Re-purposing boxes, shake waste

You'll notice some signs Mary put up asking us to hold on to wine boxes. This is for all the loose wine bottles we have scattered around the Village - for the sake of inventory and ease of access. From what I understand, the idea is to keep all the wines together by boxing them up and re-labeling the boxes.

I was thinking of perhaps re-purposing beer carriers for the beers that don't have them in the walk in (Bud Light, Miller Lite, Ginger). While we could label them as well, I think as long as we keep the beers in their assigned spot, we should have no trouble.

Esti mentioned this before but since not everyone is reading the blog regularly/at all, it bears repeating. Milk shakes. Less shake per shake order → less soft serve bags. Our guests rarely finish shakes alone, anyway. Too much shake in a glass creates the threat of overflow after the addition of whipped cream. We're a drafthouse, not a Dairy Queen, so let's not get carried away.

Speaking of exercising restraint: whipped cream is a garnish, not an ingredient. Keep that in mind, particularly during rushes when shakes/hot chocolates won't be run immediately. If there is a whipped cream mountain, as it dies it creates a mess that is difficult to fix when we have to re-prettify it (holy shit 'prettify' is a word - did not know this).

And openers: shake mix in the walk-in? Start off ol' Bertha with a fresh bag, then pour in the old mix. Shit's usable, despite Bertha's protestations. Whip the girl into shape; remind her that she works for us, not the other way around.

On blog operation (henceforth referred to in posts as 'bloperation'). Since it's unrealistic to expect everyone to read this every day and write in it every night, let's abandon the idea of daily posts. Basically, if there's something that needs to be said or an issue you feel needs to be addressed to all bartenders (basically bar operation, or 'barperation'), say it in the blog.

By the way, I wrote down the login and password for the admin account on the closing duties sheet from January 6. That's how we update the 86/rotating drafts sidebar. If you have any questions about how to Internet/how to bloperate, lemme know. I'll try to walk you through it.

Final thoughts: don't forget to start ringing in samples, and creating a manager drink tab. Lauren is really good about ringing in her drinks, and Bobby is good about letting us know, but keep an eye out for managers trying to pour themselves drinks and sauntering off just in case.

That's all I got for now.

Photographic evidence of the existence of unicorns.

I even bolded the main points like they do textbooks.