Written By: Dusten
LY Dinner Sales: 4609
Projected Sales : 5713
TY Dinner Sales: 5317
+/- : -396 under PS and up 15% from LY
Dinner Covers: 197
Avg PPA: 26.99
Weather: cloudy and 70's
Special events?:
Who worked: Krystin, Grace, Mandy, Camacho, Clair CL, Chelsea H, Ruthy training Maverick to host, John SA and Taylor FR.
Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Busy for a good while. opened with 30 covers. We filled up at 6:10pm. Stayed on a wait until nearly 9pm. Had a kome fries and a veggie tempura take about 30 minutes at one point. Wait times went up to about 30 but averaged 15-20 minutes. I cut Chelsea and Krystin at 9pm, Grace at 9:15 and Mandy at 9:30pm. No parties reserved but had a 7 top walk in.
I noticed a con to the new table arrangement with the back A's. If that section is full there is no passage between A7 and A9 which inhibited delivery of food and bussing.
Also Krystin's sales (back B's) were significantly lower than everyone else's. While that can be attributed to a number of things, but it may be a good idea to track sales in that section to see if there is a pattern.
Specials: 3 Japanese uni, 9 crab nigiri, 6 tsubugai.
3 Staff members that stood out (why/how): Lots of servers feeling rough after last night. Hard to tell what ailments were self-induced from partying and what might be genuine sicknesses. Mostly the former. In any case everyone put on their game-face and toughed it out. Pretty proud of them.
-Maverick was downright pleasant at the host stand tonight. Ruthy let him run the board. At one point he got tripped up on quote times and seating preferences, but I saw no signs of anything like what Sophia mentioned. Hopefully it was an anomaly.
-Chelsea basically cocktailed with Maverick and Ruthy running the stand. I just had her make the drinks but not ring them in. She says she feels more confident about making those drinks and keeping up with orders. I don't know how far along she is in her cocktail training but it seemed to work out. Couldn't tell you how much she sold, but it was worth buying her few nigiri pieces. I also noticed she is unafraid to very politely ask guests waiting for a table and are s meanwhile standing directly in everyone's way to relocate to our half empty lobby. That was great.
-Gave John some Kome bucks tonight- just for being a big help always. Tonight is was exception.
Any VIP's in? A guy proposed to his girlfriend at the sushi bar. That was pretty cool. Nathan and friends. Camacho's girlfriend and her mom. Uchi/Uchiko chefs I recognized. Kazu of Fukumoto. A good number of familiar faces.
Comps& Void Detail: FNF for Camacho's girlfriend.
1x crab nigiri- 86'd.
2x sapporo- misring.
1x 22oz Kirin- 86'd
1x kihada maguro nigiri- misring
2x kome buck cards.
1x tako nigiri- 86'd
1x sunomono- tako 86'd
R&M needs: Roach sighting in the kitchen. They're getting brave again.
Ruthy says she can't find the key to the paper towel dispensers in the bathroom. We keep them in the drawer in the bathroom?
86'd items/ need more: Green tea ice cream. Lots of sushi.
Paper towel dispenser key is kept in the office in front of the computer monitor on the desk, on a key chain. It's been there for a month now and that's where it lives.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned to Elizabeth yesterday about the new floor chart having a flow issue, especially in the back of the restaurant. I think it's mostly when diners don't pull their chairs in. That happened with the old floor chart as well. I've been politely asking guests to tuck themselves in. When did people stop doing that in general?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the people not pulling their chairs in is the same reason we had A8 turned perpendicular to A7.
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