NPP Bar Blog

Manager Communication:  Chill start to the day, very mellow first round.  Dinner definitely picked up across the floors.  And the third round Frankenstein screening in Th2 has basically sold out the last three nights, which I expect to keep up over the weekend.  JH Customer Comments: A guest in TH3 passed out in the middle of the movie. She was with 2 other homegirls. We made sure she was good and she then got the strength to get up so we brought her to the lobby. After being in the lobby for a bit, they decided to close out all 3 of their tabs. I closed them all out and gave em each a pair of passes since they were missing a bunch of the movie. The one that passed out got an Uber home and her friends hung out for a bit in Tree's and filled out the incident report. Everyone was happy and felt taken care of. James sent an email to the big dawgs. - AB2 BAR Staff Observations: Everyone was great tonight. I was able to get Tevon and Charlie out pretty early. - AB2 Prep...

Manager Communication: During construction, they might turn off the glycol machine and forget to turn it back on. Just take a peak when you open during this time to make sure our beer will be cold by opening.-LB I unloaded the Milagro Liters, so they don't get confused for the big boys. The Boatyard Gin can go there (whenever it arrives) so as to not be confusing for anyone and we can put the liters of milagro on Booze Island.-LB I moved the pineapple cans back to the liquor room as our esteemed bartender Jeshua pointed out to me the condensation-can conundrum. -LB Natasha is down with working trivia as the server going forward, which is great news because she is excellent at it plus it works well with her schedule. I put her on for this Tuesday Nov 4th and will discuss it further with Gus next week.-LB BAR Staff Observations:  Opener in-times were incorrect today (1:30pm, when it should have been 1:15pm).  I text both openers (Greg + Tevon) to let them know once I realized. J...

Manager Communication: When opening lobby today there was a lot of glass in the brown water racks, I know we have some runners training and some new servers. It is also possible that they ran out of blue racks, if this happens there is usually a stack at Trees or lobby bar with empty glassware blue racks. I gave Jeremy a heads up.-LB BAR Staff Observations: Welcome back Matthew!!! Charlie rocked helping Matthew set up Trees when the techs were working on the lowboy in lobby. And Matthew in turn helped him set up around the technicians. Super good teamwork. -LB Once Jeshua was settled in lobby and the majority of the second round push was over on the ground floor, I had Charlie go upstairs to help out at Trees.  Patrick is so much more organized and efficient in the service well, and barely needed me to call out tickets during either sold out service push.  Charlie focused primarily on bar guests, and Matthew was great about switching between positions giving Charlie clear inst...

Manager Communication:    Going forward coffee beans will be stored in total at Lobby bar-LB Lots of events this evening getting started right after the bar meeting. Meeting was great - looking forward to some WIcked Part 2 specials! Music Driven had a great crowd, Trivia was packed, and Innocent Blood had a good showing. Very solid Tuesday. - IP Customer Comments: I have really grown to love our Trivia weirdos. Some really good costumes tonight - best of which goes to Lady Pinhead. Great work, ma'am! - IP BAR Staff Observations: Natasha rocks. Any task you put in front of her she handles with authority and ease. Trivia was very busy tonight and she was completely nonplussed. Great to have Darius back at NPP for Trivia - the guests were happy to see him too! Tevon and Lydia pulled long ones today, as Trees was a madhouse once Trivia got underway. Greg is totally self-reliant and on top of everything in the lobby - so I had nothing to worry about tonight - even when the Depeche...

Manager Communication: I moved the event waters to the bar storage closet. I took a small dunnage rack from the walk-in to put them on, we may want to get another, but we probably have enough shelf space in walk-in without one. -LB The gents helped me move a dunnage shelf and we have an island in the liquor room-LB  I found where the pantry beetles were coming from and they are gone now. Ian also located what was the rank smell in the liquor room, the drain I the middle of the room was stank. I dumped a bunch of the citronella stuff down it before we moved the dunnage rack over it. -LB I think my admin shift being flex on Monday to accommodate helping a busy bar for whatever late cult seating we have is a good idea.-LB I am going to make a master list and send to all bar staff but for now:  Pineapple juice is in the walk-in. Blood Mary mix and bloody Mary concentrate are in the walk-in, this makes room for more syrups for batching purposes to be in the lowboy. -LB AB2 and Lau...

Manager Communication: Wyatt and I opened up the building nice and easy. Aside from Casper showing morning was chill. The private event in theater 3 was great - they ended up staying and partying at Trees well into the afternoon.  Roger, the new runner, wasn't sure if he'd received the runner training guide, so Wyatt and I printed one out and gave him a physical copy. Stan received him and trained him up for the day two tasks.  - IP Pretty sleepy night. Customer Comments: BAR Staff Observations: Natasha and Greg opened up - no notes. Super thorough on both accounts. Nia came in and jumped right in to help with the bar pop at Trees. Patrick got in, and we cut Greg and Nat right at 5. - IP FOH Staff Observations: Hiring/Training: Sick Leave/ Call outs: Special Events? Staff Meeting Agenda notes: 86ed / counts on items: Sauvignon Blanc will likely be 86'd be end of night. On an 8 count now (possibly a few more than that, but to be safe, I have it on 8). - IP -Sauv Blanc ...

Manager Communication:  First round had some busy pops, and then a bit of a drop off for the second round.  Frankenstein is holding strong in the big theaters. JH The bubbler in the lobby is full and bubbling its heart out. -LB I printed and laminated some coffee specs for the lobby bar. Trying to up our hot coffee game a little.-LB I broke out a rack of pint glasses. I think we should be pretty good on glassware, Ian, if you can see what might need to be replenished once bars are set up tomorrow-LB BAR Staff Observations:  Natasha opened Trees and worked through the first Th1/2 service pushes without issue.  I opened lobby and Tevon came in at 11, just as the Th3 special screening began seating.  After getting through that push downstairs, I was able to get back upstairs to assist Natasha with the tail end of the initial Casper service push and Greg arrived shortly after.  Mellow behind both bars, theater service remained fairly steady at both bars, and ...