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$10,120 ▲ 4.4%from your usual Tuesday, $9,690 · 92 covers · lost $580 last night AGAINST LAST YEAR | gray is last year | SALES | PROFIT |
| Same Tuesday | $10,120 ▲ 2.4% $9,880 | -$580 ▼ $360 -$220 |
| Last 7 days | $96,000 ▲ 3.9% $92,400 | $6,010 ▼ $890 $6,900 |
| Month to date | $271,000 ▲ 3.4% $262,000 | $16,900 ▼ $1,500 $18,400 |
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THE ONE THING TODAY Two bottles went up on Monday’s Vintage Imports invoice and your list never moved. About $930 a month until you reprice, $11,000 a year. Library Cabernet went from $72 to $90, Sonoma Pinot Noir from $30 to $38. At 3 and 20 bottles a week, $214; wine cost 26.7% against your 26% target. Move the Cabernet from $180 to $195 and the Pinot from $95 to $105 today. |
SALES → PROFIT LAST NIGHT LAST 7 DAYS For the week: labor is an estimate until payroll posts, fixed bills until the bills post. Prime cost 61.1%. |
THE LEDGER | Wine | $3,440 ▲ 21% From a usual Tuesday. Bottles $2,300, up 38%; glass $1,140. |
| Invoice prices | $370 a week more ▲ 11 up, 3 down 14 invoices this week, every line against last week’s. The two wines are $214 of it, the ribeye $110. |
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The money. Tuesdays lose two ways: a Saturday-sized close for 5 covers, and a slow night carrying a full day of rent. Labor. The 10 PM seating sold $550 to 5 covers. Six cooks and four servers stayed to 11:15: $380 of labor, $160 of food, nothing made. Keep the sous, one cook and two servers after 9:30; send four cooks and two servers home, about $240 a night back. Tuesday still loses $340; that is the rent. Wine. Over 30 nights Ana and Marco sell $52 of wine a cover, the other three $24. Tables Theo, your sommelier, visits run $10 a cover more; the other three seat about 50 covers Friday. Invoices. Ribeye rose $1.75 a pound, to $31: about $110 a week at 9 a night, two points on a $92 plate. Leave it. Around you. Alder opened six blocks away, a $125 tasting against your $150; Thursday is 9 covers short in its second week, so Elena calls the regulars today. A review called 8 PM loud, bar full; hold the bar to 10 tonight. Symphony opens Friday two blocks away; clear, 52°F, so guests walk in 5:30 to 6:15. RESERVATIONS · WHAT’S ON THE BOOK | Tonight | 74 booked ▲ 12% vs. 66 usual. |
| Thursday | 58 booked ▼ 13% vs. 67 usual. |
| Friday | 118 booked 28 open at 5:30 and 6:00. |
| Harvest Dinner, Sat. | 56 of 70 11 Library Cabernets on hand, about four weeks at 3 a week; leave it off Thursday’s order at $90. |
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FROM THE LOGBOOK · LAST NIGHT’S CLOSE The Hendersons asked about a private room for 20 in December. Dish machine slow at close, third night. Elena, closing, 11:20 PM. |
MENU SANDBOX · TRY IT BEFORE IT GOES ON THE MENU | 3 and 20 bottles a week at $195 and $105 cover the $214. Wine cost drops to about 26.5%, still half a point over your 26%; the rest is in the list, not these two bottles. | +$245 a week |
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THE ACTION LIST · TODAY, IN ORDER | 1. | Reprice: The Cabernet to $195 and the Pinot to $105 today. That wins back the $11,000 a year and adds about $1,600. |
| 2. | Staff: Tuesdays after 9:30 down to four, about $12,500 a year. |
| 3. | Open: Friday’s 28 early seats as a $95 pre-concert menu, out by 7:45, about $2,700 in sales. |
| 4. | Book: Elena’s Thursday calls: nine covers, about $1,000 in sales. |
| 5. | Send: Theo to those three servers’ tables first Friday, about $500 in wine. |
| 6. | Call: The dish machine tech today, before Friday’s $13,000 night. |
| 7. | Reply: The Hendersons: 20 at $200 a head is $4,000 in sales. |
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