The story of a cook

Chapter 468

Manager Chen worked with Li Xingtang when he was young. Manager Chen was the front desk manager, and Li Xingtang was the chef in the back kitchen.Manager Chen said that Li Xingtang liked to drink when he was young, but drinking did not delay his cooking, the more he drank, the better his cooking was.I don't know if I still drink alcohol now, and the two of them haven't worked together for fifteen or six years.

Master Li and I looked at the food stall.

The current food stalls are very rich, and the presentation is also very delicate, and every dish is sold, there are no junk dishes.

I said to Master Li: "The crispy chicken you just made is fried."

"Yes, it's fried. Serve directly after frying." Master Li said.

"There are really few fried dishes in our family. The 'flavored lamb shank' is fried, and this is the only one." I said.

"'Flavor lamb shank' is cumin mouth." He said.

I said, "Yes, the leg of lamb is cumin-flavored. If you have a cumin-flavored dish, don't make it with cumin-flavored chicken."

"What do you do then?" he asked.

"I haven't thought of what to do right now, and I have no idea what to do. I will do research first, don't worry." I said.

I looked at the vegetable stall for a while, and then moved to the stew stall.

There are few stewed dishes in summer, and there are two stewed dishes every day, one is "big bone chicken stewed with tea tree mushroom", and the other is "seaweed root stewed cabbage".Now that it is winter, these two stews seem to be a little less.If Lao Zhao is here, he will make a fuss about adding a stew, but Lao Chen doesn't think about it at all if Lao Zhao is not there.

"We'll have to add one to the stew," I said.

"Let's tell Lao Chen to do the work. He doesn't care who is in charge of the chef, and he doesn't care if he doesn't see Lao Du." Master Li said.

"That's true, they don't care about us and it's not easy to stretch our heads." I said, "But it's winter, and guests like to eat something warm, so we need to add a stew."

"Brother, I'm really good at stewing vegetables. If Lao Chen agrees, I'll stew." Master Li said.

"I'll ask him to see what he means," I said.

I went back to the kitchen and talked to Lao Chen about the stew, Lao Chen said it, you can fix it.Knowing that this is the result, I then told Master Du about the stew, and Master Du said that the chef would do it as soon as he said it, and study one.I said let Master Li study it, and he nodded in agreement.

I am very helpless about the current situation of the kitchen, and it is a bit fragmented.Lao Chen has no management ability, so he doesn't care much, he just wants to be safe and sound.Master Du does his own thing, step-by-step every day, and he knows that some work needs to be arranged, and he doesn't care if Lao Chen doesn't say anything, just let it take its course.I know what he's thinking - he can take advantage of Lao Chen's troubles.

The hot food kitchen on the first floor is like this, and the second floor is almost anarchic. Fortunately, they are all women and old employees, so there is nothing to worry about.

In the past few days, Lao Chen didn't even hold regular meetings. Every time, Master Du finished the work after calling the names, and everyone went directly to the kitchen to work.The kitchen is always not working like this, the morale of the staff is low, and the work is gradually beginning to be lazy.

An example is always urging food when it is time to eat every day. It is reasonable to urge food when it is busy in summer, but it is not busy now. It sells more than 2 yuan a day and still urges food, which shows that the preparation work is not sufficient.The phenomenon of urging dishes, returning dishes, and returning dumplings happened from time to time. Every night when signing the order, Lao Chen would be anxious, and sometimes he would curse.

Looking at these situations, he was anxious for him, but he didn't seem to care much.

I asked Manager Chen how to deal with the daily return of menus. Manager Chen said how else to deal with it. Most of them are because she signed the order and returned the food because of the fault of the customer. Otherwise, the office would have come to check earlier.I said that it can't all be faulted by the customers, and I can't justify it.She said that she had no other choice but to pay for Lao Chen, so she packed it herself.

Seeing what she didn't say, I feel sincere admiration for what she did for Lao Chen, and it's enough for the man I like.

Tell Master Li to ask him to study a stew, and then don't want to do anything else, start to study chicken crispy bones.

Here I have a dish called "Dry Pot Small Crispy Bones", which is made with pig crescent bones and uses the "dry pot" technique, which belongs to Hunan cuisine.It sells well, about eight to ten copies a day. When "Mao Xuewang" and "Shuizhu Beef" were not on the market, the sales of small crispy bones began to decrease. After all, they are spicy dishes. Sometimes The guests just order one.

