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I got 5 on it!

In our most recent conference call we discussed saving money. Many of us know that using a spatula, or not allowing employees to eat out of flops will save money, and it is even written in our handbook that these are policies we should follow, however, it has been some time since we have read the handbook and many of us have decided that doing things "the Sonny's way" with a little of our own personal flavor has suited us well for this long. In these difficult economic times it is important that we work together and share our ideas on ways to save money. These are some of the things we are doing at Chellie Rd, please share with me the ideas you have so that we can all work together.



NO FLOPS, FOAM CONTAINERS, or CUTLERY KITS for employees
- If our employees do not feel comfortable eating off of the plates they serve to our guests, we have a problem
- If you don’t feel comfortable eating off of the plates we server our guests, you can fix this problem.
- Stay on top of the dish man; make him do a better job washing dishes.
- Employees may use a large plastic basket with a liner to eat off of.

THE POWER BILL
-When you leave a room in your own home, you turn off the lights because you don’t want to pay gulf power any extra money…. so since this is your home away from home, let’s treat it the same.
-It would help keep the office cooler if we kept the door shut and the lights off, when the office is not in use.
-Keep the back door closed, I am not heating and cooling the whole neighborhood!

SCRAP PAPER
-use both sides of the paper (not the toilet paper). Almost nothing that we print goes out to the customer, so use both sides of the paper so that we can save money

PAID OUTS
-If we need something for the store, please try to find the best deal. Bryan’s money is your money too. If we spend too much, it comes off the bottom line. This means we are less profitable and that could lead to a possible cut in benefits.

REPAIRS
-So, I suck at fixing things...for that I am sorry. If we can fix a problem, please see what we can do to buy the parts and fix our issue. It will cost us a little time and a little money, but every time we call a repairman out here he charges us $60 to show up, then we still have to pay an hourly rate plus parts.

I encourage you to think of new ways to save money. There are hundreds of things we can do, like using a spatula or picking up trash audits. Our job is to keep making money, let’s do it!

Goin to the races

The Sonny's race car made an appearence on Thursday at the Chellie Rd store. Marty White, our driver, posed for pictures and even let little kids sit in the car...by little kids I mean Scott, Bryan, and me! Many of our customers were happy to have the attraction and I am looking forward to a great race season. Marty is racing with 17 other drivers in the sportsmen division and holds 7th place this season (so far). We are fortunate to have Marty as a driver because he is also a DJ and Morning Show Host for a local country music station where he spends about 1/2 the show talking about Sonny's, the Sonny's race car, or the race track. We are looking forward to hosting more events with the cars from 5 Flags Speedway and hopefully, we will see a beautiful vending contract for the track in the future :) If I can't get butts in seats, I still want teeth in my pulled pork sandwiches, no matter where I have to take them.

3 STEVES

SONNYS 9TH AND THE 3 STEVES... soo we have a mgr thats hair doesnt seem to want to stay atop his head well some cooks think it would be funny to be like steve and not show off there hair.. what a fun saturday night!!!

Cinnamon Apples

I don't know if anyone else is doing this, but heating cinnamon apples in a feast bowl makes for far less clean up at the end of the night. In order to get the cinnamon apples hot enough to serve, we found that they were running out of the boat and messy situation in the microwave (which caramelized by the end of the night and became ridiculously hard to clean up). Let me know if anyone has a cleaner or better idea for handling these sticky jewels.

Smallwares

On Sunday AM when we opened up a regular customer that comes in every Sunday morning gave the host a bag and told her that she wasn't stealing and just wanted us to have them back.. As you can see it seems that she likes to shop at other restaurants too (some blue 1.5 ramekins) there were 15 boats and 5 ramekins... figured you would find it funny also. i know servers toss out allot of small wares but stuff does happen

Brinkman

Easter Orders

Matt and Barb,

Please transfer your Turkey and Ham inventory to me. I am going to try to hustle the leftovers to a few of our regular customers who lust over our smoked turkeys.

Thanks,

A

Welcome

Hey Guys,

I have set up this blog so that we can share our thoughts on new menu items, customer concerns, employee issues, and every day issues we face in our stores. My hope is that this blog will help to build a stronger team and the East and West can work together instead of competing. I hope you guys enjoy this!

Alice