Friday 3.28.14

LY Lunch Sales:$2885
Proj: $2985
TY Lunch Sales:$1901
+/- :Down 34%

LY Dinner Sales: $6745
Proj: $7475
TY Dinner Sales:$6486
+/- :down 4%


Weather: Sunny and beautiful. Warmer than it has been lately. Great patio weather. 

Any Special events going on?: Relays going on downtown. Not sure how it will affect us, if at all.

Who worked?:.
Lunch: Johnny, Lindsey, Jason, Lynn CL. Jake host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA
Dinner: Johnny, Kate, Taylor, Clair, Dusten CL. Julie host, Kaori FR, No SA. Lindsey CT. Perfaijer called out due to his wrist hurting. I asked him if this is indicative of his last few days here and he said no, he will finish strong.  He called later tonight and told me that he pulled something in his wrist, ligaments or something, it's an old injury that he has re-injured (due to skateboard...crazy kids!) but he will be back into work tomorrow (even though the dr. said not to come back or 3 weeks) And he said he also got antibiotics for his sore throat

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Never really picked up. I don't think B1 was sat once! Never went on a wait, never were completely full. No long tickets or misrings. Cut down to Lynn and Jason at 1pm.  Nothing much to say about this lack luster lunch.

Dinner: Dinner started slow and took a while to build. Rightfully so, it was beautiful outside. We didn't go on a wait until after 7, maybe 7:15. It started as a slow short wait but by 7:45 we were on a 45 minute wait. It was really odd how the waves of people came in. First it was nothing by 2 tops, then it was nothing but 3+ tops. We had one walk in 9-top that waited over an hour because they were incomplete for over an hour, but they were really understanding about it and were very patient. Our two parties went off without a hitch, and despite not having a busser tonight, things ran rather smoothly. Everyone was pre-bussing their tables, everyone was helping each other out, and I was generally there to bus the remaining glasses off the table, wipe and set it. Though I was seeing the initiative from Taylor tonight, as well as a lot of teamwork from Clair, Kate and Johnny. Johnny did okay in his section and didn't have any mistakes. Clair was on top of putting any new glassware away when it came out of dish, and kate was there to help facilitate that as well. It died after 9:45, and so I cut down to Taylor, Johnny and Dusten, got Taylor an extra 4 tables before I cut down to just Dusten at 10:30. Dusten had about 4 more tables come in and it kept him running around. Good timing with cuts tonight though. Patting myself on the back on that one.
Juan and Josh work really well together. They're fast, efficient, and Josh's attitude is just so refreshing. Happy go lucky guy. Just popped his head in the office, gave me the peace fingers, and said "later dude!" with a big smile on his face. An attitude like that after a night of washing dishes is awesome!

I'm wondering, since we are going into our slower season, what if we took the busser off some shifts during the slower periods of business. If we had 2 hosts on tonight, it would have been a breeze, but even with just one I was able to help at the host stand where needed, and bus tables. The servers all took care of watering, getting ice, and doing dishes. So why not? Leary, wanna weigh in?

Any VIP's in?
Lunch:  Jodi (Uchi emp), a regular I use to see all the time but he hasn't beenin in a while, I think his name is Kenneth.

Dinner: I met Ransom & David, they live across Airport blvd on 48th street and said they've been coming in at least once a week for the past month. really nice guys. Then had the Kome bunch come in: Naoto, Jason, Eileen and Miho, along with Johnny's wife. I was going to cut him but they wanted to sit in his section so after cuts were made, I gave Johnny B1 and moved some other things around and made that his last table. 

Comps of note:

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
Clorox wipes