NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Put away soda, fruit, juice, tecate, saratoga, sugar. Cleaned machines. There is a significant sprite syrup leak in the gun under the taps closest to the service pass at Trees. Gus called Coke this morning - they are allegedly sending someone out to deal with it.  The carbonation for the guns in the lobby were going a bit wonky - I think it's time to change the filters in the lobby and at Trees. - IP Becca was here tonight, making everyones life easier. Jared closing. Really good teamwork all around. Customer Comments: Call me biased, but having more tables in trees is super cool. People sit in them. I think it makes the place less daunting. Very pro. BAR Staff Observations: Gabrielle is a warrior. She's great.  FOH Staff Observations: Hiring/Training: Sick Leave/ Call outs: Jenn still out. - IP Special Events: Bric skip the line event. Pretty mellow. Spoons, light crowd. Staff Meeting Agenda notes: 86ed / counts on items: Back up on Boosters specia...

Manager Communication:  I made an infographic for tapping kegs (mainly the secondary part) for inside the walk-in.-LB LET'S GO KNICKS! Finals got a great crowd at trees. Held onto Matt til around 10 when the th 2 Obsession rush petered out. The bar was still rockin', so I jumped in to give Gab a hand until I could swing Jeshua upstairs after rerouting. - IP Carly's last day :'( Brought a lovely crowd to the bar to say goodbye. End of an era! - IP Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Gab and Matt crushed. Jeshua is a machine in the lobby. Great work all around. - IP Sick Leave/ Call outs:  Jenn called out, Ian will close.-LB Special Events? NBA Finals are bringing a good crowd - I imagine the world cup will as well. The more we can spread the word/advertise about this the better! - IP The Fabulous Stains had a good crowd and they chilled in the lobby afterward. Great work, Woods! - IP 86ed / counts on items: 86 Boosters Special until tomorrow. - IP Prep List:  L...

Manager Communication:  While doing pre-shift in the kitchen discovered two buttons for Low Class urban b****** with different amount of asterisks, one with a count of 79 which was likely the button made for the event for Wednesday and another that had the count of zero that was 86ed. I don't know who made the second button, but it did wipe out our bar team's count of product accounting.-LB Ian is a one-man trivia machine. Building got really busy tonight everywhere.-LB I was only able to be as effective with Trivia because of Becca - she was everywhere. Every single call, no matter where or when, she answered - all the while helping flip theaters and run glassware. It was unreal. We also had a medical emergency during which she called EMS and handled their arrival. More on that below -- bottom line is, Becca is an absolute rock star. - IP Customer Comments: During the late round Obsession a guest fainted, which caused some panic amongst the guests seated nearby. There was a w...

Manager Communication:  Easy open, Gil and I rocked it -GS It was really busy tonight! Obsession and Backrooms are crushing, and the Darkroom series packed Trees lounge from 9 to close. The team did a great job on all fronts dealing with some heavy drink rushes and Trees itself being very busy all the while. If I had to nitpick, I would ask that the servers try to pre-empt the crazy glassware rushes - ESPECIALLY on these nights when we are staffed more lightly than say on a Saturday or Sunday. - IP Customer Comments:  Our Skurnik Rep and one of our many Southern Reps (came here cause shes a big fan) were here. They were chatting with Tevon. -GS BAR Staff Observations:  Tevon and Lydia opened. Solid. -GS The Darkroom screening got out right as I was hoping to get Tevon out of here - but they packed Trees and he was a real champ and helped me and Greg through the initial crush at the bar. Once everyone was settled with a drink, Greg got a break and then Tevon was out. Lydia...

Manager Communication: Wyatt got machines slushy first thing (thanks, boss!) and Nat and Greg got the bars shiny shiny and we were off to the races. - IP Jeshua has asked and I think this is probably a consideration across all bartenders across the land, that if their in-time gets changed to text them so they know as bartenders aren't ones to be checking emails and such super often. This is only because a few weeks ago everyone's in-time got pushed.  I told him it would be unlikely everyone gets changed, but in the instance of an absence that could happen. If we can all be aware, as we probably are, that texting in addition to 7shifts updates are helpful to a number of our staff.-LB I meant to note this a few times and I know that devices are costly however it is challenging when we are slammed to go behind the bar to discount tabs for staff/voids. It is also near impossible to access the POS from the front due to customers. Would it be possible to have a mounted POS system co...

Manager Communication: I took down the Dark & Stormy $12 letters from the signs at Trees. We are out of Goslings and also now ginger beer.-LB I broke out all three back ups of rocks glasses and we still seemed short. Not having hands to fully circulate glassware was hard, Jared was clutch in helping do this in the dishpit for about an hour when I was fully behind the bar. I will order maybe five more boxes. Obviously, some of our most popular drinks come in the rocks glasses and they do break. So it is not unusual that they need to be replaced and reupped. All things considered, we were really selling everything full throttle tonight and happy to see we need more glassware-LB Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations:  First two rounds were relatively easygoing, with a couple of really well sold theaters, but neither bar missed a beat.  Trees did a hefty restock right before four and, once Patrick + Jeshua were in, Greg floated down to lobby and Matthew did a big restock ...