The story of a cook

Chapter 464 Coarse Grain Fire
I handed over the work of inspecting goods in the morning to Cao Ligui, and after making arrangements, I took the late-night train back to the provincial capital. When I got home, it was just 06:30 in the morning, and my son was still sleeping.

He kissed his son on the cheek.

"Don't wake him up, let him sleep for a while." Lin Yan said.

"I'm sleepy too, I'll sleep next to my son." I said.

Lin Yan rolled over to the other side of her son, and I lay down next to him.Don't mention how much I like seeing my son sleeping soundly, the pride of being a father fills my whole body.

Staring at his son for a while, he didn't sleep much all night, and fell asleep after a while.

Dimly listening to his son say: "Mom, why did I wake up from sleep, my father is back?"

"Your father came back in the morning, don't you miss your father? Your father came back to see you." Lin Yan said.

"Then will daddy come back and leave?" the son asked.

"Your father only has one day off, and he has to go back to work at night." Lin Yan said.

"Oh——" the son said, "Daddy is still leaving—"

I was a little sad to hear that my son has been two and a half years old since he was born, and he hasn't stayed with him for a few days since he was sensible.

Life has hardships, helplessness, and unspeakable sadness.

Son, how much Dad wants to stay with you at home and watch you grow up day by day, what a joyful thing that is.But Dad has to go out to earn money and support the family, so he has to leave you.

"Son, do you miss Dad?" I opened my eyes and asked.

Seeing that I woke up, my son looked at me strangely, and whispered, "I think about it."

He took his son into his arms.

There are mixed feelings in my heart, including happiness, joy, pride, satisfaction, and a touch of sadness and helplessness.

My son didn't go to kindergarten, so I spent a whole day playing with him at home.

In the morning, I took my son to the shopping mall with Lin Yan, bought his son his favorite toys, had a big meal at KFC at noon, returned home in the afternoon and played with my son all afternoon, and cooked a table of dishes in the evening. Brother Li, our family had a good meal together.

In the evening, I played with my son for a while, and after my son fell asleep, I kissed my son's little face, reluctantly said goodbye to my son and Lin Yan, and took the train back to Binhai to return to Binhai.

To be honest, I really didn't want to leave, I didn't stay long enough, but I had to go back.

Lin Yan said that she found a job as a custodian in a company in a big market, from 1000 am to [-] pm every day, one day off a week, and went to work two days later.She said that the company is very good, the boss is a woman, quite powerful, and she owns the whole big market, including Lingbei shopping mall.Lin Yan said that when she first went there, her salary was not high, [-] yuan per month, but after three months of working, it was raised to [-] yuan, and insurance and medical insurance were paid.I said it was very good, if I think it’s okay, I can take care of my son, and if I can’t take care of my son, then don’t do it. I earn enough money to spend.

Lin Yan said that she would do it first and see if it would be all right.I'm afraid that sometimes I won't be able to pick up my son when I get off work late. If that's the case, she asks Li Jian to pick up his son, and Brother Li can also help pick him up.

It's nice to have a good neighbor.

Lin Yan and I have little family background, and the money we earned in the first few years has no savings except for her family. Now we have to start from scratch, so we can only work harder and live a little bit.

Life goes by slowly. There is no such thing as digging a well with a shovel. As long as you have the heart and work hard, everything will be fine.

Don't lose confidence at any time, life always continues with a smile.

All migrant workers hope that their lives will get better and better, and create the future with their own hands.

All hopes are realized through hard work, and there is no such thing as a good thing that falls from the sky.

As long as a person lives in this life, he has to do it.

We have to be mentally weak, so we should do it in a down-to-earth manner, do not cheat anyone or harm anyone, use our own strength to make money, the money we earn is clean, and it is comfortable to spend.

Migrant workers live at the bottom of society, but they are not ashamed. In order to live and live well, all efforts will be rewarded.

The earth has never been stingy in rewarding those who give.

After returning from home, I continued my old life. I got up every morning and went to the store to inspect the goods, and then started a day of happy cooking. After get off work, I went back to the dormitory for a few drinks, and fell asleep reading a book in bed.

The days passed peacefully.

Yu Wenxue and Guan Ping have done a good job on the chopping boards. Under the leadership of Cao Ligui and Bao Pengde, the two of them came to the store every day after eight o'clock, and started to set up stalls and make preparations, waiting for other chopping boards. When they came, the four of them had already finished setting up the food stalls, and the preparations were half done.

