The story of a cook

Chapter 370 Busy Young Years

I was afraid that I would really see whoever I saw, so I saw Mr. Huo and Zheng Jiaqi again while eating at a hot pot restaurant.

The fourth child, Zhang Li, when we finished eating the hot pot and were about to leave, we saw Mr. Huo and Zheng Jiaqi pushing the door in. They didn’t see us, so they went directly to the small booth. We stood under the rockery and waited for them to pass by and went out of the hot pot. shop.

After coming out of the hot pot restaurant, the fourth child went home directly. Master Tong and Li Shuang chatted very well, and we were going to walk alone to enhance our relationship. Zhang Li and I walked slowly towards Santaizi.

Zhang Li said: "Look how nice the two of them are, they have a romantic relationship."

"Are you talking about Li Shuang and Master Tong or Mr. Huo and Zheng Jiaqi?" I asked.

She asked back, "What do you say?"

I said, "Who knows who you're talking about." Then I said, "Li Shuang and Master Tong are in love, and there should be some flair. Waiting for Zheng Jiaqi and Mr. Huo is playing with fire."

"Why do you say they are playing with fire? I think it's fine." Zhang Li said.

"It's good, exciting, but dangerous," I said.

"That's why you are timid."

I smiled and walked forward without making a sound.

"I see that your stitches have been removed, and you can move. Your wife is not at home yet. Shall I go to your house?" She asked teasingly.

I said: "My daughter-in-law is pregnant and has a big belly. I am with you outside. Do you think I can do that?"

She looked at me and said nothing.

After walking for a while, I said, "Take a taxi, it's so cold."

She said: "You have to ask me to take a taxi, you don't know how to do it yourself."

If a woman is unreasonable, ghosts will be afraid.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the new year is here.

The customers came very early, and customers began to enter the store to eat dumplings at 02:30.Immediately afterwards, customers entered the store one after another, and the kitchen was busy during the noon rush hour, with their feet hitting the back of their heads.It was busy until [-]:[-] in the afternoon. At this time, there were still customers entering the store to eat dumplings, but not so many.

The notice goes to the kitchen as a whole and does not take a rest. When eating, two shifts take turns to eat.

When I came to the pastry room, the staff in the pastry room were still busy, making dumplings, making dumplings, boiling dumplings, steaming dumplings, no one was idle.Seeing me coming, Li Dashan came over and said, "Today is really busy, busier than every year, and I started to use the spare dumplings at noon."

I asked, "How much did the prepared dumplings sell for?"

"More than 200 copies were sold," he said.

I said: "That's okay, the rest is enough for the night." Then I asked: "Do you have some fried dumplings?"

"No, the fried dumplings are ordered in advance by the customers." He said happily: "It's a lot easier to not fry the dumplings. The fried dumplings will help cook the dumplings, and I will help steam the dumplings. , there is no order to remind dumplings at noon."

"Okay." I said, giving him a thumbs up at the same time, and then asked, "Is there a lot to pack?"

"It's not a lot. We pack the frozen dumplings that we have prepared. We don't have to rush to pack them now, which saves time." He said.

"Okay, just give frozen dumplings, the guests can understand." I said.

Zhao Chunjiao came in with a bowl of vegetables, followed by a little girl with a bowl of rice.

"Chef Tan, we don't have time to eat in the cafeteria, we call back and eat in the kitchen." Zhao Chunjiao said to me.

"Very good, hard work." I said.

"It's not hard work, it's not hard work if you have a leader." She said with a smile, and then asked me: "Chef Tan hasn't eaten yet, why don't you eat with us here."

I said, "Okay, let's eat with you, saving the need to go to the cafeteria."

While eating in the pastry room, the guy who was frying dumplings said: "Chef Tan, thank you so much for not ordering fried dumplings in front. If you let me order fried dumplings like last year, it will be over. It won't go out at all, so I have to return half of it." dumpling."

"That's right. Last year, I remember that I returned sixteen plates of fried dumplings at noon. Some of them were returned after they were fried. When they went up, the customers left after eating." An old dumpling worker said.

"When you are busy, you should cancel the fried dumplings. Everyone is in a hurry and can't make it, and the guests are not satisfied. It should have been done long ago." Zhao Chunjiao said.

Li Dashan said: "Who would dare? It means Chef Tan dared to cancel it."

