Saturday 1.21.17

Written By: Elizabeth (and Chelsea at dinner)

LY Lunch Sales: $2809
Projected Sales : $3102
TY Lunch Sales: $2653
+/- : -6% LY and -$449 PS
Lunch Covers: 131
Avg PPA: $20.25


LY Dinner Sales: $7625
Projected Sales :$8160
TY Dinner Sales: $8452
+/- : +11% LY and  +$292 PS
Dinner Covers: 280
Avg PPA: $30.19


Previous Days Labor: $1967

Previous Days Comps: $337.90
Controllable Comps: $18

Weather: beautiful. 70s. Rained a bit early on in dinner and then it got cooler and windy.

Special events?: Women's March

Who worked:
Lunch: John, Mandy, Sophia, Johnny CL. Kelly Host, Hiroe FR, Leigh SA
Dinner: Clair, Renee, Ruthy, Liam, Dusten CL. Kelly Cktl, John SA and Hiroe FR training Patrick. Alina and Melisa Host.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times:
Lunch was sleepy today. Wasn't sure if it was the weather or the women's march, but we just never hit our stride. We did get a few small pops but nothing of significance. I think we got a Post-Protest-Pop around 2:30. I cut Sophia around 2 and we closed with 3 on.

Dinner was much busier. Started off with the swim team's last dinner, a 16 top at 5 pm. Ruthy and Liam split it. Party room also had a reservation at 5pm. Filled up around 5:25, went on a 30 min wait at that time. The wait grew to 1.5 hours by 6:30, died down to 25 mins by 9:15 once people starting falling off the waitlist. Cut Clair at 10:15, Ruthy and Renee by 10:30. The kitchen got hit pretty hard with the swim team order but they got it cleared out pretty smoothly. Ticket times were pretty normal after that.

Note on the party room: We must must must make sure that the hosts make sure there are 6 people here prior to seating the party room. The 7 pm reso ended up being only 4 (!!!) and the 9 pm ended up being only 5 people. The first one wasn't the hosts' fault, but the second one was.

Specials: Whole Aji, 1

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):
-I gave John a 4 table section today (A1, A5, B1, B2) and told him that I wanted to see him focus on table maintenance. It wasn't that busy but he did a better job. I told him to look for the details, like when I dropped another round of rolls at B1 and they still had their straws, fully wrapped, in the middle of the table.

Dinner:

- Liam got a positive call out from his A7, they made a point to stop me on the way out to let me know how great he was.

- Alina did a great job at the host stand delegating to Melisa and also communicating with customers, great verbiage.

- It was Renee's first time in the party room. She was hesitant at first, but luckily the parties ended up being smaller so it was a good first experience.

Any VIP's in?
It was amateur afternoon for lunch.  A lot of people that don't usually go out. Only 1 regular, I think his name is John and he, too, is old. Usually comes in with his short wife. He's very tall and burly.

Dinner: Swim team. Cheer Ups owner.

Comps& Void Detail:
None at lunch! I had to void a kara-age because I was going too fast and accidentally rang it in on Johnnys ticket.

Had to Void a Go Go roll for Liam, it was on the sushi card and he said that he read it back, but when the people received the roll, they said it wasn't theirs. Server misring on that one.

R&M needs:

86'd items/ need more: