Wednesday AM&PM 10.22.14

Written By: Cameron Stangel

LY Lunch Sales:$897
Projected Sales:$1300
TY Lunch Sales:$1780
+/- :Beat projections by $480 and beat LY lunch sales by $883
Lunch Covers:115
Avg PPA:$15.48

LY Dinner Sales:$3453
Projected Sales:$3800
TY Dinner Sales:$3447
+/- :Miss projections by $353. Down LY dinner by $6
Dinner Covers:152
Avg PPA:$22.68

Weather: Nice mid 70's I think. I was sitting outside at around 3:45pm and it started to rain....it was really strange there was on tiny tiny cloud right above me at the time..apparently a rain could with about 10 rain drops in it.

Any Special events going on?: Last day of the 3 year celebration for promos.

Who worked?:Kate, Sayo, Lynn, Lindsey, Jonathan (SA), Junko (H), Jason (FR)
Lindsey, Clair, Jason, Naoto, Sophia, Ruthy (H), Jason (FR), Kaori (SA)

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Today was great it seemed like we were really busy all day! This was definitely the busy lunch I have worked in a long time! We had many people wishing us "Happy Birthday". Many were friends and some were just fans of our food :) We started our with a big pop. We started to die down a lot by 12:30/12:45 to where I went 2 on. Kate had all the A's and Lynn had all the B's. At one point there was some confusion at the host stand and Kate got sat 5 tables within a minute, while Lynn didn't get any tables in rotation. so with Kate's new 15 cover section I could see her start to freak out. I know Kate can not handle that kind of volume comfortably while also not compromising service...So now that Kates section was full that just left Lynns section to be sat all at once. Lynn is use to this type of volume but it still could have gone a little smoother I think. Lynn kept her composer but definitely asked out for help more than normal, which I knew she really needed it then. After Junko saw what had happened and I talked to her, she asked the next table to wait about 5 minutes, we weren't 100% full but just to give Lynn a chance to get her orders in.
Anyways we were more busy than normal, which was great. Everyone really enjoyed their shirts and celebrating with us!

Tonight we started off really busy. We were on wait and full by 7pm. We stayed full and busy until about 9:15ish. I had a six top walk in early on who clearly wanted a big table to hangout for hours at...which they did, Naoto did a good job taking care of them. They were happy after the 3.5hours they joined us for. We were busy all night and Sophia did a great job closing sushi bar, as always She is always very pleasant to work with. I went 3 on at 8:45 and 2 on at 9:15.

Some problems with the POS, Lindsey and Jason had special kitchen mods/requirements on food that never printed out on the tickets and had to be remade. When I looked on the actual POS I saw that the mods were made, but just weren't printing out..My only answer was that maybe they specified to wrong kitchen or sushi bar and we should remind everyone in preshifts again.

I had a really funny lady come in (1st ime) for lunch asking about the 3 year anniversary and how much longer we are running the promo for. I told her we are only doing the 15% off until the end of our dinner shift tonight, she said that was really nice! I joked with her saying she should come in for dinner. Later tonight this women comes in and is like "Hey!!!!" and at first I didn't recognize her and she was like "I'm back for dinner!" So, it was the same lady she was super funny and said she had the best day every eating here twice!
Specials?
Bento Box-16
Smoking Sashimi-10
3 Year Danger roll-15
Doughnuts-2

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
Jason was really good at FR today. He did great this evening while Kaori was SA. Kaori is still a little lost and slow on the floor but Jason was FR and having FULL trays back in each time it was great seeing that.

Camacho seemed a little off again tonight. Personal problem? I could see he wasn't trying to let it effect his work but he wasnt 100%
Any VIP's in?
Hiroe
Comps& Void Detail:
void Tsukiji Set-86 (didn't have)
void tsukiji carp
Kome $
Emp day off for Hiroe

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?