The story of a cook

Chapter 425
It should be possible for Zheng Jiaqi and Sister Jiang to cooperate. Neither of them is a fussy person. I am optimistic about the two of them.

If the two of them cooperate, I need to help them build the store. At the same time, I hope that the two of them can build the bistro in Fuxin, and use Fuxin as the basis to expand the bistro bit by bit, and strive to become a chain restaurant brand.

This is what I hope. Whether it can be done depends on the two of them. It is unknown whether something like Xie Xiufen will happen, but I hope it will not.

The restaurant business is very hot, every day at noon and night are full.Dumplings can be bought for 3000 yuan a day. At this time, the three people in the pastry room were a bit too busy, so they found another dumpling worker.

In summer, customers order a lot of cold dishes, and the smoked flavors sell well. The three of them are a bit too busy, so they added a younger brother.

If the business is good, the boss is willing to add people. If the business is not good, the boss will find a way to kill people. This is the law.

At this time, Huo Fenghuang has become a landmark restaurant in Fuxin. Huo Fenghuang is the first choice to eat authentic home-cooked dishes and dumplings in Fuxin, and there is no second one.The restaurant business is good and famous. Many restaurants will come to study, and some even send their employees to practice.The boss has done a good job in this area. He is not afraid of others coming to learn from him. Anyone can come and welcome them warmly.In his words, this is free advertising for his home.

There were also other restaurants who came to poach corners. One of the order clerks in front was poached, and the stew chef in the kitchen was also poached, and he went to cook in other people's homes as a chef.But he was laid off after a few days of frying. He couldn't cook at all.

A good restaurant is the result of the entire platform. It is not done by one person or two, but the result of the joint efforts of the entire team.A chef works in a well-known restaurant. It is because the restaurant is famous, not how famous the chef is or how good the cooking is.When I was the head chef at Linjiangxuan, I was very famous. Many head chefs and hotel managers were very polite when they met me.They are polite to me not because of how good I am, but because I am the chef of Linjiangxuan, Linjiangxuan is very good, and I borrowed the light of Linjiangxuan.When I left Linjiangxuan, I was just an ordinary cook, no different from other chefs, and no one knew me when I walked on the street.

Huofenghuanghuo has become a famous restaurant in Fuxin. The most powerful one is Huofenghuang.But it has to be admitted that because the hotel is popular and famous, the employees there also have a sense of superiority and pride, and their social value will also rise with the rise of the hotel's reputation.At this time, some employees began to swell and felt that they were great. They earned one thousand a month this month, and they could earn fifteen thousand when they went out. There were still some local needs, so they started to change jobs and work in other restaurants.

After I went to another restaurant, I found that I was not good enough. I earned 1000 yuan, and I only earned one month. I was laid off in the second month. I couldn’t come back if I wanted to come back. No money can be earned.

When you are still unable to control a restaurant, you must clearly realize that it is the platform of the hotel that has made you; when you can control a restaurant, leaving the platform of the hotel is nothing, and you have to start all over again.

Although you are very capable, how can you be as strong as a team no matter how strong you are alone?
Cherish this job if you work in a good restaurant, it will become your capital and experience.

Yaru's sister-in-law's home is [-] kilometers away from Fuxin. Sometimes she will go early at night, take the train back to Dongfuxin and stay overnight, and then take the morning minibus back to work the next morning without delay.

She went back last night, and brought me a bucket of loose baijiu this morning, saying that Yaru bought it, and asked her to bring it to me.

Looking at the wine, I thought of Yaru.

"She told you to drink less. This is the best loose baijiu in our Sangou Distillery. It costs 20 yuan a catty. If you put it in a bottle, it will be the [-] yuan wine sold in our shop. Yaru said that you have to drink it. I'll call you again, she knows someone in the winery, and most people can't make this wine." Yaru's sister-in-law said.

"Thank her for me," I said.

"I have to thank myself, don't you have her phone number?"

"Okay, I'll call and thank her."

Dial Yaru's phone.

"Thank you for making me these wines." I said, feeling a little excited.

She smiled on the phone, listening to the familiar laughter, feeling that she was by her side.

"Knowing you'd like to drink, I'll get you something nice," she said.

