The story of a cook

Chapter 350 Conveying the Competition
I told my master that Mr. Huo was planning to innovate the chef's dishes, and the master also expressed his support, and told me that the innovation of dishes should have a theme, not casual innovation, and we must develop dishes suitable for Linjiangxuan's business, not for Linjiangxuan's business. Dishes should not be developed.At the same time, I was told to focus on Northeast cuisine and not to leave the main line of Northeast cuisine.The dishes developed by Sichuan cuisine masters also need to be developed in combination with the dietary characteristics of Northeast people, and should not be too Sichuan-style.

I used the lunch break to detail the innovative dishes this time, and made a text plan, and handed it over to Mr. Huo when he came.

After Mr. Huo came over at night, I gave him the written plan for his review. After he read it, we studied it again to determine some details, and finally settled the matter thoroughly.

I informed the head chef of the old store to come to the new store for a regular meeting the next morning, and pass on the innovative dishes to the employees at the early regular meeting.

At the morning kitchen meeting the next day.

"Good morning everyone!" I shouted to all the kitchen staff.

"Good morning!" Fifty people spoke together with great momentum.

"Three things to say today." I said.

"The first thing is that yesterday our family sold a total of 32 sets of 'Nanjian Meatballs', which broke a new high in a single day for the whole year, which means that the single-day sales volume of 'Nanjian Meatballs' has a new record. Du Dapeng and Master Du are inseparable, it is the delicious food he cooks that will be liked by the guests, here everyone gives Master Du a warm applause."

applause!

applause!

Du Dapeng's other dishes are not very good, but Nanjian meatballs are really good, so I handed over Nanjian meatballs to him.At the beginning, he was a little reluctant to do it, because making Nanjian meatballs was a lot of work, and many chefs were reluctant to do it.I told him that this dish can only be sold if he is responsible for it, because he is the only one who makes Nanjian meatballs in the whole Linjiangxuan.He listened to me and accepted it.

He was also very happy to see everyone applauding him, with a bright smile on his face.

"Chef, is there any reward?" Du Dapeng stood there and asked.

"Yes, there must be, but you have to drink more than me."

Coax, everyone laughs.

"Our cooks must be rigorous in cooking. If you take it seriously, it will take you seriously. This is an indisputable fact." I said, "The second thing I want to talk about today is that yesterday a guest said that our Can the kitchen come in for a visit? The guest may have just said it casually, but didn’t actually come in for a visit. But this thought of the guest reminded me. I have been thinking, can we invite guests to come in and visit our kitchen? Woolen cloth?"

I looked at everyone, and everyone was silent.

"Now the kitchen on the third floor is able to invite guests to visit. The first floor of our house belongs to the half-lit kitchen, and guests can also go in and visit, but the kitchen on the second floor is still lacking. Chef Wang—"

"Yes!" Wang Chunlai replied.

"I have a difficult task for you. Before the 25th of the end of this month, the sanitation of our kitchen on the second floor has reached the level where guests can come in and visit it. Is it okay?"

"No problem." He returned.

"I believe our brothers on the second floor are fine, and we will definitely be able to do it. Let's see you on the 25th, okay?"

"Okay!" The staff in the kitchen on the second floor agreed loudly, but the staff on the first and third floors remained silent.

I laughed and said, "The kitchen on the second floor is part of our overall kitchen. You guys on the first and third floors are too impersonal. You don't even talk about brotherhood. What's the matter? As a family, even if you don’t help clean the second floor, you should still be cheering, I really don’t want to see this. We are all brothers, what should we do? At least we should give encouraging applause.”

The kitchen staff on the first and third floors began to applaud.

"Things don't distinguish between right and wrong. Brothers don't distinguish between you and me. Remember what Lao Tan said, if you help me today, I will definitely send you a ride tomorrow. Helping others is helping yourself. As long as we work together, No matter how good you are, if the whole team can’t do it, you still can’t do it.”

Pause for a while to give everyone a time to think.

"The third thing I want to talk about today is good news for everyone. On the 26th of this month, our family is going to hold the first prize-winning contest for chefs' innovative dishes."

"Innovative dishes?"

"Innovative dishes?"

"A new dish——"

"Yes, it's new dishes." I continued, "Everyone knows that our restaurant is an old restaurant that mainly uses old Northeastern dishes. The menu has hardly been changed since it opened. Now the new Northeastern dishes in social restaurants outside are very popular. It is popular, and the common people also recognize it very much. They are developing, and we can't stand still."

"I know the strength of our chefs. Compared with the chefs outside, they are not bad at all, and even higher than the chefs outside. However, our pace of innovation in dishes is very slow. This is an indisputable fact. We must move forward , we can’t stand still, and we need to have our own innovations on the basis of ensuring old dishes, so the board of directors decided to hold the first dish innovation competition, so that our chefs can also give full play to their abilities.”

