The story of a cook

Chapter 459

Sister Zhao and Li Yanhua's trip to Binhai reminded me.Li Yanhua brought a pair of twin daughters here, and Lin Yan can also bring her son to play for two days, so that she can see Lin Yan and her son without asking for leave to go home.

Call Lin Yan and tell her to bring her son to Binhai for two days.Lin Yan said he couldn't come, so Zhihao sent the child to his mother-in-law's house and asked her to take care of the child. The mother-in-law asked Lin Yan for help, so Lin Yan had to take Zhihao's children to the provincial capital, and now they are taking care of the two children together at home.

I'm really annoyed.

"What's the matter with the couple? You know how to make money?" I said angrily.

"They didn't ask me to take care of them, but let my mother take care of the children at home. Isn't it normal for grandma to take care of her granddaughter?" Lin Yan said.

I said, "It's normal for grandma to take care of her granddaughter, but now it's my aunt who takes care of my niece, you know that?"

"Why can't my mother bring it here? I can't just open my eyes and watch." Lin Yan said, feeling a little bit about to quarrel.

"Then you take it." I said angrily.

"---"

She didn't speak for a long time, and I didn't know what to say.

After a while, she asked, "Is there anything else? Hang up."

"It's okay." I said.

Lin Yan hung up the phone.

This was the first quarrel between us, although it was only a few words.

Feeling very angry, I planned to ask Lin Yan to bring her son to Binhai to play for two days, but it didn't work out.Not only did it fail, but I even quarreled with Lin Yan, which made her angry and I was also angry.Now is the tourist season, and it is the time when the hotel business is booming. I can't leave, or I really want to take two days off to go home and see their mother and daughter.

Lin Yan is not happy to take care of her children at home, and she also makes the children feel bad, otherwise it would not be like this.

I wanted to make another phone call to comfort her, thinking that she was in a fit of anger, and I knew what she was like, and I couldn't get over it in two or three days, so I'll call again in two days.

At the end of July, for some reason, the previous manager Zhang stopped working, so the old man transferred Manager Chen from the bakery.I heard that when Manager Chen was transferred, Manager Chen would not come, because she was there when the bakery was opened. It can be said that she built the bakery by herself, she has feelings, and no one wants to leave if it is changed.

There is also part of the reason for Lao Chen.

On the first day when Manager Chen came, I asked Lao Zhao: "Manager Zhang quit?"

Old Zhao said: "I quit, she should have quit a long time ago, she is nothing, according to Manager Chen, she is far behind."

He said this with emotion. Everyone knew that he and Manager Zhang were at odds with each other.After I came, they had a total of four normal large-scale fights, and the small ones were too numerous to count, sometimes several times a day.

Old Zhao's temper was really bad, and he was on fire.He can be the head chef in an old restaurant, because he cooks well, and because he is an old man, the most important thing is that the old man trusts him.If the old man didn't trust him, he would have been laid off for his temper.

There are a total of eleven masters for hot dishes, and he has worked with everyone except me and Master Du.Last time he arranged for Master Li to rest. In the morning, he told Master Li to rest the next day. Master Li was very happy. He told me that he could sleep until he woke up naturally, and asked me to go out for a drink after get off work at night.When he was about to get off work in the evening, Lao Zhao told Master Li that he could not take a rest the next day, because Weiguo had something to do at home the next day and needed to take a break to handle errands, so he canceled Master Li's rest and let Weiguo rest first.Master Li was a little unhappy, so he chatted with Lao Zhao, because Wei Guo was Lao Zhao's apprentice, and Lao Zhao was a little suspicious of his apprentice.Without saying a word, Lao Zhao directly canceled Master Li's rest for the month, and told him that it was like this, and he refused to accept the lawsuit, and did not save Master Li any face.

Master Li was naturally aggrieved, saying that Lao Zhao was using his power for personal gain and bullying others.

In fact, what Lao Zhao did was really wrong. You can not ask Master Li to take a rest the next day, and then take a rest on another day, but you can't cancel the rest of the month, which is a bit unreasonable.

The next day I told Lao Zhao about this matter, and Lao Zhao said that this is because you speak for him, if no one else can do it.

Lao Zhao is a person with a strong desire for power, and he doesn't want anyone to challenge his power in the kitchen.

There was a seafood chopping board who felt tired and resigned.According to regulations, employees can resign within 30 days from the day they fill out the resignation application form if they find a suitable replacement. If no replacement is found within 30 days, they must be approved to resign on the 30th day.This chopping board is also unlucky, and within 30 days after filling out the resignation application form, no one was recruited.Chopping boards are really hard to recruit, especially during the peak tourist season in summer. We all know that this is the most tiring time, and no one wants to come.