"I don't drink so hard now, I'm getting older." I said.

"Look at what you said, 32 is old, and it's a good time." She said, "Drink less, don't drink too much, it will damage your body."

I said, "Well, I don't dare to drink too much, my stomach is not very good."

"If you have a bad stomach, drink less alcohol, and if you don't quit for a while, drink it when your stomach recovers. Eat soft things, eat less spicy ones, and eat less cold ones." She instructed on the phone.

"Well, pay attention to yourself." Then ask: "How are you doing now?"

She said: "I'm still like that, it's fine, my child is going to elementary school soon."

"Eight years old?" I asked.

"Seven years old, it's time to go to school, this year, and half a month before school starts."

She seemed very happy about her son.

She asked: "I heard from my sister-in-law that your child is a boy, one and a half years old?"

I said, "Yes, I'm one and a half years old, and I haven't seen her for half a year."

"Missing a child?"

"Think, can you not want to?"

"You don't have time to go home and have a look as a cook. It's not good to be a cook. You don't have any time. You have to work hard." She said.

"I can't help it, who told me to choose a chef at the beginning, and now I don't have time to change it if I want to." I said.

"What's the change? It's pretty good." She continued, "My sister-in-law said that you cook well and can make dumplings. The stuffing of dumplings is delicious, and it's very powerful in the kitchen."

I laughed and said, "What kind of strength is there? It's just working and cooking, earning money to support the family."

"No, save some money to open a small restaurant by yourself. Don't always work for others. You can cook vegetables and make dumplings. It's better to do it yourself than to do it for others." She said.

"It's not that I don't have money, I can do it if I have money." I said.

"Yes, it's not easy for you."

Chatting with Yaru on the phone for a while, she told me to take care of her sister-in-law in the kitchen, call me when I run out of wine, and ask me to drink less bottled wine, which is all blended and can ruin my body.

Hang up the phone and stand there for a while.I sigh in my heart, where life does not meet.

Zheng Jiaqi stayed at home for a month. In mid-August, she called Sister Jiang and decided to open a tavern in Fuxin.

Sister Jiang formally proposed to her boss to resign, and explained the situation to her boss. The boss heard her say that she and Zheng Jiaqi partnered to open a tavern to express their support, and at the same time approved her resignation.

The boss mainly knows that Zheng Jiaqi is very happy to come to Fuxin, and he really wants to be with Zheng Jiaqi.

Sister Jiang resigned, and the boss found a manager to replace Sister Jiang.The new manager is a woman in her 30s. She is taller and better-looking than Sister Jiang. She has managed several restaurants and is said to be quite capable.

At this time, everything in the restaurant has already taken shape, and it is easy to manage, as long as it follows the previous path.

After Zheng Jiaqi came back, she still lived in Sister Jiang's house. The two of them transferred the storefront of the Mining Bureau to their hands at a low price, and then began to decorate it.During the decoration, Zheng Jiaqi told me that she was going to call Ye Yurong and Xiao Gao to work with her. When she first started opening the restaurant, I can rest assured that they are willing to go there.So a new chef and dumpling worker were found, and Xiao Gao and Ye Yurong were replaced to help Zheng Jiaqi.

Zheng Jiaqi is going to make smoked flavors and cold dishes by herself. She said she knows all of these, and she will hire one less person to save some labor.

People's potential is huge, as long as they are tapped.

Sometimes I think, if two women dare to open a restaurant, why don't I?At that time, if there was no money, I could borrow money to open it. I knew that the tavern was a money-making project, so I had to borrow money to open it.But I never thought of borrowing money, and my heart trembled at the thought of borrowing money. I was afraid of borrowing money. When I was a child, borrowing money to live and support my fifth sister’s education left a shadow, and I dared not borrow money.

A person's growth experience can determine a person's style of doing things, and things that leave a shadow can become a driving force or a stumbling block.

The thought at the time was that it was a good thing for Sister Jiang and Zheng Jiaqi to open a tavern together, and I did my best to help them.Having experienced the success of the first tavern, it should be better to operate the second than the first.

I don’t have money to open a shop, so I’ll start cooking as a chef to make money, and then I’ll open it when I have money.Good food is never afraid of being late, and I must open a restaurant of my own in this life.

