NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Put out a case of shot glasses, pints, rocks, new ice bucket, bullets for picklebacks. -LB Set for the meeting tomorrow. Everything is made and ready except for JImmy the Gent. New frozen machine is filled with the two new frozens - I wasn't able to fully test the freeze, but whoever is in first can just turn the machine to slush and by the time the meeting starts they should be good to go. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Gab and Danny work very well together. Sam has a pretty bad attitude a lot of the time and could make a concerted effort to work towards some warmer customer service. Jeshua was set it and forget it in the lobby as per usual. Smooth night. - IP FOH Staff Observations: Gil crushing it in theater 4/6/-LB 86ed / counts on items: Officially 86 High Noon and Stout Cans. - IP Prep List: double batch bloody concentrate, hibiscus tea, Suck it Nature, Iced Tea Concentrate, last two cheaters for new menu. -LB Demerara, honey syrup.-LB I made more simple...

Manager Communication: Gus went to town with the Spinzall and other preparatory measures for the forthcoming menu change. The clarified ginger whiskey is gonna slap. - IP Gotham Shorts had a good afterparty crowd for the first block of shorts. Other than that and a well sold dinner round, it was a relatively chill night. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Gotham Shorts had a thirsty crowd after the first bloc. Lydia stuck around to help with the theater rush and Tevon and Darius handled the after-screening drinkers easily. Greg cruised through lobby. - IP Prep List: After the bars went to bed I got a jump on some menu change stuff - made batches of How to Train Your Dragon, Pineapple Express and ORANGE MOCHA FRAP - but couldn't find enough Creme de Cacao, so the batch is labeled "NEEDS 12oz CREME DE CACAO". Tomorrow we'll need to make more demerara and then an OF keg. - IP Over/Short on Banks: Lobby bar was "over" $19.60, but then when we did the shift review i...

Manager Communication:  Birdgate: well I am gutted I have not caught my new friend Jack Sparrow yet. He landed on my hat earlier and I thought our bond would carry us through. I will try again after this Coyote vs. Acme screening, but it is sad. I worry for his little well-being. He is a baby sparrow. -LB There were no further bird sightings in Th4 this evening, and we opted not to leave out the birdseed bait cambro overnight in case some four-legged friends crawled in instead.  The cambro is in the liquor room if openers want to leave it in Th4 before doors to see if we can find out if our winged friend is still in Th4. JH  Surprisingly busy Monday night.  The first three screenings in Th1/2 were fairly mellow, but the last three were almost completely sold out.  Definitely kept the service pass bustling from 6:30-9:30pm. JH Customer Comments:  Had two guests from the first round Th4 screening come to Lobby and ask for a refund on their tickets because the...

Manager Communication: Trees filled up later on in the evening in spurts, but nothing like yesterday's wall to wall. This kind of rain luckily keeps people home more since we are still down a person. -LB When it comes to putting color to menu items, please be mindful of people with color blindness.  This has been one of the higher priority concerns of servers as it would help them get faster at finding things. It really isn't a time consuming endeavor that would gain a lot of favor within the company. And it would also be very helpful to a lot of people. -LB Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Natasha and Greg are beasts. There was no relief until 2:30 and neither one of them complained, asked for a break- really awesome and setting the tone for everyone else today.-GS They did long shifts. They are both rockstars. Appreciate the teamwork in total.  Knibbs did a smart thing and pre-authed Alex M when he placed his staff food and I placed the discount and ran it when I ...

Manager Communication: The rain definitely kept post-movie crowds chilling at Trees, which kept the space just as busy as the theaters.  Lots of big crowds, a couple of impromptu parties, but nothing ever became too overwhelming.  Service was pretty constant after 1:00pm though.  Looks like we sold just over 2400 tickets, which is a busy busy day all around. JH After bars were shut down, it sounded like a keg fell in the walk-in, no one was in there. Nothing fell and the beer line is clicking slowly non-stop. I tried to get it to stop. I don't know why it started. No one ran the draft lines. -LB Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations:  Greg+ Tevon did a great job setting themselves up for success throughout the first round, and both bars were able to do a quick restock once Lydia got in.  Greg is becoming a Lobby Bar brunch machine, and both Tevon + Lydia made quick work of a very busy bar and service passes.   Once Jeshua was set up to close downs...

Manager Communication: Solid Open Lots of forward motion toward menu change and such. Looking good.  If it is at ALL possible to have it say THEATER 1 and THEATER 2 at the top of the ticket the way it does on the kitchen tickets that would be extremely helpful. This is a service issue at TREES for sure during busy times. It will lead to mistakes.  There are also lots of handhelds still printing multiples ie. 2 lemonades vs lemonade lemonade. It seems across the building and across menu. So I think a fine eye to just make sure that is all worked out or things may get missed. The non-consistent nature of it, will in fact lead to mistakes.  The handhelds at Trees are also difficult to use without any color differentiation in the BAR COCKTAILS CATEGORY. If you could take the notes from the people doing the serving it would be super helpful for us. We are a little older and we are using tiny little machines that slow us down. If we could sit down and make some choices Gil to j...