Thursday 5.22.14

LY Lunch Sales: $1880
Projected Sales:$1944
TY Lunch Sales:$1402
+/- : down 25%

LY Dinner Sales: $5276
Projected Sales:$5646
TY Dinner Sales:$4249
+/- : down 19% and down 21% for the day!!  booooooo!!!!

Weather:overcast in the morning, and a little humid. Expected rain. It cleared up by afternoon and was sunny and pleasant. Cool in the evening.

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Lunch: Joel, Clair, Johnny, Lynn CL. Junko host, Julie FR, Jason SA
Dinner: Clair, Kate, Dusten TR-Sarah, Miho TR- Cameron, Julie host, Joaquin SA, Hiroe FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: pretty good start, but by 12:45 we were still pretty slow. Nothing much going on at Sushi bar, so I got gutsy and cut down to just Lynn and Johnny at 1pm. The tables filled up in the B's and more than half of the A's, but the sushi bar was never full,so they were busy but manageable. No long ticket times or issues anywhere.

Dinner: Slow slow start. I wasn't sure what kind of night it was going to be considering how slow it started, but by 8pm it finally picked up and we filled up and went on a wait. the wait stayed brief, at around 20 minutes average, but we stayed on the wait until about 9pm. I cut Clair at 8:45 because her section was full and they weren't going anywhere. Around 9:15 I went down to just Miho and Sophia since the restaurant was relatively full. They handled it fine. Only had one strange occurrence all night and it came early on in the evening- Sophia got sat at B1, and then 3 times in a row at sushi bar (it was that was the only option left) and B1, I should note, were young kids. I dropped some stuff off at their table and they asked me for another round of beers, and when I dropped those off they told me they were pre-gaming to go to Dirty 6th. Then after the one guy paid the $110 tab, Sophia grabbed the check presenter and they only tipped her $5. So I asked if she wanted me to go over and ask if everything was okay. She did. So I did. And that is when the one girl said she felt that the service was "slow" tonight. And she has been in here before and the service is always great but Sophia just took a long time with them, and then a few others chimed in about the service. So I apologized and told them that she also has the entire sushi bar, so perhaps that could explain the lapse in service, but otherwise we do apologize. And she said thank you for asking and thank you for coming over to talk to them, and that they would be back. But it was just kind of sucky for them to tip her like that.  Oh well. I did what I could.

A note about the miso soup tonight: I've noticed we've been putting cabbage in it lately? Well tonight it definitely was taking on the flavor of the cabbage and tasting less like miso soup and more like cabbage stew. I had Dusten taste it just to make sure it wasn't me and he agreed that it tasted off. So maybe something to keep in mind.



Any VIP's in?
L: Ryan Schibi (old Highball GM- current Alamo guru!), Caitlin with her manager from Glazers
D: some regulars- David and Ransom, Cooper and Mieko, and some DK sushi guys

Comps of note:
Kome bucks, and training foods. Also had an extra manager meal comp looks like from last night.

R&M needs?: 

86'd items/ need more?
Coffee is coming tomorrow
Need more Topo Chico