Eliel/Jenn 12.05

Manager Communication: Decent opening, Not dead slow but not busy at all. Pretty good day overall. EL

Dinner round was fairly busy for a Sunday, with the last round being much quieter by comparison. Fairly easygoing Sunday evening. JH

BAR Staff Observations: Natasha & Ryan had great opens. Isi and Tevon were solid mids. Openers were cut before the closers came. EL

Tevon and Isi were able to get out right after the dinner push, and both cleaned a frozen machine and made sure each bar was stocked before they clocked out. Ashley and Ian made quick work of closing, helped along by the slow last round. Isi and Ashley had a lot of guest interactions at Trees during dinner that were all incredibly positive, it’s been really nice seeing such positive guest experiences during service. 

Jenna was up at Trees closing with Ashley this evening.  During the initial service rush during the dinner round, Jenna was very involved with Isi serving bar guests, as the bar was fairly full, so Ashley ended up taking the initial hit at service bar. I had Ashley have Jenna take the lead on service at the bar and the pass after the main dinner crush was over.  Jenna also went over restocking and cocktailing basics with everyone up at Trees. 

Isi, in particular, really helped Jenna by walking through some classic cocktail builds tonight, and that really helped her confidence behind the bar. And Ashley offered a lot of helpful advice about how to help a guest land on a drink suggestion. 

Jenna is definitely settling in to the flow of service from barside, and the feedback from other bartenders has consistently been that she is following instructions and asking pertinent questions throughout her training shifts. JH

Hiring/Training: Notes on Jenna’s third training shift are detailed above. I did not have the chance to see Jason behind Lobby bar, as I was up at Trees helping service at the time. JH

Staff Meeting Agenda notes: A lot of multiple half-open, or empty, boxes in the walk in. JH

86ed / counts on items: Evil Twin Sour is on a count. EL

We are very low on the frozen machine lubricant, and will definitely need another tube for next Sunday. JH

Prep List: Made Simple Syrup, a keg of Pimm's a Keg of French 75, Ryan batched half of a paper plane batch and an eye of ibad. EL

We are out of Dress the Part pretty low on Ennui-sur-Blasé in the walk in, but both bars are stocked with back ups of each cocktail. Ashley helped me tidy up the walk in and restocked wines and liquors with what she could. 

Additionally, there were some expired juices in the walk in. There were two, already-open, expired lime juices that had to be dumped. The open box of grapefruit juice contains bottles that are dated as expired. Since there were quite a few, the expiration date was fairly recent (11.30), they’re still sealed, and they’ve been consistently refrigerated since being received, I held off on dumping them. Just something to check tomorrow before putting them in to service. JH