Friday PM 11.8.14

Written By: Cameron Stangel


LY Dinner Sales: $6703
Projected Sales:$7009
TY Dinner Sales:$7000 woo
+/- :Missed projections by $9! Up $297 from LY dinner
Dinner Covers:253
Avg PPA:$27.67

Weather: Nice nice nice early on.

Any Special events going on?: Fun Fun Fun

Who worked?: Joel, Johnny, Jason, Sayo, Alex, Lindsey (CT), Ruthy (H), Mandy
Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Sayo had the party room tonight. I thought she did a really good turning her tables and stayed busy the whole night. I was happy to see how calm she stayed under pressure and being really busy.
We were off wait by 9. fun fun fun seemed to slow us down. Lots of people hanging around after their dinner. Average table times were well over an hour and 1/2 for most tables. Everyone wanted to hang out.
Jason had sushi bar and he seemed tired from working this morning. Sushi cards were passed to sushi bar guys a few times. Dusten is usually the bar so hes use to the timing more so and is better at continuously moving up and down the bar, where as I saw Jason getting stuck sometimes.. At 9:30pm I went 3 on. We completely emptied out, for the last few hours we were on a serious wait but as soon as it became 9pm people stopped coming in and we were able to sit all the parties that were waiting...No new tables for about 20 minutes came in. Now, by 9:50 we only 1/2 full, bar included. Crazy! I don't think I've had a Friday night this mellow..
10:20 rolls around after cuts and we fill all the way back up with in about 6 minutes. It's always that lull where too many people have left, too many tables are open for me to keep so many servers on, and then bam, we are busy. The servers cut still had a few tables themselves so they helped Jason and Johnny get their tables set up. Jason and Johnny were great, even though we were busy and they both got sat back to back I saw them taking their time to explain the menu, specials and everything else.
After a few big pops throughout the night I thought it was a good night. We only missed projections by $9. I could see how fun fun fun might effect the rest of the weekend. All in all ticket times were good, people were happy.

Specials?
smoking sashimi got 86 since no one was selling it-1
Iwashi-
Clams-1
Ceviche-12
Tsukiji Carp-14
Set-4


3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
Joel had 2 desserts that took 20 min. At that time kitchen was picking up and the gyoza nad doughnuts came out after 19ish minutes. He dropped it to his table and they weren't upset at all. He suggested we take one dessert off because of the time. Joel seems to be getting too comfortable with what he believes deserves discounts, and tries to give them out pretty liberally. I said there was nothing wrong with the table and nothing wrong with the ticket times so if he wanted to buy it for his table he can but I am not doing anything else. He didn't end up buying it for them...

Jason and Johnny were a good closing team, they communicated well to their co workers to what they needed help with and when. Good job

Sayo did a great job with the party room. I was nervous at first but when she needed help she asked other than that everyone was happy.\

Any VIP's in?
McGuires from next door came in, we took care of their dinner and gave them an update about no more drivers coming down the alley.

Comps& Void Detail:
Owner comp for McGuires
Kome Bucks for winners
makani
birthday dessert

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
More metal chairs, they keep breaking...We don't have any spares anymore for when we have larger parties