NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Busy open with Wyatt. Catvideo Fest and Spiderman both sold out to start the day, further being complicated by a callout. The frozen machines were accidentally turned back to cold at some point during the open, so we had a brief moment where we had to hold service on Firewalks, but they froze up shortly thereafter and began to behave themselves. - IP Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Greg and Danny opened - Tevon came in at 10:30. If Sam had let me know he was too ill to work a half an hour earlier, I could've pushed Tevon back to accomodate the later dearth of bartenders - but Sam texted me about five minutes before Tevon walked in the door. I've been making sure to provide ample opportunities for breaks to keep the staff we do have here as fresh as possible for the dinner rounds. Fortunately, the evening looks as though it's peak will be within the dinner time window which shouldn't over-work anyone too much. - IP Jeshua and Tevon ar...

Manager Communication:  Busy first round in the big theaters, but after the second round began in Th2 we had a decent lull to make sure bars were prepped heavy and whoever wanted a break got one.   The timing between Th1/2 seatings was fairly spread out throughout the day, so the service pass at Trees never got backed up and we had a good flow of glassware restocking throughout the day.   Seven bartenders is really the ideal number of bartenders on a Saturday, so we never missed a beat.  BAR Staff Observations: Greg, Matthew, + Natasha were well into the first round when I got in, and the day passed by fairly quickly.  I cut Matthew shortly after Sam got in, and then got Greg out of here once Lydia arrived.  Natasha floated down to lobby and provided coverage for Jeshua to grab family meal and then take a break, and then she was out of here. Evening crew at Trees were great tonight, even with a very busy schedule.  Sam took the lead on servi...

Manager Communication: We are low on peelers for the bar. I ordered some from Amazon that should be coming in on Sunday. It's labeled under my name and we can have this as a little backup stash when the others break. - AB2 BAR Staff Observations: The Aloha Friday team killed it today as always. Peeps was gangsta and shoutout to all of them for making my shift so much smoother. - AB2 Hiring/Training: Michael was not a fan of PJ for day 5. More info in FOH Blog - AB2 Prep List:  Looking pretty set going into another Spidey weekend. JH I did a 4x of Iced Tea Concentrate. We may need Simple Syrup tomorrow. I was unable to get to it tonight. - AB2 Ordering/Receiving/Shipping:  Baldor + Empire + Skurnik + Union arrived. JH Maintenance:  Updated Ariel and other managers about the nitrogen tank situation, so that everyone knows that it will just be a momentary disruption when we need to attach the new tank. JH I attached the new tank. - AB2 Mobilebytes Issues:  Tevon acciden...

Manager Communication: Got in a little early to escort the NuCo man through to the equipment - notes on that below in the maintenance section. Got a big baldor order put away after NuCo left, and also reorganized the walk-in and played keg Jenga. The walk-in looks lovely now. I also cleaned the machines and checked out the Fro-Co that was over-freezing - unsure why it is doing this, but it continues to act up. Switching between cold and slush intermittently is the only short term fix I can think of at the moment - the bar team is aware, and hopefully when Spidermania calms down I can give it a proper look-see.  After all that, Becca and I opened up - first round was relatively mellow. - IP The second round was busy at both bars, but the screenings were staggered in a way that each bar was busy when the other was more mellow, which made for a very smooth service.  Spider-Man , The Odyssey , + The Invite continue to sell out their last round screenings. JH BAR Staff Observatio...

Manager Communication:  Really great tasting today with only a few of our best bartenders in attendance, but we hashed out some directions we want to go in. Gus showed up to give his best advice, nice lovely surprise. Things are coming together nicely. -LB Busy, busy throughout the building for the dinner round, with the exception of Th1.  Having a pretty mellow second and third round in Th1 tonight definitely made the service pass a little bit easier to navigate.  Trees was pretty bopping all evening, up until about ten or so.   The Odyssey still selling out those small theaters, so those seatings can definitely sneak up on the service pass. JH BAR Staff Observations:  Matthew Soler is a bartending God. -LB  Jeshua was all set at lobby bar once he got a restock in, so I had Sam float up to Trees to help Gabrielle + Matthew.  Was able to get Matthew off the floor and back to the liquor room to finish up the rest of the bar prep list, and Sam stuc...

Manager Communication: So unfortunately NuCo did not make it to us today. I spoke to Gus today. He is doing well, he said they came by last Tuesday and messed with our nitrogen unit.  Then the issue happened on Wednesday with our drafts all going flat. So they switched to the back up tank, which they thought was CO2.  I harassed them every few hours for a new eta. I told them I wanted to be here when they arrived tomorrow so they will come tomorrow between 12-2.  I hope the gas level holds us til tomorrow.-LB  Everything held up fine for tonight's service. Hopefully NuCo will show up tomorrow and get everything hunky dory. Another night of deft management from the whole team. Jared's anticipation and handling of the A/C outage in theater 5 was beautifully executed by Christine and Becca while we were absolutely weeded at Trees lounge with a packed Trivia and sold out 1's and 2's all night. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Bar team still functioning at a pace and skill le...