Meng Hongwei is also very good at cold dishes. He has been working in the kitchen for a long time. He was able to cook vegetables when he was in the provincial capital. , Said that I found her a right-hand man.

Fang Lin has a cheerful personality, can talk and laugh, don't look like she behaves like a doormat in front of me, she is purely a treasure in the pastry shop, pistachio, everyone likes her.Her two classmates are also very good and learn very quickly.Waiting for Ma Hua's mother, Ma Shuli, is also fine. The work is affordable, she is willing to learn, and she has a good temper.When I was not laid off, I worked as a salesperson at the Daliushu store in Beipiao. Now that I am laid off, I take care of the children by myself and do all kinds of work. Therefore, I am very comfortable with making dumplings at the noodle shop, and I will soon be able to operate independently.I heard Fang Lin tell me that Ma Hua's father had disappeared since she was three years old, and her mother Ma Shuli dragged her here. She felt very worthy of Ma Shuli.

Ma Shuli used to work as a salesperson in a store, so she is naturally good looking. Although she is in her 40s, she looks only 35 or [-]. She is a natural beauty, and she is also a beauty in the pastry room.A woman is good-looking, coupled with a good temper, it is inevitable that men will look at them differently.The eldest brother who makes water tofu can't help himself. He feels that he is an old employee and Ma Shuli is a newcomer, so he goes to hang out when he has nothing to do.Ma Shuli has a good temper, but she just bowed her head and said nothing.This old man felt that Ma Shuli was a bully, and if he had teased other women, he would have been scolded long ago. Not only did he not get scolded when he teased Ma Shuli, he didn't say anything, and sometimes he would blush, so he felt that he was powerful and began to swell.

Pig fat kills others.

After I found out about this, I didn't get used to it, so I called this old man to the backyard of the kitchen, and found a place where there was no one to teach him a lesson. After that, when he saw Ma Shuli running away, he didn't dare to say anything.

Don't reason with this kind of person. If he understands the reason, he won't do it. Simple and direct approach is the most effective for this kind of person-convince him once, let him have a deep impression, and the same mistake will never happen again. I dare not commit any crimes.

There is no need to save any face, not letting others look at him is the greatest face for him.

The tourist season has passed, and the restaurant has begun to enter a stable period. The daily turnover is between [-] and [-], which is not too busy.

Although Lao Chen was not recognized by the kitchen people, it was arranged by the old man after all, and no one would object on the surface and show it directly.It is estimated that Manager Chen talked to him a lot after he left that day, and he also realized his own shortcomings. Recently, he has been very low-key and polite to everyone.

I told him that I'm not busy now, and I should focus on hygiene and the quality of the dishes, and I should focus on this at this time.He accepted my suggestion and began to do key inspection items on kitchen hygiene.What should be done is what should be done. After a week of hygiene, the whole kitchen has improved a lot.The floor was clean, the operating table was lit up, and the ingredients in the freezer began to be arranged in order.

The old store is an old kitchen, and many equipments are aging and need to be updated.But the old man and the old lady live their lives more carefully, and use what they can use as much as possible. If it doesn't work, let the maintenance workers repair it, and continue to use it after repairing it.Some equipment can be used after repair, and some equipment has reached the end of its life, and it breaks down a few days after repair, so it is better to buy a new one.But the chef is not strong enough, so it can't be updated.

Coarse grains opened a year and a half later than the old store. Wei Chef is more rigid, and the console freezers are almost updated. Only three of the eleven console freezers in the old store were replaced. This was proposed by the maintenance worker, otherwise it would not be possible. replace.

Not to mention the big ones, even the kitchen knives used on the cutting board should have been replaced long ago, but they haven’t been replaced for a long time. I asked Lao Chen to tell the old lady that the knives were really useless and needed to be replaced. Keep using it for a while.

I am also speechless.

In late October, there was a major fire accident in the kibble kitchen.

This is how accidents happen.

A chopping board arrived in the kitchen at [-]:[-] that morning and started setting up the stalls.Some raw materials need to be blanched before they can be blanched. This cutting board lights the stove and boils water to prepare for blanching.After blanching the ingredients, he turned off the fire, but not completely.Since the fuel used in all stoves is diesel, if it is not completely closed, a small fire will occur.When the small fire is ignited, the diesel oil will flow to the bottom of the stove. The underground of the stove is a dead corner of sanitation. If it is not cleaned for a long time, thick oil stains will accumulate.The diesel with fire fell on the accumulated oil stains, slowly igniting the oil stains.This is a slow process, and no one can notice it at the beginning, because the fire burns under the stove and cannot be seen from above.When it rises up, it is already very big, so it is not easy to extinguish it.

