Saturday PM 1.3.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Dinner Sales: $5948
Projected Sales: $5897
TY Dinner Sales: $7155
+/- : +20% LY! and +$1258 PS
Dinner Covers: 250
Avg PPA: $28.62

Weather: Pleasant in the low 60's, then cold at night,  in the 30's

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Clair, Joel, Camacho, Dusten, Sophia CL. Grace/Dena  Host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA\
Dena did much better tonight, smiling and such.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Went on a wait around 5:50 and got off the wait around 9:45. Had so many large walk in groups in addition to the 3 reservations that were already on the books. (3) 6-tops and one 7-top. Many 3 & 4 tops, and had onyl 1 party wait over their quote time due to several 4tops just sitting and lingering after paying their bill. The group was a mixed bag and I couldn't really read them. I sent out 4 miso soups but only 2 of them ate them. They didn't seem upset, they were just...odd.

Other than that I would say the night was smooth and seamless, which was nice. The girls did a great job at the host stand, and the staff seemed on top of everything. Miho assisted Clair with her B3 table that only spoke Japanese. Dusten blew everyone out of the water in the back B's by winning both contests (sold a bottle of Mio and hit over $150 in alcohol sales within the first 2 hours) I'm continuing the running of the bubbles contest until it's gone. Since I didn't line anything up for  a January contest, this should be just fine. February will be a red wine contest for Valentines Day promotions (and Chandon if we still have any in stock)

Jersey mentioned that when they are taking the trash out (FOH) they are pulling the bag out of the bin. I don't see this happening but maybe they do so after they get back to the kitchen. In any case, let's make sure they are taking the trash can to the dumpster with them, so they aren't trekking trash juice through the kitchen area.

At the end of Jason Camacho's shift he noticed that he had two credit card receipts from A7 with the same last 4 digits, so we looked it up and it looks like he charged one guy's card twice, and didn't charge the other guy. I immediately refunded the mis-charged card for $91.80 (card ending in 3285- Visa) so if anyone calls and is saying they got charged twice, they in fact did, however I refunded the card as soon as we found the issue and the server, Jason, paid the $75.50 back  (obviously not the $16 tip). Jason was pretty pissed about having to pay back the money but he also understood.

On that note- I DO have closing checks out correctly listed on the shift notes already and HAVE been talking about it in pre-shift, but will make sure to drive the point home a little harder.

$2 Asahi Tuesday starts this week- I have Facebook posts set up and have been talking about it in preshift. I already have the price schedule ready for Tuesdays- it's timed to start at 4:30, so just ring in an Asahi and it should be $2. Of course I'll go over all this Monday at the meeting, but I just wanted to share it now while I have a semi-captive audience.

Specials?

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Camacho was ultra helpful watering tables in his downtime and prebussing other sections
*Miho was helpful in between lulls of cocktailing she would also water tables and help where needed.

Any VIP's in?
Lisette. My quasi-new family member. She's Aaron's Brother's Wife's Brother's Wife....woah. What does that make her to me? My sister in law twice removed? I have no clue. Anyhow she was in and I sent her and her friend 2 pieces of katsuo. They loved it- it was her friend's first time here and they had a great time.

Comps& Void Detail:
Not a whole lot tonight, which was great. Voided a yakiniku and kara age sophia double rang, voided a kaki fry 86.

R&M needs?:
The ice machine stopped producing ice this afternoon. I called Austin Industrial and they came out to look at it and repaired it. I also called King Daddy Ice who was here around the same time the technician.  This occurred last night as well, but I forgot to mention it. The machine was repaired on new years day and was working, then last night it stopped, and apparently today it was yielding less than normal or none at all.

86'd items/ need more?
Are we keeping kaki fry on the menu/ I feel as though we often run out of them, and they don't sell very well either.
Take can you order Ramune for the next order
We also need a box of Toilet Paper from Sysco on the next Sysco delivery. We have a few rolls in newspaper in the ladies room, but we'll definitely need more by next weekend.