Saturday 5.30.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $1874
Projected Sales:  $2485
TY Lunch Sales: $2504
+/- : +34% LY and +$19 PS
Lunch Covers:  153
Avg PPA: $16.37

LY Dinner Sales: $6079
Projected Sales:   $7230
TY Dinner Sales: $6753
+/- : +11% LY and -$477 PS
Dinner Covers:  229
Avg PPA: $29.49

Previous Days Labor %: 14%

Previous Days Comps %: 4.53% with 17.72% CTRL.  (I don't even want to see what today's was)

Weather: Sunny!!! 80s

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?:
Lunch: Joel, Sophia, Clair, Johnny CL. Kaori SA, Hiroe FR, Samara Host
Joel was 20 minutes late due to oversleeping. I had him clean the baseboards in the bathrooms.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Nothing special. Never went on a wait but for maybe 5 minutes. It was a nice steady flow, though. Picked up a little more around 1pm. Cut Joel at 2, Clair at 2:30 and Sophia at 2:45.

Joel found a piece of plastic in his lunch, which came from the sushi bar. Not sure what it was from, maybe the container the wakame is in. Looked like a piece from the plastic containers.

Dinner: very different than lunch. Everyone came in all at once, around 6:30. Samara misquoted four 4-tops, and told them 30 minutes and we didn't seat them until it was close to an hour!!! 3 of the 4 were understanding, but there is always that one. That one, unfortunately had tickets at Coldtowne theater and had to be out by 8:20. We didn't seat them until 8:10. Luckily, they gave me their order and I put it in. I had food on the table for them when they sat. Unfortunately, once again though, we didn't have 4 seats together so I sat two at S1-2 and the others at S7-8. They were able to literally eat and run off. I gave them 50% off their check. I also brought out 4 pieces of zato-ichi for them to nibble on while they waited the final few minutes. I did a LOT of graveling and I think they left happy. I gave both couples my card and told them to reach out directly to me if they needed anything, so I think that helped too.

we were off the wait by 8:45pm. I was cautious to cut anyone, thinking we would get another pop. I only cut Naoto in the back B's because he didn't have any tables and Camacho stayed on in the middle B's because he just got a party around 9:10. Finally around 10 I cut down to just Miho and Dusten.

So I guess whatever else is supposed to go in the soy sauce to thin it out is not working as of lately? And we're just thinning it out with water? The batches seem inconsistent and some of the containers look really light. When will we have this issue fixed?

Specials?
Beef Tataki 8
Shishito  13
Fried Green Maters: 17

All star  12
Tsk Set   13
Smokin;  10

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Johnny definitely has his days. He was in no mood to get a later afternoon pop today. I kept all 3 on at his request until after 2:30. Sometimes he's down for the hustle, and other days he just isn't feeling it.  Today was one of those days. Luck for him it was a slow ride into afternoon.
-Grace hustled as the cocktail tonight. It seemed like everyone came in at once but she as always did a great job handling the crowd
-Samara underquoted 4 tables by 45 minutes tonight. They should have been quoted 45-1hr, but she only quoted them 30 minutes. Like i mentioned above. I talked with her about it after the shift and she was pretty let down with herself. We talked about accurate quoting when every table gets sat all at once, and she left with a positive outlook on it.

Any VIP's in?
Glen and Meiko (got their names right!!!!!)
James and Ingrid! Glad to see them (and no, Kayo, she is not pregnant.)
Kailee, the girl who's apartment I now live in...creeeeeepy. No, not really. But seriously...
A Friend of Kaya and Kayo's as well

Comps& Void Detail:
FNF food for Kayo's friend
FNF Camembert for Kailee
FNF Sauv Blanc and Beer for James and Ingrid
50% Recovery comp for the food mentioned above
100% Recovery for the Zato pieces I sent out
100% Recovery for 2 shumai for other tables that waited too too long.

R&M needs?:

86'd items/ need more?
Kids cups. Matching Lids
Straws