Tuesday, June 23, 2026 — Day 5288 of The Elephant Shack
"Show up, blow up, clean up, rinse, repeat."
📋 TODAY'S SCHEDULE
TIME
✓
TASK
PRIORITY
10:00 AM
Move food truck into position (before 11 AM)
🔴
10:30 AM
Review BOH bank balances — send screenshot to Jade
11:00 AM
Employees arrive — brief on any day's priorities
During Day
Categorize 17 uncategorized bank transactions ($2,054.39)
During Day
Follow up: Kakaako banner + QR code with Pablo (Uber Eats deep link)
During Day
Reset personal debit card PIN — Call BOH 808-643-3888 or branch visit
During Day
Banh Mi sign for Sunset Beach — design + print
During Day
Gift card system — clarify details with Kevin
🎧 TODAY'S DRIVE — Podcast & Learning Picks
#
Title
Why
Length
1
How I Built This — Restaurant Founder Stories
Real founder war stories from food entrepreneurs — substance over hype, matches Kevin's content preference
45 min
2
Boiler Room DJ Set — Electronic / Club Culture
Kevin's top interest category; good background energy for strategic thinking time
60 min
3
Peter Diamandis — Exponential Tech & Business
Future-focused, entrepreneurship + tech futurism, long-form — perfect for Tesla FSD drives
50 min
📊 DASHBOARD SNAPSHOT — es-dashboard.pages.dev
Metric
Value
Status
MTD Revenue
$0.00 (0 days)
COGS
$0.00 (0.0%)
Target: <33%
Labor
$0.00 (0.0%)
Target: <25%
Prime Cost
0.0%
T30 Prime Cost: 57.7% (COGS 23.9% + Labor 33.8%) — HIGH vs target
NOI
$0.00
Total OpEx: $0.00
Sunset Share
—
—
Kakaako Share
—
—
June MTD: no sales entered yet. T30 Revenue: $60,998 over 27 days ($2,259/day avg). Bank data stale 111 days. COGS coverage 3 of 8 vendors (37%). Payroll data 16 days old.
DAILY DOSSIER — BUSINESS
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
☀️ SUNSET BEACH
Banh Mi sign — design + print (same style as Kakaako sign)
Applova menu: Add spice option to Thai Basil Fried Rice, Pla Goong, Steak+Eggs, Banh Mi
Applova: Fix Steak + Banh Mi price
Applova: Change closed day to Monday
Brief employees on pre-order prioritization
Gai yang supply/forecasting communication system — finalize
🏙️ KAKA'AKO
Follow up with Pablo — Uber Eats deep link for banner QR code
Kakaako lighting — research and source
Night Quarter Maintenance job description — iterate with Kevin
David shirt — purchase
Tony shirts — purchase
Dine-in melt pans — ongoing need
🏭 COMMISSARY
Wood sealer — seal new wood that was built
White marine paint — for new wood
💼 BUSINESS — ADMIN / STRATEGY
Categorize 17 uncategorized bank transactions ($2,054.39) — update categorize-bank.py rules
Gift card system — create solution for updating/managing gift cards
Cable protectors — order 9x FL1X1.5-B from Zoro.com (~$468 w/ free shipping)
DAILY DOSSIER — PERSONAL
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
🧘 PERSONAL
Morning: glass of water, singing bell (432 Hz), yard work before action mode
⚠️ OPEN PROBLEMS
Problem
Details
Status
Bank data stale — 111 days
Last bank sync was 111 days ago. BOH balances: Main ×8452 $4,316 | ×5934 $2,492 | ×0065 $82 (critical low) | ×4729 $125 (critical low). Protocol: Kevin logs into BOH ~10:05 AM and sends screenshot.
🔴 Open
MTD June revenue not entered
June 2026 MTD shows $0 — no sales data logged yet for the month. T30 avg is $2,259/day, so missing ~$50K+ in data.
🔴 Open
17 uncategorized bank transactions
$2,054.39 in unmatched debits from Feb-Mar 2026. Mostly checks and small TES charges. Need Kevin review and category assignment.
🔴 Open
COGS coverage only 37%
Only 3 of ~8 vendors have invoices loaded (Kuan's, Liu's, Richard's Meat). Prime cost calculation incomplete without full vendor data.
🔴 Open
Payroll data 16 days old
Last payroll sync was 16 days ago. Labor % calculations may be outdated.
🔴 Open
📝 PROBLEMS → SOLUTIONS (write solutions as you solve them)
#
PROBLEM
→
SOLUTION
1
Web search
→
Brave Search API configured — free tier covers usage. Fixed April 7, 2026.
2
Morning dossier failures
→
Model updated to claude-sonnet-4-6, internet issues resolved. Fixed mid-April 2026.
3
Cable protector research
→
Zoro.com wins at ~$52/ea vs Safety Systems $76.99. Link emailed to Kevin Apr 7. Order pending.