"Small crispy bones in dry pot" is the entry dish of the chef of the old restaurant during the Linjiangxuan Innovation Cuisine Competition.

Looking at the chicken crispy bone, I thought of the small crispy bone. I wondered if I could combine these two ingredients together to make a dish?
And it's still fried.

a bit difficult.

You can't make a "fried dish", it's not a dish.

During lunch time, I was quite busy, and I returned a total of three dishes. The seafood side returned a "spicy pot" and "home-stewed sea yellow croaker", and the Northeast cuisine side returned a "green bamboo shoots and conch slices".

The "spicy pot" is Master Liu's dish. The reason for returning the dish is that the fish fillet is too broken, which is not acceptable to the guests, and it is a bit salty. The reason for the return of "Homemade Sea Yellow Fish Stew" is that the time has expired and the guests don't want it. "Green bamboo shoots and conch slices" is Lao Chen's dish. The reason for returning the dish is that the amount of the dish is too small.

The return of the "spicy pot" was obviously caused by the chef's operation. Master Liu signed the order without saying anything.He laughed and said that when he was making this dish, he answered a phone call, and it took a long time to stew the fish fillets, and he forgot to add salt after answering the phone call, so he added salt once more habitually salty.

"I don't complain about this one-signer, who told us to sneak away." Master Liu said with a smile.

"Home stewed sea yellow croaker" is overtime because the old man in Shuitai takes a break today, and every time Shuitai takes a break, Wang Yaxin, who is on the watch, replaces him.Lao Chen forgot about the rest of the water table, and did not notify Wang Yaxin to replace it. As a result, after the sea yellow croaker came, the fish guy put the fish on the water table and left. Care, go out and continue fishing.The stewed fish master didn’t know there was fish until the customers asked for the dishes. When he went to the operation room of the water table, he saw that the fish had not been cleaned up, so he quickly cleaned it up. Been waiting for an hour.

The order of this dish should be in charge of Lao Chen, which is a mistake in work arrangement.

"Green bamboo shoots and conch slices" was a dish I told Lao Chen when I put it on the stall. If the dish is sold according to the amount of the dish on the stall, the price of the dish must be raised, otherwise it will not meet the gross profit standard.He said that there is no need to raise the price of vegetables, and customers don't pay attention to the size of the dishes. It's fine if you don't give so many snails when serving the dishes.Knowing his mentality, anyone who eats seafood knows that conch is expensive, and green bamboo shoots are not cheap. The combination of the two should cost more than 48, while Lao Chen’s price is 32. In this way, when ordering, customers will look at the price. The cheaper the click rate, the higher the click rate.There is a lot of face in the number of servings of the dishes I cook every day, let alone being the chef.

To put it bluntly, it is deceiving sales. The food stalls are obviously large in quantity, but in fact, the quantity of food is reduced when the food is served. Can customers not complain?

This dish has been complained about a few times, but not directly returned like today.No one will be happy if their dishes are returned, even if it is for their own reasons. This is a normal human reaction.Old Chen was very upset, and stood at the mouth of Chuancai to reason with Manager Chen, saying that there have always been so many customers who have not returned, why did they return today, can't your front desk staff explain to the guests?
Hearing what Lao Chen said, Manager Chen was very angry, and said: "Why didn't you explain? The waiter went up to explain and was scolded by the guests, saying that our family is cheating on consumption. I went up and explained to the guests, but they just didn’t accept it, and besides, your quantity is too small, and you have complained several times, it’s not like you don’t know.”

Old Chen said: "I can't sign this order. If there is something wrong with the dish, I will sign it. If there is nothing wrong with the dish, I will sign it."

Manager Chen said: "It's not a problem that the dishes are small. If you don't sign what you cook, who will sign it?"

"Whoever loves will sign. Anyway, I won't sign." Old Chen walked away after speaking, leaving Manager Chen with a helpless face.

The two of them were arguing at the food pass, and the whole kitchen was watching. Not only Manager Chen could not accept Lao Chen's irresponsible behavior, but the kitchen staff also couldn't accept it, and they kept discounting him in their hearts.

It was Yu Xuexue who garnished Lao Chen, and he said to me: "Master, why don't you serve this dish, and I'll be angry if I garnish it."

