NPP Bar Blog

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...

Manager Communication: I spoke with NuCo, it seems we may have a Nitrogen problem and not a CO2 problem as the back up tank we switched over to is a Nitrogen tank and not a CO2 tank. They will be sending a tech out to help figure this out. The readings are not correct on the box so it seems like the leak could be between the tank and the mix box. It did seem like we needed CO2 anyway as they delivered 70 lbs more than expected, but hopefully we can get to the bottom of this and I will surely ask them more questions than they prefer to answer.-LB We are out of menus at Lobby bar, we were down to 1 and now we have zero. I feel like we need to attach it to a 2 by 4 like a key for a coffee shop bathroom. Anyway, I don't think I will have time to get to this if anyone has the bandwidth to track down some empty menus and print/stuff for Lobby bar. -LB It was an extraordinarily busy Monday night at Trees lounge. Theaters were almost totally sold out, and the Darkroom Series and screening ...

Manager Communication: Wyatt and I opened. Preparing for another big day, as our two prize stallions continue to totally pack the building. Got a good team on today - we should be ready for action. - IP I broke out two cases of rocks glasses and 10 new trays. Trays have been in short supply with all of these sold out theaters.-LB So it has been a night of challenges. I think that everyone that worked this weekend is a little exhausted in many senses. The sold out Theater 2 at 10:05pm on a Sunday night really was icing on the cake.  Bar team manages pretty seamlessly in these situations but Jeshua needed Duan to stick around late to help restock and help close. Solidly bartending through 10:45pm on a Sunday is irregular. So he is quite behind on his close. Lobby bar had a pipe break off under the bar and this time it was not Darius' fault there was water all over the floor, but man was he quick to get that shit off the floor. -LB Michael was a huge help and put together the new sod...