Monday PM 3.16.15 (SxSW Day 3)

Written By: elizabeth

LY Dinner Sales: $5339
Projected Sales: $5671
TY Dinner Sales: $6237
+/- : +17% LY and +$566 PS
Dinner Covers: 231
Avg PPA: $27

Weather: in the 60's. Some humidity due to some rain.

Any Special events going on?: I believe today was the last day of the interactive portion

Who worked?: Dusten, Mandy, Joel, Clair, Kate CL. Ruthy Host, Kaori SA, Hiroe FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
The night started off really slow. I wonder if this is going to be the new trend with it being daylight longer. We finally started to fill up after 7pm, and went on a wait. The wait lasted until 9:30 and thats when I made cuts. The wait ranged from 25 minutes to an hour at it's peak. It was a strange ebb and flow. But no one waited over their quote time, and Ruthy's quotes are just really spot on. She was really staying on top of it tonight, and said how much she likes when there is a cocktail and one host on. Not too much else to note. S5 said the center of his gyoza was cold, but ate it anyway. I ordered a gyoza and as soon as it came out I bit into it, and the center was just warm, but not hot. I let Daniel know, and Kelby owned up to it as his mistake. I comp'd the gyoza for the guy.

Had some friends in with relatives from Dallas, so I sent them two shumai and edamames.

On a fun sidenote, I got a call tonight from a guy that works for Jimmy Kimmel Live and he wants to place a catering order for pick up Wednesday at 11:30am. I told him that would be fine. He is going to email me his order tonight or tomorrow. How cool, huh!!!??


Specials? I had the servers verbal all specials tonight since it was just the two. They did a great job selling them. We sold out of the taz toro.
A special nigiri set (katsuo, madai and hotate with special toppings):
taz toro carpaccio:

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*Clair, though very somber looking all night, was very helpful again, prebussing other sections and putting glassware away.
*It seemed like everyone was really struggling to keep their tables waters full. All night I saw empty glasses at multiple tables.
*Stephanie did a great job cocktailing- asked for help where she needed it.

Any VIP's in?
Cheer up Charlie Bartender in for his "last meal" before his week of non-stop shifts. Jaqueline and Cody (my friends), Friends of Dustens.
Do we need to remind servers that Monday night is SIN night? Maybe make a flyer to post in the hallway with the bathrooms.

Comps& Void Detail:
Lots of voids tonight. Misring Crunchy dynamite, btl jules taylor, glass jules taylor,

R&M needs?:
-Again, the gasket guy will be in tomorrow between 2-4 to fix the two gaskets. He knows which ones.
No biggie or anything but there was a huge tree roach in the ladies room around 11pm (just now) I had Danger kill it for me. My hero. But ewww. Gross.
86'd items/ need more?
hopefully have the coconut nigori in tomorrow.