I said: "He only sells this dish better, and the rest are not good, so I have to keep a good dish for him."

"Because of the small quantity, I have complained several times. Those who know it are dismissed, and those who don't know think that I have a small amount." He said.

"Tomorrow, the price of vegetables will be raised, and you can increase the amount, add two liang of bamboo shoots, and one and a half of snail slices." I said.

Yu Xuexue didn't say anything, but shook his head helplessly.

Coincidentally, just after returning the dishes, Jiang Yajun, the pastry boss, came to the kitchen to look for Lao Chen with a plate of dumplings.It turned out that the customer ordered a plate of pork and celery dumplings, but was sent back after he went up, saying that one dumpling was missing.

There are fifteen dumplings on a plate, usually not less. Even if the dumpling maker makes one less, when the dumplings are cooked, the number of dumplings will be counted.There are generally two reasons why there are fewer dumplings. One is that the waiter steals the dumplings, and the other is that the customer ate one and thought it was not tasty or ordered too much, so he deliberately said that one was missing and returned it.This rarely happens, and the quality of the guests is so good that it is almost never done.

That is to be eaten by the passer.

Jiang Yajun went to the food delivery department to find out the food delivery staff, but of course the food delivery staff did not admit that he had stolen food.

This situation is generally solved in this way. If there are still customers ordering dumplings with the same filling within half an hour, another dumpling will be added after the pastry order.There is nothing to do with the dumplings within half an hour, and it does not affect the guests' eating.In this way, the dumplings are not wasted, and there is no need to sign the bill.If it is not sold, then you have to find the responsible person to sign the bill.

Obviously this dumpling did not sell.

Old Chen Gang had a very unpleasant quarrel with Manager Chen. He was angry. Seeing that something happened to the dumpling again, he said to Jiang Yajun angrily, "Look for the front desk for one less dumpling. Why did you bring it here?"

What he said stunned Jiang Yajun for a moment, and he was a little bit embarrassed.

"Who are you looking for if I don't want you? Aren't you the chef?" Jiang Yajun said directly.

Lao Chen was a little frustrated, and said: "My head chef is in charge of your business. The head chef will take care of everything for a day so that you won't be exhausted? Solve it yourself, I don't care."

After speaking, he just threw away the medicine and left.

Jiang Yajun is over 50 years old, everyone in the kitchen gives face, and he does a good job in his work, and he is good at dealing with others. It is natural for Lao Chen to say something for no reason, so he is naturally angry.

"I figured out what to do with your chef, and where do you go!" She shouted at Old Chen.

Lao Chen didn't respond at all and left the kitchen.

"You're the chef just like that? The old man is also blind." Jiang Yajun said angrily.

"It's useless for you to be angry, he is the chief chef." Master Du said in a neutral tone.

"Xiao Du, what are you talking about? We can't sign the order for this dumpling, but the waiter stole it." Jiang Yajun saw that Lao Chen had gone, and asked Master Du.

"The chef doesn't care if I can take care of it?" Master Du said.

"Aren't you the sous chef? It's up to you if the head chef is not around." Jiang Yajun said.

"I can't control this matter, you still have to find Lao Chen." Master Du pushed the matter to Lao Chen.

Jiang Yajun became angry and said, "What's wrong? No one is in charge of our kitchen?"

Seeing that she was so angry that Master Du didn't say anything, he was a little afraid of Jiang Yajun.

Jiang Yajun is not only a relative of the old man, but also an upright person with a good character, and the kitchen staff respect her very much.

After Jiang Yajun finished speaking, everyone in the kitchen was quiet, and no one said anything.

Looking at this situation, no one can say anything, so I said to Jiang Yajun: "Sister Jiang, I just like to eat celery stuffing. I will go to the front and order a celery stuffing dumpling. Give me this dumpling."

"If you eat dumplings, I'll make them for you alone, so I understand what happened today." Jiang Yajun said.

I laughed, and walked up to her and said to her: "I can't offend Sister Jiang, why are you so angry? I'm angry with you, come on, my brother will go upstairs with you."

After speaking, I pulled her, and she looked at me and said, "This is your master Tan, if someone else I say nothing, I won't give face."

"Aren't I your brother? What else are we talking about?" I laughed.

(End of this chapter)