Thurs PM 3.27.14

LY Dinner Sales: $5341
Projected:  $5842 (-$611)
TY Dinner Sales: $5231
+/- : down 2%

Weather:Warmed up quite a bit. Sunny and humid!

Any Special events going on?:nada

Who worked?:
Dusten, Kate, Clair, Taylor, Naoto CL. Hiroe FR Julie Host, Perf SA
Perfaijer apparently hurt his wrist and is not feeling well. He worked his shift and I didn't notice anything was wrong until I cut him and he told me he wasn't feeling well. He just called me and told me that he doesn't know if he'll be able to work his shift tomorrow night if he's still not feeling well. He said he works at juiceland in the AM so he may have to go to the Dr after that. Leaving us with no busser. I told him if that's the case to get his shift covered, but I wouldn't put it past him to leave us hanging. Better be prepared in the case he scoots out early. His last day is supposedly the 12th.
I won't mind helping tomorrow as long as my back is feeling better. Right now I'm wincing in pain and am really uncomfortable. Surely I will be able to snap into action should we be short a busser, but I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that. Leary, as guess, as we move forward, start scheduling 2 hosts on Fri and Sat. If we run into a situation like this in the future, at least we have that second set of hands to help bus.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
The night started slow but picked up after 6:30. We were on a wait until about 8:30, with a good amount of covers coming in and out. For a second I thought maybe we should have two hosts on or a host and a CT, but it never stayed that busy to warrant it.  No long tickets, everyone seemed to work together well tonight. At one point, I was looking for Clair to see if I could run her Nigiri pieces and I noticed she was in the kitchen getting miso soup...but for the split second before that she was on her phone. I could tell, even though her back was to me, because she was standing there in "text" mode (head down, completely motionless) and then when she was done, she slid it back into her apron pocket and got her miso soups. Jason, feel free to scold the staff if you see them on their phones back there. I went back and told her that even if she isn't on the floor, her phone needs to stay put away. Her attitude all night seemed fine though, Leary you had mentioned she was somber. She didn't seem too bad, until maybe after I scolded her for her phone use. She got a little quieter then.

I will add to the shift notes for the staff to keep their stuff, or any other random stuff, out of dry storage. Jason mentioned he has started to see food and other things lingering in dry storage. Nothing goes in dry storage but the items themselves.

On that note, Jason, can you please brainstorm an idea to keep the brooms and mops up off the floor. that area is getting gnarly.

Any VIP's in?
Rene Ortiz apparently tweeted after his meal here. But I did not recognize him if he was here. I was racking my brain. I totally would have recognized him. But I didn't. 

Comps of note:.
Nothing out of the ordinary

R&M needs?:
The wooden sushi boards (the older ones) are getting pretty gross. Some are splintering (I pulled some splinters off the side of one board) and some are getting some kind of mold or something in the crooks of the legs (the ones that look as though they have either shifted or been worn down off the planks that act as the legs)

86'd items/ need more?