The story of a cook

Chapter 416

No one's success is accidental.

What we see is the success of others, but we cannot see the efforts made by others to achieve success.

Successful people are always working hard.

When we envy the success of others, what we waste is our own time to achieve success.

You can have envy, but you can't lose your dreams, and you can't stop moving forward.Not to say that all persistence will succeed, but if you don't persist, there is no hope.

Don't think too much about romantic nights after you turn [-], those are unreliable things.When you have money, many women will like you, and when you have no money, women will leave you.The difference between men and women is that when a woman has no money, a man will never leave, but when a man is down and out, there is no woman to accompany him.

After the boss decides to cancel the menu and start displaying the dishes, the head chef asks, "Will the salary of the chopping board increase?"

"If it doesn't work, let's go up." The boss said.

"We still have to recruit chopping boards, and now two chopping boards have been resigned." The head chef said.

"Then recruit, one thousand and two can recruit very good."

After finishing speaking, the boss said to me: "Master Tan, you have worked in Binhai, and you have also been exposed to stalls. In the past two days, you have taught chopping stalls."

I said: "Okay, it's all right." Then I said: "It's very good to set the stalls. I agree with this, but the requirements for the chopping board are quite high, and at the same time, the requirements for the master are also very good. The chopping board is not alone. , the master also has to be responsible for his own dishes."

"That's for sure. At the beginning, the master has to make a sample first." The boss said.

"Since we decided not to order dishes from recipes and start setting up stalls, let's take this opportunity to collect our dishes, cut off the dishes that don't sell well, and keep the good ones." I continued: "There are five dishes in our family. One chef, one stew, one serving miscellaneous dishes, and seven chefs serving dishes at the same time in the hot dish room. If there is a stall, I suggest that the dishes should not be too many, fifty dishes are enough."

"A lot?" asked the boss.

I said: "That's quite a lot. There are three groups of fresh-keeping display cabinets with two layers. The upper layer can only hold seven dishes, and the lower layer has two rows of fourteen. One group can hold 21 dishes, and three groups can hold 63 dishes. There are cold dishes, right?"

Chen Gang said: "Sixty dishes of hot and cold dishes are enough for our family. If there are too many dishes, they can't be sold. Only those few dishes sell quickly, and the others are just combinations. Too many are a waste of raw materials."

The head chef said, "That's right, fifty dishes are enough for the hot dishes. When it comes to stewed dishes and steamed dishes, it's enough for one chef to have eight dishes."

The boss said: "Okay, according to what you said. Now the stall is on display. If any dish is not selling well, just withdraw the stall and put a new dish on top."

I said: "Now let's decide on the food stall, let me say what time."

After finishing talking, look at everyone, everyone is silent.The boss said: "You said Master Tan."

"If there is a booth, there must be a full-time orderer. Didn't you just say that our family lacks waiters, Manager Jiang, how many waiters does our family have now?" I asked.

Sister Jiang said: "Not many, six upstairs and five downstairs."

I asked: "How many people can order, I mean those who can introduce dishes."

Sister Jiang thought for a while and said: "Three, count Xiaona at the bar as four, Xiaona is good at ordering."

I said: "In the past, our family ordered dishes from recipes. When customers came to the booth, they ordered cold dishes and smoked flavors, and then ordered hot dishes with the recipes. The waiter wrote down what the guests ordered. No need to introduce it. Then just order it. The kitchen started to make the menu. Now there are no recipes, and customers have to go to the booth to order, so there must be a full-time orderer to order. Looking at the recipe is different from ordering at the booth. You can see the photos of the dishes when you look at the menu , you can order whichever dish you feel appetizing for, and you won’t be able to tell if there is any appetite for the dish after it’s set up. All the raw materials are placed there, and you can only tell if it looks good or not, but you can’t see anything else, so you need to order The waiter makes introductions, and it is very laborious to order without introducing customers.”

"This is what Master Tan said." Sister Jiang said.

"Then how many orderers do we need?" the boss asked.

"It is necessary to have an orderer. It is impossible without an orderer. Our family only has these waiters. We ask them to order food downstairs and have to serve customers. They are simply too busy." I said.

"Is two orderers enough?" Sister Jiang asked.

"Not enough, at least three." I said.

"Then we have to hire three orderers." Sister Jiang said.

