The story of a cook

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As the saying goes, if you want others to not know, you have to do nothing.

The next day when I went to work, I ran into Zhou Xiaomei after checking out the kitchen on the second floor. She looked at me with a half-smile and asked, "What did you do last night?"

"Going to drink." I said.

"I didn't know you went drinking. I asked you what you did after drinking?" she asked.

"After drinking, I sent Manager Chen home." I told the truth.

At this time, her half-smile expression turned into a slightly deep meaning.

"Send someone home? Hehe, didn't you do anything?" she asked.

"Go, let's go, I'll be back after delivery." I said.

"So simple?" She obviously didn't believe it.

Not only did she not believe it, but Ma Shuli also did not believe it. During the afternoon break, Ma Shuli also asked me the same question.She asked more sharply, which meant that the three of them had a drink. Why was it that I sent Manager Chen home instead of Mr. Wang?

It seems that we will not be able to drink with women in the future. Since Zhou Xiaomei and Ma Shuli know that I sent Manager Chen home after drinking, many employees know about it. The two of them can directly ask me because we have a good relationship. Afraid I make a mistake, what about those employees?They will think about it, give full play to their imagination, and then make various guesses, and finally form a fairy tale version——
Drink less alcohol in the future, if you want to drink alcohol, drink it yourself in the dormitory, so as not to cause trouble.

The stock market was very good in the first half of [-]. I did not research or dabble in stocks.Seafood master Liu has a good mind, likes to play stocks, and has made a lot of money.It may be that I feel that it is easy to make money in stocks, and I don’t want to cook anymore, so I proposed to leave my job and want to go home and play stocks full-time.As the saying goes, friends don’t block the way of making money. Since they have a way to get rich, we can’t stop them, so we hired a seafood chef to replace him.

Master Liu is a nice guy, a native of Binhai, his family is in good condition, he owns two houses, he used to run a restaurant, but later he was too tired and worried, so he came to the old restaurant to cook.The level of cooking is not bad, and the character is also good, which gave me a good impression.Since we are still friends after quitting, I told him when I left that I would come back if the stock market is not good and continue to cooperate.

The new seafood chef is surnamed Zhao, called Zhao Xiaojun, and he is still a fellow villager. He is 32 years old and worked in Binhai when he was 16. He later learned to be a chef, and now he is married and has a family in Binhai.

There is nothing wrong with the cooking, and the person is also very nice, handsome, talkative and laughing, and the kitchen people like it very much.

There are two seafood masters who were introduced by Master Liu. After he left, he planned to leave the job. I talked with them. One of them stayed, and the other had a good relationship with Master Liu, and he was good at cooking. I decided not to do it, saying that the salary offered by other restaurants was higher than that of the old restaurant, and I had already negotiated to work at someone else's house.The implication is that as long as the wages are raised, they will do it, and if they are not paid, they will not do it.When Master Liu left, I originally planned to let this master take over the position of the boss of seafood. Hearing what he said, I simply asked him to be laid off, so that people who take advantage of others are determined not to use it.So I asked Zhao Xiaojun to be a seafood master, and asked him to find a seafood master who had worked with him.

I have been in Binhai for more than a year, and I already know Binhai Seafood. I can cook seafood dishes from the old store, so I have confidence in making decisions.Since I am the head chef, I will resolutely not let any chef catch me, not only hot dishes, but also cold dishes and pasta.

Zhao Xiaojun found a chef who had worked with him, and he felt okay after trying the dishes, so he stayed.

As soon as the seafood side was stabilized, Mr. Wang said that the bakery was closed. The old man told Coarse Grain and the old shop to go and see what could be used in the bakery kitchen and bring them back for use.Immediately after receiving this notice, six brothers from the kitchen were summoned, and Wang Yaxin was called to go straight to the bakery.

The person who arrived at the cake shop hadn’t come yet, so he went straight into the kitchen, looked at the equipment first, and then the tableware, and then moved out two new stoves and three operating table freezers, and chose some tableware, called Wang Yaxin I hired a tricycle to take it back to the old store immediately, and when Wei Chef of Coarse Grain came with people, he had already brought the brothers back to the old store to unload the car.

Chef Wei was very annoyed, but he was also angry, I took it and it was mine, who told you not to arrive early, if he arrived early, he would be the same as me, good things would not be kept.Maybe he was really angry and called the old man. The old man called me and laughed and said, Lao Tan, you are a bandit. I don't like grades.The old man just laughed and said that you Lao Tan will give someone some, don't take it all away.I said, old man, you don’t know, our old shop is poor, unlike others who have a big business in coarse grains, is it easy for me to save this little money?The old man laughed and hung up the phone.

