The story of a cook

Chapter 404 The Problem Caused by the Smell

Just after noon, the boss called the head chef, Chen Gang and me to the private room on the second floor while cleaning the stove. The chef of cold dishes was also in the private room, and there was a platter of smoked flavors on the table.The smoked flavor platter here is simple, it is pork trotter, backbone, chicken neck and chicken feet.

Looking at the platter, the color is very ugly, black and dry, it should not be the same day.The cold dish operation room is open on the first floor, and I seldom come into contact with hot dishes, and I rarely go to the cold dish room.But looking at this smoked flavor platter, it is unqualified, and such a product cannot be served on the table.

It is estimated that the boss called us up because of the smoked taste of this dish.

Everyone sit down.

The boss said solemnly: "There is no other meaning in calling you to come up. I want everyone to taste the smoked smell of our house."

Everyone didn't move their chopsticks.

"Try it, take a piece for each person, and see how our family smells." The boss said displeased.

The chef moved his chopsticks and picked up a chicken paw, Chen Gang picked up a spine, and I picked up a pig's trotter, but the cold dish master didn't move his chopsticks.There is no taste in the mouth after eating the pig's trotters, but it is a bit salty, and there is a bit of bitterness in the delicate taste. After the first bite, I don't want to eat anymore.

Seeing that everyone had finished tasting, the boss asked, "How is it? Tell me."

The head chef said: "It's a bit salty for me."

The boss looked at Chen Gang, but Chen Gang didn't say anything.Then looking at me, I said, "It's a little salty."

"Is it the salty problem?" The boss asked very unhappy.

No one speaks.

Seeing that no one spoke, the boss was very angry and asked the head chef: "Chef, you have been cooking under the ground all day, and you don't even look at the cold dishes?"

The head chef blushed a little and said, "I don't know much about cold dishes."

"Excuse! Reason!" The boss said loudly: "The customer still doesn't understand, but the customer knows what is delicious and what is not. As the head chef, you can't understand cold dishes? You are ashamed to say it, but you don't know whether it is good or not. Don't know yet?"

"You don't care about cold dishes at all, and you don't go to cold dishes to have a look!"

The boss lost his temper.

"I don't know what you do down here every day? Is our family so busy? Why can't I see how busy our family is?" The boss said loudly to the head chef, "Once you visit the cold dish room every day, Even if you try the dishes, you won’t bring such products to the guests.”

No one said a word,

The head chef lowered his head, Chen Gang looked at the plate of smoked food, and the cold dish master simply lowered his head.

"I don't work in the store very much. Thinking about it, the masters I find can be responsible. I don't need to worry about it. I didn't want to do it like this. Look at what our cold dishes are like. It's just like this. Serve it to the guests too, if we continue to do this, our family will be yellow before the Chinese New Year!"

The boss lost his temper.

It's just that he lost his temper a little too much, as if this matter had nothing to do with me, and brought me into it.There is no need to be angry, anyone is irrational when they get angry, let alone the boss, so just say a few words.

"It's because I didn't manage well." The head chef finally said a word.

"The management is still not in place. Our family has no management at all. If there is a little management, this situation will not happen!" The boss snapped.

The head chef misfired.

"The smell of smoke has nothing to do with my work." Chen Gang said there, and he didn't accept the idea that the boss hacked a boatload of people to death with an axe.

The boss looked at Chen Gang and said, "Chen Gang, it has nothing to do with you, do you know why you and Master Tan were called up?"

Chen Gang said, "I don't know."

"The reason why I called you up here is to let you taste the smell of our family's smoke, and then we will find a solution together." The boss said, his tone began to soften.

Chen Gang said: "You know what I am, I have never messed with smoked pickles."

"I haven't messed with it, let's study together." The boss said.

"Let's do the research, let the head chef talk about the arrangement first." Chen Gang said.