"Let me talk about the specific matters. Every chef, including the cold dish master, each cooks two new dishes developed by himself. What kind of new dishes are developed? Must be new dishes suitable for our store, or be based on Northeast cuisine. Lord, you can’t go astray in research and development, and develop Cantonese cuisine, let me make it clear to everyone.”

"Clear."

"clear."

"Chef, then we don't need to research and develop Sichuan cuisine?" Da Cao, a Sichuan cuisine master on the second floor, asked.

"Research and development, you also have to make two new dishes, but the tastes that people in the Northeast can accept, don't bring out the ones that people in Sichuan can accept, then Xiao Cao and you two can eat it." I said .

"Oh, clear."

"Chef, is our cold dish also two dishes per person?"

Liu Liang, the cold food supervisor on the first floor, asked.

"Yes, you too."

I said to the head chef of the old shop: "Master Yan, I called you here today to inform you about the competition. You go back and inform the chefs in the shop, and each of you will develop two new dishes."

Master Yan said, "Okay, I see."

"Everyone look at me!" I said loudly.

Everyone, focus on me.

"This is the first time our family has held a new dish research and development competition. While assessing the cooking skills of the masters, it is also an opportunity for the masters to show their strength. I hope you will prepare well after you go back. I will say a few things to pay attention to now."

"First, the dishes developed must be suitable for the operation of Linjiangxuan, and the dishes that do not match the characteristics of Linjiangxuan will be eliminated directly. Second, each person has two dishes. If they can't develop two dishes, one is fine, but one is not allowed. The dishes are not researched and developed, please remember this. Thirdly, from now on, each chef will only have one chance to open raw materials for trial production, that is to say, our restaurant will give everyone a chance to buy raw materials for free trial production. The dishes can’t be summed up and the taste is not satisfactory, I want to try a few more times, sorry, then you have to pay for the raw materials yourself, and I will provide the seasoning. Everyone understands when I say this.”

"understand."

"Clear."

"Chef, I should buy it twice." Du Dapeng said.

"Master Du, it can only be once. Our restaurant is not short of the money for the raw materials. This is my decision. Only when using the raw materials bought by oneself will everyone cherish and be rigorous. I hope you can understand. "

"Chef Tan, what's the reward?" the head chef of the old shop asked.

"There are three rewards in total. The first one is a material reward. As long as you can enter the top three, you are guaranteed a reward. Second, our store will issue honorary certificates to the top three. Third, and most importantly, our competition It is held every two months, as long as you can get three certificates, your salary will automatically increase by 100 yuan. Can I make it clear?"

"Clear."

"Clear."

"understood."

"The fourth thing, and the most important thing, is that each chef first writes out the dishes he has developed in written form, indicating the name of the dish, main ingredients, taste, characteristics, tableware used, selling price and cost price. And the gross profit margin of the dishes. Do you know if I say this.”

I said loudly.

"Clear."

"Clear."

"It's good to be clear. If there is anything left that you don't understand, you can ask me alone after the regular meeting. We won't say much at the regular meeting. Time is limited. After the regular meeting, everyone quickly enters the work state, and prepares for our meals. This tough battle at noon is pretty good. Well, today’s regular meeting will focus on these three things, so I won’t say much.”

"Is everyone okay?"

"no!"

"Are you ready?"

"Ready."

"Everyone work hard, be optimistic about everyone!"

"Dismiss!"

Everyone clapped their hands three times, and the meeting adjourned.

After the meeting, Master Yan, the head chef of the old shop, came to me and said, "Chef Tan, whenever you have time, you can also hold regular meetings at the old shop. Our old shop hardly holds regular meetings, and I don't know how to do them either."

"If you don't know how to drive, practice driving yourself, and you will get used to it slowly." I smiled and said to him.

"From now on, I will come over every morning to listen to your regular meeting and learn from you."

"I can't drive well either. You can come here if you have time in the morning, but you must arrange your work before you come."

"Yes." Then he asked me: "Then all the chefs from our old restaurant will come over on the 26th?"

"Well, come here at nine o'clock in the evening, and there will be nothing to do until nine o'clock, so it should be fine." I said.

"There's nothing to do at 08:30, so I know." He said, "I'm going back to Chef Tan, you should be busy."

After sending Master Yan away, Du Dapeng and Wang Chun came to see me and asked me who would be the judges and how to judge.I told them that chefs from other restaurants will come to be judges, and several loyal regular customers from the store will also come to be judges. The main judge is my master.

"Chefs from other stores also come?" Du Dapeng asked.

"Well, how many can come over." I said.

"Which store are they from?" he asked.

"For those of the same grade as ours, or a little higher than ours, there will also be a Cantonese chef coming over."

(End of this chapter)