Friday 4.24.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2380
Projected Sales:  $2402
TY Lunch Sales: $2308
+/- : -3% LY and -$94 PS
Lunch Covers: 127
Avg PPA: $18.17

LY Dinner Sales: $6128
Projected Sales:  $6316
TY Dinner Sales:  $6707
+/- : 9% LY and +$391 PS
Dinner Covers: 233
Avg PPA:  $28.79

For the day we ended up with $9015 in sales. 6% over LY and $297 over PS

Previous Days Labor %: 17%

Previous Days Comps %: 4.49% (lower than yesterday) but 25.60% Ctrl due to the $75 Recovery comp for the Busted dude.

Weather: Muggy, rainy at time. High in the 80s, low in the 60s.

Any Special events going on?: Austin Food & Wine Festival, Moontown Comedy Festival, Off Centered Film Festival...geeeeeez Austin, relax!

Who worked?:
Lunch: Sayo, Mandy, Alex, Joel CL. Grace host, Jason SA Josh FR
Dinner: Camacho, Johnny, Clair, Krystin, Dusten CL.. Jason/Ruthy Host, Saki SA, Sigele FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: went on a wait by 12:15 and it was busy throughout the afternoon. I was a little apprehensive with this being Joel's first sushi bar close, but he did well and delegated his tasks and let others help him. Though I still would have liked to see him move a little faster, he did a great job. Lots of teamwork from the whole crew today. Sushi bar was handed 34 sushi lunches throughout the course of the shift, which threw them behind. Is there any way to prep for that kind of thing? Probably not, but figured I would ask. Otherwise, no major issues at lunch

Dinner: started off really slow. Unlike last night. Then the whole night went in waves. We had a bunch of 5 tops all come in between 7-8pm. Then around 8 we only had 3 tables on the waitlist, then got his hard again at 8:30 with 90% two-tops for the rest of the night. We got off the wait at 10:15. I cut Camacho and Clair at 10pm, and went 2 on at that time. The boys carried it home. Cut Jason (host) at 10pm as well, and Ruthy a hair before close, as well as Saki.
No major hiccups. had one table not like the Poisson Cru, and when I tasted the sauce it tasted off, but then again i've never tasted just the sauce by itself, so I wasn't sure. I had Take taste and he said it was fine. So I just comp'd it. No other comps the rest of the night. Happy folks. But a long, marathon like evening. We're all pretty tired with sore backs. I believe it's the moisture in the air that's bothering everyones bones.

Specials?
Egglpant: 12
Beef Tataki 13 Sold out of both!
Tuna Tako Tartar 11
Bitches Brew 37
Crawfish Nigiri 13
Smokin Sash 11

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Like I said above, Joel did a fantastic job closing lunch and he was very thorough with his sidework too.Very impressed with him today
-Clair was in a great mood during dinner shift tonight, and was enthusiastic about selling specials as well as beating the sales goal. Nice to see that positive side.
- Saki did a kick-ass job as the SA tonight. I mean, just SO GOOD!!!!

Any VIP's in?
Kenny for dinner, and Chi's wife & Daughter during lunch. A table at dinner tonight (A8) recognized Jason SA and said to him "oh you're hosting tonight!" which really made his night. He made it a point to get their names and said they were Erica and John (he thinks)

Comps& Void Detail:
FNF for Jerseys Wife, Spencers dad, Kit.Error Poisson Cru (which just turned out to be a DNL), a few voids for items we either 86'd (Asahi Black) or for misrung kitchen specials.

R&M needs?:
A plumber from ABC will be out sometime Tuesday to look at the situation we have going on in the back of the building with the leaking pipes and things. In addition to cleaning it up back there, we need to make some repairs to the dripping pipes in order to keep the bugs (roaches) from breeding. I'm going to talk more about this at Monday's meeting.

86'd items/ need more?