Friday PM 5.02.14

LY Lunch Sales:$2304
Projected Sales: $2475
TY Lunch Sales: $2753
+/- : up 19% over LY and $278 over projected

LY Dinner Sales: $6762
Projected Sales: $6917
TY Dinner Sales: $6701
+/- :down 1% and short $216 from projected

Weather:Another beautiful day, high in the 70's, night was mild and cool.

Any Special events going on?: Bike to Eat Week started Yesterday. 10% off for anyone that bikes here. Other than that, no.

Who worked?:
Dinner: Dusten CL. Stephanie, Alex, Taylor, Kate. Julie & Krysten host, Lindsey CT, Jason SA, Kaori FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times :
Started slow, as usual. slowly picked up and were were full by 6:30. Went on a wait by 6:45 but were off the wait by 7:30, then back on the wait at 8pm. There was a strange lull in the middle of it all, and then another hard push after 8pm that had our wait list go until after 10pm with a full dining room. I went down two at 10:25, those two being Dusten and Kate. Cut the host at that time too.
Things seemed a little off tonight and I'm not sure if it's just me or what.
1- There is hot water coming from the service water tap. Not scolding hot, but certainly not cold.
2- We were running out of pints again. I'll pick more up tomorrow from Ace Mart, unless anyone is going to RD tomorrow morning and can get them
3- I got rid of the crappy check presenters which left us with few. I think there are some in the trailer i can bust out until Eileen is finished making our new ones
4- The Ants in the office ate my protein bar and it made me sad.

About the dishwasher: Jason and Daniel- Please make sure these guys are fully rinsing plates and things before putting them into the dishwasher. I'm not sure but the jets might be clogged again. Had some tea cups coming out with residue still in them, and Kate mentioned that at the beginning of the shift some soy sauce dishes had some crud in it. I still see them scrubbing things, which they no longer have to do anymore. They simply load up a dish rack, spray it out, make sure no loose particles are there, and run it through. I'm still seeing them trying to act as though the three sink is there, and it's slowing them down.  Someone please do a tutorial. Rack the dishes, spray clean, run through, unload. Boom! done! They are just making more work for themselves.

On a side note- Greg made me an omelet for dinner tonight and it was amazing. The eggs were cooked perfectly. Just a little shout out there.

Also, I think I probably flubbed up the music station tonight. When I turned it on and it had the Body Language Radio on, which was a station Kayo made, so I figured that would be a safe bet. But then it started playing Dub-step and I couldn't monitor it enough to make sure it wasn't always playing dub-step, so I changed it to Two-Door Cinema radio, a group I had heard of before. Throughout the rest of the night you couldn't really make out much of the music because it was so loud in here, except for the fact that you could hear music, the exact message or song wasn't readily audible. Anyhow, after it cleared out a little, around 10:45pm you could definitely hear it more. I have to say, Two-Door Cinema is probably more lunch time music. So I apologize for the poor music choice this evening. I will do better tomorrow night.

Any VIP's in?
Cameron our new manager was in for dinner tonight to check the place out. She enjoyed the food. I sent her some of my favorite pieces of nigiri too. 

Comps of note:
Comp'd some FNF for Cameron, not many other mistakes tonight which was good. 

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
small square app plates for servers. preferably not plastic
Used the last of to-go sushi containers
Also no more small clamshells
And the lids for the to-go ramekins are the wrong size by a hair