NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Opening was a breeze - snow hadn't started yet, so everyone was in promptly. Jeshua is still feeling ill, and we needed to cut at least one bartender anyway, so I cut his shift, and then pushed Charlie back to 2p as the mid, Patrick to 4p as the lobby closer, and Tevon to 5:30 as Trees closer. - IP We seem to be out of batteries in the office. I borrowed some from the label maker for the candle.-LB Chill vibes all around. Got the bars settled and tried to get our team out the door by 9pm. -LB Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Solid opens from Nat and Greg, as per usual. Charlie jumped right in to help with a GOAT rush and then grabbed a stock for Trees. - IP FOH Staff Observations: Kyah is consistently a standout. She and Monica are a really good team. - IP Hiring/Training: Sick Leave/ Call outs: Cut Jeshua's shift for business level and because he's still feeling unwell. - IP Special Events? The wishful wick candle is not working as I h...

Manager Communication:  Jared tried tapping the black Manhattan keg when it was empty. It ended up spraying him with Manhattan. I tried to tap it, but it was leaking gas, so I had to reaffix the gasket, but it sprayed me as it had sprayed him. I am unsure what is wrong, but I did not have time to troubleshoot the broken keg and I poured the keg into the other working keg. But we should try to figure out if something is wrong or it just needs to be tightened or cleaned.-LB Patrick reached out ahead of the snow, so let's just keep the bartenders that are on the schedule tomorrow in the loop regarding snow. -LB Customer Comments: A woman hit her head on a nail sticking out of the wall by the James Dean painting. I put masking tape on it, it should be pulled out or hammered against the wall. I bought her a drink.  She filled out an incident report that I tacked to the cork board, since I do not know what is up with the scanner.-LB BAR Staff Observations: Greg stuck around til ju...

Manager Communication:   Smooth opening. Got a ton of stuff done. -GS Gus and Jenn nailed opening - everything was super set up for the evening and likely through the weekend. Was a busy night and the team crushed from top to bottom. - IP Customer Comments:  We sure had them. -GS Yep - busy busy busy. - IP BAR Staff Observations:   Charlie and Tevon crushed. -GS Same goes for Matt and Gab. Charlie stuck around until about 9:30 and then Matt cruised to the finish line. Was an early night in the lobby and Gab held it down all night. - IP FOH Staff Observations:   Erika and Thursdae rocked it out tonight. - IP 86ed / counts on items: Apple - 39 Chains of Love - 91 Hot Bananas - 14 Prep List: An OF keg kicked tonight and the Hot Bananas is running low - otherwise you are set for Saturday Morning. - IP Ordering/Receiving/Shipping:  We might get a Manhattan order tomorrow. I'm never sure when they are going to arrive -GS Maintenance: Something must have spilled on the...

Manager Communication:  Well, Jared is like having two MODs at once. Lots of need for his help with the dudes in theater 2 that just couldn't accept their behavior got them bounced from the theater. I did not serve them at Trees.  I calmly explained that we try to protect the theater space from disturbance and provide an environment for our employees to work easily. They did not want to accept that they are not cool dudes.-LB Matthew noted that if Theater 1 and 2 have three racks of glasses ready to go, they can just bring them rather than waiting until there are 6. This facilitates glassware restocking.  I broke out our two back up cases of rocks glasses, so we should order more but I defer to Gus. -LB BAR Staff Observations: Our bar team is some of the most interesting, intellectual and compassionate humans around. Just want to point out how lucky we are to have the depth of character we do on our team.  It is a pleasure to be around them and work with them.-LB F...

Manager Communication:  Easygoing Wednesday night.  Trees had a pretty good crowd thanks to the Singani event, but the crowd was gone by the time we hit 10pm. JH BAR Staff Observations:  Great crew tonight, all rocking their brand new Singani swag.  Tevon got out of here once the Singani screening was underway, and Matthew stuck around for the last "WH" screening and to help Gabrielle with the Singani crowd that came back to Trees once the screening had finished.  Once third round kicked off, both Gabrielle and Jeshua made quick work of closing each bar. JH Special Events? The Singani events (Trees happy hour + Th3 screening) went great.  We had Gabrielle, Matthew, + Tevon upstairs for the first part, and they hit the ground running.  Then Tevon swung down to Lobby to help Jeshua with the Th3 service push, and that was it.  Lovely crowd.  Overall a very fun and positive event.  Looking forward to the ones coming up. JH    Pay O...

Manager Communication: A woman stopped by from the VFW down the block and inquired about a group discount. I gave her my email and will forward to John? I mentioned our standing discount as well.-LB Really excited about the Singani series and cocktails.-LB  Gus, Lauren and I touched base about the Singani party tomorrow night - gonna be awesome. Lauren did a good bit of batching while I got Charlie set up for Trivia. Becca was a huge help at the service pass during Trivia - and also helping to buss the floor. James was everywhere all night - felt like there was barely a walkie call he didn't respond to first. Great teamwork all around. - IP Customer Comments: Had some guests who decided to have their dinner at Trees during Trivia but were not interested in playing trivia and were a handful with Charlie. Very rude to him and making things overly complicated by starting checks at the bar without telling Charlie about them, etc. - he handled the whole situation very gracefully and t...