Monday 9/12/16

Written By: Dusten

LY Lunch Sales: 1270
Projected Sales : 1776
TY Lunch Sales: 1398
+/- : over LY by 10% and short of PS by $378
Lunch Covers: 87
Avg PPA: 17.92


LY Dinner Sales: 4270
Projected Sales : 4830
TY Dinner Sales: 4653
+/- : over LY by 9% aqnd under PS by $177
Dinner Covers: 190
Avg PPA: 24.49


Previous Days Labor: 18%

Previous Days Comps: 4%
Controllable Comps: 2.13%

Weather: Warm, sunny partly cloudy

Special events?:


Who worked: Lunch: Mandy, Sayo, Alex, Johnny CL, Junko H, Taylor FR, John SA
Dinner: Kelly, Grace, Clair Ruthy, Camacho CL, Dan and John H, Taylor Sa and Hiroe FR

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Lunch was pretty slow. Barely filled up if at all. I cut Mandy at 1:05 and then Sayo at 1:30pm.

Dinner was steady but not very busy either. We filled up at about 7:30-7:45. We stayed on wait for about an hour. I cut John, Kelly and Grace at 8:45pm. I cut Clair at 9:15 and left Camacho and Ruthy on to close. No issue with ticket times.

Specials:

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how): Daniel has the absolute best looking botan ebi shells out of anyone in the kitchen. There was a table that ordered 5 and I'm fairly certain another table ordered themselves one simply because how good they looked. The problem is, his shells should be the standard and no one else even comes close. Sometimes during a busy dinner, a shell can go back to the kitchen and it never comes back. For $13 an hour, everyone's Botan should look like Daniels.


Any VIP's in? Scott Poe, Old John, Rachel and Leslie. Lots of industry folk.

Comps& Void Detail: 2 owner comp Salmon Kama from Take for the party room tonight.
-1 hamachi nigiri, 1 inari, 4 bday taiyakis at lunch,
-20% open discount for our food rep,
-5 or 6 SIN discounts including folks from Yellow Jacket, New Bohemia, Salt and Time, Whistler's, Weather Up, and the vegan trailer on North Loop.
-Employee Day off for Sa-Ten cook.
-Early in dinner a table found 2 hairs in their sunshine roll. Could have been Toshi's or Mr. Tran's. Considering Toshi wasn't making rolls and Mr. Trans cleanliness and methods are questionable I'll leave the deductions up to you. I comped both of their sunshine rolls to recovery.
-Had a customer slice his leg open on one of the metal chairs with arm rests. The chair is outside behind the dumpster, but outside the fence. He cut the backside of his leg high up on the calf. It looks like the welding wore out in front. It wasn't anything needing stitches or profusely bleeding, but I helped him with the first aid, open % comped their meal (20%) and gave them a $15 Kome Buck card as they were leaving. Ruthy said they were very understanding, somewhat regular, praised the food and left happy.

R&M needs:
-Rats chewed through the plastic storage bins to get to the sesame seeds. The rat was actually trapped inside the container because he could fit his gut through the whole he chewed after eating. Midori found it this morning, but it managed to escape. I don't know what to suggest for storage other than stainless steel.
-Petrocelli came out and inspected the A/C units, changed filters and did a bit of maintenance. I cut them a check and they emailed Leary the invoice. They mentioned some things about the condition of a particular until for the kitchen, that seems to be on the verge of complete breakdown.
-The breaker in the kitchen continued to prove problematic. Popping more consistently at night.
-Kaila came for a tasting today. Leary, I left the reds in the office. I wrote the bottle price on the labels. The reds we weren't too keen on, (maybe we were missing something) but the whites, bubbles and roses in the cooler by the soy sauce are worth consideration.
-Just a suggestion, but perhaps the "chocolate togarashi" soft serve could be made with the chocolate soft serve mix? When we had chocolate mix several moths ago, I tried to suggest the flavor by dusting the ice cream with the togarashi. The current mix is spicier than anything on our menu not counting the thai chili, and unless drenched in the chocolate syrup, doesn't have the chocolate flavor at all. We could mix a slight amount into the chocolate mix and do a dusting for presentation and to put the spice up front rather than something that builds in the aftertaste. Customers could even shake on a bit more as they eat if they prefer.
-Dan and I could not find the key for the paper towel dispenser for the bathroom. I'm not sure if Junko stocked them although they seemed full earlier in the dinner service. Perhaps she hid it?


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