On the No.30 day, when the cutting board took the resignation form and asked Lao Zhao to sign it, Lao Zhao didn't sign it, saying that he couldn't approve it if he couldn't find anyone.Didn't the chopping board agree that No. 30 will be approved even if no one can be found in one day?
"I didn't tell you, whoever said, you can go to someone." Old Zhao said.

"You're such a big chef, why don't you count your words?" The chopping board became angry.

"Who are you talking about?" Old Zhao immediately lost his temper, and stretched out his hand to grab the collar of the chopping board and was about to hit someone, but was pulled away by everyone.

Pulled Lao Zhao away and shouted: "You really don't know my temper, you don't know who I am!"

After all, Lao Zhao didn't sign the chopping block, and the chopping block ran to the office to find the leader angrily.

Afterwards, Bao Peng told me: "Master, why is Chef Zhao like that? It's even harder to find a whole cutting board like him. Who knows, he can't come here."

I said, "He's just that tempered."

I also don't like it, but I can't do anything with Lao Zhao because of this.

"Master, do you think he will do this when I resign?" Bao Peng asked.

"No, he didn't dare." I said.

Bao Peng looked at me and whispered: "Master, you know that everyone in the kitchen admires you. If you become the chief chef, everyone will support you."

I laughed, not thinking about being a chef at all.

"Are you trying to rebel?" I said, and then said, "Whatever you should do, don't control yourself."

I don't have the idea of ​​being a chef, because I feel that I am in a good and comfortable state now.The first point is that the salary is high enough. My salary is five hundred higher than that of Master Du. Of course, it is not as high as Lao Zhao. I have the highest salary in the kitchen except Lao Zhao, and I am satisfied.The second is to live the life you want.

Get up every morning and come to inspect the goods. After the inspection, Cao Ligui and Bao Peng set up stalls to make preparations.Then it was a day of happy cooking, and I upgraded the dishes when there was nothing to do. It was very beautiful to see the dishes I developed were selling well.If a chef doesn't have time to study dishes, he can't live so comfortably.I don’t need to be on duty at noon and night. After work at night, I get drunk and pack a dumpling to go home. I drink some wine in my cabin, and after drinking, I lie on the bed and sleep until dawn.

Although he is not the head chef, he has a relatively high prestige in the kitchen. This is not bragging, it is true.

The relationship with the masters is very good, and there is no conflict with anyone, and they are very polite to each other.Especially Master Li and Master Ma, I almost became their strong backing.

All the chopping boards and dregs are fine with me.I seldom leave the kitchen during the day, and after I finish my own prep work, I start helping the cutting board with prep work.First, I helped Cao Ligui do it. He cut and prepared it there, and I helped him, peeling potatoes and celery, picking snow peas, helping to cut some beef, etc.After helping him, he moved his position and helped Bao Peng make preparations.Bao Peng is now on the seafood side. After I pass by, the seafood cutting board will move closer to me. When I teach Bao Peng, I also teach them.

After helping the chopping board, I started to help the lotus table, cut some onions, ginger and garlic, picked coriander, cut some second-hand flowers, and carved a few flowers with Xinmei radish when I had time.Every time I carve flowers, Hetai gathers around to watch them. I tell them how to carve while I carve. There are also a few gestures, but most of them don't learn. They just think that I carve very well, and they are just curious.At this time, radishes are rarely used for plate decorations. They are all bought ready-made orchids, fresh ones, which are better than engraved ones.

The rest of the time is spent researching dishes.The innovation of dishes has stopped. How can there be so many innovative dishes? It would be good if the existing dishes can be made well and the standards can be made.

When I first arrived at the old store, Northeast cuisine couldn’t sell seafood. If the turnover of hot dishes was 1 yuan a day, seafood was [-] yuan, and Northeast cuisine was [-] yuan.Northeast cuisine is now on par with seafood.

There are eight hot-selling dishes here in Northeast Cuisine.

"Maoxuewang", "Boiled Beef", "Small Tofu", "Niancai from Northeast China", "Hometown Tofu", "Flavoured Lamb Leg", "Crispy Fresh Milk", "Fish Head in Iron Pan"

"Spicy lamb shank" and "fish head in iron pot" are Lao Zhao's dishes, and "crispy fresh milk" is Master Du's dish.

The daily sales of these eight dishes are at least 35 servings each, and "Little Tofu" sells the best, with an average of [-] servings per day. "Maoxuewang" and "boiled beef" were limited to [-] servings per day at first, and then [-] servings per day.

