Thursday PM 10/22/15

Written By: Samara


LY Dinner Sales: $4037
Projected Sales : $4952
TY Dinner Sales: $4627
+/- : 15% over LY and -$325 PS
Dinner Covers: 194
Avg PPA: $27.94

Weather: High 70's, cloudy and scattered showers

Special events?: 4th year anniversary! 20% off for everyone!


Who worked: Sophia, Naoto, Kate, Stephanie, Dusten (CL), John (SA), Kaori (FR), Ruthy & Cindy (host)

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Lots of people waiting outside before we opened. Filled up at 6pm and went on a fluctuating wait of 20-45mins until 9:30 when I cut Sophia and Kate. Cut Stephanie at 9:45. Tables turned quickly. The restaurant had a frantic feeling in the air but no long ticket times and the servers did a great job of working together. My only complaint is that I had to coerce the severs to get plates for the sushi bar, who were pretty slammed for the first couple of hours. We were all busy.

Kaori mixed up an order of regular tempura and special tempura for B6 and the party room. The party room ate theirs before realizing the difference and B6 was pretty unhappy understandably with the mix up. I comped both tempuras for recovery. Jersey made a third tempura for B6 but they didn't want it. I gifted it to Rachel and Carlos at the sushi bar.

I ran into two problems tonight with the 20% off anniversary button.  First, I had to manually discount non happy food during happy hour. Secondly, half way through the night I noticed that the anniversary button was discounting EVERYTHING...including alcohol. I know that during lunch Kayo was not discounting alcohol. I spoke to Take about this and he said it was fine for this one day since it was our 4 year anniversary. I had already prompted Grace when she arrived to cocktail that no drinks were to be discounted, so we didn't lose any money in that aspect.

The water spout in the server station lost a metal piece. Luckily I found it in a water pitcher and fixed it.

Specials:
Beef Tataki 2
Tempura Zucchini 13
Blue Fin 12
Blue Fin Toro 3
King Salmon Carpaccio 7

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how): Kristen (new host) quit. She was supposed to be at 4:15 to train with Ruthy. After 15 minutes went by, I had a bad feeling. Immediately called Cindy to see if could come in. Kristen sent Elizabeth an email sometime during the day. I didn't find out until 4:45. Luckily Cindy was able to come from her other job (Easy Tiger) and was here at 6:30. I gave Cindy $15 Kome bucks for being so helpful in a busy and stressful situation. She used her bucks for dinner. Thank you Cindy!

I love working with Naoto. He's always quick to help everyone run food, bus tables, and he was the best at getting plates for the sushi bar. Great attitude all around.

Any VIP's in? Rachel & Carlos, Kenny, John from Switched On

Comps& Void Detail:
$45 in Kome bucks
Recovery 2 tempura
Miss ring- glass of wine for Kate
Reopened a check for Naoto-he forgot to give them 20% discount

R&M needs:

86'd items/ need more: Uni