Written By: Elizabeth
LY Lunch Sales: $1491
Projected Sales: $1943
TY Lunch Sales: $1788
+/- : +20% LY and -$155 PS
Lunch Covers: 102
Avg PPA: $17.53 (high for a monday)
LY Dinner Sales: $4678
Projected Sales: $4781
TY Dinner Sales: $4137
+/- : -12% LY and -$644 PS
Dinner Covers: 152
Avg PPA: $27.22
Previous Days Labor %: 16.17%
Previous Days Comps %: 5.80% with 6.35% Ctrl
Weather: Warm, then hotter. 90s
Any Special events going on?:
Who worked?:
Lunch: Mandy, Joel, Camacho, Johnny CL. Cindy Host, Hiroe FR, Jason SA
Dinner: Mandy, Joel, Krystin, Grace, Camacho CL. Jason Host, Hiroe FR, Kaori SA
Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
lunch: started off slow. really slow. Mandy didn't have her first table until almost noon. Then all at once we got hit, real hard. We went on a wait around 12:30 and stayed busy until 1:30. I didn't make any cuts until after 1:30, when I went 2 on, but even then we still had a pretty full restaurant.
Everyone pitched in and helped where needed. No excessive ticket times to note. The kitchen was getting slammed and it was hard to tell if the sushi bar was too since everyone was simultaniously working on the catering order. I ordered Pizza for lunch for everyone and it was inhaled. Note: The plain jane pepperoni pizzas were the hot item. they went the fastest. So next time maybe order 3 of those, and 2 of whatever else.
The sushi bar had the large catering order today and banged it out like a champ! These guys rocked this catering order. So much so that they all got a small break in between.
On my break I was tearing the ceiling down....literally. The bubble over B8 got to be huge by the end of service. So I had no choice but to cut into it and clear it out. Lots of soaking drywall came down and some water came out but not a lot. Most of it was just air. After an extensive bit of work was done the HVAC guy showed up. I called Petrocelli, and I'm going to assume them our new; AC folks and ditch the guy who has been ripping us off for years, Ed. Petrocelli came out and looked at it. Its not from the AC unit. Kinda. What he thinks it might be is a duct that is in the ceiling. Since we don't have an attic it's hard to know. But his guess is that there potentially is a duct up there (with no vents) and between the cold air we pump in and the hot air up top, it's got a lot of condensation that has been accumulating over years (and he said it could take years for this to occur- also it has been the most humid summer we have seen in a while). Nonetheless, the bubble that we've seen over A8 area, this is on the same strip, and if you follow up, there is definitely something wrong in that line that runs from A4 to A8 to B5, 6, 7 & 8. If it IS the duct work (which there may be no way of telling) they will have to extract the plaster or whatever that part of the ceiling is made of (dry wall?) extract that, take the duct out, reform it and put it back in. Now, here's my suggestion should we decide to do this: Joe already suggested putting in a duct with multiple vents to help resolve that huge problem we have with the back Bs getting too much air blown on them. Should we decide to go down this route, we will have to close for a few hours at least. Again, if this is the route we want to take, I suggest we do it when we close on Aug 18th for the Schlitterbahn trip. But I have the handyman coming tomorrow to take a look at the problem too and get his take on it.
Anyhow by this time it was 4pm and the openers were in, I was trying to get my beverage order in hastily (since cut off time is 5 and I had to deliver the catering order). I got the specials put in and then at 4:30 I loaded my car up with the sushi delivery and was on my way. Got there by 4:55, got up to the 5th floor (which wasn't printed on the instructions, I just had to guess) And unpacked the trays. Unfortunately they are still not giving us a long enough window to set up and the staff started trickling in like vultures. I quickly finished but didn't get out of there until 5:25. And hit so much trafffic coming back to Kome I didn't get back until 5:45. Luckily (or unluckily) we were really slow. Much like lunch. It didn't pick up until 8pm (as I expected) and between 8 and 8:30 we filled up- had a few walk in 5 tops and 6 tops, and then had Leslie's 8pm reso which consisted of Rachel & Carlos and the rest of those regulars. Too funny. They were great. The restaurant stayed steady busy until 9:30 when it died down. I cut Mandy at 9pm and Joel around the same time. Went 2 on at 9:30 and I think maybe 1 other table came in after that...but maybe not.
Specials?
Tempura Green beans 11
Japanese Uni 6
Blue Fin 17
Toro 12
3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
Jason was hosting tonight and came in looking the part! He had a nice, fitted black long sleeve button up shirt on, dark jeans and black sneakers, and his hair looked nice too! Finally! He said that he hopes that after his host shift Saturday night and his Host shift tonight that he could be put on more hosting shifts. I said it was up to Mike but I would like to see him continue to go down this path. Mike, if you could schedule him at least 1 host shift a week, or 2 (one on your shift one on mine?) so we can track his progress. But tonight he really showed that he wants to host. Great step.
Mandy had the party room and the middle B's which I was hesitant to put her on, but she handled the volume well and stayed organized
Johnny and Mandy helped me a little bit when I cracked the ceiling open. They held the trash bag under me so I didn't make as big of a mess.
Grace did a great job tonight in the back B's. I feel like she is going to be a great asset on the floor. She seems very quick and conscientious of her steps. She also went above and a little too much beyond and misread what her sidework was. She dated every single bottle in the fridge with todays date. So be aware of that as we go through the week.
Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Ben & Andrew from Contigo, Kaila formerly of Mantis Massage, Asami formerly of us.
Dinner: Leslie, Carlo/Rachel and the clan. They had a great time. Unfortunately at the end they all wanted split payments and had some trouble divvying up the check and left Mandy a 15% tip.
Comps& Void Detail:
makani for dinner, SIN
Emp Day off for Asami came in for lunch, FNF for 3 pieces of Pork Belly for Ben, Andrew & friend. FNF for Joaquin's 2 miso soups.
Guest changed mind on a ebi fry they wanted a shrimp tempura instead.
Kome bucks from Sa-ten
R&M needs?:
ceiling
86'd items/ need more?
toilet paper but Jersey said more comes tomorrow (we have some wrapped, just need more)
Thank you!!
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