Friday PM 5.29.15

Written By: Elizabeth


LY Dinner Sales: $5936
Projected Sales:   $6883
TY Dinner Sales: $6902
+/- :  +37% LY and +$19 PS!!
Dinner Covers: 237
Avg PPA: $29.12
For the day we finished with 21% over LY and $414 over PS.

Weather: Sunny! Wow! high 80s. Cool in the evening

Any Special events going on?: 8:30pm Westlake Graduation....but tonight's crowd wasn't really the type.

Who worked?: Mandy, Lindsey, Johnny, Sophia, Dusten CL. Ruthy/Samara Host, Sigele FR, Jason SA.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Slow to start but by 6:30 we were on a wait. Stayed on the wait until exactly 10:30. At the height of the wait we were quoting an hour to an hour and a half. Some folks actually waited close to that. We had a 10 top walk in which jammed things up a little, but we were able to seat them in their quoted time of 1:30. The night seemed to flow seamlessly, however. No long tickets, no angry guests, just a lot of them. Everyone held their own and execution was wonderful. Can't every night be like this!?!
Right at 10:30 it died, and no more tables came in after that. At 9:50 I had cut Lindsey and Mandy, then went to just Dusten at 10:30....poor guy got no more tables. The place was empty by 11:15.

Had a little confusion over when to run Miso soups. If they are on the ticket with other items they will be run with the other items, but the servers want them out first, but can't run them...so, if you need it run, I've created a "please run" button on the dinner screen. I will talk about it during preshift this weekend.

Specials?
Beef Tataki 9
Shishito  11
Fried Green Toms 13
Tsk Set 4
Carpaccio Spec 5
All Star: 11

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Sophia was helping out in other sections, bussing/prebussing and watering.
-Samara did a great job at the host stand and her quote times were very accurate.
-Sigele (I was on an S roll) is always solid in the kitchen. Can we clone her please?
-Steve (why not go for 4!) he did a great job on yaki, and is too cute- did you know he brings in his own gyoza pan when he works yaki? This guy takes pride in his work that is for sure.

Any VIP's in?
Kenny, Lunch Couple sat at B4 (Take do you know their names? I don't)
Family that usually comes in Saturday Lunches were in for dinner too. Lots of lunchers in for dinner tonight!
Zane from Alamo Drafthouse (old co worker of mine)
Brent- owner of Workhorse, in with Fiance Leah & friend
Owner of Epiciere apparently. I don't know her, but Samara did.


Comps& Void Detail:
FNF for Brent
Void Kara Age- thought they couldn't have it because they are gluten free, but then they said it was okay.
Void Edamame, misring


R&M needs?:
I honestly don't understand who our clientele is that come in and carves shit into our mirrors in the bathroom. Tonight I noticed that at the top of the wooden handle in the "ladies" room are names carved in. "kman" and "alex"...so unless Kazu and Alex both carved their names into the mirror, I don't know who is doing this. And it really irkes me.

86'd items/ need more?