Saturday 5.23.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2552
Projected Sales:   $3104
TY Lunch Sales:  $2894
+/- :  +13% LY and -$210 PS
Lunch Covers: 155
Avg PPA:  $18.67

LY Dinner Sales: $6436
Projected Sales:   $7637
TY Dinner Sales: $6689
+/- : +4% LY but -$948 PS
Dinner Covers: 245
Avg PPA: 27.30
That last hour and a half with the storm really hurt us. 
For the day: $9,583, 7% over LY but $1158 short of PS

Previous Days Labor %: 14%

Previous Days Comps %: 2.65%, but 10.89% Ctrl because of how minimal our comps were. It was just 2 comps that did it. $5 for guest changed mind, and $5 kitchen error (hair in the nigiri)

Weather: Still overcast. Muggy today. 70s

Any Special events going on?: More UT Graduation. Still memorial Day weekend.

Who worked?:
Lunch: Joel, Lindsey, Sayo, Jonnny CL. J SA, Samara Host, Hiroe FR
Dinner: Naoto, Jason, Mandy, Miho, DUsten CL> Jason SA, Hiroe FR, Ruthy/Samara Host

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: steady into the afternoon. Died down around 1:30. Had some hangry 6 tops in, but other than that it was steady until it died down. Got another small pop around 2pm, then it calmed down at 2:30. I cut to 2 on at that time. The 2pm reso got in a fender bender and didn't show until 2:30 but things were slowing down by then and everything turned out well. 

Dinner: Went on a wait around 6pm then came off the wait at 7:30, went back on the wait at 8, came back off the wait at 9:15. Lots of 4, 5 & 6 tops. One walk in 12 top, as well as 3 stacked reso's for the night. The rain storm came in really heavy around 9pm which I think is why we slowed down. and at 9:40 the torrential downpours were getting pretty intense. Tornado warnings and Flash Flood warning were coming in every other minute. The back b's lights went out. I couldn't get them back up. I have a feeling it's something only Andy can fix. Luckily it wasn't too too dark back there. We put the candles from the A's on the tables and all was fine. I had the servers all print their open tables just in case we lost power entirely. 
I was tempted to close due to weather at 10pm since it was coming down really hard, Hyde Park didn't have power (from Twitter: 51st St @ Duval Rd the power lines are down and blocking all lanes), and we were slowing down (mostly afraid we were going to lose power) but I kept us open until 11. Had another 5 tables walk in within that time. I did, however, cut Ruthy & Jason at 10pm because the rain had gotten lighter, and I knew Jason had to ride his bike home. There was only about 6 tables left in the restaurant anyway, so we were all able to pitch in and finish up. 

Had to 86 Asahi because the CO2 ran out. I'm getting more in the AM. Also 86'd Argus cider. I can't believe how well that sells. Sold a case this week. Much better than the Austin East Ciders for sure!

Had to send Jason to the corner store for Ice.  I had ordered it and then at 9:15 they finally called and told me they were down 1 truck and wouldn't be able to make it here until 10:30. We were already out of ice at that point, so I had to send Jason. I can't wait until our contract is up with Austin Industrial in August. Definitely going to look into something the produces faster or better....or perhaps both! oooooooo!  

Specials?
Peppers : 15
Green Beans: 19
Tsk Carp/Set: 5/9
All Star:  11

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Had to nudge Sayo a little to help out during her downtime
-Lindsey was helping prebus in other sections.

Any VIP's in?
Dinner: Ed & Carla, Clair and her boyfriend

Comps& Void Detail:
Emp Day off for Clair
Kome Bucks for Clair
some GC Kome Bucks redeemed
DNL for a Hops and Grain Beer

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
Picking up a CO2 container from Daruma tomorrow morning. I just changed the CO2 about 4 weeks ago, I can't believe we went through it that fast. I'm going to trade them all out on Monday