Sunday 3/12/17 recap

Written By: Dusten

LY Lunch Sales: 1967
Projected Sales :2934
TY Lunch Sales:1945
+/- :-1% down from LY and short PS by $989
Lunch Covers: 101
Avg PPA: 19.26


LY Dinner Sales: 5176
Projected Sales : 5940
TY Dinner Sales: 5677
+/- : 10% over LY and short PS by $263
Dinner Covers:211
Avg PPA: 26.91


Previous Days Labor: 20%

Previous Days Comps: 3%
Controllable Comps: 5.89%

Weather: chilly and overcast. 50's all day.

Special events?: SXSW, Daylight Savings


Who worked: Lunch: John, Ruthy, Krystin, Mandy CL, Tori H,
Dinner: Ruthy, Krystin, Cindy, Grace, Clair CL, John CKTL, Leigh SA, Hiroe FR, Tori and Uncle Pat Hosting.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Lunch was fairly slow. We anticipated a late pop due due to daylight savings, but it never really happened. We did have a steady flow of customers right up until 2:59pm. No ticket times. I cut Krystin at 2:05, Ruthy at 2:35 and John at 2:45.

Dinner was pretty busy. We didn't start with a huge crowd, but it built quickly and we were on a wait at 6pm. Things seemed to slow briefly and then picked back up at 8pm. I warned the staff we'd likely have people walking in right up until closing. No ticket tim issues again. At least not that I heard of. More familiar faces, but plenty off oddball SXSW visitors. Still, we had an all-star line-up working tonight and everything went smoothly. We didn't come off of a wait until just after 9:15pm. At that point I cut John, Tori, Krystin and Ruthy. Grace had a needy 7-top in the back B's and everyone cut still had tables, so I left three on until close with maybe 2-4 more parties walking in at all.

Specials: 3 aji, 13 hama-toro box sushi

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how): It seems that John doesn't know he is supposed to stock the alcoholic drinks after he is cut from cocktailing. It was brought to my attention as he was leaving that he hadn't done this. I caught up to him. He went back and restocked the NON-alcoholic drinks and left again. He may not be the only one to do this when cocktailing.
-Leigh did pretty good today on her double SA. She almost never stopped moving. She could use a little work with prioritization and efficiency, but I see much improvement in her.
-Mr. Tran continues to barrel through crowds without much in the way of a warning. He did say "excuse me" to Ruthy once as he was carrying some things to the dish pit and she was dead in his way with her back to him. Not 10 minutes later he nearly collided with a customer on his way to the restroom. If we can't get him to use the very basic verbal warnings concerning his movement through our tiny work spaces, can we get him to wear a bell perhaps?

Any VIP's in? Lunch: Mark. Aaron Franklin, wife and kid.
Dinner: My friend Evan. Abel and Janine. Cindy's sisters. Anthony Lehmen and some friends. Heather and Hailey- Heather is the sort haired cute butchy girl that has been a regular for a while. She and Hailey were engaged to be married today. I sent them 2 glasses of sparkling rose as a congratulations.

Comps& Void Detail: FNF'd a pork belly nigiri for Evan and for the sparkling rose to Heather and Hailey. Employee Day off for Abel and Janine. $30 Kome customer bucks, $15 Holiday Kome bucks, $15 employee Kome bucks from Grace

R&M needs: Trash pick-up did not happen Saturday night. I called and spoke with the answering service. They assured me it would be collected.

86'd items/ need more: probably don't really need more, or much more, but we are just about out of propane.