NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Chill open. Jenn stayed around because I had a meeting. Smooth sailing through and through -GS Was a busy little Friday and the team was firing on all cylinders. Wyatt and James were on top of the theater calls, and we all pitched in a little to help with the sold-out flips in the big theaters. No security tonight so I stuck around to do the walk-through etc. so James could focus on the close. - IP Customer Comments: Lots of babies in Trees. My friend Ben showed up with his kid Remi. Fun times all around.  -GS BAR Staff Observations: Charlie opened. Did a much better job than last week.  -GS Seconded for Charlie - bar was well set by the time I got in. He and Matthew rocked some very busy service rushes for Hail Mary. Tevon stuck around and bopped between Trees and Lobby and I got him outta here before 8:30. Charlie ended up staying through the end of the 9:30 Hail Mary rush and left at 10p. Matthew is a machine behind the bar. So so strong. Ga...

Manager Communication: Jared, Becca and me at night. Dream team. Customer Comments: Had some nice pops in Trees. Right before Swordfish it was very busy. BAR Staff Observations: Pro crew tonight. Everyone crushed. Got Greg out super early FOH Staff Observations: Anthony was being really annoying tonight. On his phone a lot. I called him on it multiple times. If he does it tomorrow I'm writing him up. Hiring/Training: Sick Leave/ Call outs: Special Events? Staff Meeting Agenda notes: 86ed / counts on items: We 86ed Mr. & Mrs Tom Collins. I made the executive decision to make a small keg of 30. Prep List: R&D comp checks: Over/Short on Banks: The bank was $100 over, however upon further inspection it appears as though someone did two payouts for $50 each for the talent, but didn't pull the $. I pulled the money and did a payout, so I just did a pay in at the end of the night and it all worked out. Pay Outs: $100- Cinema Event Hosts Ordering/Receiving/Shipping: CW c...

Manager Communication:  Menu change accumulation of stuff has commenced. We are in great shape for next week. Excited to get Fresh.-LB BAR Staff Observations:  Singani event went smoothly, and now we have a two week break while NWB hosts '90s + '00s.  Got Tevon out of here once Trees folks headed in to Th1, and then Matthew stuck around for the service push and to do a restock for Trees before getting out of here.  Both Gabrielle and Jeshua were great at each bar, and closed without issue. JH FOH Staff Observations:  Just a note that Anthony was really on top of all three theaters on the first floor for the final round.  Lots of positivity and great communication. JH Special Events?  Do the Right thing,  The Singani HH at Trees was relatively mellow, and the screening went well.  We ran through The Color of Pomegranates we had batched, and have a fair amount of the Sal's special left over (it was brought back to the walk in). JH 86ed / counts...

Manager Communication: Chill non-Trivia Tuesday. Bar meeting was great - good to have Gus back! Menu change is feeling really locked in. Should be pretty straightforward to get us over the finish line. - IP Customer Comments: A guest earnestly asked me today why our gin selection is so small if our sign claims that Trees Lounge claims to be "The Best Gin Joint in All the World". He at least seemed sheepish when I politely pointed out that it's a Casablanca reference, and we are, after all, a movie theater. You can't make this stuff up, folks. - IP BAR Staff Observations:  Lydia was super helpful and sorted all the letters for our upcoming menu change for the draft boards at Trees Lounge.-LB Gave Charlie some help and some tips for closing Trees without help. He can be a little all over the place, so I helped to streamline things for him - he picked it up quick and I think it'll become muscle memory soon enough. - IP Charlie and Tevon handled Trees and Lydia was o...

Manager Communication: Jenn most of the shared theater cocktails are done in the folder I made. I did not do FWWM and O-ren. Need to just proofread and cross check some last details and it should be totally done tomorrow. I checked over garnish guide and theater guide, will proofread and double check again tomorrow.-LB Ordered more hail Mary garnish picks and two isi whipped cream cans for the new menu.-LB Nice little Monday. No events but Hail Mary keeps the hits comin'. Lauren banged out a bunch of menu change stuff, Ariel batched a bunch and all was well. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Team was great tonight. Greg and Lydia handled Trees easily - shout out to Lydia for fixing the beer and shot special draught board AND organizing all of the letters in the organizer tray!! Gold Star for the day. Got Lydia out of here by 9, and Tevon shortly after (I had him get the lobby pretty much fully closed and then stayed down there for the last few drinks until the gate could come down and ...

Manager Communication: Wyatt and I opened. Was able to replenish the walk-in and get some menu-change tasks done before the first round popped off. - IP I went into bar storage to try and reorganize. I put the pad for pool table back up. I folded the cover and put it on top of the boxes for table clothes. I will email Chenelle about a little reorg maybe Tuesday. -LB Tevon batched the black manhattan keg in the wrong type of keg. Ariel can we pour it into the correct keg tomorrow together.  Otherwise we can't tap that one. -LB Customer Comments: A bottle of the Carignan had jagged glass on the top after Jeshua served it so we swapped the guests glass out. She had a sip but I was just being cautious and the glass would have sank. I rang the dumped bottle into Spillage. -LB    BAR Staff Observations: Today's brunch and day time service was rather tame compared to yesterday, sounds like. I made sure that Greg and Nat were both extra prepared with glassware, and they crushed...