With the support of these eight dishes, the rest of the dishes are also selling very well. There is no phenomenon that there is no dish that does not sell one portion a day, so the sales of Northeast dishes have skyrocketed.

I go to the store to inspect the goods every morning, and I have been in contact with the purchasing staff for a long time, and the relationship is also very good.Of the three stores, only the old store is inspected by me alone. The coarse grain and cake shops are inspected by the masters in turn. Naturally, there are more problems. Sometimes the master forgets that it is his turn to inspect the goods the next day. Failure to inspect the goods will delay things.

I have nothing to do here. I have developed a habit of waking up at seven in the morning. Raw material quality problems rarely occur. Unqualified quality problems and procurement communication are also smooth, and they can be resolved in time.After getting along with the purchasing staff for a long time, especially after getting along with the old aunt, I can improve the quality of working meals for the employees.Every week, I will discuss with my aunt and ask her to ask for some benefits from the supplier, such as asking the pork seller to give a pig head, asking the fish seller to give some small seafood, and asking the vegetable seller to give some seasonal vegetables, and then get The kitchen prepares working meals for employees and improves meals for employees.Once when unloading the goods, my aunt happily told me that the chicken seller had brought five white-striped chickens, and the employees of the old store ate chicken stewed potatoes that day.

A good relationship with procurement is also good for yourself.If I want to order some fresh ingredients, my aunt will buy them for me first, and every time I research new dishes or improve dishes, I will call my aunt to come and taste them. bring.As the saying goes, it is short-handed to take others, and short-mouthed to eat others. They ate my food and solved the problems I raised first. Later, even the vegetable procurement truck went to the old store to unload first, and then went to the coarse grains and bakery after the old store was unloaded.

Since Manager Chen came to the old store, he has received more tour groups every day, and sometimes he can receive six to eight tour groups a day.When it's time to eat, you have to cook group meals and sell loose items, and the back of your head is hit with busy feet, like a war.The loudspeaker at the dish pass mouth is always urging the dishes, just like urging their lives, and everyone is anxious and flustered.

Manager Chen used to work in the Binhai Tourism Bureau and knew many travel agencies and tour guides, so many people came to her to book meals.And Manager Chen never refuses anyone who comes, and the meal price ranges from 25 to [-], and he accepts all kinds of meals.

Lao Zhao's principle is that the meal price below 30 will not be accepted, and if it is below 40, it will not make money, and it will be troublesome, which will affect the retail sale.Because of this matter, he had a fight with Manager Zhang. Manager Zhang accepted a meal price of [-] yuan and was scolded by Lao Zhao. After that, Manager Zhang would not accept a tour group with a meal price of less than [-] yuan.

Now Manager Chen accepts all kinds of meal orders, and the kitchen is a mess when he arrives at the restaurant, so Lao Zhao is naturally impatient.

The first week was fine, Lao Zhao didn't say anything, but in the second week, Lao Zhao became angry.

It was very busy at lunch that day, and the group meals and loose meals were served together.After the first group meal was finished, the second group meal started immediately, and at least four scattered dishes were pressed behind each chef, and the scattered dishes behind me were all piled up.

At this time, there was a voice urging the food from the food delivery port: "The food in the [-] private room on the second floor is urgent!"

In less than ten seconds, he shouted again: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

Originally, he was anxious because of the pile of vegetables behind him, but he became even more anxious when the loudspeaker yelled again.

People get angry easily when they are in a hurry.

"Stop yelling, can't you fry it in a hurry? Serve it raw?" Seafood Master Liu shouted at the mouth of the dish.

He had just finished calling Master Li and said, "Die in a hurry!"

But at this time, Manager Chen arrived at the food delivery department and shouted with a microphone: "Hurry up and serve the group meal, they will leave after eating, hurry up!"

It's okay if she doesn't come and shout, but it's even more disturbing to hear her shout.

Old Zhao Teng suddenly turned on the fire, put the big spoon off the fire and put it on the spoon holder, and rushed to the vegetable department with the spoon in his hand.

When I arrived at Chuancaikou, I yelled at Manager Chen: "Why is it urgent? Pick up these craps, you don't earn a penny, and you still pick it up. I don't know if you can't get the food. Are you a fucking manager! Get out, Leave far away!"

After yelling, I didn't even look at Manager Chen. I came back and yelled at the chefs: "Don't listen to her, put the pressed dishes on the table first, and then make group meals!"

This time, the loudspeaker of the Chuancai Department stopped shouting.

The masters didn't have time to deal with this matter, they were all busy cooking, and serving the dishes was the most important thing.

(End of this chapter)