Monday 7/24/17 PM Recap

Written By: Chelsea

LY Dinner Sales: $4299
Projected Sales : $4615
TY Dinner Sales: $4762
+/- : 11% over LY and $147 over PS
Dinner Covers: 169
Avg PPA: $28.18

Weather: drizzly at first and then warm

Special events?: none

Who worked: John, Mandy, Krystin, Ruthy, Clair Cl, Hiroe FR, Zach SA, Alyssa and Kelly host.

Flow of Business, Cuts and Ticket Times: Started off steady, and then barely filled up around 7:30. Had only about 3 parties on the wait, and for about 20m total. Went off the wait around 8:15, but I held on a bit in case of a late pop. It didn't happen then, so we went 3 on at 8:45 and cut Alyssa, went 2 on at 9 and then we had a medium trickle of tables. Ruthy and Clair handled it just fine, and we let Clair take over at 9:40 to close. Ticket times were great.

Specials: Mabo Tofu - 11, Nigiri Set - 15

3 Staff members that stood out (why/how):

- Cooler was not stocked after lunch shift. Hardly any Snow Maiden in the cooler, and hardly any Liberty Lunches, had to restock really early on in the shift and then didn't have cold ones for a while.

- Josh let me know that he was interested in getting behind the sushi bar some time in the coming months (ideally by New Kome opening). He pointed out his experience with fish, cutting fish (although not necessarily sashimi/nigiri cuts), and doing that while in front of customers/interacting with customers which he did at Clark's. He said that it had been mentioned to him when he was hired that it was possible, but he wasn't sure if it was still a possibility. Since he knows the kitchen stuff, he'd be helpful for when the sushi bar needs prep items from the kitchen in a hurry. I think he'd be a great addition to the sushi bar lineup.

- Ben let me know that he's caught the ice scoop in the ice machine not in the hook at the end of the night a few times in recent weeks. When it doesn't get put up at the end of the day, it gets buried in ice and they have to dig it out. Let's make sure to add that to the FOH closing list.

Any VIP's in? Older businessman that sits at the sushi bar by himself, owner of Las Cruxes, the guys from that band Survive. Dennis Quaid's half brother.

Comps& Void Detail: Voided double rang Earth Wind Fire, SIN for Emmer and Rye, Hotel San Jose/Figure 8 Coffee (together at one table), SIN from Las Cruxes, 5 people from the power outage came in and used their Kome Bucks they received from the inconvenience (yes, all at the same table, groan.)

R&M needs:

- I like the new flat sushi plates. However, the old flat black plates have small legs on the bottom that make it easier for people to pick up the dishes. These new plates are the exact same size and product, except that the bottom is completely flat, which makes it really hard to pick up the plates from the sushi bar easily, especially when there are fragile foods on there. Next time we order these, can we make sure to get the ones with the tiny legs? It's literally like a 2cm difference in height, but it makes all the difference when it comes to servers being able to quickly and easily pick up their food to go out. When there were several flat black plates up there to go out, people were having to slide them off to the side of the sushi bar to get it off easily, which was asking for accidents. The tiny legs also help with keeping the dishes steady on trays and in servers' hands.

86'd items/ need more: Endo, usu, iced green teas