The story of a cook

Chapter 301 Not Too Tired
The villa started to enter the normal business stage, and it was around [-] a day. It wasn't too busy, but it couldn't be idle for a day.

After the opening of the villa, the businesses of some surrounding restaurants have been affected, and the most affected one is the Colorful Hotel.

No way, the restaurant is like this, there is competition among peers, if other people's business is better than yours, your business will decline.When the business declines, don’t look for the faults of your peers, first find your own faults, and ensure that there is a problem with yourself, otherwise it will not decline.

Although Laohan Villa and Colorful Hotel are both restaurants, they have completely different styles. When Laohan Villa opened, it had an impact on Colorful Hotel, but if there is still an impact after opening, you have to find fault with yourself.

Before the opening of Laohan Villa, the Colorful Hotel was the boss in this area. His place is large, the food is large, and it is economical. Most of the guests eat at his home, and there is no one else who wants to go. His family is considered to be of good quality nearby. That's right, most of the guests will just leave.After the opening of Laohan Mountain Villa, the dishes are not smaller than his home, the taste is better than his home, and the price is almost the same.In addition, the service, decoration, and dining experience are much better than his home.

In the evening, there will be Errenzhuan performances, so many guests began to choose Laohan Villa. The business of the Qicai Hotel is not as good as before. In the past, his house could sell 2 yuan a day, but now it can only sell about [-].

Guests spend the same money on restaurants, why not find a better one?

Laohan Shanzhuang wins because of its distinctive decoration, bright service, delicious dishes, and reasonable prices.

At that time, I thought, if I take over the Qicai Hotel at this time, how can I restore the original business?What comes to mind is two points, one is to enhance the taste and quality of dishes, work hard on home-cooked dishes, and make home-cooked dishes that are accepted and welcomed by ordinary people.The second is to strengthen the front desk service, not passive service, but active service, and increase the sense of belonging of the guests in the service.Qicai already has a good customer source base, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse. It only needs to strengthen management and practice internal skills, and the previous business can be restored in two months.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking, and the actual operation may be different. In addition, Laohan Villa is also in the observation period. Whether the business can continue to be good depends on how to persist and improve, and constantly upgrade and strengthen.

Fighting the country is easy and defending the country is difficult.

Guobaorou sells well, with an average of 45 servings per day. I can’t cook a few dishes other than Guobaorou at the end of the meal, which is a waste of time. At the same time, the profit of Guobaorou is not high, and the gross profit has just reached [-]%.At that time, I wondered if I could study and improve the potato sticks made during the dish test, maybe they could replace the pot-packed meat, even if not completely replace the pot-packed meat, half of it would be fine, then it would save a lot of time and the serving speed was still can speed up.

The potato chips were studied during the dish test, because the research was abandoned halfway through the opening, but now it can be studied.

At that time, I researched that I cut the potato strips and soaked them in water overnight, and then flew them in water the next day. After the water was blown, I patted them into powder and fried them. Eat, the effect is not bad.But it’s not enough to sell the dishes. It needs to be paired with potato chips, because I want to call it a substitute for pot-packed meat, and it can only be matched with meat.The first thing that comes to mind is the tenderloin.

So I asked the chopping board to cut five potato sticks and soak them in water for trial production the next day.

At about 07:30 that night, Li Shuang, the manager on the first floor, came to the kitchen with a plate of small stir-fries, and said to me: "Master Tan, there is hair in the dish, and the customer wants to return the dish."

I looked at the dish of Shanzhuang Xiaochao, and there was an orange hair on the side of the plate.

Master Hou, who was in charge of making the Shanzhuang Xiaochao, came over to have a look and said, "Impossible, I always pay attention when frying this dish, it's impossible for my hair to grow out."

I looked at Master Hou, who was wearing a work cap, his hair was black, and I looked at the brothers in the kitchen, no one had baked their hair orange.

Asked Li Shuang: "Does anyone at the front desk bake their hair orange?"

Li Shuang thought for a while and said, "No, no, there is no hair-baking at the front desk."

I said: "Understood." Then I asked: "The customer just said that the food was returned?"

"Yes, just return the food, nothing else."

I said: "Okay, let's withdraw." Then I asked Li Shuang: "Which table is it?"

"The one on station eight, the one by the window." Li Shuang replied.

I said, "Got it, you can go back."

After Li Shuang left, I said to Master Hou: "It's okay, it's not our hair, besides, it's impossible to have hair in Shanzhuang Xiaochao, eggplant green, pepper green, pumpkin yellow, potato white, horned melon white, Bean green, if there is hair, you can see it when you cut it, and it’s not on the plate, if you can find it on the plate when you put it on the plate, I guess it’s a guest’s, and the hair fell into it during the meal.”

"I think so too." Master Hou said, his tense expression relaxed a bit.

I said, "Let's clean up, tidy up, there's nothing left to eat, I'll go and have a look."

Come to the locker room, take off the work clothes, change clothes, polish the shoes, and then come to the front desk.

Walking past the No. [-] station.

There are four guests on Channel [-], two men and two women. One of them has orange hair. The woman looks familiar. She seems to have seen it somewhere before, but I can't remember it at the moment.

Go to the bar and ask the girl at the bar: "Have you paid for station number eight?"

