NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication:  Smooth open with Gil and RB. Nice not to have to jump into sold out showtimes and able to play catch up from the weekend. -LB Christine and Wyatt are awesome. Smooth and easy Monday. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Lydia gave me a token and paid their tab from 11/3, check #857.  Day 2 of Operation Oleo an easy success. Both bars peeled grapefruits and we are in business. Need to strain oleo tomorrow around 5pm-LB Danny and Greg handled Trees easily. Swung Lydia up for the dinner rush and then back down to get Patrick a break and then they left. Danny stuck around til about 9:30, as Trees got a little pop. Greg and Patrick closed Trees and Lobby without issue. - IP FOH Staff Observations: It might be worth mentioning to the FOH Staff that hang out at Trees, that when they are off work and they are guests, they could tip the bar staff. They never do. -LB Brian stopped into the MOD office at the end of the shift to air some grievances and frustrations about ...

Manager Communication: Smashing open with Rebecca. Matt and Nat, then Pat. Had a very excitable kid's birthday party that Raekwon handled easily. YCSE continues to amaze. - IP FYI for Big Mouth Punch, we will use the pisco until it is gone then use Singani which tastes similar with just a better aftertaste-LB Customer Comments:  BAR Staff Observations: Matt opened Trees, Nat opened Lobby. Nat wanted to swing up to Trees, so Patrick took over Lobby when he got in. Theater sales are solid all day. - IP Team is crushing it through every round yet again. When Matthew and Natasha left Jeshua, Darius and Patrick killed the back to back sold out rushes while Trees was packed. Excellent teamwork. I helped Greg through a ticket rush but he pretty much crushed the lobby solo. I called Michael back down for one of the rushes to help on tickets so Greg could focus on service once I was back upstairs on expo.  The rushes are more like tides now. Predictable and steady. Really premium wor...

Manager Communication:    Bustling Trees Lounge this evening.  Plenty of groups, and a fair amount of couples who came in just to chill and eat at Trees Lounge. JH BAR Staff Observations:  Thankfully Greg and Natasha being service machines was great for the first portion of the day since I was largely unavailable. It is a nice feeling knowing that everything will be okay. -LB Tevon got in to help crush the goings on and give a break to Greg. Sam came in at 2pm and also helped crank out Trees since we had a lot of business. Everything super manageable for the team. Hoping to get the bar super-stocked ahead of the dinner round so it is smooth sailing tonight.-LB Both openers were able to get out of here once everyone had a chance to grab family meal, and then both bars were busy all the way through the last round.  Jeshua was a solo superstar in lobby, and Gabrielle + Sam + Tevon were great up at Trees even with a pretty nonstop service push while Trees was poppin...

Manager Communication: Jared was really helpful with opening as I was finishin up Inventory -GS I took the GF soda off the charge Gus and put the other Keg on. Old Fashioned, Margarita, and Appletini kicked and I have all of those Kegs cleaned out in the liquor room with the lid still with the kegs they belong to. Please do not separate the kegs from the lids... this is how we run into issue's with lids not properly fitting on kegs. - AB2  I took the Filmbot printer paper and case of Singani for NWB. - AB2 Customer Comments: There was a customer from TH5 dinner round who complained that no one in the theater got food for 45 minutes. She said everything was fine and that she comes here all of the time but that she JUST wanted to let me know. She was then in Trees and insistent on going into the Q&A with John Turturro. I told her that they were not allowed to go since it was sold out and people came for the Q&A... She said "of course I'm allowed." I told her ag...

Manager Communication: Gus, Wyatt, Jess and I opened up this morning. Wyatt had to get a little creative with staffing, but as mentioned the YCSE fervor is decidedly easing up, so we should be in the clear. - IP Gave the bar prep Bar Binder a little makeover - no longer sticky (fresh new plastic sleeves) and now organized by section with dividers! - IP  Another bustling weeknight on all floors.  Looking forward to seeing how the new movies will sell this weekend. JH BAR Staff Observations: Sam opened the day by toppling an entire stack of glassware outside of the Trees elevator. He, Gus, Lillian and I cleaned up the rather impressive mess - it looked like that scene in Die Hard - and Vlad disposed of the broken glass we swept up. Sam shook it off impressively and provided excellent service throughout the day. Gab had a good open and a chill start to the day in the lobby. - IP Once the Th3 private event was underway, Gabrielle floated upstairs and helped Sam + Matthew get thr...

Manager Communication: Busy screenings throughout the building, but later rounds of YCSE  do appear to be slowing down in ticket sales.  Good moods behind both bars and at the service passes today, even among the folks that are usually Toast Moody Judys.  There has definitely been an uptick in positivity these last two or so weeks. JH BAR Staff Observations:   Matthew is so helpful. He notices the things in the lowboys that I notice and drive me crazy. I love it. Organizational mastermind. Also just down to business all the time. If everyone was like Matthew this place would be in hyperdrive.-LB  Today we launched Operatzione Oleo where the bartenders peel 20 grapefruits. I brought 13 to each bar to finish the box we had open. I gave them each a quart of simple to keep them moist and wrote how much simple I needed to add when I brought them to the back. I then added the strain time.  It is a good system, easy. Just make sure to do the simple syrup+grapefru...