March 29 Benjamin



Manager Communication:
 Just a hair shy of late Friday's ticket sales with most theaters selling out or well all night.  Really marked improvement on last weekends issues so far.

Batched up well.  Rebecca hit spread of hours, but just by a bit, and got everything we needed for success this weekend.  I cut her and Chris around 11:30.  This was the perfect amount of bartenders for a Friday like this.  Felt comfortable to get everything done, and Rebecca did a great job of timing her time in prep with her time at the bar for the busy times during the sevens when the bar and service were getting hit hard.

The servers noted that the drop time should be 6 or 7 minutes earlier for Us.

Customer Comments:
Had a customer complain that our Brooklyn Raw Cider was skunky.  We may need to find a way to mark that this is an odd style of cider on the menu, and have servers know to recommend the Austin East while it is so much a main stream crowd.  Been getting a lot of comments on the Raw Cider this past week.

BAR Staff Observations:
They killed it.  Rebecca did a great job getting off the bar to prep for the weekend, and getting back on the bar at good times to push  out service.

Chris and Ryan had several sold out theaters all night and it felt great to see that bar running at a high pace as well.

Susan, William and Adriana killed the upstairs bar for service.  It was a great balance and felt like the right amount of people to set us up for success.

FOH Staff Observations:
Better job on rotation of glassware this weekend.  I had them take the water cups from theater 1 straight to the bar after the 7's so that we could quickly get them back in the theater for the turn.  Had one of the people helping with the flip just wash them and run them right back in.

In general, a better workflow this weekend than last.  Let's keep it up.

Rachel was a master at getting theaters 1 and 2 to think ahead and be ready for the flips.  They were great flips, much quicker on the flips from the 7's to the 10's than last weekend.  This helps significantly with crowd management.

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Sick Leave/ Call outs:

Special Events?

Staff Meeting Agenda notes:

86ed / counts on items:
Lime Gose is on a count in the computer.

Prep List:
Minor batching.  Mostly set up.  I made more dried limes, so we will probably be good til Monday.  Probably need to start a lime oleo tomorrow.  Strain peppercorn gin.  Maybe make spicy tequila.

R&D comp checks:

Over/Short on Banks:

Pay Outs:

Lost & Found?:

Ordering/Receiving/Shipping:
Getting Baldor tomorrow.  Bar order sheet in kitchen is updated.

Maintenance:
Had issues with CO2 today.  Not sure what exactly.  Soda was a bit off for a moment and all the beers had a moment of pouring extra foamy.  I checked all the gauges -they were fine,  toggled a few valves on and off, and everything was back to normal.  Keep an eye on this.

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