Do you still want to take out what is in my hand?There are no doors, so it's not bad to get something before you get coarse grains.

After this, another nickname was added - "Bandit".

Mr. Wang and Manager Chen told me that May Day is coming soon, and every year the staff will have a meal to see if it is before or after May Day.I asked the two of them what their opinions were, and they said they would have dinner before May [-]st, and I said it would be before May [-]st.

"Today is on the 25th, let's meet on NO.30." Manager Chen said: "NO.30 is Wednesday, not busy."

I said: "OK, NO.30 dinner."

"Is there any program for our dinner?" Mr. Wang asked.

"There is no program, just everyone having a meal together, lively and lively." Manager Chen said.

"It's better to have some shows. It's not interesting to eat and drink." Mr. Wang said.

I said: "Then let me know, there are those who are willing to sing and dance, but the time is short and the preparation is not enough."

Manager Chen said: "It's just for fun, it's all about my family, just make it lively."

Since there is a program planned, there must be a host. This time, Zhou Xiaomei will be the host alone.

In fact, I would like to hold a cooking competition, but it has not been held, and I thought it would be postponed to May. After the May Day Golden Week, there will be a period of time when there is no busy time, and then it will be fine.

Not everyone in the kitchen is multi-talented. They are all children from the countryside and have no culture. It is a bit difficult to ask everyone to watch the show.Dolma and her sister-in-law Igma are good at singing, and Zhang Chunmei and Big Brother Shui Tofu are also good at singing duets. They are humorous, but you can’t just watch them all the time, it needs to be something new.

Kitchen people cook all day long except for cooking. 90.00% of their spare time is going out to drink. They have no other skills. Drinking is their strength.There are also some good singers, and it’s okay to let them sing in the karaoke hall after drinking, if they dare to sing, if they finish before the public, they dare not sing.I've always wanted to change this situation, but it's hard to change. It's tiring after a day's work, so I don't have time to practice singing and dancing.

Speaking of dancing, I think of a restaurant introduced in the latest issue of "Oriental Cuisine". Before the regular meeting every day, all the employees of the restaurant do shop exercises together, which feels very good.Others can do it, why can't we do it?Stretching the arms and legs for a few minutes is also an exercise for the body, which is very good.It's just that we don't know how to do it, and we don't know how to do it.I did radio gymnastics when I was in school, but I haven't done it for many years, and I have long forgotten it.

The daily morning and evening regular meeting is okay, but I always feel that it is not lively enough. It would be great if we could dance together, so that it can be more lively.

Keep this idea in your head, perfect it first, and then implement it after perfecting it.

The NO.30 dinner party is at the end of the month, and the point management was implemented in early April. Although it is less than a month, it is time to count the points.Employees still care about this score. Since the implementation of points management, it has been effective. The hygiene is better than before. All employees have cleaned up their own hygiene and must meet the standards, forming a habit.In terms of discipline, there are a few employees who are always late and they are not late anymore. I asked them why they are not late. They said that they were fined five yuan for being late before. Five yuan is nothing to them. It's just one hundred and fifty late every day for a month, it's nothing.Not only is it fined, but points are also deducted. Although the deduction of points does not involve a fine, I don't want to see that my score is too low at the end of the month, and I will be ashamed.

Regarding the dishes, in the past, the dishes were too busy and the taste was not standard. If the guests did not return the dishes, they just talked about it verbally and did not deal with it.If it doesn't work now, points will be deducted, so that the chefs will be more rigorous in cooking, and the customer complaint rate of the dishes will be reduced a lot.In addition, the standard of chopping board preparation has been significantly improved. When the market closes every night, almost 70.00% of the food stalls are withdrawn.This shows that at least 70.00% of the raw materials in the kitchen are sold out every day, and the next day all are fresh raw materials, which ensures the quality of the dishes.If there is a backlog of raw materials caused by humans, points will be deducted.

The raw materials are fresh, and the dishes will not have customer complaints due to raw material problems, which greatly reduces the rate of customer complaints, lowers the rate of customer complaints, and improves customer satisfaction, so the business is getting better and better.

Taking the first 25 days of April as an example, there were five days with a turnover of more than [-] yuan, which was not the case in previous years.Employees with a turnover of more than [-] will get bonuses, and they can get them on the same day. The employees are happy, and the boss is also happy.Employees can not only get bonuses, but also extra points, which is not a small incentive.

