Tuesday PM 9.9.14

Written By: Cameron Stangel

LY Dinner Sales:$3451
Projected Sales:$3970
TY Dinner Sales:$3524
+/- :Missed projections by $446. Up from LY dinner by $73 and 2%
Dinner Covers:142
Avg PPA:$24.82

Weather: pretty hot

Any Special events going on?: Nothing special.

Who worked?:Kate, Clair, Alex, Lindsey, Ixchel (H), Hiroe (FR), Jason (SA)

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Ladies night is always fun! Everyone was on a double (besides Kate) but came in and gave 100%. We were 4 on so they all knew they were going to make some money!(which I think is what they all wanted since today was so slow, apparently). We stared out great for happy hour and it was only Kate and she did a great job. We quickly went on wait at around 8 pm but also a lot of our parties were just incomplete, and we didn't even have anyone complaining about our seating policy...it was great! I went 3 on at 8:15pm and 2 on at 9pm. I gave Alex everything at 9:40 and we had no later tables. Pretty steady..kinda slow night, but nothing out of control crazy

 Kaori stopped in today to talk about her schedule. She is scheduled to work Thursday night and said she can't because she has class and just found out... I told her to put it on hotschedules along with an email out to people to see if it could get covered and she said she did..I told her when I make the schedule I go off of the availability they imputed on hotschedules, she said she made a mistake and cant work and no one has offered to cover it. At this point it was clear she was looking for me to solve this problem and I told her when the schedule is posted its now their responsibility to get it covered if they can not work, since my schedule is only on the availability they provided.. I told her if no one can work it and she can't either then we will give her a write up and it will be documented. She said she will try and get it covered, but heads up for whoever works Thursday....Wait, it me! cool :)

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Clair was complaining a little bit about sidework today. It was 4 on and she offered to do 1&2(basically nothing) and the other people did their respected sidework. I told her to also do the daily duty of washing the straw container, which is basically no more effort than 1&2, and she looked as if I told her to do all the side work total. She was really lagging and Lindsey ended up doing it. Clair needs to know we work as a team and this sidework is nothing compared to restaurants I have worked in the past and if someone asks you to wash the straw container there should be no disagreement.

*Ixchel expressed interest in being trained for FR, CT and SA shifts--not to be scheduled necessarily but to be eligible to pick up shifts if available. She was super interested to learning how to make drinks when it was slow

*Everyone on a double did great tonight...my contest was $10 Kome to whoever rings over $700, which is low, but I wanted people to win to show a thanks for really pushing through the day. 3 of the 4 beat it and won. By the end of the day I could tell they were tired but they appreciated us realizing their hard work.
Any VIP's in?

Comps& Void Detail:
We stared to die down a lot between 9 and 10. Maybe it was becasue they had a stage in the back, I don't know, but I had to comp both an Escolar and Ten Zaru for long ticket times...Escolar was 45min and Ten Zaru was 33min. When I went back to the kitchen Daniel said he forgot to drop the escolar.

F&F to my friend who just flew in from Oakland, said the grilled salmon was the best salmon dish he has had in a very very long time

Anthony Lehmen (spelling) old employee came in with his GF, who's going to give brth in 11 days! wow! Alex bought them some pieces which I F&F for her portion.

Kome bucks $10 Kate
Kome $10 Clair
Kome $10 recovery

R&M needs?:
faucet in server station is still super broken...do we know what is going to happen with this? I asked Rodrigo to come in but then I had my days off and haven't heard anything
86'd items/ need more?