Friday PM 9.4.15

Written By: Elizabeth (and Samara!)

LY Dinner Sales:$6108
Projected Sales :$6683
TY Dinner Sales: $7049
+/- : + 15% over LY and +$366 over PS
Dinner Covers: 238
Avg PPA: $29.62

Weather: Hot- high 90s

Special events?: Memorial Day weekend- start

Who worked: Johnny, Krystin, Lindsey, Camacho, Dusten CL. Samara/Ruthy Host. Jason SA. Sigele FR.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Slow start to the night. Gave the staff a contest for pre-bussing- and I saw LOTS of clean tables. Great work by everyone! We went on a wait around 7:30 and had a lot of 2 tops, but it still felt "slow". The kitchen got hammered with tickets tonight- and seemed to struggle a little bit to stay ahead. Sigele got my attention for a burnt gyoza that she was told to run. I took it back to the kitchen and showed Daniel and Hector why it couldn't go out. Daniel said that there was another one but he didn't' send it out because it was burnt. When put side by side to the one that DID start to go out, they looked identical. They remade the next one, and for the rest of the night all of the rest of the gyoza's looked great! Definitely took the criticism and put it into play.

It died down around 9:30 and I wasn't sure if we were going to get another late pop. Held off on cutting for a little bit, but then went 3 on at 10 and 2 on a little after that. And then cut down to just Dusten at 10:40. He got one more table after that and the night was over.

I cut Samara at the host stand at 10 and had her shadow me for the remainder of the night- entering checkouts and doing employee meal comps. She is catching on very fast and doing great. She will continue to do these split shift trains for the next few weeks until we can get her onto the schedule starting with at least one key shift a week.

Specials:
Curried Eggplant 3
Shishitos 9
Temp Green Beans 13
Blue Fin 31
All Star 9

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Johnny won the pre bus contest and how! he not only kept his section spotless but he was also making the best use of his downtime by watering outside his section. Honestly the whole staff did a great job- I'm going to be running this contest a few times this week because the results were great- and hopefully we can get into a better routine for maintenance.
-Dusten had these 2 ladies sit at his sushi bar for 2 hours and then leave him a $0 tip. It was really unfortunate to see that happen and he was upset but he didn't let it drag him down. He bounced back and stayed strong throughout the rest of the shift.
-Just a reminder to everyone to be sensitive to the language we use around our staff members. One staff member in particular pulled me aside to talk about some language that was being used around them that made them feel uncomfortable. I have addressed both parties.  Let's all remember that as comfortable as we feel with one another we must also remain professional and act as a leader to our departments.

Any VIP's in?
Aaron Franklin & Stacy Franklin (Franklin BBQ), The woman who owns CoCo Cafe came in again with her family (they were in last week for dinner on Saturday), Meiko & Cooper, Mike (Alex's boyfriend...ex-boyfriend?)

Comps& Void Detail:
Voided 7 Kirin/7 Living Jewel for Johnny because he was trying to do sake-bombs for a table and I advised him that we would instead use two 22oz. Kirins and two hot sake carafes (all to be poured in to the glass- to which they complied)
Makaini- Emp Kome Bucks for staff recognition.
FNF for Aaron Franklin
Bday Desserts

R&M needs:

86'd items/ need more:
House white will be in tomorrow- Not sure what happened with Ben E Keith but they never sent our order out so we will probably run out of Asahi. I text our rep and he said that our TABC license wasn't updated and therefore couldn't deliver, but it is...so...we're stuck until next week.