After blanching the raw materials, the chopping board thought that the fire had been turned off, but it was not closed tightly. When it found that the stove was on fire, it was stunned.He was the only one in the whole kitchen, and he didn't know what to do. Just when he was in a daze, the fire started to rise sharply. First, a group of stoves caught fire, and within a minute, three groups of stoves caught fire, followed by the fifth and sixth groups. , Seven groups——
The whole hearth is on fire—

When the chopping board came out, the kitchen was already on fire. At this time, some employees who went to work found that the kitchen was on fire and immediately called 119 to call the police.

In just 5 minutes, the kitchen was already closed to people, and black smoke began to come out.

Everyone can only stand outside and watch anxiously.

When the fire brigade arrived, the front hall had already started to emit black smoke.

After 15 minutes of extinguishing the fire, the fire was extinguished, and the whole kitchen was scrapped. I heard from the people who entered the kitchen later that the four-door freezer was almost melted, and it was broken with a little force by hand.

The whole kitchen was pitch black, the stove was completely burned, not to mention the freezer, and even the exhaust hood was burned and collapsed.

Not to mention that, the black smoke from the fire rushed into the front hall and private rooms. The hall was better, but the private rooms were miserable, all blackened.

It is a heavy loss.

But fortunately, no one was burned. It would be serious if people were burned.

The chopping board that caused the fire was terrified. At that time, he took a taxi to the train station and took the train back to his hometown.

Chef Xiao Wei was also shocked.

After the fire brigade extinguished the fire, they immediately put a seal on the door of the store and asked to close the store for rectification.

What's the point of earning a lot of money? A fire burned all the profits for a year.

Water and fire are ruthless.

After the fire broke out in Coarse Grains, the store was closed immediately and started to rectify. The kitchen staff cleaned the kitchen, cleared out the residues and wastes left by the burnt, and then cleaned the burnt walls.The tiles on the wall next to the stove were all burnt and fell off when touched lightly.The entire exhaust hood was burnt down, and even the wind cabinet outside was burned and scrapped.

All the kitchen staff cleaned up together for a week before it was considered complete, and then the construction team was asked to redecorate, re-enter the equipment, re-use tools, and all items.

A kitchen was redone.

The lobby at the front desk is better. The walls of all private rooms have been redecorated and the curtains have been replaced.

The whole cost was nearly 80, not including the loss of the one-month suspension.

The old man held a management meeting of the three stores, emphasizing the issue of kitchen fire safety, and gave important instructions on kitchen sanitation and fire protection, which must be qualified.

After Lao Chen came back from the meeting, he announced the group's regulations. The kitchen should thoroughly clean up the long-term accumulation of oil stains under the stove, and at the same time, thoroughly clean up the exhaust hood.It is stipulated that the exhaust hood should be cleaned every day, so that there is no oil stain, and the bottom of the stove should be cleaned every day, so that there is no oil stain at all.The equipped fire extinguishers are replaced, and each operation room is equipped with the right number, and each employee must be able to use fire extinguishers correctly.As long as the operation rooms that use fire are equipped with fire blankets, full-time fire inspection personnel are appointed, and inspection records are made every day.

Coarse grains also exist in the exhaust hood and under the stove in the old store kitchen. Lao Chen purchased a large amount of caustic soda, steel wool, Weiman, detergent, and steel brushes, and called all the staff to work overtime for two hours after get off work every day. Focus on cleaning.No one raised any objections to this matter, and they all actively cooperated. After all, there are living examples of coarse grains, and no one dares to stand up to the wind.

They pack theirs, I don't get involved.The day I came here, I started to clean the bottom of the stove and the exhaust hood. It has been cleaned out long ago, and I have developed a habit. I will stand on the stove and clean the exhaust hood every day. I will use caustic soda to brush the bottom of the stove Once again, clean.When I started the treatment, Lao Zhao told me that I don't need to be so meticulous, and Master Du also said that I was too clean and there was no need to do it like that.Fortunately, I didn't listen to them, so I kept going.This is also a habit developed over the years.

(End of this chapter)