NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Wyatt and I opened up. Chill end of August Sunday vibes to start. - IP I put gold nail polish on the non-carbonated kegs today. I hope it will not chip off. If you can point this out to Matthew on his batch shift. I will make sure Tevon sees it tomorrow. I told Tevon today and he said he goes mainly by the different color gasket, I think they are black versus white on the others.-LB Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Nat in Trees and Greg in Lobby. - IP I pushed Duan and Sam both back to 4p, as afternoon sales are totally manageable for Nat, Greg and Tevon. Openers can get ready to skedaddle right when they walk in the door. - IP Possible slight change in the swiftness of exits, as Jeshua has called out sick tonight. After no luck seeing if any not scheduled bartender wanted to pick up the shift, I pushed Duan back to 5p to close Trees, and Tevon can hang until the crunch of the dinner round is over. While Sam handles the Lobby solo. I checked in with ...

Manager Communication: We had Scott the owner of Alternate Endings stop by today. He is super excited to have two beers going up on tap here.  I bought him a bunch of snacks in the theater and two Odyssey spritz at the bar since that is what he was seeing.  He has been super supportive in the past sending over samples so I felt giving him some hospitality was in order. -LB So the last O-ren keg (seems to have been IP) has the wrong top on that type of keg. The two different cocktail kegs (the ones that don't take carbonation) have different tops.  They HAVE to have these tops or they won't seal correctly when gas is applied.  I had marked these tops with paint. Over time the paint came off. I took the top off of the empty O-ren keg and put it on the full O-ren keg. Please familiarize yourself with the different looks of these tops. I found the other one on the newly made OF keg. So I just rinsed and swapped the Oren keg for this one. It is only an issue when they all...

Manager Communication: Smooth open. Nothing of note. Wyatt, Jeremy and I opened with ease.  I did not get the menu update email from Conrad. I noticed that the Barba Roja beer is still on the Tree's menu's. Did not find it the biggest deal since it's easier for bar to tell guests we're 86'd things but just wanted to make y'all aware. - AB2 BAR Staff Observations: Matthew did a batch shift, Tevon opened. Smooth. -We cut Knibbs I think it was a good move to cut a Bartender today. Service was super smooth and had no hiccups. Tevon and Matthew had longer shifts than usual but they were less than 9 hour shifts. - AB2 FOH Staff Observations: I been noticing recently that Servers come to the bar for change and simply state "can I have change?" My gripe with this is when we give them change and then they ask for more change. I want them to tell us the change they need and not make us think for em'. Sometimes this makes bartenders go back and forth and af...

Manager Communication:  Pretty chill open. James, Jeremy and I opened without incident. A little busier in the theaters and at Trees this evening, with the Escape from LA crowd showing up for some pre-screening bevvies. JH BAR Staff Observations:  Danny and Gabrielle opened. Danny helped me moving some stuff- awesome guy. -GS Had Danny come up to Trees during the dinner round and got Gabrielle out of here once the second round had settled down and both bars had gotten a restock.  Sam held down lobby solo for the majority of the night with very few calls, which is always great to see.  Danny is also great with guests and at the service pass, and he stuck around until the third round big theater seatings were sat.  Matthew moves faster than the speed of light when it comes to pre-closing and glassware restocking, and left himself nice and prepped for his open tomorrow. JH Prep List:  Made a big Simple Syrup for Matthew's batch shift tomorrow, and caught us u...

Manager Communication:  Pretty mellow night, with theaters selling well across the building but not quite selling out the larger theaters.  Trees developed a nice little crowd over the course of the evening, but most folks were gone once we got to eleven. JH Customer Comments:  Got a complaint about bloody Mary from Theater 3. Checked it out at lobby bar. Tasted so delicious to me I had it on the rocks and it made me so happy. So they are obviously just complainers, since they also complained about stale nuts etc. I told Cailtin I would be happy to stop by at the end of the movie to speak with the guests if they still had a complaint but as far as a product freshness it was still very good.-LB BAR Staff Observations: Had Sam swing up to Trees for a bit of the second round, and then he got out of here around 7:00pm.  Patrick held down lobby solo, and Matthew gave Gabrielle a headstart on her pre-close after sticking around through the third round Th2 service push. JH...

Manager Communication:  Excellent fall menu tasting today. Excited to refresh the vibes in one month.-LB We had some trouble with the gansett and Kolsch drafts today. Ian was in the walk-in, I went to assist. Noticed that the "pumps" gauge was in the off position. Turned it on and it felt like that helped. I assume that this is some mechanism that helps pump the beer and cocktails through the lines. Things are not going the normal way lately when it comes to draft. -LB I think that did it. Everything worked as it usually does for the rest of the night after Lauren made the above adjustment - even the keg of 'Gansett that was giving Ariel and I issues started pouring normally when I tried it. "Crash" had a great turnout and kept the place busy in place of Trivia. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Tevon and Lydia Opened, Greg and Patrick closed. Got Tevon outta here around 8p and Lydia stuck around to help Greg with the bar crowd when "Crash" let out. - IP F...