Saturday 11.21.15

Written By:Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $2653
Projected Sales : $3130
TY Lunch Sales: $2518
+/- : -5% LY and -$612PS
Lunch Covers: 154
Avg PPA: $16.35


LY Dinner Sales: $6101
Projected Sales :  $7210
TY Dinner Sales: $6574
+/- : +8% LY and -$636 PS
Dinner Covers: 242
Avg PPA: $27.17 (low for what I projected)

For the day: $9092/ +4% LY and -$1248 PS. When I did projections I was looking at the weather, assuming the cold snap would bring people in. Guess I was wrong.

Previous Days Labor: 14.13%

Previous Days Comps: 3.64%
Controllable Comps: 22.20% ($44 FNF, $17 Recovery)

Weather:  COLD! 50s during the day. 30s at night. Unseasonably cold I feel like.

Special events?: Weekend before thanksgiving.

Who worked:
Lunch: Lindsey, Sophia, Grace, Johnny CL. Samara Host, John SA, Hiroe Fr
Dinner: Sayo, Miho, Kate, Mandy, Clair CL. Cindy Host, Ruthy CT, Kaori FR, Jason SA. Girl power team!!!! (sorry Jason)
Also, Mika sent me a message on HS this morning saying she had to put her 2wks in. I told her no worries, let's call it quits right now. Of course this was done more tactfully and with grace. Hence we had no second host tonight, which worked out fine, as you'll see.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch was busy from the start- had a nice early pop- then it slowed down around 1- I was expecting a later pop, But by 1:30 it had slowed significantly. Johnny was ready to take on more tables so we cut Grace and went 3 on. It was good, it allowed him to grab a few more tables.

Then around 2:15 we went to 2 on and a 6 top and an 8 top walked in back to back. We had a bunch of tables get up around the same time to allow for the two groups to be put together. Lindsey was getting the 8 top at A7-8 and Johnny was getting the 6 top at B6-7. Lindsey already had her waters down, and Johnny was closing a  check with waters on his tray, so I took the tray and was setting the waters down. I could hear Samara tell the 6 top- we're just setting the waters down on your table, I'm going to seat them  (the 8 top) and I'll be right back for you. We're not sure if they (6-top) were upset because they had arrived mere minutes before the 8-top but as soon as Samara came back to the host stand to grab the 6-top the last person was just walking out the door. They left!! Both groups were young Asian UT students (appearing so at least) so it's not like we were discriminating against them. It was really odd.
The rest of the afternoon died out. I thought that for sure the cold weather would bring a rush of folks. Guess not.

Someone at lunch left a nice pair of Raybans. They are on the printer. Next to a red pair of plasticy sunglasses.

in the interim between the slower part of lunch and the beginning of dinner service, I rolled all of the new tshirts and distributed those to anyone that worked lunch or dinner shift. They are all now organized in the tshirt bins, which I moved to the shelving near the office door for easier access to hand out the shirts. The kirin box on the floor has some miscellaneous shirt sizes in it, so if you need to hand out shirts, go for that one first.

Dinner started with a BANG- had a line out the door and we were on a wait by 5:35. Lots of 4-tops early on, which pushed the wait time to an hour by 6:15. Had a few 6 top walk ins tonight as well as a few 5 top walk ins. Had one lady get upset because when she called it was 45 minutes for a table and when she showed up it was an hour. She settled down eventually. Because Mika was gone it was just Cindy and I until Ruthy showed up at 6pm to help host, but shortly thereafter was pulled into her cocktailing position. Cindy ran the board for most of the night, save for the times she would seat a table and I was doing manager things then would tend to the board. She did a great job tonight though!!! At the high point between 6:30-7:30 we were quoting upwards of an hour, with multiple 4 tops and such. But after around 7:30 it really mellowed out a bit and I was able to let Cindy take over the host stand solo for the remainder of the night. We got off the wait around 10pm when I cut Sayo (her section was clearing out too, so it was perfect timing). It died immediately after that.

Specials:
Grilled Salmon Collar 4
Grilled Hamachi Collar 1
HonMaguro 8
Toro 1
Duck/Foie 18
King Salmon Box 5

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Clair has been a little attitudy lately. First it was yesterday when I mis-sat the 2:15 table, then tonight she got a little pissy when I was saving S11-12 for Chance since he called and said he would be in at 8pm.
-Sayo always has a great upbeat attitude about everything. She was great tonight.
-Had to check on Kates tables here and there. Waters weren't being filled and plates needed prebussing far too often. She was the back bs.

Any VIP's in?
Lunch: Stephanie
Dinner: Wayne and his wife were kid free tonight and on a "date night"
Chance and a lady friend came in
 Ben Gordon (my mortgage broker) and Desiree (owns breath and body yoga) she left Kayo some free yoga cards.
Maryellen & Ben with Madeleine and Andrew (their kids) It's the cute couple that usually sits at B1 and Dusten waits on them. Dusten, Andrew (the little boy) saw you come in (to pick up your thermos) and got so excited. He ran up to me after you left to ask me if I could check in the office to see if you were still here so he could say hi. HOW ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!! and I don't even like kids....
Andrew also left you a drawing. I pinned it to the corkboard in the office. It has your name on it. From:Andrew. so cute. can't take it.... dying..... dead.


Comps& Void Detail:
Makani
Emp Day off (Stephanie and Erika)
FNF: Madai for Ben, Aburia Hamachi for Chance, Take also bought a few pieces for Wayne and his wife here on a date night, but I can't remember what it was.
Guest changed mind on a buta kimchi- she thought it was Ramen....?
Kitchen error from the AM missed Takoyaki
Recovery on a soba salad for B3 (they waited only 5 minutes over their quote time, but the woman was a little annoyed so I asked if they would like some Miso soups or something else to nibble on that I would be happy to buy for them.

R&M needs:
I guess we need more bulbs by the back kitchen door.

86'd items/ need more:
So by the end of the night we only had 4 rolls of toilet paper left. I'll go to the store in the morning for some more until the Sysco delivery comes on Tuesday.