Sunday AM 1.25.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $1686
Projected Sales: $1814
TY Lunch Sales: $2201
+/- : +31% LY and +$387 PS
Lunch Covers:  112
Avg PPA: $19.65

As of right now we are 8% up for the week. We have two reservations set for tonight, and people have been calling trying to make reservations so I'm assuming we'll be busy again. If we hit our sales goal we will be up 6% for the month.

Previous Days Labor %:15%

Previous Days Comps %: 2.62% with only 3.66% being contrl.

Weather: Sunny and beautiful!!! 71/37

Any Special events going on?: none that I am aware of.

Who worked?: Krystin, Sayo, Stephanie, Camacho CL. Grace Host, Jason FR. No SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
busy busy busy from the start- we filled up by 12:30 and were on a waitlist of about 8 tables. Had two 8-top walk ins, luckily they were about 40 mintues from each other so we were able to seat the party room twice. Had some 35 minute sushi roll times. I noticed only Kaylynn was making the rolls and Kazu doing prep. She could have really used some help. Going forward can we have him stop doing prep to help make rolls if we start getting that backed up?Also, can we find any other time to make sushi rice? This happens almost weekly during a rush when there is someone standing in the dishpit, making sushi rice. Not only does it cause a major back up for servers and those running in between but it also is kind of gross having all of those dirty things being thrown everywhere and then the sushi rice. Could we make it before service? I know it may not be possible, but maybe we can find another spot to do it? Just throwing the ideas out there.

It was just Jersey and Daniel in the kitchen during the initial push, Take showed up a little later, but I guess this morning Toshi told Krystin to push Bento boxes. Going forward, if we only have 2 on in the kitchen, we really can't push the Bento's because of the limited man power. Jersey and Daniel were hustling back there with a full rail including the 8 top that ordered kitchen food, etc, and they were really working hard, pumping that food out, but it's going to be too soon before they just hit a wall. I'm nervous with the Bento boxes going on the menu- we need to make sure we have enough staff back there to handle a busy shift like that. Take took some relief from them when he got here, but it wasn't until later on.

Other than that, it started to die down around 1:30. I cut Krystin at that time and then went down to just Camacho and Sayo at 2pm, then just Camacho at 2:30. It slowly died as the beautiful afternoon went on.

Specials?

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Stephanie was really helpful with prebussing, watering other tables, etc while we didn't have a busser
*Grace also did a great job. Just needs to stay on top of stocking chopsticks, but she was also all over the place helping to bus in her downtime. She's really developing. Looking forward to getting her food runner trained as well.

Any VIP's in?

Comps& Void Detail:
Kome Bucks for Camacho's lunch and wine- he won the contest last night and instead of taking a gift card somewhere he took the equivalent in Kome Bucks.

R&M needs?:
Going forward, the ipod should be disconnected and placed in the office after service is over. If any of the staff would like to listen to music they can do so on their own devices and with the cords provided. No more employee us of the ipod!
86'd items/ need more?