NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Quiet little morning just Rebecca and I. Plants in Trees lounge look really good.-LB Palco came by and I took them to Th 2 booth to hit the roof.-LB  Let's only batch half batches of Hello, Sidney if we need it. Unlikely though. -LB  Darkroom series was a banger. Sold out show with a good rush downstairs and then a full Trees afterwards. Once the first drink rush was over Patrick took over solo and I had a chance to get some organization and tidying done in the liquor room after batching. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Patrick can be a little brusque with the patrons at times, but he makes it work because he's funny and charming enough to get away with it - case in point, he absolutely smashed it tonight with the Darkroom afterparty Salon. After the Darkroom rush in the lobby it was chill for Lydia, and I tried to get them out of here as close to 10:15 as possible (right when they shut the gate for the night). - IP FOH Staff Observations: Had a great li...

Manager Communication: Holy walk-in, Batman! Thanks, weekend team for keeping us massively stocked! Hoppers is going to blow through lemonade and FroCo, so I will have eyes on levels throughout the rushes. Dion will be out sick today, Wyatt is on the horn looping everyone in.  Got a chance to print out more no smoking/no vaping signs to put up in Trees. Hung one on the underside of the staircase next to the popcorn neon light, and also upstairs next to the pool cues. They're just taped up for the time being, so if we want to decide on a more permanent place later, we can. - IP Gus texted that the Prospect Park runners are coming Wednesday around 7:40pm, 30-40 ppl, stub discount. The organizer expects more people due to the weather.  Sleepy evening, good time to catch up on some menu stuff and organizing. I am not going to order more rice milk for horchata, we will ride with what we have until Holy Mountain is gone.-LB Steady morning dominated by Hoppers. -IP BAR Staff Observa...

Manager Communication: Busy day all around here. Definitely felt a bit of a hurting post-Matthew cut around 8:29pm, since he was an early mid due to the events early in the day. Team did great.  Charlie and Gab prioritized a very busy and demanding guest facing lounge. I don't see an event memo for the Oscars event, but Shay emailed me to ask for a "coupla small beers" as a prize during the event/ I told her we have PBRs we can spare. -LB We broke out the last box of 16 oz cups from when we switched over. This was the first time since we switched Froco to 16 oz cups we have been strapped during the day. We have zero back ups. I would recommend getting 2 or 3 cases from Webstaurant, lmk if I can go ahead and get those. -LB I have yet to have time to make, find or hang the no vaping signage for Trees.  Rebecca was hanging post-shift and she thought some teens were smoking or vaping in the bathroom. I checked it out, but I was thinking we should hang this signage on the back...

Manager Communication: I moved all of the Chains of Love cocktail from both bars and put it all in a 4 qt store-n-pour in the walk-in. We have 2 Mysteries in Tree's at the moment and I wanna save real estate in the lowboy. - AB2 Customer Comments: I got a walkie call from Thursdae at the end of the last round in TH5. The guy was in 405 and said there was a misunderstanding with the bill. He said that he wanted a burger with a side salad and fries. Thusdae put in a Burger with a side salad and then a side of fries. He stated that there was a misunderstanding. I asked what was wrong. He thought that the salad was $2... and that the burger and fries was $19... so he was expecting to pay $21 total for his burger with two different sides. I told him that the $2 is added to the burger price and that everything was put in accurately. He asked if he could have the fries taken off... I asked "Did you not want the fries?" He said that no one took them... I said "so you ate the...

Manager Communication: Smooth day into night. The private event on the mezz was a smashing success, thanks to Raekwon. Spoons went off without a hitch thanks to everything being ready to go on Jenn's watch, and the excellent bar team ready for anything. Jared and Dion handled the floor with ease. Got a bunch of stuff ready for Tevon's batch shift tomorrow - have a list on the whiteboard (also below in the prep section for reference/edits). - IP Customer Comments: A guest named Rich (presumably a local artist from the group that frequents our mezz space) was inquiring about the lighting on the mezz and if/when we were going to get more art up there. I told him he could reach out to our prospectpark@nitehawkcinema.com address with any questions. - IP BAR Staff Observations : Got Tevon out of here on the earlier side and had Gab swing upstairs to help out with Spoons. Matthew is a beast, and got Gab out of here right around 9p, and handled the rest of the evening solo. Jeshua h...

Manager Communication: Lauren and I got everything situated for the Singani/Hank's Saloon doubleheader. Conrad came by and took photos of the new specials. -IP BAR Staff Observations:  Matthew Gab and Tevon handled a busy happy hour event with a moderately difficult cocktail with ease as the exceptional professionals they are. Jeshua is ready to rock for the theater portion of the event-LB Everyone up at Trees handled the Singani event without issue, and I was able to send Tevon downstairs to back up Jeshua as the guests moved to Th3.  I took over the pass for the second round Th1 load-in, while Gabrielle and Matthew wrapped up the Singani event and reset the floor and bar.  Once Jeshua had a chance to reset, Tevon got out of here.  Matthew stuck around until we got through the first round of the Hank's post-screening crowd, which was super helpful. JH FOH Staff Observations: If you are going to have Jeremy and only one runner, that runner being Erech is top notch. H...