I said: "It's not good to order our dishes now, so it's better to choose from the old waiters. Don't you say that there are three orders that are very good?"

Sister Jiang said: "What about the waiters? There is still a shortage of waiters."

"You can see if this works." I said, "Now our family is going to set up a stall and ask customers to order food at the vegetable stall. This has been settled. Then let's refine the front desk service. The waiter is the waiter, and there is no need to order. , and there is no need to order drinks, these are all taken care of by the orderers. This reduces the workload of the waiters. Our waiters used to be in charge of ordering, and the guests had to remove the table after eating, clean up, and the workload was quite heavy. Waiters are not easy to recruit. Let’s hire a few laid-off female workers to be cleaners. Three waiters will be paired with one cleaner.
It's service. You don't need to order food or clean up. If you specialize in this, the service quality should be improved. "

"You mean the waiter is the waiter, the orderer is the orderer, and the cleaner is the cleaner." Sister Jiang asked.

"Yes, that's what it means." I said, "Now there are six waiters upstairs. If you don't need to order food and clean up, four will be enough, and three downstairs will be enough, right?" I asked Sister Jiang.

"That's about the same." Sister Jiang said.

"You don't need to order food or clean up. It's just service. Three waiters on one floor are enough." The boss said.

I laughed, and said to myself that the boss can save as much as he can.

"Not enough, what if a waiter takes a break?" I asked.

"Then add another waiter." The boss said.

"Our front desk personnel are arranged in this way. There are four waiters on each floor, and one cleaning, that is, the service lady, who is responsible for removing the tables and cleaning up. When you are busy, you can't just ask the cleaning to clean up. The waiters have to help. They are A work team. Then three orderers will be assigned. The salary of the orderers and waiters is the same, both are [-]. When the salary of cleaning is lower, the salary of cleaning is now [-], and we will give [-], and then Give the full attendance award, it should be about the same, and many people are willing to do it." I said.

Sister Jiang said: "It's very good. You can do whatever you want. The number of staff hasn't increased yet, so you can be busy."

The boss did some calculations and said: "Our normal situation is that there are fourteen waiters, three waiters, and one cleaner. Now there are eight waiters, three orderers, three cleaners, and three waiters. Okay, let's arrange it like this." After speaking, he glanced at Sister Jiang, and said to Sister Jiang: "Just do it like this, and we will start recruiting cleaners tomorrow."

Sister Jiang nodded in agreement.

I said: "It's a big move for us to change the file this time. We must prepare it before we make it. If we are not prepared, we can't make it. If we are in a hurry, we can't make it. The customers will not be satisfied."

"Yes, don't worry too much," said the head chef.

Chen Gang also nodded in agreement.

I said: "Manager Jiang needs to select three orderers to come here, and they will train first, mainly to train the dishes. Explain the method clearly to the orderers, only when the orderers know how our dishes are made and what are their characteristics can they order better for customers, otherwise it will not work if they ask three questions.”

"Then each chef will tell the orderer about his own dishes." Said the head chef.

I said: "Yes, but there must be standards, and it must be clearly explained. If you don't explain clearly, it is useless. The orderer may introduce the wrong dishes to the customers if he has only a half-knowledge.

The head chef said: "The waiters are all familiar with our food, it's pretty good."

"It's better to talk about it in detail. If you don't have to be afraid of [-] yuan, you should be just in case. Let's do all the work in advance to be sure." I said.

"Master Tan is right, let's put our work to the front," said the boss.

"There is also the problem of the cutting board that the chef said just now. Now the kitchen is also short of people. The two cutting boards have resigned, and the stew master is also planning to quit. We have to recruit people. Only when we recruit all the people can we work, otherwise there will be a shortage of people. The legs are working hard," I said.

"Chopping boards are hard to find now, and many children don't want to learn how to be a chef. They are tired of being a chef, and it takes a long time." The head chef said.

"There are not many children who like to learn how to cook now." I said, "We don't need to look for a cutting board, but we can just look for the big sister Dahe. The two big sisters we looked for last year are better at cooking than children. They are clean and serious. Let's find two more elder sisters, and replace Bao Peng, who feeds me with lotus, and the younger brother, who feeds Lao Chuan with loads, and let them do the chopping boards. They still love to do it, and they are familiar with the dishes. The wages will be increased by 200 yuan. , everything is settled."

