Thursday 9.18.14

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $1742
Projected Sales: $1888
TY Lunch Sales: $1639
+/- : -6% over LY and short $249 proj
Lunch Covers: 107
Avg PPA: $15.32

LY Dinner Sales: $3417
Projected Sales: $4343
TY Dinner Sales: $4019
+/- : beat LY by 18% and missed prj by $324
Dinner Covers: 136
Avg PPA: $29.55

Weather: Muggy, sunny though. Night brought lots of rain. Lots and lots of rain.

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?: AM:  Johnny, Joel, Clair Lynn CL. Kaori FR, Junko host, Jonathan SA
PM: Joel, Lindsey, Kate, Naoto, Dusten CL. Ixchel and Ruthy Host, Mandy SA, Hiroe FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Really slow today. Never got a pop, never filled up. I thought for sure we would have a Ramen rush since the weather cooled a little bit. But to no avail. Nothing much to say about lunch. It cleared out at 12:55 and never quite filled back up. Cut Joel at 12:30, cut down to 2 at 12:55, and Johnny and Lynn took care of there rest of the tables that trickled in over the hour.

Dinner: Took a while to get going, and I thought the rain was going to scare people off, but finally around 8:15 we went on a wait. Leading up to that, however it was kinda like a one in and one out scenario. We were full and busy but not on a wait. The wait dropped off around 9:15 at which point it really started to clear out. People were sitting longer than normal due to the rain, but we never went over our quote times. Things ran smoothly. Had one spec dessert that took about 20 minutes simply due to Steve undercooking them or over cooking them. Vince can 'splain. Also, a little hiccup at the end of the night (sorry Dusten...), about 10 til close, Dusten got sat at B3 and didn't see them. I came out of the office to see them waving their hands and menus in the air. I immediately went over and they ordered a few things from me. I told Dusten it was his responsibility to know when he got sat. He said he didn't know what his section was. I reiterated that I called cuts when everyone was in the server station. He claimed to not have heard me. Anyhow, they got taken care of, I got a few more of their orders, and left without any further incident. But something I have been talking about in preshift (which Dusten wasn't privvy to today) was that it is your responsibility to know your section. No one is going to tell you when or where you got sat, so you need to stay alert. This was just another example of that.

Specials?
Lunch; none
Dinner: Tuna Ceviche (22 sold) and the donuts (10 sold). Ran a contest on them too which may have helped.

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Ixchel really takes control of the host stand. really great to see that
*Ruthy definitly needs a strong support to keep her focused and on track. When it's slow she gets lazy
* Kazu did a great job on Ichiban tonight.

Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Alex Inman was in, gave him a manager meal comp.  Friends of mine were in- Take knows Jodi, one of the ladies that was in. She works at Uchi.
Dinner: Tony from Flag store, my old next door neighbor Callie came in for her Bday

Comps& Void Detail:
Lunch: voided Lynn's Udon lunch because it was made with the wrong sauce (vince can better explain than I), Makani comps as usual
Dinner: 10% for Tony at flag store, sent a few things out to Callie for her bday.

R&M needs?:
While it was raining I noticed that the light closest to Airport on the Kome Sign is out. Change it tomorrow if it's dry enough.
86'd items/ need more?
Glazers came today and tried to deliver 2 soaking wet boxes of hot sake. I refused them- Caitlin will be bringing two dry boxes in tomorrow to replace them.