Saturday 11.5.16

Written By: Elizabeth

LY Lunch Sales: $3854
Projected Sales : $3650
TY Lunch Sales: $3369
+/- : -13% LY and -$281 PS (kind of hard to beat LY. That's one hell of a lunch)
Lunch Covers: 182
Avg PPA: $18.31


LY Dinner Sales: $6873
Projected Sales : $7360
TY Dinner Sales: $7108
+/- : +3% LY and -$252 PS
Dinner Covers: 257
Avg PPA: $27.66
On the checkouts spreadsheet I forgot to add in the cocktail sales to the server sales. I have adjusted it for the week. Which means last nights sales were actually $7278/ +6% LY and +$158 PS

**NOTE: On the P&L spreadsheet, I have rearranged the Comparisons rows, so now LY is the top row, Projected is the middle, and TY sales are the last row. That way it's easier to enter in all the numbers up top here. Don't know why I didn't think of that sooner.

Previous Days Labor: 15%

Previous Days Comps:  3%
Controllable Comps: 1.58%

Weather: Overcast and cool. low 70s

Special events?:
Sound on Sound Fest, TX Book Fest

Who worked:
Lunch; Sayo, Mandy, Renee, Johnny CL. Tori Host, John FR, Gabe SA
Dinner:Lindsey, Clair, Camacho, Krystin, Dusten CL. Melisa & Patrick host, Hiroe FR, John SA

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch was slow until 1pm and  then it just hit like a ton of bricks. We went on a 30-40 minute wait until about 2:30. It was very busy and everyone was hustling and moving. no major ticket times or errors though. Everyone seemed pretty happy. I underquoted one table when we got our inital pop, but they seemed okay with waiting a little longer. Johnny had a table that was deathly allergic to MSG so I spent some time talking with them and getting them situated with that. Other than that, the afternoon slowed around 2:45. Pretty late for a Saturday.

Dinner was more of the same. If last night and tonight were a fable, tonight would be the Tortise, and last night was the Hare. Tonight was slow and steady. All night long. It never let up but was never overwhelming. We had a pop around 6:30 but other than that it was a mellow long night. Cut Lindsey and Clair at 9:30 since it was slowing, somewhat. The 3 left on had to get a little hustle in their step since we were still having folks coming in the door consistantly.
We stayed busier later into the night as well, seating the last table at 10:30. It died down after that.

I've wanted to mention this for a while now. The Kara-age experiences consistancy issues. not in portioning, but in quality. Sometimes I order regular kara-age and its fantastic! Great pieces of meat, crispy. Other times I order it and it's soggy, barely coated in cornmeal, and chewy.

Specials:
Japanese Uni 3
Tsubugai 9
Oyster 8
Puddings 3 (only 1 left)

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-Krystin was an exceptional super star tonight. Multiple times I saw her coming from the back dish pit with stacks of sushi plates in her hands. She was the only server I saw restocking the sushi bar. And she put the hustle on at the end of the night after I made cuts too.
-Renee didn't have much going on tonight but I kept her on until 9:30. Her attitude was meh. She was tired and bored and just didn't have much of a smile on all night.
-Melisa was also not feeling too hot tonight. She said she was just super tired, I overheard her saying she worked at Mothers this morning. She was just sort of "there" all night. I also cut her at 9:30 because I was bored and she was tired. Could have used a little more pep in her step tonight though.
Patrick ran the board and I had to remind him, when taking names, to get a last initial. He put up a fight against it for a little bit, but eventually started....the stopped. So, there's that. I would like for everyone to get in the habit of getting a last initial when we are on a wait, just in case we need to get old fashioned and start calling out for folks.


Any VIP's in?
Cole was in for lunch with a friend
Japanese American Lady was in- the one we're donating the Gift Card to. (no, I wasn't profiling)

Stephanie & Sean and their baby. They were regulars of ours before the had to move to LA for business. They were back in town visiting. They've been gone for 2 years. Doesn't seem like it.
Wylie & Eudora. I love them!

Comps& Void Detail:
Long ticket time on an Edamame towards the end of service for Johnny- comp'd as kit error.
Void Shime Saba misring
Camembert FNF for Steph & Sean

R&M needs:
I will call Hill Refridgeration on Monday to take a look at Ni-ban sushi case, it has stopped working.

I walked to the corner store today and got a small padlock with a small key. The key is on the trailer keys clip. This is a temporary fix until we can

I went in the trailer during the lunch rush to look for togo containers, and that trailer is an absolute mess. Also, why is there so much stuff in there now?!? I couldn't find any containers (Matt went in tonight and found some) But we have got to do something about it.

86'd items/ need more:
I ordered more crayons. We have used the last of them