NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Solid open. Solid busy night at the bars. No hiccups or anything crazy really. - AB2 BAR Staff Observations: Tevon and Matthew crushed opening (Matthew also knocked out a long batch list) Everyone crushed it tonight. Gabrielle rocked through the downstairs theaters and Natasha and Knibbs killed it up in Tree's through the late rush. Knibbs is only getting better every shift and I really appreciate having him here. - AB2 Lost & Found: A Debit card was left behind belonging to Oona McCarthy. Labeled and placed in CC box. - AB2 86ed / counts on items: 86'd Color of Pomegranates. I held firm on keeping cider 86'd today. We have 20 cans and I put that on a count so tomorrow is fresh with a 20 count at open juts in case. - AB2 We are also very low on Ginger Beer - AB2 Prep List: We got things up to par as laid out on the batch/cocktail par sheet. Pay Outs: $101- Juan Repairs Ordering/Receiving/Shipping: Tomorrow: Manhattan (High Life), Union (Aval) ...

Manager Communication:  Similar pacing to last night, with The Backrooms pulling an Obsession and really filling out the third round screenings. JH BAR Staff Observations:  Busy dinner round throughout the building, so Danny stuck around to get lobby restocked and reset before he got out of here, and Gabrielle clocked out shortly after the partygoers went up to the private screening in Th6.  Both bars got a pretty hefty restock after the second round, and Matthew + Natasha closed each bar without issue. JH Special Events?  Private screening in Th6 went well.  Folks showed up and hung out at Trees until the theater opened, and then they went straight in and began ordering. JH Staff Meeting Agenda notes: When servers send a guest to close out their theater check at the bar (e.g. a guest is in a rush to check out or is having issues with Apple Pay), can we ask that they give Bar a walkie call to give them a heads up.  This way we can bring the theater up in ...

Manager Communication: Machine maintenance complete. Lobby bubbler still only housing one operational motor - will confer with Edgar when he returns. Did a clean and organize of the batching space in the liquor room. Gus "Bill Nye" Steiner went to town on some grapefruit soda R&D - we're sous-viding, babyyyyyy!!! - IP I came up with some new jargin to throw around it's "Collaborate, consult: Get results." And that's exactly what happened on the Backrooms special. Gus was stuck and I threw some random shit at him and he broke through and came up with something delicious that fits really well.-LB This guy dropped off this Bacon flyer for a local event. I put some out last year and he was so thankful. He wrote his name down to offer a handful of VIP bracelets for our staff. It is in the office. -LB Super tidy in liquor room. Booze island looking nice.-LB Customer Comments: More details in the FOH blog about the guest who became physically aggressive w...

Manager Communication:  I broke out the last case of pint glasses for Trees lounge. I also cleaned all the printers at lobby bar before doors.-LB I put in another service ticket with Coke for the leaking syrup at Trees 37909472-LB Comparatively easy night here after this past weekend! Everyone was up to the task. Tevon and Duan were awesome in Trees and Lydia rocked the lobby solo. Becca and Jared kept the theaters in check and we rolled right along to the finish line. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the Coke tech tomorrow. Going to do the mid-week clean and batch as per usual and Gus and I might try to take a deeper look at the lowboy doors - also going to do some GF Soda R&D tomorrow. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Lydia did a really wonderful job in the lobby tonight. Was very gracious about sticking through the end of a drink rush in some sold out last round theaters. Tevon and Duan are rockstars. Duan is such a good bartender - always paying attention and never misses a b...

Manager Communication: Rebecca on Rebecca training this morning for MOD open - really awesome to have double the Rebecca here for what is shaping up to be a massive Memorial Day. Hold on to your butts! - IP Theaters were slammed and lobby traffic direction occupied most of the bar team's attentions. Trees was tame all morning and afternoon. Theater rushes were hot and heavy - everyone stepped up. Special shout out to Becca who held down the service pass while I helped Greg behind the bar - thanks, dude!! - IP Really impressive teamwork in the building today. Things I was going to get were already being brought to where they needed to be like multiple times. Everyone working together.-LB Pint glasses were in short supply this weekend. I will check levels and order more if needed but that was one thing the team kept being short on. We have one box in storage. People were imbibing this holiday weekend quite hard.-LB I have a question: in theaters we automatically add gratuity to appl...

Manager Communication: Torrents of rain all day. Already busy holiday weekend plus rainy weather walk-ins made for a very busy day! Team was firing on all cylinders, running like a well oiled machine. - IP Wyatt, James and Becca are absolutely fantastic on the floor. Slammed all day and we never missed a beat. - IP Yesterday we got multiple parties at Trees asking for share plates. This is a difficult thing for us to get sent from the kitchen. I brought up some bamboo plates that are stacked vertically next to the tea cups above the service pass.-LB The late night showtime of Boosters made for a challenging evening with the three-day weekend. We definitely could have used a 7th hand tonight since Trees was as busy as a Saturday.  Greg was salty again about not getting a break which he communicated to me while I was behind the bar getting us through the sold out 10:15pm screening. He didn't ask for one before, but when we spoke about it later, it isn't as if we had the time to ...