I couldn't help laughing in my heart, thinking that Chen Gang was slippery enough, so I directly threw the pot to the head chef.In addition, it can be seen that Chen Gang doesn't care much about the boss. This has something to do with his connections in Fuxin's chef circle, which is quite famous.I heard that when the boss first started learning to cook in Fuxin, it was Master Chen Gang who found the place. When the boss went to the provincial capital to work as a chef, it was also arranged by Master Chen Gang. When the boss returned from the provincial capital to find a job, it was Master Chen Gang who found it of.Chen Gang worked with the boss when he opened the first restaurant, and they have been working together for six or seven years.

The head chef looks at the cold dish master, and the cold dish master looks at the head chef, which means that the head chef will do what you say, and I will do what you say.

The head chef asked the cold dish master: "Isn't this smoked today?"

The cold dish master said, "No, I smoked it yesterday."

"From now on, we will smoke it on the same day, and we will sell it now, and use the same day." The head chef said.

"Why can't it be sold that day? It won't be sold the next day?" asked the cold dish master.

"Won't you smoke less?" said the chef angrily.

"If it worked in the past, the three of me, one younger brother and one in the middle, would be busy. Now I have a younger brother with me, and I have to prepare materials, set up stalls, and smoke vegetables. My younger brother can't help. I can help pick vegetables and get a plate, I have to do everything by myself, I can't do it, if I quit, you can find someone else." Said the cold dish master.

"Aren't you two too busy?" asked the head chef.

"Too busy." The cold dish master replied directly.

"Why were you so busy before?"

"How about the three before, okay, big brother!"

The head chef said as if remembering something: "Oh, yes, there were three people before."

After talking, I looked at the boss, which meant that three people could handle the cold dishes before, but now two people can't handle it, so the quality of the smoked taste will drop. If you want to improve the quality of the smoked taste, you have to find another person.

"What am I doing? That's your chef's business. I want to make the smoked taste delicious. I don't care what method you use to make the smoked taste delicious. I don't care about anything else. I'll find someone for you? " said the boss.

The head chef is rude.

The boss said: "The first person to go, the main thing is whether the smoked taste of our family is delicious, that's the key."

At this time, Chen Gang said: "I remember that the middle person who left our house was responsible for the smoked smell in the past."

The cold dish master said, "Yes, he is in charge, and he does a good job."

"Then why are you still leaving?" The boss asked, "Do you think the wages are low?"

The cold dish chef glanced at the head chef, and said, "Ask the head chef why you left."

The boss looked at the chef.

The chef said: "Fight with me, quit and go." Then he said to the boss: "I told you about this."

The boss looked at the head chef bitterly, wanted to get angry but couldn't get angry, turned his head and asked Chen Gang: "Can you get it back?"

Chen Gang said: "I can't come back, he went to work in Binhai." After speaking, he glanced at me and said to me: "Old Tan worked in the provincial capital, he should be familiar with the smell of smoke."

He is throwing blame around, and now he is looking for me.

I looked at him, he had a sincere smile on his face, and it was brilliant.

The boss and head chef also looked at me.

"Master Tan, tell me." The boss said.

The boss has already spoken, and he can't say nothing.

"How much does our family sell cold dishes a day?" I asked.

"It's not good now, it's 2000 yuan a day." The boss said.

"Isn't our house a computer cashier? Can you print out a monthly sales report?" I asked.

"Yes, that's all right." The boss said.

I said: "If our cold dishes are sold for 10 yuan a month, then three people are suitable. Two people really can't handle it."

"It can be sold for 10 yuan." The boss said.

I asked the chef: "How many cold dishes are there in our family?"

The head chef said: "It's quite a lot, there must be thirty dishes."

"36 dishes." The cold dish master said, "Not including the smoked taste."

"That's a lot?" I was a little surprised. To be honest, I didn't go to the cold dishes open stall to look at it. I don't know how many cold dishes there are. Sometimes new hot dishes are also placed on the cold dishes open stall.

I said, "I think our house has too many cold dishes, what do you think?"

The head chef and Chen Gang glanced at each other, and the head chef said, "A little more."

