The story of a cook

Chapter 514 Discussing the Cooking Competition
Wang Hong is a daring woman, which is somewhat similar to Zhang Li.After her divorce, she started to take care of her children, worked part-time, worked as a nanny, sold clothes, and worked as a lady in a karaoke bar.In life, for a woman with a child, earning money to eat is the first choice.She said that her lack of education was the reason for her delay. She would stop studying before graduating from elementary school.

Later, her husband was also laid off, and the lady left after being laid off.Her husband began to regret it, and with the help of friends and family, the two came together again.In her words, everything depends on the child, if it weren't for the child saying that he would never be together.

"I can't find anything? Let me tell you about the chef, is my part-time boss rich? Seeing that I am good-looking, they want to keep me and give me money for nothing. I, Wang Hong, are not that kind of person. If that kind of person gets divorced It’s good not to have children when I was a child. I’m a person with good hands and feet, and I can do whatever I want. I eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day. Later, I think this is not good. The child is better than anyone else. Yes, the clothes are not separated from the heart. I don’t care if his father hits him twice. If this is a stepfather who hits him twice, I dare to fight him hard. Think about it and let it go. He is almost forty, and the children are like that When I grow up, I can just make do with it. He lives his life and I live mine, as long as he earns money to pay for the family, and the rest he wants to do outside, out of sight or out of mind, I don’t care. But I He is not allowed to control what he does, and he has no right to control me. Why, as long as he sets Yaoshan on fire, I am not allowed to light lights at home?"

I said: "Then you can't do too much, I think he is quite honest."

She said: "Looking at the outside, everyone is quite honest. No one has looked into anyone's heart. No one knows what he is thinking. At the beginning, I thought he was honest. Who would have thought that a person who can't kick a fart can Living with a young lady outside? Don’t say anything now, I have seen it through, people can’t look at their appearance, they can’t see anything.”

"You are bitten by a snake once and afraid of ropes for ten years," I said.

"About it?" She said, "Okay, I won't chat with you anymore, go back to sleep, and I will stop coming to drink with you in the future, so as not to cause you trouble."

She came suddenly and left quickly.

Like Xu Zhimo's poem, gently I come, gently I leave.

Master Li and Cao Ligui had no opinion on the transfer of coarse grains, and having no opinion did not mean that they were willing to go. After a good talk with them, they also understood, and finally passed.Backup chef Zhang Zhicheng took over from Master Li, Yu Wenxue took over from Cao Ligui, and Li Fushun took over from Yu Wenxue.Now there are just enough staff in the kitchen for hot dishes, no more and no less.

It is also a pressure for me to transfer the three generals at once. Now I grow up in the kitchen every day, and I can’t leave without taking a step, lest something will happen.Although there is a supervisor, Wang Yaxin knows almost nothing about cooking, so he can only help with attendance checks, discipline and hygiene.In the kitchen, if you don't know how to cook, talking doesn't count, and no one takes it seriously.

I was quite tired after Master Du left. Wang Yaxin was more considerate and told me that he would do it by himself instead of coming to inspect the goods in the morning.He has followed the inspection for a year, and he knows all the raw materials, good or bad, so it's totally okay if I don't come.But I have already developed a habit, and I wake up at the right time, and there is nothing to do when I wake up, so I might as well come to a restaurant.

It will be the end of the month soon, and the sales are good this month, estimated to reach 120 million.

Not too busy at night, Mr. Wang went to the kitchen and asked me to sit out for a while.When we came to the front, Manager Chen was also there, and the three of us found a small private room to go in and chat.

"Old Tan, have you been tired recently?" Mr. Wang asked.

"I'm a little tired. Master Du was a little bit hand-wrenched when he left." I said.

Manager Chen said: "I don't know what the old man thought, but he dismissed the sous chef."

Mr. Wang said: "The leader has his own plan. Doesn't this save capital?"

I said: "I don't save any capital, and if I don't arrange the position of sous chef, I have to add a chef, which is as heavy as carrying it on my back."

Manager Chen asked: "Old Tan, how is Lao Du doing?"

I said, "It's good. Master Li and Cao Ligui have gone over to help him fix it. It should be pretty much put together now. I haven't seen him for a few days. I guess he's busy."

After chatting about things in the store for a while, Mr. Wang said: "I just have time today, the three of us will go over the cooking competition and see if there is anything left."

