Friday PM 7.10.15

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Dinner Sales: $7072
Projected Sales:   $7414
TY Dinner Sales:  $6755
+/- : -4% LY and -$659 PS
Dinner Covers: 230 (low for a Friday)
Avg PPA: $29.37

Weather: Hot but cooled off after sunset. The restaurant itself got pretty hot, the service station thermostat read 82 degrees at one point. I have 2 other AC repair people coming on Monday to give me an estimate on the work that needs to get done in order to get us working properly again.

Any Special events going on?:

Who worked?: Camacho, Johnny, Krystin, Sophia, Dusten CL. Ruthy/Samara Host, Jason SA, Hiroe FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Started busy and we were on a wait by a few after 6pm. Stayed on the wait until 10:15. Sat the last table at 10:20 and nothing else came in after that. The initial pop was all 3 tops and a few 5 tops, then it slowed down a little, then all the 2's came in around 7:30. Crazy how that happens. Overall it was a steady/ busy night with little to no issues. It slowed waaaaay down after 10pm though. Had a lot of campers tonight too, actually. A4, A5 and S11-12 were all here for over 2 hours! Business seemed up, but covers were down.

Had a comp on a Tofu Steak DNL, and shishito peppers DNL (said they were too dry), and a comp on the Maimai Sauv Blanc DNL. Other than that, totally smoooooooooth

Specials?
Shishito Peppers 13
Fried Green Toms 10
Tempura Zucchini 12
Tsk Set 10
Blue Fin  41
Toro 19
Japanese Uni 3


3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Dusten was in other sections bussing tables in his downtime, which seems almost amazing that he had any considering he had over 60 covers all night (that's almost double some other peoples covers)
-Despite the whole Basilio debacle, the kitchen held it together back there tonight. No issues with plating, no burnt gyozas, no long tickets. Maddie did a great job on Tempura, while Hector held down Yaki.
-Johnny unloaded I think every glass rack that came out tonight. Super star!
-Did Jason Clarke's eval after his shift today- he is frustrated but I outlined the points that Mike has been talking with him about. I also gave him a gift card to bird barbershop to get a hair cut and told him that it might benefit him to grab some dry shampoo from HEB to keep in his bag (I explained the benefits of it to him and he seemed receptive)


Any VIP's in?
Some familiar faces. Learned that messy haired hipster girl's name is Lauren. Had some very friendly folks sit at S1-4 tonight. Lots of chatting with me while I manned the sushi expo line running food. Nice groups tonight.

Comps& Void Detail:
The DNL I mentioned above. Voided a ABW Sophia forgot to bring to a table, comp'd a bday parfait. I also reprinted the dessert menus with the new soft serve (and also rephrased the apple pie dessert to say spring roll and not gyoza)

R&M needs?:
Mentioned above- the AC unit deal.

86'd items/ need more?
The padlock went missing out back. Can someone pick up another one- or I can grab one later this week.