Chen Gang said: "It's a bit too much. I don't need those cold dishes. Twenty dishes are enough."

The boss said: "It's more, remove the bad ones, and it will waste raw materials if they are placed there, keep the good ones, and add a few new dishes."

"If you remove the ones that don't sell well, the stalls will be empty." The head chef said.

I said: "That's better than putting it there and not selling waste." Then I said: "Smoked flavor is a part of cold dishes. If you want to sell smoked flavor well, you have to have someone who is responsible for it. If you don't have a special responsibility, you can't do it. It's out of shape and offends the guests."

I looked at everyone, and then said: "My opinion is to find another one for cold dishes, preferably one that specializes in smoked flavors. If we can't find one that specializes in smoked flavors, we can cultivate one by ourselves. The ones cultivated by ourselves are good for our family. Okay, I won’t leave easily. In addition, it is enough to keep [-] to [-] dishes for cold dishes. If there are too many dishes, I will be too busy, and I can’t make it well. In the end, none of them are well prepared, which will hurt the customers. My principle is that the thinner the profit of the menu The higher it is, let’s not prepare those dishes, but concentrate on making high-quality products, so that we can still make our family’s characteristics.”

"Master Tan, you mean that our family should first find a master who specializes in smoked flavor?" the boss asked.

I said: "If you can find the best, if you can't find it, let's cultivate it ourselves."

"I think it's good to train myself, and our family has to train some of our own people." The boss said.

"It's okay to cultivate by yourself, I agree." The head chef said.

"You talk about training yourself. I think it's good. The key is who to train? Is there such a person in our family? And who is going to train? I don't know how to smoke, and I don't understand that stuff at all." Chen Gang road.

I said: "This is just a suggestion. Since I proposed it, I will also take care of some things. I am responsible for cultivating the smoked flavor. You can find the candidates yourself."

"Let me just say that Old Tan is doing it." Chen Gang said with a smile, a little bit of trickery.

I smiled at him and said nothing.I thought that it’s okay to tinker with the smoked flavor if there is nothing to do. I haven’t tinkered with it for a long time, so I will use it as a review.

The head chef asked the cold dish master: "How is your little brother?"

"No, a thief is lazy. He doesn't want to do anything other than playing games on the Internet. He will only do it until the Chinese New Year. After the Chinese New Year, he will quit. He said that he will go home and learn to drive." The cold dish master said.

"You can't be lazy, you can't cultivate it, you have to be diligent in our business," I said.

"Can Dawei do it?" the boss said, and then asked the head chef, "How is he doing in the kitchen now?"

The head chef said: "It's okay, but I don't know the key. I like to play games on the Internet and spend all night."

"Why is this kid like this? His father told me to take good care of him when he was handed over to me." The boss said.

"Then tell Dawei, now you are going to train him to learn to smoke, ask him if he can do it, train him if he learns, and then he will have an explanation to his father. If he doesn't learn, there is nothing we can do. It's not like we didn't give He has a chance." Chen Gang said to the boss.

"I'm chatting with this kid," said the boss.

I said: "Since I have decided to cultivate it myself, I will be responsible for cultivating this part. The cold dish part will be reduced to [-] dishes, and the good ones will be kept first, and the bad ones will be removed. Don't rush to serve new dishes. , research it first, after researching it, let’s eat it and think it’s okay, and then we’ll serve it, and if it’s not good, we’re determined not to. Didn’t the cold dish master just say that his little brother is not good enough, and if he can’t do it, he can be replaced, so as not to work hard here and affect others.”

"It's hard to find children now, and most of them don't want to study in the kitchen," said the head chef.

"My little brother doesn't have to find a child. You can find a laid-off female worker. She works hard and is clean. She is better than a child. You don't need to be ordered to do any work. You can find work by yourself and you are obedient." I said.

"Yes, it doesn't have to be a child, women in their 40s and [-]s are fine too," said the boss.

(End of this chapter)