Friday 12/12/14

Written By:  Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $1895
Projected Sales: $2360
TY Lunch Sales: $2665
+/- : +41% LY and +$305 PS!
Lunch Covers: 140
Avg PPA: $19.04

LY Dinner Sales: $6419
Projected Sales: $6840
TY Dinner Sales: $6275
+/- : -2% LY and -$565 PS :(
Dinner Covers: 204
Avg PPA:  $30.76

For the day we ended with $8940 in sales, 8% over LY and just $260 short PS

Weather: sun came out a little in the afternoon low 70s

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Lunch: Alex, Joel, Sayo, Lynn CL. Alley host, Jonathan SA, Krystin FR
Dinner: Sayo, Joel, Naoto, Clair, Sophia CL. Krystin & Alley Host, Jason SA, Kaori FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Pretty steady busy lunch. Went on a wait around noon I believe. This morning started off a little rocky with the circuit blowing and the drain clogging and just coming back from 2 days off to a bunch of stuff, so I was a little preoccupied during the beginning of the shift to appropriately comment on the shift itself other than, it was busy. Lynn racked up over $900 in sales, though she never seemed that busy. She did have the party room sat 2x however, and a few regulars in. So that helped. We were steady until 1:30 at which point I cut down to just Lynn, since the restaurant was rather full still and I didn't see a whole lot happening.

Dinner: Went on a wait by6:30 and got off the wait around 9:30. Cut Sayo & Joel at 9:30, and cut Naoto at 9:45, cut Clair at 10:30 but no new tables came in before closed. Cleared out by 11pm. The whole night ran really smoothly, even the staff was surprised at how well it ran. Nice to have those once and a while. But really the night went very smoothly. No bumps what.so.ever! The place cleared out well before 11pm with the exception of one lone table. But they were out by about 11:05. Sophia worked sushi bar tonight and rang about $1800 in sales. And she rocked it too. Never once was she weeded or need help. And she mentioned something that was very insightful and useful to me. She told me that everytime she got sat, she greeted them with set ups (plates, wasabi and ginger) and it saved her a ton of time. She said she never felt rushed or behind, and it allowed her to talk to her tables longer, thus getting better tips. So I've added it to the shift notes to encourage the staff to greet with a full set up at dinner. Only dinner does this really affect things. I don't think any table has ever come in for dinner and not needed share plates, or ginger and wasabi. There is always at least one item from the sushi bar, be it rolls or nigiri or sashimi. So I would like to encourage all dinner servers to take up this practice.

Specials?

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
- Alex was a rockstar this morning. Marilu was getting backed up at dish so Alex helped reorganize the dish pit since things were starting to be thrown around, and I also pitched in and helped.
-Clair was helping out a bit in her downtime and walking from the back A's she would pick up plates from other tables
- Sophia, as mentioned above, handled the sushi bar with ease.

Any VIP's in? John programmer at Alamo (mostly Fantastic Fest)

Comps& Void Detail:
quite a few bday desserts, voided katsuo Tataki for Joel, 86'd. Voided Toro Nigiri, misring, meant sashimi, FNF for John, Programmer at the Alamo, FNF this afternoon via Take. Owner Comp for Kayo's lunch, Makani for staff.

R&M needs?:
- kitchen printer circuit popped again-  called electrician- this can't be a normal thing that occurs. Issue must be fixed. He'll be out on Wed 8am to add an additional circuit
-drain under dish pit clogged and overflowing- Take informed that the drain cover has been missing since Monday. Next time, as soon as we know it's gone we need to measure it and go to home depot for another one. I called out Clarke Kent plumbing since they were the only ones that could come out immediately, they snaked the drain. Cost us $189.
-ipad wasn't plugged in overnight (or it was?) and so the battery was super low- the cord didn't seem to be working so I text Kayo to grab a new one. Just something to keep your eye on when you plug it in.

86'd items/ need more?
Can someone please pick up some more brooms. Dusten broke one last week and we have since to replace it. I can always grab one if someone wants to let me know if that would be better.