileen, Ali, Stephanie, Miho, Taylor. Perfaijer SA, Kaori FR, Lindsey host, Clair CT.
Alex called out of her host shift tonight. Apparently her father is very ill and she has been dealing with some family phone calls this week and was having a breakdown. She said she would be okay to work tomorrow night, and to be honest, tonight went well with just having 1 host and 1 cocktail (I think in this cold weather, it's actually better to just have the cocktail and 1 host) But this brings up some old issues that we had with her when she was here full time- as far as reliability goes. And this is something that I'm concerned with as we move forward with her being an employee here. Calling out of a hosting shift while there are 2 hosts is okay, but if she were on the floor it would put us in a very difficult position. I don't think it's anything we need to address right now, but just something for us to keep our eye on. Also, if things go south with her dad, we may lose her too. 

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Slow start. Went on a wait around 7:30 and stayed on a wait until 9:30. Had a moment where we were just at a dead hault because everyone was just sitting. Had a 6, another 6, a 7 and two 5 tops come in almost all at once, so they were all just sitting and then got up at the same time (around 9:15) at which point we were able to seat everyone that was on the wait at once. The 3 resos that were stacked (5, 7, 9) worked out okay, but the 5pm reso ran over (which we told them numerous times that they had another res after them) which in turn became the domino effect on the other one, running a few over for the 9pm reso. All in all, everyone was happy and no one was too upset that they had to wait an extra 5 minutes. But maybe we should be making sure that there is that 15 minute window in between PM reso's, so that we have time to turn the table. 2 hour max in the room, with 15 min turn time. It's written at the top of the reso binder, but I don't think we've been sticking to it as we should (myself included)

I made cuts around 9:30 as well, and went down to just 2 on by 10pm. At 9:30 I also cut the host. by 10:15 I went down to just Taylor, and cut kaori, and kept only Perfaijer on. 

Any VIP's in?
Lots of regulars tonight: Phil and Phylis, Eudora and Wylie (nice to see them again), Rachel and Carlos
Mrs.McGuire (of the clock shop) with her son and soon to be daughter in law

Comps of note:
Gave Mrs McGuire the friends and family discount, and I comp'd those sake cocktail drinks we tried to open percent. Had some Kome bucks redeemed.


R&M needs?:
We need more clorox wipes for the bathroom, on the next HEB run.
We're going to run out of Sapporo before the next delivery.