Saturday 4.18.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2149
Projected Sales:   $2963
TY Lunch Sales:  $2855
+/- : +33% LY and -$108 PS
Lunch Covers:  138
Avg PPA: $20.60

LY Dinner Sales: $7642
Projected Sales:   $7683
TY Dinner Sales:  $8134
+/- : +6% LY and +$451 PS
Dinner Covers: 258
Avg PPA: $31.53
For the day we ended 12% over LY and +$343 PS

Previous Days Labor %: 13.51%

Previous Days Comps %: 3.51% and 25.39% Controllable! yikes.

Weather: muggy for the day, then downpour later at night and cooled off significantly. 70s/50s

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Lunch: Clair, joel, Naoto, Johnny CL. Nate host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA
Dinner: Naoto, Alex, Sayo, Camacho, Dusten CL. Ruthy/Nate Host, Clair CT, Hiroe FR, Jason SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch was slow until  2:30. Then, 30 mintues before close, everyone wanted to come in for lunch. I was already down to Johnny and Clair, so it got really hectic. Clair asked me why we kept seating everyone in her section and I tried to explain that it was the only section with tables open. She was getting visibly pissed off. So I told Nate not to seat her anymore, and Johnny picked up A7. I picked up B4 and B8 and got their orders in since they came in right at 2:55. Transferred it to Johnny after they were set up with plates, clear soups and set ups. Johnny rang $985 in lunch sales today. A bulk of which came in the last 30 minutes. I will never makes cuts on a Saturday again. This was nightmare-ish.

Dinner: Dinner was busy. We filled up by 6 and went on a wait. The wait seemed slow and easy- folks waited on the patio and had drinks and the night was moving along fine. Then around 9:15 the rain came. And it poured and everyone scuttled inside. Then an 8 top walked in of young 20's kids- it seemed some were drinking beforehand and they were getting a little rowdy in the lobby. We had a 6 top on the books for 9:30, but by 9:45 they were a no show, so we sent the rowdy group in the PR. Naoto took great care of them. he's a pro when it comes to dealing with difficult tables, especially when it comes to having to cut someone off. I told him that one of the guys in the room was cut off. They handled it okay, but there was the "spokesman" of the group that talked with Naoto outside the PR and Naoto told them that as soon as they got some food in their bellies he would bring out hot sake for them to share. Again, he did a great job handling the whole situation. We didn't get off the wait until about 10:30, at which point I cut down to 2 on. I cut Nate at 10 because we only had 3 on the waitlist.

Other than that, just a few odd ducks in tonight: like the ladies at B5 that hated our wine selection because we didn't have Chardonnay. And A2 who kept cutting Alex off and then after eating a few bites of her Ika-Yaki sent it back and when I asked if it was okay she said "I don't like my food to have sauces on it. I like it clean". So a few odd ones. But all in all, a smooth night.

Had 2 complaints on the amount of oil in the Farm Salad dressing. I talked with Jersey about this once before and it was because Basilio was making it. Tonight I went back and asked Daniel what was going on with it and he said he already talked to Basilio. But I'm not sure why Basilio is making the farm salad dressing to begin with. Prep is okay but he can't work the line. Unless I'm unaware of his skill in that department, which please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Specials?
Ika Salad: 7
Japanese Potato Salad: 3
Tsk Carp: 7
Smokin' Sash: 4

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
*See above about Naoto.
*Saw Dusten extend himself beyond his section tonight and helped water a few tables. Alex pointed it out to me.
*Nate did a great job hosting this afternoon, and helping out during the crazy after 2:30 rush.

Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Kaya, Kenny & friends,Spicy Tonkotsu guy, and other sushi bar regular that always talks to take.

Dinner: no familiar faces tonight.

Comps& Void Detail:
Owner comp for Kaya and her friend, Ika Yaki DNL, Prosecco DNL (for the B5 wine haters), Gogo DNL,

R&M needs?:
Daniel just told me the grease trap is completely full. he is calling them now. But the last time i talked with them they told me that pick up (and relocating it to inside the fence) would be the week of the 20th (this coming week)

86'd items/ need more?