Saturday 1.31.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2226
Projected Sales: $2344
TY Lunch Sales: $3250
+/- : +46% LY and beat PS by $906
Lunch Covers: 191
Avg PPA:  $17.02

LY Dinner Sales: $7042
Projected Sales: $6871
TY Dinner Sales:  $6627
+/- : -6% ly and short $244 PS
Dinner Covers: 220
Avg PPA: $30.12

For the day we did $9877, +7% LY!

Previous Days Labor %: 16%

Previous Days Comps %:  3.11% with 0% Controllable comps!!!!

Weather: Rainy 61/57

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Lunch: Lindsey, Joel. Krystin, Johnny CL. Dena Host. Hiroe SA, and Jason FR
Dinner: Joel, Clair, Naoto, Mandy, Sophia CL> Grace/Ally Host, Jason SA, Hiroe FR.
Ally put her notice in. She just has a hectic schedule and can't juggle all of the shifts. Understandable. She also said she modified her availability for Feb last week (I saw that it needed to be approved) but then got scheduled for a time where she is babysitting her siblings, so she can't work. She released her shift, so it just needs to get picked up. I'm sure someone will. It shouldn't be too big of a deal with Ruthy wanting to work more and all. Things should be fine. I told her she could always pick up shifts if she felt that her schedule allowed.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch:  Busy day again.Went on a wait at 12:21 and didn't get off the wait until 2:45. Everyone was hustling. Hiroe was SA, and she doesn't usually SA so I was having to keep an eye on how she was doing, but overall everyone did a fine job. No long ticket times, which was great considering the # of big tops we had: 9/6/6/10/6/and many many 5's. Really crazy the number of big tops we had in today. But everyone did fine, The kitchen pushed food out as did he sushi bar. No comps for Controllable comps! Woohoo!

However, because we had soup on the new sushi bar table, the rice was being made during the pop and in dessert station again. So we still have some kinks to figure out with that.

Dinner: Started slow, but got on a wait by 6:15. Again, very similar to last week when everyone came in all at once. Krystin got thrown to the wolves with a packed lobby (because of the rain) and a line of people hanging out on the patio under the awning. I had guests pulling me aside asking to order drinks, people were THIRSTY tonight! Geez. Krystin got a little flustered but got back on her feet after we got a few tables down. It was intense. I helped out by taking a few guests orders as well. We were on an hour wait, easily, and it was pretty consistant throughout the night. Had a lot of walk in 5 tops, but mostly 2-4's. Had a few no shows later in the night once the wait time hit an hour (though within their quoted time) and cut down to 2 on at 10pm. Mandy and Sophia handled the last hour fine- Sophia was chatting with a table and didn't see her B3 get sat, but they were very understanding. Oh and during the height of the rush some guy set our alarm off by leaning on it. But other than that, it was a smooth smooth night.

I had a contest: in order to qualify you had to sell one of each special, and then once qualified, whoever sold the most $$. Mandy Won! Pulled ahead right at the end, ahead of Sophia.

Specials?
Tempura Special: Tempura  fried Brussel Sprouts & Colored Cauliflower. Sold like crazy! 21!!!
Tsukiji Set: 15
Tsukiji Carp: 8
Aji Spec 18

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Joel did a good job in the middle B's tonight. I was a little nervous with his lack of urgency as of late, but he actually did a great job getting to all of his tables in a timely manner.
*Mandy did a great job tonight. Barely even knew she was here- stealthy and helpful too.
*Though Krystin got flustered, she got back into the game and was able to have a strong shift

Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Harry (formerly of the Dojo) his crew, unfortunately, tipped Krystin only 10%.
Dinner: James & Ingrid were the only ones I noticed.

Comps& Void Detail:
Dinner: some voids for 86'd items: Sake Toro, Gyu,
Kit.Error for the last Beef Carpaccio that went out tonight. It was the last of it and it looked pretty fatty. Could have comp'd it to DNL but I was talking to Mandy and blanked when I comp'd it
DNL for an Ika Ume Shiso- the woman said the Shiso was "too strong"
FNF for Joel's Mama.
Emp Day off for Sayo and her family at lunch
Kome Bucks for Bento Winners this morning and for Sophia (2nd place in contest, won glass of wine) and Kazu (bought a beer for rolling a crazy amount of rolls)
Bday Desserts for 2 tables.

R&M needs?:
B1's table top is pretty much not even attached to the base. It looks like it's being held on by 1 precarious screw. Tonight when Sophia when to put the chairs up it almost fell off. I'll look at it tomorrow.

86'd items/ need more?