The bar counter said: "I bought it, and returned the Shanzhuang Xiaochao to him. They didn't order any dishes. They were all Xiaochao. The most expensive one was the pot of pork. I don't think they ate anything. They just sat there and chatted, even two people. I didn't even look at it."

I nodded and said, "Oh, just pay the bill."

Turning around and taking a look at the No. [-] table, the orange-haired woman was looking at the front of the bar. She happened to be lighting a cigarette. When she saw her smoking, she suddenly remembered that she was the front desk manager of the Colorful Hotel.Because she was the same as me when I was eating at Qicai that day, standing at the bar and smoking. At that time, I thought it was a customer, but after a closer look, it turned out to be the manager, so I was deeply impressed.

Thinking of the orange hair on the small stir fry plate in the villa, she felt angry. She suspected that she put it in deliberately, because the hair in the plate was not broken, it was very long, and it would not fall off the head without pulling it by hand.

I hate this kind of people the most. They are all catering workers. This is immoral.I really want to go up and give them a bad word, but think about it, I can't be angry with this kind of person, and this kind of person doesn't have much promise.

At this time, Zhang Li came down from upstairs, saw me standing at the bar and changed all my clothes, and asked, "What's wrong, I have something to do today, are you going to leave early?"

"Why are you leaving early?" I said, "I'm here to check on Channel [-] and see what's going on with my hair?"

"You have to look, it's the guest's own." Zhang Li said: "Did you see, it's that woman, the only one in the hall with orange hair, is it hers or someone else's?"

"You know it's hers, but you still bring the food back."

"Why, what do you mean we should fight her?"

Zhang Li gave me a white look.

I said, "That's not right, it's not in your character not to fight, right?"

"Cut! Come on, I don't have the time to fight with her. I see a lot of people like this, and I can't be angry. If I fight with her, it will affect other customers. If I want to return the food, I will return it to her. You know that kindness makes money." Zhang Li said.

In fact, the solution to tension is also the solution of many hotels. This is the only way to solve such a problem. You can't take a hair to do a DNA test.

I smiled and asked Zhang Li: "Look, who do you think that woman is?"

"I don't know who she is." She said, "Why, you know her. You know anyone who looks good-looking."

Ignoring her critical words, he said, "Is it Manager Qicai?"

Hearing that I said it was the Qicai manager, Zhang Li took a closer look, and then said, "Don't tell me, it really is, that is, I didn't pay much attention to the meal that day, and now it really is her."

"It's too insincere. They are all in the same industry. Why do you have to do this?" Zhang Li said angrily.

"I'm jealous—" I said, "Since our house opened, his business has not been good, and all the customers have come to our house." Then I asked: "Do you know what Boss Qicai does?"

Zhang Li said: "I heard that it used to be a firefighter. After opening the hotel, it worked as a hotel."

"Oh, his family has been open for a long time, five or six years." I said.

"Yes, it's not too much. Now that our family has opened, his family will be overwhelmed." Zhang Li said.

I said, "Well, that's enough—it can't be helped, a colleague is an enemy, and it doesn't matter if you die or I live. Otherwise, you should practice your inner strength, do yourself a good job, and make a comeback."

"Unless his family hires you." Zhang Li said, she glanced at me after speaking, and then asked, "Hey, by the way, what do you have for work lunch at night?"

"Sauerkraut stew vermicelli, mustard pickles."

"I don't want to eat, can I make something better?"

"Damn you, I don't like sauerkraut stewed vermicelli. It's good to be able to eat sauerkraut stewed vermicelli in the past Chinese New Year. I don't like it. If you are hungry, you will eat it for two meals." I angrily scolded her.

"Then you will starve me for two meals."

I looked at her, turned around and went into the kitchen. She said behind me, "I can get off work early today, and there aren't many customers. Let's go have a barbecue."

"I don't have money, I can't afford it, I still eat my sauerkraut stewed vermicelli."

She said: "To be honest, Li Shuang treats guests. If I tell you, I must bring you."

"That's not going, you can find someone else."

After much difficulty, I didn’t drink for two days and didn’t want to relapse.

But as soon as she talked about barbecue, she felt itchy in her heart, and the scene of drinking skewers immediately appeared in front of her eyes. She swallowed hard, feeling the wine worm in her stomach began to move around, and she wanted to drink.

People who drink have no face, as long as others mention drinking, they feel itchy in their hearts, and they want to drink something right away——
After get off work in the evening, Li Shuang and Zheng Jiaqi hurriedly went to eat barbecue, and called the second child, and the three of them went to order food in advance, and Zhang Li and I went after checking the front and back.

I didn't drink much or talk much when I was making skewers, I just listened to Li Shuang and Zheng Jiaqi's vernacular.

Once the two women started talking, they couldn't hold back their mouths. They talked a lot, and they were all anecdotes, which made everyone laugh.Especially Li Shuang, who dared to say anything, and I, an old man, would blush when I heard something, but she acted like a normal person, so she said it right.

We are not gentlemen, just a cook, an ordinary commoner.

So don't live too tired.

What is not to be too tired, if you live without hypocrisy, you will not be tired.

Looking at Li Shuang's happy face, I feel that this is the way people live, and being true to yourself is better than anything else.

It won't be so tiring.

(End of this chapter)