I said: "Okay, let's stroke it, it's about to start, it's only a few days away."

Mr. Wang said: "I think so, isn't we scheduled to hold it on the [-]th of next month? Our house will not pick up guests at [-] pm that day, and the guests who came before should be arranged in the lobby on the second floor as little as possible. Let's use the venue without delay."

Manager Chen said: "Okay, I will have a meeting on the tenth and try to arrange the guests in the small hall."

"I found four judges, one from Marina Bay, one from Tianxiamei, one from Yuehai Building, and one from Fulinju. They are all head chefs, aged between 35 and 45, and their cooking is very good. , and are quite famous.” Mr. Wang said to me.

"Okay, do you need to treat someone to dinner in advance?" I asked.

"No, just treat them to a meal at our house after the game. It just so happens that you know them well. They are both chefs. You can communicate easily. Let's make more friends." Mr. Wang said.

"Okay, do as you say." I said.

"They also want to come to our family to study. This is also an opportunity. Our family is quite famous now. If you say that making dumplings, our family ranks among the top three in Binhai." Mr. Wang said.

I said: "It's not that our family is famous, it's that 'Qinghua Pavilion' is famous. Now 'Qinghua Pavilion' has more than 140 branches across the country. When it comes to 'Qinghua Pavilion', most people know it, and they can catch up with 'Fu remember'."

Manager Chen said: "I heard that the new store is also called 'Blue and White Pavilion'."

Mr. Wang said: "It's called 'Blue and White Pavilion'. At first I wanted to call it another name. Later, I thought that our family was built on dumplings. We can't forget our roots, so we called it 'Blue and White Pavilion'."

I said, "Now the stuffing and dumpling workers are training in pastry. When it opens, they will be transferred. It is estimated that a few old dumpling workers will be transferred, even steaming and frying."

Mr. Wang said: "Let's not talk about the new store. It will take more than two months to open. Let's study the culinary competition first." Then he said: "Does the leader have to speak at the beginning of the competition?"

"It stands to reason that the director of kitchen affairs should speak, but now our family does not have a director of kitchen affairs." I said.

"The old man plans not to use the chief chef." Mr. Wang said, "Each store has a chief chef and a supervisor."

I said, "What if the chief chef takes a break? The supervisor can't manage the kitchen now, and you know the kitchen. It's a bit difficult for someone who doesn't know how to cook."

"Then establish the prestige of the supervisor." Mr. Wang said.

I didn't say anything, Manager Chen said: "I saw that the supervisor of our family is Wang Yaxin, the father's cousin-in-law, the director of coarse grains is the old man Jiang Yajun, and the father's cousin-in-law, they are all family members. Get someone close to watch the kitchen."

"It's kind of like that." Mr. Wang said, "Let's not study this, but let's talk about cooking competition."

I said to Mr. Wang: "If there is no kitchen director, then you have to speak. If it is held in our house, you are the boss, so you have to speak."

Manager Chen also agrees.

"Okay, I will speak at the opening." Mr. Wang said, "Should we still use the judges to speak?"

"It's okay to choose a representative to speak." I said.

"I found four old customers, one of whom is an old leader of the Tourism Bureau, and let him speak at that time." Manager Chen said.

"Okay, it's best for the leader to speak." Mr. Wang said.

"Didn't the old man come that day?" I asked.

"He can come if he has time." Mr. Wang said: "When he comes, let him talk about the final summary. If he doesn't come, let Mr. Zhang talk about it."

I said, "Okay, I think there will be an awards ceremony, someone has to present the awards."

"I've considered all of this and let the judges present the award." Mr. Wang said.

I asked, "Did you do the scoring?"

"It's done, it's done together with the banner, and it can be finished tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Mr. Wang said.

"Did you buy the certificate too?" I asked.

"I bought it, I've finished typing, and I can just fill in my name when the time comes. The prizes are also sold out, and I bought a water glass for each judge." Mr. Wang said.

"It's Mr. Wang who is more thoughtful and careful with women." Manager Chen said.

Mr. Wang smiled and asked, "Look, what's missing?"

"Is there a blackboard for scoring?" I asked.

"Bring me the one from the conference room then." Manager Chen said.

I thought for a while and said, "That's all. When the time comes, you two will direct in front, and I will direct in the kitchen. Just communicate well."

