Thursday 4.10.14

LY Lunch Sales: $1630
 Projected: $1718 (-$183)
TY Lunch Sales: $1447
+/- :down 11%

LY Dinner Sales: $4683
Projected: $5111 (-$478)
TY Dinner Sales:$4205
+/- : down 10%
Down for the day -10%


Weather:
sunny and nice. A little windy but the sunshine makes up for it. Perfect Patio weather



Who worked?:
Lunch: Sophia, Dusten, Johnny, Lynn CL  Junko hosted and trained Kristin. Perf SA and Jake FR. Joel did server training day 2 with Dusten.

Dinner: Dusten, Kate, Clair, Taylor, Naoto CL. Julie trained Krysten, Perf SA for the last time, and hiroe FR. Not much action for Krysten to see, unfortunately. See notes.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: it was slow. All day. Just like yesterday. I cut down to 3 at 12:45, thinking maybe we would get the 1:15 pop. But to no avail. I cut down to just Lynn at 1:30. Only had one potential problem this morning right towards the start. Sushi ticket times were taking 20 minutes, and Sophia put a 5 minute delay on her chicken Katsu for A1, but it still beat the sushi lunch. She was cool with it, but maybe something we need to talk about in preshift (servers timing sushi and kitchen better)

Dinner: Dinner started slow and never reached a wait. I kept anticipating it, but by 8pm it was still slow. I told Daniel that if nothing happens after 7:30 to make a cut, so he cut Greg around 7:45. I was waiting until 8pm to make any cuts and so at 8pm I cut Dusten. Held onto the 4 of them for another 45 minutes then went down to just Taylor and Naoto. We started filling up around 9:15 and almost went on a wait. Then it slowed down and I cut Taylor at 9:45. Got 2 more tables, then the night was over. Naoto was super busy at the end but handled it fine, and everyone worked together to help him with what he needed. I cut the hosts at 9pm also, and they clocked out by 9:30. I kept support on until 10pm. I really like closing with Naoto because he is thorough and I almost never have to ask him to do something that was left undone.  Daniel did a great job in the kitchen tonight, by the way. I'm really excited to have him as part of the team. I set up an email account for him and he received the blogs. His email address is:   d.martinez9391@gmail.com
Please add him to your email chains going forward, for anything kitchen related

Any VIP's in? Lunch: Harmon and his dad, Kenneth (weekend regular), as well as Leary's arch nemesis regulars.

Comps of note:
Had some DNL's tonight. Seaweed salad, Kirin (?), and had some training food to comp, but nothing crazy.

R&M needs?:
In better news, the graffiti that was on the front planter box has been removed. City of Austin Tax dollars at work. I put the request in two weeks ago and they said they would remove it. It's gone! yeay! 

Kitchen and Sushi Bar: PLEASE keep the clutter and double used containers on the bottom portion of the service station reach in, to a minimum. We have wine and sake that we need to keep down there, and need for it to stay accessible. If you can find another space to put them, please do. We are running out of room in our fridge.

I will look into getting the light on the front sign fixed tomorrow, in the daylight. Also, I found some wood glue and have attempted to glue the pieces of wood that fell from the wall. Hopefully they will adhere


86'd items/ need more?
Daniel has a list. Masking tape is one of them