"Don't say it, it's really okay." Chen Gang said.

"In the future, it will be more and more difficult to find kitchen boys and front desk attendants. Now they are still called waiters, and in a few years they will have to be called service elder sisters. Let's not think twice about always looking for little girls as waiters and children as younger brothers. You have to use it." I said, "I think it's good to be older, the work is affordable, and it's more obedient than children."

"It's hard to find waiters now," said Sister Jiang.

"It's the same with the kitchen. It's hard to find. When I find it, I've almost finished my studies here, and I start to ask for a salary increase. If I don't get a salary increase, I don't work, and I just leave."

"I have been trained by other people these years." Chen Gang said with deep emotion.

"It can't be helped, not only our family is like this, but every family is like this." I said: "In addition to asking for satisfactory wages, employees also have to look at the welfare package. Our family now has one day off every month. Some restaurants We have been resting for two days now, and our family will have to do the same by then."

"The kid still has a temper now, and he is stronger than the master. If you don't let me tell you, he won't do it." Chen Gang said: "When we were younger brothers, how dare we not listen to the master? What the master said was what he said repeatedly. I didn’t dare to say anything, the master hurriedly prepared the tea and handed it over after finishing his work, and he would be scolded if it was delivered late.”

"Everything is reversed now. At that time, the master was the master and we were the grandsons. Now the younger brother is the master and we are the grandsons. We have to coax them to work." The head chef said.

I smiled and said, "30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi."

Everyone laughed, feeling a little helpless, that's true.

Finally, the boss settled the matter and the meeting ended.

This meeting can be said to be long or short, exactly two hours, and after I came out at four o'clock, I went straight to work.

In no hurry to go to the kitchen, I went to the cold dish Ming stall to have a look, and chatted with Zheng Jiaqi.In the first two days, she said that she was going to go home and take a look, and bring some seasonal clothes by the way.The head chef agreed.I asked her when she would leave, and she said that she would go back tomorrow, stay at home for a day, and come back the day after tomorrow.

I really admire her, the person who used to be a manager can now do it as a cold dish boy, and he is quite happy, and he is still not short of money.The boss told me that she paid 200 yuan more for her salary this month, saying that she did a good job, and the smoked flavor can be sold out every day, and she is an excellent employee.

The faces of the people I brought were also praised, and I was very happy in my heart.

Zheng Jiaqi is not only beautiful, but also very dedicated to her work. This is true, and everyone recognizes it.The cold dishes have improved a lot since she arrived at the cold dishes. The hygienic area is much better than before. There are oil spots and stains, and the shoes on the feet are also brushed frequently.

There is no doubt that women work cleaner than men.

When I came out of the cold dish room to prepare for the kitchen, I was stopped by Sister Jiang, who told me that the kitchen equipment in the tavern had been installed, and the cleaning was about the same. I can cook today. Xie Xiufen called me and asked me to go over and have a look. What else needs to be adjusted.

I have been to the tavern twice since it started to be renovated, but I haven't been there for a long time. I was wondering what was going on, so I just went to have a look at it at night.

I'm good enough. I work in a restaurant and design a tavern for others. I'm not busy enough.It's better to be busy, have something to do, and live a fulfilling life.

In fact, even if you have no money, you can open a tavern if you have money, and you will definitely make money.

Now it doesn’t matter if you don’t open it for others to design, just open it yourself, take this store as a try, and see how the model you created is really feasible and make money.

A few minutes after entering the kitchen, I was called to the private room by the boss, and told me that the pastry area was also going to be adjusted, and I wanted to serve dumplings.I said, let’s serve it, our pastry can also make dumplings.The boss heard from Sister Jiang that I had worked in Linjiangxuan, and was going to ask me to take responsibility for the dumplings.I thought that Sister Jiang was really quick-talking, if she didn't tell the boss no, nothing would happen.

I told the boss that it was ok, but it was too busy to serve dumplings and a noodle. Such a big store would require three people, one master and two dumpling workers.The boss said to find two more dumpling workers, and asked the current pastry chef to be in charge of mixing the stuffing and noodles, and I will train them.

I said yes, let's fix it.

Looking for a dumpling worker, I thought of fellow villager Ye Yurong.

(End of this chapter)