So can you expand the scope of bonus points, for example, who participates in group activities and performances?I think this is feasible. The employees not only show themselves, but also increase the sense of collective honor. The most important thing is to gather the attention of the employees after get off work, cultivate their personal hobbies, and don't just drink alcohol as a strength.

Thinking of this, I talked to Master Du about it, and he thought it was good, so he announced the rule at the next day's regular meeting.

"A question to everyone, are you tired from working every day?" I asked.

"Not tired--"

"Not tired--"

"Not tired? I am tired. How can I not be tired from work? It is a lie to say that I am not tired. Old Tan told you that you are too hypocritical." I said.

Some employees started to chuckle.

"Why are you tired? Why don't you do it every day? If you don't do it, who will pay you?" Li Cheng said loudly.

I laughed, and said to everyone: "Li Cheng is right, he spoke his mind, everyone give a little applause."

Someone applauds.

I said: "To be honest, working is tiring, but if you don't work, no one will pay you, not only us, but also officials. So remember what Old Tan said, the greatest pain for a person is not the loss of a loved one, but the loss of a loved one. Losing a job. What is a job? It is the capital we rely on for survival. When we lose our job one day, it is the most painful time. Without a job and without a source of income, you say you are filial and give your parents good food and drink. Yes, you can’t survive anymore, what can you show your respect? Use your mouth?”

"In the past, there was an allusion of cutting flesh to serve your mother. I would like to ask, even if you can cut your flesh to serve your mother, how many times can you cut yourself? One day, if you cut yourself to death, it is even more sad for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, isn't it? So work is very important to us, and we must take it seriously. Li Cheng said just now that work is tiring, to be honest, it is really tiring, and Lao Tan is also tired, but Lao Tan is willing to do it. Why? For the sake of life, for the sake of the child wife Have a good life, for the elderly mother to have money to treat when she is sick, to put it mildly, the old lady can have money to send him to the earth when she is old."

"Actually, everyone, like me, is working for life and for a better life in the future. Are you tired? Tired, but we are tired and happy. Tell everyone, brothers and sisters, we have a hard day and a busy day. Beads of sweat fall to the ground and smash eight petals, and the sweat on the body is not dry at the end of the day. We have worked so hard, why should we not be happy and happy, right?"

"Yes--"

"As long as I'm with the chef, I'm happy."

I said, "Thank you for your trust. We are quite tired all day, so we have to find some fun for ourselves and enrich our spare time life."

"Chef, lead us to sing, Nale!" Li Cheng said loudly.

"Can you sing? Your voice is enough to make a donkey bray." Zhang Chunmei said angrily.

"Coax—" Everyone laughed.

"Li Cheng is really right. Every time we have a party, we either eat or drink or eat and drink, and there are no entertainment programs. To be honest, it's not that everyone doesn't have that literary talent. It's that we are too conservative and forget some of the fun. , I don’t have the mood to play anymore, just think about it, eat and drink, sing whatever you want, if you have that time, it’s better to drink some wine and sleep. But when they sing, we still feel itchy and want to shout twice I wanted to shout twice but I was afraid of being ashamed, and I was still reconciled not to shout twice, so I kept fighting like that, but I didn’t succeed in shouting, it’s so annoying.”

"Tell everyone, we should live happily, there is nothing shameful, we are all our own family members, who is making fun of whom? We can't sing well, but we can dance, and if we can't dance, we can tell stories and jokes. Don't mess around. Dare to say it when you want to say it, but don’t say it when you want to say it, that belongs to Kangtouheng. Isn’t it.”

"We have dinner on NO.30. We can't have a dinner party. There must be some programs. This time we will decide which department will produce a program, and everyone in that department will get one point, and those who perform the program will get three points. At the end of the month, the Now that the scores have been counted, let me see who beats the wolf (the last one) this time."

After I finished speaking, everyone started to commotion and started talking in low voices.

"Then we are not suitable. Zhuoma and Yigema are in the cold dish group, and their scores are guaranteed to be high." Zhang Chunmei said.

"You have to sing. You can sing Errenzhuan. There are so many people in your pastry group, so you can't write three and a half sentences?" I said with a smile.

"That's right—"

"Chef, can the top three earn a salary increase?" someone asked.

"Must!" I said, "From now on, it's not up to Mr. Du and I to decide whether to raise your salary or not, it's up to you yourself. The scores are transparent. If you do well, you will get higher scores. If you don't do well, you will get higher scores. The score is low, your score is among the top three, needless to say, your salary will naturally increase, and you raised it for yourself, do you know—"

"I know, OK!"

(End of this chapter)