Sunday All Day 6/4/17

Written By: Dusten

LY Lunch Sales: 2225
Projected Sales :2960
TY Lunch Sales: 2053
+/- : 8% under LY and short of PS by $907
Lunch Covers: 113
Avg PPA:18.17


LY Dinner Sales: 4888
Projected Sales : 5330
TY Dinner Sales:
+/- : 5% under LY and $701 short of PS
Dinner Covers: 157
Avg PPA: 29.48


Previous Days Labor: 20

Previous Days Comps:
Controllable Comps: 0.69%

Weather: Party cloudy with sun day,

Special events?: End AISD Grad weekend


Who worked: Lunch: John, Sayo, Lindsey, Mandy CL, Brennan FR, Zach SA, Alyssa training Rachel H
Dinner: Kelly, Grace, Patrick, Derek, Clair CL, Alyssa/Chelsea H, Brennan SA, Hiroe SA, John Cktl

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Slow Lunch. Didn't fill up. Had one walk-in larger party. Never can tell when or if things will get busy suddenly. Kept everyone on until 2pm. Cut John then. Lindsey at 2:15 and Sayo at 2:45pm.

Dinner was somehow slower than lunch. Don't know if it was the weather, the Hepatitis tuna news, the barrage of holidays/graduations over the last few weeks, but we were essentially dead from about 8pm on. I cut John and Kelly then. Alyssa offered to stay on, so I cut Grace and Chelsea at 8:15. Cut Patrick at 9:15 and Derek at 9:30. We had 3 customers walk in during that last half hour.

Specials: 13 nigiri sets

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how): Alyssa was about 30 minutes late. Called her and woke her up apparently. She knew she was supposed to be here. She admitted this herself. Wrote her up and put it in her file.
-Zach and Brennan were relatively unchallenged at lunch in their new positions at lunch. Still, good practice. They both stayed active and maintianed the floor even during the lulls.
-Annie came in to drop off her documents from her physician. She isn't in her hard cast yet. She is scheduled to work tomorrow lunch and Tuesday lunch. As it is she will not be able to set up the outside boards, or move the stools out onto the patio. I also figured that her passing through the server station to retrieve chopsticks or menus would put her at risk for collision with anyone, and without a hard cast, could put her in a world of pain instantly. On the other hand (no pun intended) she is very eager to get back to work, and would even like to pick up Patrick's Monday PM host shift. She is taking acetaminophen, and ibuprofen with codeine. She wouldn't be taking the opiate at work and has already gone a full day without them without discomfort.
She does however, have an appointment to get her cast put on at 2pm on Tuesday and would likely need to leave during the last 30 minutes of service that day. She will be in tomorrow to work unless told otherwise. She says she's getting stir-crazy at home.
-Kelly had the Pandora playing Slayer while doing side work prior to dinner service. I was caught up in the office talking to Annie until maybe 2-3 minutes after opening. When we came out, Slayer Pandora was still in full effect and we had a few tables sat with a line in the lobby. I followed up with her, mentioning how easily the privilege of having any control over the music has been revoked in the past. I told her the story of me getting chewed out because Camacho closing the night before, left Easy-E playing for Elizabeth to serenade our first customers on a Sunday morning. I might have been the only one in the entire restaurant to have noticed the music anyways.

Any VIP's in? Som Rob.

Old John came in like clock-work, but he was especially crabby and looked pretty rough today. He snapped at Alyssa  when told it'd be a minute before his table was ready. He told Lindsey he was displeased with the turnover rate at the host stand, presumably because not everyone is as familiar with his idiosyncrasies. Lindsey offered to summon me for him, but he declined and mentioned he'd seek out Elizabeth at some point. I mostly tried to talk with Alyssa about the situation. She didn't think much of it, but I also did not want her to feel that she could expect management to permit or excuse abusive customers. She knew very little about John, and I wanted to offer context for his behavior without making excuses for him. I did mention that even with regulars, there is a threshold for tolerable customer behavior.

Sayo's friend Nick, that was hit by a car only a few blocks away last week or the week before.

We've had a number of customers voice concern over the recent news of tuna testing positive for Hepatitis A. As it stands, there seems to be a single company out of Indonesia that is responsible for the tainted tuna. Toshi says our yellow-fin comes through Minamoto, and our hon maguro through MexCor. Operating under the assumption that it is likely yellow-fin that is cause for concern, I tried to trace our line of distribution to a country of origin, but found no labeling. Toshi's very loose recollection did offer that just maybe we get yellow-fin from Indonesia. It seems like a incredibly slim chance our food could be contaminated, but because we can't say with 100% certainty it isn't, perhaps we ought to reach out to our vendors?

-KindoSan came in for dinner.

Comps& Void Detail: Employee Kome Bucks from Mandy,
-Owner Comped 18 Fire Eagle IPA's for Take (There are 18 Pearl Snap to comp once we get a button),
-Fnf'd Sayo's friend Nick's beer.
-training meals for Rachel and Alyssa
-Derek ran a surf-n-turf to the wrong table. comped it to FOH error
-$21.50 Kome bucks for Chelsea- bought a bottle of 3 brooms at cost

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