NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication: Killer team this am: Gus, Rebecca, Gil & Jeremy to round things out. Feel like everyone got a ton accomplished. Was great. Dion came in as relief. - GS BAR Staff Observations: Patrick was a bit behind the 8 ball today due to trains and such - GS Matthew and Natasha were absolutely stellar in Tree's during the events. TH3 had their after party at the same time that TH2 PRVT Event had their pre-party thang. Lots of peeps were in the building and they absolutely BODIED that rush. Jeshua rocked out Lobby solo with no issues at all. He was on top of his game. Jeshua has really become such a strong team member. Especially when working solo in the lobby. - AB2 FOH Staff Observations: Rebecca is literally always a pleasure to work with. - GS Jovani was awesome tonight in TH1, helping out the bar with dishes, and other minor bar needs. She was also killing it in the theater and her and Alayna were a good team in there. Thursdae is dope. I was about to run a tray...

Manager Communication: Bar will begin ordering straws (rather than Kitchen) from To Rise Supplies as they are .1 cheaper per unit and are better quality than the ones we currently have. They will still live in Malkovich as per usual. Let me know if there is any issue with this new variety. -LB Ordered a basket to mount in Trees Lounge so we can have more menus for the busy bar. -LB BAR Staff Observations: Matthew and Tevon are just professionals.-GS Holy Wednesday night Batman. Matthew and Gabrielle managed an insane Theater 2 into Trees pre-gaming for Theater 1 crowd, plus Theater 1 insane rush and the 4/6 accompanying tickets while also dealing with general clean up. I hit them both with tokens. -LB Sick Leave/ Call outs: Ian, feel better Special Events: To Live & Die in LA bonanza   86ed / counts on items: 10 count on Gunther's pistol palace but are waiting on Ancho Reyes I believe-LB Prep List: Had T make some FWWM, simple syrup and Lemonade. There will be a massive r...

Manager Communication:  Postponing bar storage organization to next Tuesday when the tables/chairs are out for a little more maneuvering and it isn't 99 degrees.-LB Trivia-less Tuesday still had great business at the bar. The sold out concert thing had a great crowd and they stayed for a while afterwards. - IP BAR Staff Observations: Team was great - Darius stuck around way longer than anticipated with the business at Trees, and was instrumental in keeping service smooth at the bar and at the service pass. I had to jump in at the pass when the theater 2 concert crowd let out, but otherwise Darius and Tevon crushed it tonight. Greg was just as great in the lobby. - IP FOH Staff Observations:   Raekwon as always killing it in the tower all alone.-LB Finn could take a little more time and care to check the floor for red ticket flags - on more than three occasions tonight he interrupted the flow of drink service to ask if we knew where X number was - when the bar team forgets to p...

Manager Communication: Ariel accidentally grabbed kitchen's lemon juice and not our big boys. So I am bringing down their quart size, and replacing 6 pack tomorrow since this box was opened today and used already.  Gus if you can leave the small 6 pack downstairs tomorrow.  This is probably because I had Stewart remind the kitchen to not take our quart lime juice box from US foods and this was a lemon juice quart size from US foods vs the gallons we get from Baldor. I told Andre.-LB I think having more menus at Trees would be helpful and Ariel suggested mounting a basket for them next to the water station under the Sanders Theater photo would be good so people can grab them.-LB An idea to mitigate food orders for staff, the tip pool conundrum re:runners and Trees Staff food:  Since MOD need to check with the kitchen and head back to tell the employee they can order, could servers and bartenders order from their own terminals?  MODs go around and check in each round,...

Manager Communication:   The lowboy company is coming tomorrow at 11am to fix the lowboys, I reminded Ariel as he will be here.-LB We really need some new walkies. There are many that do not work in some capacity or another at the moment.-LB I think we should have a hard batching ceiling of under 25 on the specials in the POS.  Especially if there is a chance we are losing that special. Would love to discuss this Tuesday.-LB Trees Lounge not having a second CC reader was causing frustration around 3:30 and Carly brought one from Theater 2.-LB I am certainly game to discuss batching limits and protocols - I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel with this - shouldn't be too hard to implement. That said (I will take the L on this one - there was a miscommunication regarding what was running low - a bartender told me accidentally that the Silver Surfer was totally out - so I hopped to and made a single batch just to make sure we didn't run out - but only after I finished ma...

Manager Communication: Pretty laidback first round, with ticket sales picking up as the day went on.  Both superhero movies continue to sell well, and the FF4 crowd is really digging the drink special. JH     F4 is massive, and Superman is still strong - tonight was a little hectic being down some folks and only having one bar manager for the busiest portion of the evening, but honestly, everything went super smoothly. Jared and Dion really stepped up and helped out the runner team in a big way tonight - thanks, y'all! - IP BAR Staff Observations:  Easygoing morning, with Matthew and Maya opening and then Lydia and Tevon coming in as mids.  Similar to last evening, we definitely prioritized having more bartenders at Trees, as Th1/2 had consistently large crowds.  But we were able to navigate restocks and support for lobby by having Lydia head down there a couple of times during service lulls. JH Well staffed for the evening with a great team tonight. ...

Manager Communication: Lauren is still sick, so I am sticking around until theater service dies down for the last round. Jenn has gone home for a little break and is going to return later this evening to close the bars.  PSP trickled in a little later than usual, but once they got going it was solidly packed for a good while. Fantastic Four is crushing, as is Superman - so we needed all hands on deck. -IP Third round was very busy across the entire building, with basically all theaters selling out.  Our last movie was at 9:55, but I didn't route the first floor until 11.  By that time, only Th3 had to be rerouted and they were already an hour into service.  Trees also had a pretty great crowd throughout the night, which kept up until a little after ten.  Looks to be a busy weekend ahead. JH BAR Staff Observations: Great to have such a lead heavy team on a night where we were a little short-handed across the building. Had everyone but Tevon up at Trees until arou...