NPP Bar Blog

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...

Manager Communication: Carly and I opened the building. Pretty uneventful Lydia misunderstood some direction and unpacked all the straws I ordered today on the shelf outside MOD. So we have straws out for a long while, sorry.-LB Customer Comments: We had a bunch of them. Podcast guys did their podcast thing BAR Staff Observations: Lydia struggled this morning. They didn't realize that while we fixed the coffee machine upstairs, that they still needed to make coffee for downstairs. I explained this to them. Additionally they didn't really set themselves up for success. I will address this in an email to the whole group. -GS Charlie crushed it today. I cut Greg (shouldn't have done that) thinking it wouldn't be busy for another 90 (it was busy probably 10 minutes after he left) and he dealt with a rush and directed me.  Tevon and Charlie knocked out some really busy rounds. The party was light work and Charlie got out of here around 10. Patrick held down a busy downstai...

Manager Communication: Very busy opening. Wyatt and I opened up with Nat and Greg. Got the big ass Baldor order socked away and re-upped the walk-in on some essentials after the openers did their stock for the morning. Sales keep growing - going to be another very busy day! - IP Ian did a mad restock of the Valentine's day massacre of stock. Thank you sir.  People be imbibing.-LB Note when bringing back the new stackable cambros to let them dry, they will get gross if they are stacked wet, obviously this level of business cannot accommodate everything. -LB Busy night, nice to be back. -LB BAR Staff Observations: Patrick and Greg handled some very busy rushes today for WH - one note for both of them is to be a little more proactive about the ancillary tasks that make resetting smoother and follow-up rushes less hectic (i.e. glassware restocking, bussing, etc.). Otherwise they kept the pace up and service was smooth. - IP Darius is killing it in the lobby holding down some intense g...