Saturday 2.22.14

LY Lunch Sales:$2364
Projected: $2463
TY Lunch Sales:$2504
+/- : up 6% over LY  and $41 over Forecast

LY Dinner Sales: $6241
Projected: $7625
TY Dinner Sales:$7590
+/- : Beat LY by 22%, and were $35 shy of projected
But another $10k Saturday in the bag!

Weather:Sunny and nice. mid 60's

Any Special events going on?:
Bacon and Beer from 2:30-5:30 at the Marchesa
Illuminate Austin walk at the Mueller Park starts at 5pm
11th Annual Art night

Who worked?:
Lunch: Clair (DBL), Stephanie (DBL), Sophia (DBL) Johnny CL. Lindsey host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA
Dinner: Doubles, Naoto and Dusten CL. Alex Host trained Jake (new host), Lindsey CT, Kaori FR, Perf SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: started slow as usual, picked up and were full and steady around 1pm, then they trickled out, then another rush came through a little after 2pm. Nothing out of the ordinary with the late pop as we've been seeing a lot lately on Saturday. No large parties though, or anything like that. Sushi bar got hit hard during that last hour with a ton of sushi lunches. Take and Toshi worked hard to bang them out as fast as they could though. 

Dinner: Typical Saturday. Busy from the get go, and steady throughout the night. Had a lot of 5 tops in, and stacked for reservations. The last reservation ended up only  being 5 people so we put them in the dining room and put the walk in 7 top in there instead. Everything worked itself out magically tonight. Like, seriously. Never a fretting moment. I made a few more trays of wasabi/ginger set ups at around 9:30, but even then no one needed them frantically. Overall mood of the staff was great. I cut down to Dusten and Naoto at about five after 10, and they did a great job of handling the remaining tables.
Jake seemed to do okay on her first night at the host stand. The only thing I am curious about is if she is too laid back and about her sense of urgency. But Lynn recommended her, so I have to believe there is good stuff here, so I'll give her time and not be too quick to jump the gun. She did tell me how much she loved it here tonight and is so happy to be here. So thats a good sign. She's also very nice.

Kayo made an amazingly great point tonight- Going forward during dinner service at least, let's have the servers ring in all fry items on one ticket, and all grill items on another. It makes it easier for everyone and grill can just pass the entire ticket over without having to cross things out here and there. We can try it out Sunday night if you want.

Also, At the end of the night, I told all the emps that I would buy them a drink. Apparently Greg (and maybe Steve too) thought I meant a quart sized drink. I saw Greg with a quart container filled mostly all the way and was like, is that iced tea. He said yeah, thinking I was kidding. I smelled it and it was Asahi. I told him not to do that again. He said okay. Again, I don't mind if they have a drink, but especially when it's a quart sized beer, it needs to be communicated and rung in.

Any VIP's in?
Abel (lunch)
Sao and Gabe  (lunch)

Comps of note:


R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
I'll be going to Restaurant Depot Monday to get Tea spoons and monkey dishes.