Saturday PM 10.11.14

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Dinner Sales: $5861
Projected Sales: $6114
TY Dinner Sales: $6483
+/- :  beat LY by 11% and $369 over PS
Dinner Covers: 224
Avg PPA: $28.94
Beat LY for the day by 14% and over projected by $370

Weather: overcast and chilly all day!

Any Special events going on?: ACL II day 2

Who worked?:
Sophia, Naoto, Joel, Dusten CL. Krystin & Ixchel host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA
Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Nice start to the evening and we were on a wait at 6:15, but it was slow going. The wait list grew, while the tables sat. One table sat incomplete for 45 minutes and then ended up sitting for a total of 3 hours. They were paid out for another 45 minutes when I went over there and kindly explained that we are a very small restaurant and I noticed they have paid out some time ago and we are still on an hour wait. They immediately got up without incident. But had a lot of lingering tables tonight. Naoto's section in particular. Poor guy. But the lingering tables early on put us over our quote time with a few tables. I sent them an edamame as soon as they sat and they were very pleased. We didn't have any large parties except for the party room 10 top, which Sophia stuck around to take and it ended up being a bunch of young people that barely tipped her anything (if at all) I had half a mind to go outside where they were lingering and ask if everything was okay with their service. But I refrained. I had already asked a table to leave tonight, I had to draw my line somewhere. I bought Sophia a glass of wine for the troubles.

Everyone held their own tonight and helped where they could. We were off the wait by 9:30. Cut Sophia and Naoto at 9:30 and Miho at 10pm. Joel and Dusten held down the fort until close. Dusten got triple sat so I kept Joel on just in case anymore parties rolled through the door at 10:30, but they didn't so I cut Joel. Ixchel went home at 10:30 as well.


Specials?
Poisson Cru: 15
Iwashi Katsu: 0
Fried Green Beans: 4
Cheesecake: 4

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
Daniel- yes you, Daniel! Stood out like a rock star tonight. he was super helpful in every aspect. I had a table that had several food allergies and when I went in the kitchen to ask about the ingredients in things he was very helpful. Also, we ran into an issue with morwaise (spelling?) which I'm sure he'll mention in his blog, but he jumped in very quickly and was able to fix the issue in faster time than he quoted me. Overall a great support back there tonight.

Joel- saw him helping out prebusing the sushi bar in his spare time tonight. Good to see that coming from him. Though I am still concerned with his sense of urgency when busy.

Krystin and Ixchel did a great job tag teaming the host stand- both very skilled and knowledgable.
Any VIP's in?

Comps& Void Detail:
Birthday Cheesecake for A3, Recovery Edamame for A8/B3, voided 3 beers for Joel that he misrang, FNF for my friend Leah who came in for dinner with her boyfriend. Recovery comp'd a warabi mochi for S4 because they didn't think it was that, and then proceeded to argue with Dusten about what Mochi was. I comp'd it out of good spirit of them delving into Japanese desserts and trying something new. Kome Bucks for Sophia's wine.

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
Monday before I come in I am going to Ace mart to pick up the following items:
stemless flutes
wine stoppers
ice bucket
dish aprons
store-n-pour for FOH to use- we're going to start batching the Bloody Mary Mix
Anything else?