Saturday PM 2.13.16

Written By: Elizabeth- A.K.A Record Breaker. Leading the Kome team to Victory tonight!

LY Dinner Sales: $7663 (LY was Valentines Day)
Projected Sales : $7540
TY Dinner Sales: $8526 < That's a recording breaking shift y'all! Highest dinner sales we've done to date has only been $8302 and that was on Feb 21st (next weekend).
+/- : +11% LY and +$2030 PS (wasn't expecting that!)
Dinner Covers: 300 < I also believe this is a record breaking # of Covers.
Avg PPA: $29.81

Weather: Warm during the day, pleasant and cool at night. 60s. High 50s

Special events?: Might as well have been Valentines day.

Who worked: Grace, Sayo, Camacho, Miho, Dusten CL. Cindy CT, chris/Lizet host (Lizet until 8) and Kaori FR and John SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Went on a wait at 5:08. Yes, you read that right. Five. O. Eight. I did my usual "line up" when we first opened the doors because we had a line out the door, but it didn't stop. And after the first 3 tables were sat we had consecutive large parties walk in. Three 6 tops, an 8 top, a 5 top and the party of 12 in the PR. Turns out, The party room was a 28 top in disguise. They occupied the party room  (12), B1 (3), B2/3 (8), S1-5 (5). Add that up, what do you get? Yup. 28.
So there was that.
We immediately went on an hour-1:15 wait. And people waited. The wait didn't let up until 10:35pm when we sat the last party on the waitlist. Had 2 more groups walk in after that and that was it.

During the beginning of the craziness, the kitchen was getting slammed with mostly fry tickets, but they had a full line of tickets by 5:15. So I jumped back there for a little while and help expo the tickets down. Everything went smoothly,except I missed one Takoyaki for A5. We got it out in time, but I did overlook it by accident. After that, I didn't have to hop back there for anything because they were in a good rhythm. I'm sure the sushi bar got hit hard too.

After the initial push, things started to settle in around 6 or so as we continued on the wait. The entire night we never took apart B2/3. It got sat with another 9 top followed by another 9 top. Had a few other 6's walk in, but then mostly 2's throughout the rest of the night. The 7pm reso had to wait about 10 minutes after their reso time, but they were really understanding as I told them that I already gave the current party the "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" line. They all laughed, and were perfectly fine waiting. After their meal, on their way out, the one guy said to me, "Well, we're not going home but we're not staying here!" They were fun

The 9pm 10 top was a regular's bday. I don't know her name but I know her face. She had 2 friends show up early and they decorated to surprise her. It was really cute actually. They had a great time.
Camacho was middle b's and handled all of the large parties like a champ. The last 9 top wanted Omakase, and he really gave them the royal treatment. Excellent service on his part.

I cut Grace at 10:45, and didn't cut anyone else after that because it was pretty much pointless.
I bought everyone a drink at the end of the night.

I bought everyone a drink at the end of the night since we broke a record.

On a side note: I ordered the grilled salmon for dinner. When I started eating it I noticed there were some bones in it still. I pulled one out and was trying to be careful about the rest of it, because I did once choke on a bone in a salmon here (I literally fished it out of my throat with my fingers last time). Nonetheless, at the end of the night, Hector asked me if the salmon was okay and I told him that there were a few bones. He said he saw them and mentioned that to Daniel, but Daniel said that we're aware that there could be bones. Though I wasn't. Just want some clarification is all.

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Chris did a great job really taking ownership of the host stand after Lizet left. He feels like he hasn;t been able to really perfect the host stand because of his food running shifts and being split between the two. I totally get it. both positions are intense and being cross trained right away can be overwhelming. But he was very efficient in paging guests and minimizing the time in between set up and seat.
-Cindy did a great job cocktailing and holding it down. She rang over $700 in sales! I think that's a new record. She rocked it.
-John, our little sprouting SA, was ALL OVER IT! Efficient and helpful. So proud of how he's grown.

Any VIP's in?
MaryEllen, Ben and their adorable kids Madeline & Andrew. I love those guys. Andrew turns 6 in August and wants Unagi as his birthday cake!!

Comps& Void Detail:
Some bday desserts tonight
Voided a midnight- guest changed mind
voided a sushi spec 2- misring.
Comp'd Natto Maki- guest changed mind. Even when Dusten pointed to it on their card right in front of them.

R&M needs:
There is a box here from the same company that makes the nigiri machine.

86'd items/ need more:
We need more To Go Boxes and Straws.
Daniel has already text matt to go pick them up tomorrow from Rest Depot