Tuesday 12.30.14

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2745
Projected Sales: $2531
TY Lunch Sales: $1783
+/- : -35% LY and short $758 PS
Lunch Covers: 96
Avg PPA: $18.57

LY Dinner Sales: $6090 (LY was NYE)
Projected Sales: $6114
TY Dinner Sales: $6086
+/- : broke even! missed PS by $28!!!
Dinner Covers: 223
Avg PPA: $27.29
And last year it was New Years eve!!!

Weather: cold and colder at night.

Any Special events going on?: New Years Eve Eve

Who worked?:
Lunch: Krystin, Lindsey, Johnny, Alex CL. Junko host trained Grace. Kaori FR,  Jason SA
Dinner: Krystin, Lindsey, Alex, Stephanie, Dusten CL. Dena/Stephanie host, Sigele FR, Jason SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch wasn't nearly as busy as it was yesterday. We did get a little busy but once again, nothing like it was yesterday. The first hour was slow, noon was steady, and by 1pm I went down to 2 on, and Johnny and Alex both kicked butt ringing in the bulk of lunch sales ($500 & $700 in sales, respectively). Grace has really picked up quickly and did well on her last host training shift.

Dinner was busy from the get go. I thought having the rest of the staff arrive by 5:30 would be fine, but we were nearly full by 5:30. I put Dusten, Stephanie and Krystin to work as soon as they walked in the door. Alex and Lindsey were very busy from the start and did a good job asking for help where they needed it, but it was definitely a glimpse into what tomorrow night will look like. I looked at the schedule and I have 3 openers, then Miho in at 5:30 (and she can't be in earlier due to her other job) and Sophia the closer will also be in at 5:30, which is fine because sushi bar is always the last to fill up anyway. So tomorrow we should be set. I have the cocktail here at 6pm and the second host at 6pm and until then I can help. So anyway, back to tonight. We went on a wait around 6pm and didn't get off the wait until about 9:30. Had (4) six-tops walk in through the course of the evening and 1 seven-top, in addition to the 6pm reservation. No issues with under-quoting or anything like that. Just a very busy night with a good mix of 2's, 4's and big parties. Like I said, a good practice for tomorrow night, however I'm sure tomorrow it will be more two-tops than anything. If you're familiar with how many covers we usually do on a Tuesday night, tonight was almost double, and the equivalent to a Friday nights covers. I cut Stephanie host at 9pm, and went down to 2 on at that time as well. Had some regulars come in later in the evening. Had a 6 top sit around 9:45 that Stephanie took. Restaurant was empty by 10:45.

Had another "Beer in a bag" contest tonight. Goal was to sell 6+ Tsukiji carp or toro trio. Only Dusten & Stephanie won this contest.

Specials?

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Sigele is pretty great. Efficient and getting faster. Hard worker. I can't say enough positive things about her
*The staff is getting visibly tired. Waitstaff mostly- a lot of them have been working doubles back to back. Noticed Alex & Lindsey losing steam towards the end of the shift tonight. However that is very much to be expected, so I'm not holding it against them
*Stephanie(Host) was visibly tired as well, working at both Sa-ten and here, doubles and such. I didn't get to cut her until later too, and I could see the night wearing her down.

Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Karen was in for lunch...or was it dinner. I think maybe it was early on for dinner.
Dinner: Ransom and David. Love those guys!! Neil and a friend. Neil left his phone here.

Comps& Void Detail:
Manager meal- there was a check open from yesterday that I closed to Manager meal. 2 Chicken Kara-age and 2 Veg Harumaki. Don't know what

R&M needs?:
I went all organizational crazy on the office today. Moved the towels to the bottom shelf under the kitchen produce, nearest the door. Moved t-shirt bins to another shelf. Moved all office supplies to shelves. Also I purchased another file cabinet drawer that arrived today so I got rid of all the binders that were on the second shelf, and they all have nice, organized folders in the top filing cabinet. Something I've wanted to do for a while. Also, I ordered some bankers boxes to file the invoices from 2014 in. Did that today too. So, if you walk into the office and need something, you might have to reacquaint yourself with it. Or just ask me where it is.

86'd items/ need more?