Friday 5.27.16

Written By: Elizabeth (Chelsea oversaw the PM notes too!)

LY Lunch Sales: $2199
Projected Sales : $2375
TY Lunch Sales: $2973
+/- : +35% over LY sales, +$598 over PS
Lunch Covers: 173
Avg PPA: $17.18


LY Dinner Sales: $6902
Projected Sales : $7685
TY Dinner Sales: $8151
+/- : +18% LY and +$466 PS
Dinner Covers: 260
Avg PPA: $31.35

Previous Days Labor: 19%

Previous Days Comps: 4.04%
Controllable Comps: 4.12%

Weather: Light rain earlier in the day, then it cleared up really nicely. Probably in the mid 70s at night. Almost chilly. Is it May?

Special events?: Start of Memorial day Weekend.
P.S- I heard that Uchi and Uchiko are closed on Monday for Memorial Day, so expect a VERY busy day!

Who worked:
Lunch: Clair CL. Grace, Kelly & Sayo. Taylor FR, Will SA, John & Chloe Hosted
Dinner: Dusten CL, Camacho, Johnny, Lindsey, Sophia, John SA, Taylor FR, Chelsea & Grant Hosted, Cindy CT.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch: Busy from go. I jumped back in the kitchen to expo during the first 2 hours of lunch to keep the guys on track. They were getting killed and it was just Joe and Daniel. It will be really nice when we have a kitchen manager to be the expo on these busy Friday lunches. Had a long Camembert dessert due to a lost ticket. And then I took 20% off of two sushi lunches for S6-7. Two girls were waiting on their sushi lunches and their friend was almost finished his Bento. The sushi lunches were sitting on the top of the Ichiban station and the girls were eyeing it, eyeing Clair and eyeing me. I asked Take if he could give them the lunches without the Unagi (which is what we were waiting on) but instead he took them off the ichiban station and told me they would be ready in just a minute. Once he finished putting it together, he put them on the sushi expo line and I ran them to the ladies. When I dropped them, they asked why I  had told him  to take the lunches down. I clarified that I asked him to give them the lunches without the unagi since that was what was holding everything up. They seemed to understand at that point, but I still wanted to do something special for them so I took 20% off their lunches for the long ticket time.

 Lunch slowed down around 1:45,  so I didn't make any cuts until close. I think I had Clair pick up 2 additional tables at around 5 til close. But that was it.
Just something to note: I ordered a kids ramen for lunch and the noodles were rather gummy. It was probably just because the water needed to be changed out and it was at the end of the shift, but just having to note it.

Dinner: Started strong as usual on a Friday. Went on a wait around 6. It was full but a steady flux. The height of the wait got to an hour and 15 minutes, but only a few groups waited that long. After 9pm it became total date night and we only had 2 tops coming in. We had one 5 top come in and we were able to seat them in the PR. But other than that it was a smooth night. Chelsea ran the board and Grant did a great job as the gopher- a great team!
Died down around 10:15, and I don't think another table walked in after 10:20. Cut down to 2 on at 10:30, but alas, no other tables arrived. Floated into a smooth close.


Specials:
Japanese Uni 15
Tsubugai 8
Snow Crab 9

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-So it was nice to have two hosts on at lunch today, however it was two very green hosts: John and Chloe. So it became a little Chaotic at the host stand especially since we were on a pretty big wait for lunch. Just FYI
-Kelly got a bit frazzled at lunch with it being so busy and getting double sat. Both Sayo and Grace were feeling a little off as well, which lent to the entire mood at lunch.

Any VIP's in?
Susan and Husband Jason (? Not the turtle guy...but yes the turtle guy)
At lunch Rob was in as usual

Comps& Void Detail:
Just the one I mentioned above for Kitchen error on the sushi bar.

R&M needs:
So in previous notes, there has been mention of either a sushi bar sink clogging or a leak behind the iced tea machine and I can assure everyone it is neither. Well, the sushi bar sink might over flow, but the draino I bought should take care of that. But the REAL culprit of what all that water/really bad smell is is because of....Gravity!
Let me preface with this: I cleaned that entire area as service started. First by sopping up the water, but mostly by sopping up black gunk. It could only be likened to an oil spill in the gulf. It wreaked. It smelled awful. I sanitized it with bleach and before we knew it it was dry and clean. Then, Spencer spilled a sani bucket on the floor at zero-ban. And he went to grab a mop and mop up the water that seemed to only be by the sushi prep sink and his station. However I called him over to the service station to show him that any water that leaks from sushi bar (spilled sani, or box of fish sitting on the floor with ice melting out of it) drains over to the iced tea/beverage cooler and pools there. THAT is where the water is coming from. No leak here. So what I ask is that sushi bar be conscious of the liquids they have, be it melting ice from raw fish, or overflow water from the prep sink, because it ultimately becomes the servers responsibility to clean. I also ask that the servers be concious of any water that comes from the glass rack ice bin area. I put down towels and didn't have any other problems all night. so Keep an eye.

86'd items/ need more:
Whoever is doing the Sysco order this week please order more white sugar, we are OUT. Thanks :)
Also...
Here are things we need- please respond if you can get any of them:
-Wood Glue (I think Dusten has this one)
-Demi-tas spoons for soft serve and tuna poke. Can get them from Rest Depot or Ace Mart
-Pint Glasses (same as above)
-Wine Glasses ( Ace mart)
- Two Yellow Flood lights for the back kitchen door