Saturday 2.21.15

Written By: Elizabeth
ANOTHER RECORD BREAKING DAY!
Okay, so maybe just dinner sales. But all day we still broke $11k! (did I just ruin the ending?)

LY Lunch Sales: $2504
Projected Sales:  $2895
TY Lunch Sales: $2745
+/- : +10% LY and -$150 PS
Lunch Covers: 162
Avg PPA: $16.94

LY Dinner Sales: $7694
Projected Sales:   $7380
TY Dinner Sales:  $8302
+/- : +8% LY and +$922 PS
Dinner Covers: 273
Avg PPA:  $30.41

For the day we ended with  $11,047 in sales. Beating LY by 8% and PS by $772

Previous Days Labor %: 13.74 %

Previous Days Comps %: 3.76%    6.04% Controllable.

Weather: Sunny and beautiful 70's

Any Special events going on?: None to my knowledge

Who worked?:
Lunch: Sophia, Alex, Sayo , Johnny CL. Ruthy Host, Hiroe FR, Kaori SA
Dinner: Clair, Lindsey, Miho, Naoto, Dusten CL. Grace/Ruthy Host, Krystin CT, Hiroe FR. Jason SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Picked up as usual around 12:30. Never went on a wait, but were full and steady with one in and one out. Only had one long ticket for a salmon kasu that I think Tre mistook for a saba- when it came out it was kind of in pieces too, so I took 50% off for them. They were very nice.
S6 found a hair on the underside of his fish on his nigiri piece. I don't know how Toshi couldn't have seen it, and I don't know how it could have gone out that way- honestly I think it was the guys beard hair, the way it was shown to me. It was just too odd. Anyway, Toshi made him another piece of saba nigiri and they were fine. I didn't follow up because it was handled quickly and since they were at the sushi bar they seemed fine.
No tables for 15 minutes then 9 tables in less than 10 minutes.  then nothing.

Dinner: Got busy fast. Went on a wait by 5:55 and stayed on the wait until 10:30. It was a strange kind of wait though, we had quite a few large parties occupying the dining room tonight, in addition to the 3 resos in the PR. We had a walk in 8, 7, 6, 6, 6 which held things up. We were on a 45 minute wait with only 5 parties on the list because of that, but no one waited longer than their quote time, with the exception of 1 table- who also got upset because the Farm salad shrunk. When did the farm salad get smaller? A7 was pretty upset with it and I didn't know we were serving it on a smaller plate or portion sizes. I thought we discussed this in the meeting- if there are any changes in the kitchen, everyone needs to know. Let's please work on communication guys. I also found out mid-shift that the staff was told there would be a contest on Smokin' Sashimi, after I told them in the pre-shift meeting that our contest was highest % of alcohol sales. So once again, let's be sure we are communicating to each other when we declare or change things. Dusten won the Smokin' Sashimi Contest with 10, I bought $20 of his dinner for that. Miho won the Alc % sales with 24% of her sales being alcohol! woohoo!

I told A& that the portion was small because our main farm, haus bar farms, had a smaller yield of crop after the freeze a few weeks ago, and thus had to raise the price and thus we had to serve a smaller portion. Total and complete bull honky, but they bought it. I still had to take 50% off their Farm Salad to make them completely happy, since they said they come here frequently and have had it before and it wasn't this small. But I think they left happy. Now hopefully they don't go asking Haus Bar Farms about their "small yield due to frost"
The night was really odd. We wouldn't have anyone come in for 10-15 minutes at a time, then all of  a sudden 5 tables would walk in. Just really strange.
A5 found a piece of plastic in the gelatin portion of their parfait. They weren't upset (which is strange because this piece was pretty big!) but I did comp it. We had a few kitchen error comps today.

Cuts Ruthy and Clair at 9pm when it stared to die down. Cut CT at 9:30. Cut Lindsey at 10:30 and closed with 3 on.

I noticed that we're still having problems with our cheesecakes. Tonight I had to discard 2 pieces because they were either cut poorly, or made poorly. The crust was not adhering to the cheese and the center of the cake seemed droopy (and on one piece there was no crust in the middle- I think the paper took it off) Are we still only doing Sake-Kasu cheesecake? Can we switch it up again?

Specials?
Tsk. Carp/Set   8/12
Taz Sash 5
Aburi Aji 2
Aburi Hamachi 3
Pork Belly 13
 Aburi Trio 5
Takowasa Nigiri 1
Smokin' Sash (2 kinds) 22

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Gave Clair her Eval today and she took it very well. Talked a lot about her attitude on the floor and reining in the negativity.
*Naoto- superstar as always. Was in the back B's so he had some downtime on his hands and helped prebus other sections. (P.S- Naoto's Birthday is Tuesday- he said he and Hiroe will probably be late for the meeting but will try to make it- maybe we can recognize him that day if he is there)
*Krystin rang over $600 cocktailing tonight and did it was ease. I helped her out here and there but she stayed organized and did a great job

Any VIP's in?
Familiar faces, yes. Names, I need to get better with (some I have seen so many times I just can't ask anymore!)

Comps& Void Detail:
50% Kitchen Error for a Salmon Kasu Teishoku. I think Tre made saba
Kitchen error- there was plastic in the gelatin portion of the parfait.
50% Kitchen error- farm salad complaint guy.
Birthday desserts
FNF (3 spicy scallops for a regular I haven't seen in a while)

R&M needs?:
Who broke the legs off the keyboard? Every time I look down when I'm typing, the tilted keyboard makes me dizzy. No joke. It's propped up on post it notes right now. I'm gonna find a solution...maybe wine corks.

I reset the ipod. Like, from ground 0. I erased everything and got it set up under the Kome iTunes account and everything. And guess what. Not once, all night tonight, did it shut itself down to restart, nor did the Pandora turn itself off. It was wonderful! We'll see how long this lasts. Hopefully foreeeeeever!!!!! :)
86'd items/ need more?