Sister Jiang is very general in her work. Under her command, the decoration of the tavern is very fast. It is expected that the decoration of the tavern will be completed around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it will open on October [-]st.

During the renovation period, Ye Yurong went back to his hometown to take care of the children's schooling. At the same time, he stayed with the children at home to see how the children were doing in school and whether they could adapt.Xiao Gao also returned to the provincial capital, just in time to spend a few more days with his children and his wife.

The entire kitchen was designed by me.The kitchen designed this time has been improved compared to the previous one.Separate the hot dishes and smoking operation rooms, so that the noise of the stove can be controlled, and the stove fan can't be heard at all when eating in front.At the same time, the cold dishes and noodle stalls are designed to be semi-open, which increases the dining experience of guests.The bar is not designed on the same line as the kitchen, but placed at the door, so that guests can see the bar as soon as they enter the door, and the bar directly welcomes and sees off guests, which is much more convenient.

The structure of the dishes has not been adjusted, and it is still the structure of the first restaurant.Since it was opened in autumn and it will soon enter winter, a six-eyed claypot stove was added next to the smoked flavor stall, and four casserole dishes were designed, which were made directly on the claypot stove, and the guests ordered directly. Ready to serve.After the weather is cold, these four casseroles are the highlights and selling points.

In the big market, I found a butcher shop with frozen big bones, in pieces.A piece of forty catties costs 150 yuan. After melting, there are more than 100 large bones. There is not much meat on them, and the soup is very good.There are a lot of things in the 30-jin big bones, and a small pot can fill up to eight pots. If you sell it for [-] yuan a pot after smoking, it will definitely be cheap, and customers have to rush to buy it.This big bone can be studied and studied.

There was another discovery in the big market, that is, the head of breeder chicken and the paw of bell chicken.After inquiring, I found out that Fuxin is an experimental base for vigorously developing chicken breeding in the whole province. There is a large-scale breeder farm here, which supplies breeders to the whole province and the three northeastern provinces.Breeder chicken heads and breeder paws are waste to other chefs, but to me they are treasures. Cheong Wa Dae was famous for these two.

The breeder chicken feet here are okay, the same as the ones in the provincial capital, very clean.The breeder chicken head is different, it has a chicken neck, and the chicken head is not sold alone.Looking at the chicken head with a chicken neck, I thought it would be okay. I bought it and sold it with a chicken neck after it was smoked. It was called Danfeng Chaoyang.A big chicken head with a chicken neck is enough for one person, and it can be sold for eighteen, and the cost is only five yuan, which is suitable.

After inspecting these, I have an idea in my mind, and I have a feasible plan for how to do it, so it's up to me to try it out.

During the conversation, it was October [-]st. At this time, the decoration of the tavern had not been completed. The decoration workers were all farmers nearby. October [-]st was the autumn harvest time, and they all had to harvest at home. Jiangjiehe Zheng Jiaqi was not in a hurry, so she stopped the decoration first. Yes, let the workers go back to harvest the autumn, and have a good Mid-Autumn Festival by the way, and then continue to decorate after the festival.

The tavern is not bad, just keep pretending for a week and you'll be done.But money is not earned in a day, and it is not bad for a few days when you are in a hurry.

In [-], the National Day was before the Mid-Autumn Festival, with a difference of seven days.

The National Day is the busiest time for the restaurant these few days, there are wedding reservations every day, and there are also a lot of scattered spots, every day is full, and the bustle does not stop until October [-]th.

October [-]th is the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, there are no wedding banquets, and there are few casual parties. Everyone celebrates the festival at home, and there are very few guests in restaurants.In the evening, Sister Jiang invited me to her house for the holiday.

On October [-]st, Zheng Jiaqi went back for three days. She was not at home for the Mid-Autumn Festival and returned to Fuxin.

The three of us spent Mid-Autumn Festival together.

Zheng Jiaqi originally planned to come back with Xiao Gao after the Mid-Autumn Festival, but she thought that the tavern hadn't been renovated yet, and Sister Jiang was doing everything by herself, so she was embarrassed, so she came back to celebrate the festival with Sister Jiang.

(End of this chapter)