While talking, there were six more dumplings, four for eating in the store and two for takeaway.The order-distributing staff quickly divided the orders, the dumpling workers put down their rice bowls and started making dumplings, and the order-distributors finished packing the frozen dumplings, and then sent them directly to the food delivery department.

Li Dashan asked: "Chef Tan, are you busy with hot dishes today?"

"Busy, it's time for a war, and I was still cooking when I came down." I said.

"No matter how busy we are, why are we still busy?" Zhao Chunjiao said, "We are the ones who are busy. Rolling four dumpling skins with one hand can't make enough. At least six dumpling skins have to be rolled with one hand. I've started rolling eight dumpling skins with one hand. I was so tired in the morning that I didn't even have time to catch my breath, so I just went out to catch my breath while I was going to the cafeteria to cook."

I said, "I'll reward you."

"What reward? Don't count your words. It's okay if the reward is small. I'm sorry for the tiredness I have suffered." She said.

"I'll find you a husband's family years ago." I said.

Boom, everyone laughed.

After eating in the pastry room, I came to the front desk, and there were still many customers at the front desk.At the bar, Zhang Li was paying the bills for the customers, and the cashier was eating.After paying the bill for the customer, Zhang Li asked me: "Is your kitchen not busy?"

I said, "It just stopped for a while."

She said to me a little excitedly: "Do you know how much our house sells at noon today?"

"How much?" I asked.

"Thirty-two thousand," she said.

"So much?" I asked in surprise.

I can think of buying a lot, but I didn't expect so many, which exceeded my estimate, and my estimate was more than 2 points.

"Then what do you think about? All the private rooms are fully booked at night, and a lot of large tables are reserved. It's still busy at night, busier than at noon." She said.

"Evening is definitely busier than at noon." I said, "But at night, you can't be as anxious as you are at noon. At noon, customers are in a hurry to go to work, and your mouth is in a hurry. There is nothing to do at night, so you can't be so anxious."

"Well, it's really urgent at noon." She said: "The guests seem to have to catch the train. After the order is finished, they start urging, urging hard, like urging their lives."

I smiled and said, "It's all the same."

From the front desk back to the kitchen around 03:30, the evening guests started to arrive.

There are not many customers before five o'clock, and there is an order in about 10 minutes, which is a uniform speed.After five o'clock, the guests began to gather, and the printing paper of the stand-alone machine kept spitting out the list as if it didn't cost money, and it reached one meter long in a while.

The whole kitchen is like a battlefield, the chopping board is quickly picking up the side dishes, and the chef on the stove is quickly cooking.The masters in winter are still sweating profusely in a thin overalls.The eight chefs on the second and third floors were fully fired, and the entire kitchen was serving three dishes in one minute, and the front desk kept urging the dishes.

Fortunately, the preparatory work was sufficient, and all the raw materials were processed into semi-finished products, otherwise it would really delay things.

There are two large bowls of pot-packed meat and meat-salted meat, each with a full [-] servings. A little bit of pot-packed meat on the front side is returned to the pot for deep frying and cooked with sweet and sour sauce. The speed is faster than before. four or five times.The same is true for the pork tenderloin section, leave after frying the cooking juice, or else you won’t be in a hurry.

The ground three fresh potato cubes are all fried in advance. When the dish comes, you only need to fry the eggplant, and then fry it together with the potato cubes. Heat the prepared juice and add the fried potatoes, eggplants, and peppers. Collect the juice, beat the cornstarch, pour out the oil, and put it on a plate.

At this time, we can see the benefits of standardization, which greatly shortens the cooking time of dishes, guarantees the taste, improves the speed of serving dishes, and makes it easier to work.If all the dishes are cooked on the spot, not only can they not be cooked well, but they will also waste time, and they will not be able to serve the dishes at all.

The cold dishes, hot dishes, and pasta rushing to the front line are extremely busy, and those who wash dishes, choose vegetables, and kill fish are also busy.

The three dishwashing sisters have been washing dishes in front of the sink without stopping.As soon as I finished washing the tableware, I immediately removed the tableware from the front desk and pushed it into the dishwashing room. There was no rest time at all.The office accountant came out of the office to help in the scullery.

The store manager and cashier of the warehouse also joined the kitchen army, helping the aunt to pick and wash vegetables together.

