Saturday 1.18.14

LY Lunch Sales: $3405
TY Lunch Sales: $2608
+/- : down 23%
We had a phenomenal Saturday LY. Not sure what the weather was like then, but today its beautiful out, so I think that a lot of people were enjoying the sunshine.

LY Dinner Sales: $5599
TY Dinner Sales: $7493
+/- :up 34%
Total for the day $10,101!!!!!!!!!!
another phenomenal night!
up 12% for the day

Weather:Sunny, low 70s during the day, 40's at night.

Any Special events going on?:
nothing that I can tell 

Who worked?:
Lunch: Clair, Kate, Lindsey, Johnny CL. kaori FR, Jason SA, I hosted
Dinner: Clair, Kate, Naoto, Stephanie, Dusten CL. Hiroe FR, Trained Jen FR, Perf SA, Sophia Host, Lindsey CT.
I hate to say this, but now that the weather is breaking again, we might need to go back to two hosts on Fri and Sat nights. Only because I was co-hosting with Sophia a lot tonight. Maybe partially because she hasn't hosted in a while, but also we were just...slammed.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:.
Lunch: started slow and steady but didn't really pick up until 1:45 when we went on a 20 minute wait. Got off the wait by 2:10. Had several 5-6 top walk in's all around the same time. Not as many families as I would think, but still a good amount early on. Cut Kate at 2:10, then went to just Johnny at 2:30. Kept support on until 3pm.

Dinner: Hooooooly Moses! What a night. Got hit hard right at 5:30, we filled up by 5:45 and were on an hour wait at that point. It didn't let up until 10:15 when we finally got the last table sat. It was a steady, hard wait all night long. Not a one of us got a moment to breathe until about 10pm. Have I mentioned it was busy? So bear with me if these notes get a little loopy. Everyone pushed through the entire night, and Dusten was the biggest trooper of them all. I went down to 2 on at 10pm, and everyone helped out, but after 10pm Dusten got the brunt of the tables since most of the A's were full. Stephanie took on about 3 extra tables, but Dusten was the one that took most of the final tables of the night, since he was the closer.
The shift started pretty rocky, however. At first we were told the specials, so I went in the office and tried to make a quick table insert to drop at the tables since we now had 2 slightly involved specials. In the midst of my frenzy of typing and editing, at 5:45, I got wind that the specials had changed so, on the fly, after all of the servers had already written them down, they were different. That put a little wrench in what was already looking to be a busy night. Also, when the shift began we had everything, and then at 6pm we 86'd gyu and carpaccio, as well as shumai and kaki fry. So amidst the hectic-ness that barreled down upon us it was even more hectic once we had to start crossing it out on the menus that were coming and going at the host stand. After the initial shock of the first hour, though, we were rocking and rolling through the evening, with few issues.

Any VIP's in?
Lunch- several regulars in: Neil, Short hair lady, Chi and his family, Lyn and angry red haired lady, Kayo & Kenta
Dinner- No one of note.

Comps of note:
Dinner: Had a few tables under quoted (4 tops mainly) because other four tops were lingering, so I bought a few apps here and there. Bought the staff a round of drinks after for their kick ass work.

R&M needs?:
John LaTouf said he was coming to look at the crack in the wall today. I didn't see him but that doesn't mean he never showed.
The lights were flickering quite a bit tonight when the A/C kicked on. I'm concerned about this and I'll think about calling the electric company tomorrow to get it looked at if it persists. Not sure what the electric co's hours are with the holiday.

86'd items/ need more?
We are out of napkins again. Kate went to the trailer today and came back and told me that this was the last box of napkins. We have to get on the hosts more about their communication about these kinds of things. I'm never in the trailer so I don't know what our napkin stock is looking like. They need to give us these warnings when we have, like, 3 boxes left. 
Anyhow, I'm going to Restaurant Depot tomorrow morning to get more.
I'm also picking up White Sugar for the kitchen as well as 3 boxes of Fry Oil.
And I'm getting some new brooms (that don't have broken handles) and a new squeegee handle too.
If anyone needs anything let me know. I'm going on my way in, around 10:45. Also, if I am a few minutes late, that is why.