Manager Chen thought for a while and said, "I haven't done this before, and I can't think of anything."

Mr. Wang said: "It doesn't matter if you haven't done it, you will have experience once you do it."

I said: "Cooking competition has two advantages. First, it can assess the cooking level of chefs, improve cooking skills and research and development capabilities; second, it can improve the cooperation between the front desk and the kitchen, and shorten the distance between each other. I did it once before. The effect is very good. In the first ten days of the competition, the chef’s attention was focused on the dishes, and the daily cooking was a bit more serious than usual. Usually the chef cooks the dishes when he comes, and starts chatting when there is no food. Wait until you know what to do It’s the competition, look, the chatterers stopped chattering, and started to study the dishes, and the topics we talked with each other were all related to the dishes. The most direct manifestation is that the quality of the products in those few days was very good, and there were almost no customer complaints , and even praise.”

"This is what Lao Tan said. There have been no customer complaints in the past few days. I think the fried dishes are better than before." Manager Chen said.

"Personal opinion does not represent everything." I said: "Everyone talks about grasping the quality of dishes, and how to grasp it is learned. Strictly grasping the quality will not be able to grasp the quality, but the chef will be exhausted and even run away. There is a saying in management that if you want to train him, you must assess him. This is how I understand it. If you want to be assessed, you must have standards. Every dish in the business has a standard, and then uses the standard to check the quality of each dish to see if it is qualified. The qualified ones can be produced, and the unqualified ones are not allowed to be produced. This is the basis for grasping the quality of the dishes.”

"Grasp the basics first, and then innovate and improve. Let's put it this way, if a restaurant grasps the basic quality of each dish it operates, it will already make money. Because no matter when you go to his house , the taste of the dish you want to eat is the same, it will not change, even if the chef is changed, the taste will not change. Do you think his family's business will be stable? Is there a fixed main road? " I asked.

"What Lao Tan said makes sense," Mr. Wang said.

I continued: "I think the basic quality of the dishes should be grasped in this way. Then hold a cooking competition every once in a while, or a new dish research and development competition, to continuously improve the chef's enthusiasm for cooking, and make them feel fun, interesting, and naturally Focus on the dishes, so that the quality of the dishes will be continuously improved while the quality of the dishes is guaranteed. When the quality of the dishes improves, the business of the restaurant will increase. I don’t know if I’m right?”

"Yes, Old Tan is right, idol." Manager Chen said.

"That's the thing." Mr. Wang looked at me and said, "Old Tan, I found that you have a way of management."

"It's good to be led by the leaders. If there are two leaders, it doesn't matter if you don't think about it." I said.

"Old Tan is modest." Manager Chen said.

"Holding a cooking competition has another meaning. There are no activities in our family. The chefs cook every day except for cooking, and drinking after get off work. They don't have any spare time activities. Have a competition and an active atmosphere, don't always be dead. "I said.

"Then what do you think our front desk is doing?" Manager Chen asked.

I said to her, "You are asking the wrong person. Mr. Wang is our service director. He is a professional. You have to ask Mr. Wang."

Manager Chen turned his attention to Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang said: "Let's hold a service skill competition at the front desk."

Manager Chen said: "Our family is busy and there is no service, and we can't even order food. If you ask for a service competition, won't all the waiters have to leave?"

Mr. Wang thought for a while and said: "That's the thing. Our family is really busy, much busier than coarse grains. When we arrive at dinner, it's like a war, and we hear the guests keep calling for the waiter. Our waiter is also capable. All trot all the way, or else they won't be in a hurry."

"That's right, now Xiaomei hasn't trained any service skills, just how to respond to the voice and keep smiling." Manager Chen said.

"It's good to be able to serve with a smile." Mr. Wang said: "In the past two days, I have been helping to order food at the food stall, and sometimes I feel annoyed when customers yell at me. Totally dizzy."

"Otherwise, why do you think it's sold for [-] to [-] a day?" Manager Chen said.

Mr. Wang smiled and said: "Looking at the competition in the kitchen, the waiter is also jealous. You see, she doesn't care if you give a bonus of 100 yuan. If you give a prize a certificate, you will always care. It's honorable." Feeling." Mr. Wang said.

"Then what do you think we are going to do? I don't agree with the guarantee of service competition." Manager Chen said.

Mr. Wang turned his gaze to me.

(End of this chapter)