The logistics electrician and carpenter help to cook and steam dumplings in the pastry room, and two boiler workers help to pass the dishes in the vegetable transmission department.

Mr. Huo, who came back from get off work in the evening, and Manager Guo from the room department helped the cleaning staff remove the table.

All the staff in the entire restaurant were on the move, no one was idle, doing whatever they could, even the aunts who were cooking in the cafeteria came to help make dumplings.

The guy who hit the lotus ran all the way to deliver the food to the food delivery department, sweating profusely.

From 08 o'clock to 30:08, I was busy for three and a half hours. The chef never got off the stove and kept cooking.After 30:[-], there were fewer customers, and the order was not so urgent, but there was still an endless stream of customers entering the store to eat dumplings, and the tables came in as soon as they left.

I asked everyone to take turns to take a rest, and those who are fond of smoking go to the smoking area to smoke a cigarette, and cool off by the way.

Wang Chun came to see that there were not so many dishes. He got down from the stove and wiped the sweat off his face with a towel on his shoulder.

"This year is much busier than last year, and last year was not as busy." He said.

"It's not that you didn't become the chef last year." I said with a smile.

He giggled.

The boss of the chopping board came over and said, "Chef Tan, the eggplant is gone, stop selling eggplant dishes."

I said: "Stop the license, tell the front desk not to order eggplant dishes."

Wang Chunlai asked, "Why are there no more eggplants? Haven't you made a few dishes?"

The boss of the chopping board said: "You didn't make a few dishes, all of them were made by Xiao Cao. Today, there are 150 catties of eggplants, and every catty is left."

Wang Chunlai said, "So much? It's really not less."

The boss of the chopping board went to inform the front desk that the eggplant was suspended. Wang Chunlai and I asked everyone to find time to rest, and then went to the kitchen on the first floor.When I arrived at the cold dish room, I first saw the three big sisters who were making facelifts nervously making facelifts. One was shopping for facelifts, the other was out of facelifts, and the other was cutting and mixing, which is an assembly line operation.

"Thank you!" I said loudly.

The three elder sisters smiled when they saw me and said it was not hard work.

"How many facelifts did you sell today?" I asked.

"There are five hundred of them." said the elder sister who was shopping around.

"How much? The three of you have worked hard enough."

"The three of us are exhausted. We haven't been idle since four o'clock. The chef should give us a reward!" the eldest sister laughed.

"Okay, it must be rewarded." I said.

The eldest sister said: "I estimate that we can sell [-] copies today. Look, we are still getting customers."

Looking outside through the open door, customers are still coming in, but not so many.

Liu Liang, the cold food supervisor, came out of the operating room sweating profusely.

"Chef Tan is coming down." He greeted me.

I smiled at him and said to him, "Are you tired today?"

"It's okay, the revolutionary fighters are high-spirited." He smiled.

"The spirit is commendable, keep fighting."

"necessary."

The cold dish room is a bit small, and the employees are busy in it. From time to time, plates of cold dishes are delivered from the inside and sent to the food delivery department.

When I came to the pastry room, the female generals in the pastry room were fighting crazily.Zhao Chunjiao is in good shape. She and two other women are rolling out dumpling wrappers. Every time, eight dumpling wrappers fly out of their hands, and then they rush to roll the next eight.The twelve dumpling workers lowered their heads and quickly made the dumplings. In a few seconds, a dumpling was wrapped on the noodle table and transferred to steaming and frying.

Seeing that everyone is busy, I didn't bother everyone. If you don't help at this time, don't make trouble. It's best to keep them in this state.

When I turned to leave, I heard someone yelling behind me.

"Chef Tan, don't forget about finding my husband's family—"

I turned around and shouted at Zhao Chunjiao: "I can't forget it!"

"Tell you, my life's important affairs are on you, if I can't find my husband's family, I will find you!"

"Good job, tomorrow I will send you to Africa to marry a nigger!"

boom!
Everyone laughed happily.

It was busy until eleven o'clock before it stopped.The 60.00 dumplings prepared in the pastry room were all sold out, not counting the freshly made dumplings that day.[-]% of the raw materials for hot dishes are sold out, and the same is true for cold dishes.

Mr. Huo announced that he would not receive guests from eleven o'clock, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The whole day's turnover in the whole year was 8000 yuan, breaking a historical record!
(End of this chapter)