NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication:  Did a bev tasting at Trees today!  Lots of fun things on the horizon. Ian's drink for the Bride is AMAZING, if we want to do one. -LB Haha, that's nice thank you! Props to Chef Jared for the call of the Corpse Reviver no. 2 as inspiration (duh lol). Tonight was smooth. Trees got nice and busy before the dinner round WH and Lydia and Patrick kicked ass. Got Lydia out of here around 9 and then Tevon around 10 - I stayed in the lobby to finish out the round before the gate came down and then it was nice and easy. - IP BAR Staff Observations:    Lydia opened Trees and Tevon held down the lobby like a pro.-LB Patrick was a one man wrecking crew tonight. Held down a busy trees lounge solo after Lydia got out of here and I was occupied in the lobby. Great job. - IP FOH Staff Observations: Erika took over the first floor EOD and handled some ordering curveballs like the total pro she is. - IP 86ed / counts on items:  We are done with Hot Bananas...

Manager Communication:   Tight team. Jess, Gil and me opened the building. Rebecca came in and helped on the floor. Some call outs, but the team pulled through today. -GS Stayed populated at trees most of the night. Perfect Blue had a good turnout despite the weather, and most sales grew to okay numbers by end of night. Aside from the one medical emergency at the end of the night (which was promptly and efficiently taken care of by Dion and myself - mostly Dion) it was a smooth evening. - IP Customer Comments:  Two people from the greater Chicagoland area in Trees today. Great to see it -GS At around 10:45 I was alerted that someone was unconscious in the Trees bathroom. When I arrived two good samaritans were with the young man who had fainted. They said he appeared to seize slightly, and EMS was called. They arrived about 15 minutes later and saw to the guest. We found his partner in the theater and brought them out to get any further info. The paramedics took the guest out ...

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...