The story of a cook

Chapter 515 Goodbye Yao Liying

Seeing Mr. Wang turn his gaze to me, I said, "I don't understand the front desk, if the kitchen is okay."

"Help come up with ideas." Manager Chen said.

"Old Tan, help me think about it, the front desk and the back kitchen are a family." Mr. Wang said.

I thought for a while and asked, "What do you most want to improve at the front office?"

"I want to improve the most—" Manager Chen said: "Ordering, but now I can't order food. Three orderers are not enough, and the waiters have to come up to order. Our waiters are not very familiar with the dishes. It’s very slow and time-consuming. If the waiter orders one table, the orderer has finished ordering for two tables.”

Mr. Wang said: "Yes, our family is delaying ordering food now. We can't order food for half a day. There are not enough orderers, and we can't recruit them now."

I said, "It's time for a lack of people."

"Now there is a shortage of people in the front and back kitchens of coarse grains. I think our family is okay and there is no shortage of people." Mr. Wang said.

"We are short of waiters at the front desk. We can't order dishes, and the customers are anxious when they serve, and they are confused. They can't wait to order the dishes right away." Manager Chen said, with a look of bitterness and hatred on his face.

"It would be great if the waiters can order food, and it can relieve a little bit." Mr. Wang said.

I asked: "The waiter is slow in ordering, is it because he doesn't know much about the dishes?"

"Yes, I just don't know much about the dishes, and sometimes customers don't know what to ask." Manager Chen said.

I thought about it for a while and said, "Do you think this is okay? Now the standards of our dishes are almost all finished. I will tell the waiter all about it when I have time."

Mr. Wang said, "I should tell you something."

I said: "You may not be able to remember it even if you tell it. Let's do it this way and hold a competition for special dishes."

"How?" Manager Chen asked.

I said: "I write out the basic taste characteristics, raw material composition, dish form and marketing skills of all the dishes in our family, and then make a copy of the form, and each waiter has a copy. How to compete? If the whole test The waiter promises not to recite the words. Let’s set up five bonus levels in this way, the first prize is [-], the second prize is [-], the third prize is [-], the fourth prize is [-], and the fifth prize is [-]. .The game will be played in the form of lottery and quick answer."

"There are a total of 36 waiters in our family, are they all participating?" Manager Chen asked.

I said: "It may not be better to participate in all."

"Competition in groups." Mr. Wang said: "The 36 waiters are divided into three teams, and the first team selects five representatives to participate."

"Divided into three teams? Five representatives?" Manager Chen didn't understand for a moment.

Mr. Wang said: "Well, I'll go back and study it. After the study, the three of us will meet again. The front desk will know better than the dishes. This is okay. We are trying to solve this problem."

Manager Chen said: "Then you go back and think about it, let me do other things, I can't do it, I'm afraid of using my brain." After she finished speaking, she looked at her watch and exclaimed: "It's past nine o'clock. After ordering, I haven't eaten yet." Then he said to Mr. Wang, "Mr. Wang, what do you think we should do?"

Mr. Wang smiled and said: "I invite you two to dinner, the three of us haven't sat together for a long time, let's go out and have a drink."

Manager Chen said: "Go out and have a drink, I'm hungry, let's go, Old Tan."

After speaking, I stood up and wanted to leave. I said, "Both of you, go drink. I won't go. I'm not feeling well recently, so I can't drink."

"Old Tan, do you dare to say that you can't drink alcohol?" Manager Chen stared at me and said, "Don't think I don't know, you drink in the dormitory every day, accompanied by a woman."

"Who did you hear that from?" I asked with a smile.

"Never mind who I heard it from, is there such a thing?" Manager Chen looked at me with a half-smile.

Mr. Wang stood up and patted me, and said, "Let's go, Old Tan, have a drink. It's boring without you. If you go to drink, Sister Chen won't talk about you."

I went out to drink with the two of them, but fortunately Manager Chen didn't drink too much this time, so I didn't have to send her home, so I went back to the dormitory and had a good sleep.

When Zhou Lan opened the door of the restaurant, she attracted the attention of many people, no matter men or women.

Men's eyes are fiery, women's eyes are jealous.

Long hair, sunglasses, and a seductive face.A tight black tank top with her belly button exposed.The black hot pants only covered the buttocks, and the two white and sexy long legs caught people's attention.The whole figure is uneven, and the whole body is sexy and charming.

There was also a woman who came in with her. Compared with her, this woman was far behind. Although she was also a beauty, she was much inferior.

Zhou Lan ordered four dishes, one serving of dumplings, and sat down in an elegant seat in the small hall on the first floor.

"Waiter—" Zhou Lan shouted.

The waiters were all busy, Mr. Wang heard someone calling the waiter to hurry over.

"What do you need?" Mr. Wang asked.

Zhou Lan looked at President Wang and asked, "Are you the manager?"

Mr. Wang replied with a smile: "Yes, I am the manager."

"Is your chef's surname Tan?" Zhou Lan asked.

"It's Tan, are you his friend?"

"Well, it's his friend, can you call him?"

"Okay, just wait a moment."

When Mr. Wang came to the kitchen and called me, I was busy cooking and there were still four dishes to cook. He said that a beautiful woman was looking for me. I said that beautiful women are not good, and the cooking is done.

After the four dishes were fried, another four came, and they continued to fry. While frying, they forgot about the fact that someone was looking for me. The loudspeaker shouted: "Chef Tan, someone is looking for you."

Looking at the food department, Zhou Lan stood there and looked at me with a smile.

Get out quickly.

"When did you come?" I asked.

"It's been more than half an hour, why wait for you not to come out, I've been standing here watching you cooking for a long time," she said.

I was a little embarrassed and said, "Sorry, I'm busy at night and there are too many dishes."

"Is the chef still cooking?" she asked.

"The head chef also has to cook." Then he asked her: "Where are you sitting? Did you order? Please."

"The dishes are cold." She said, "I'll meet someone for you."

Follow her to the private seat, seeing the woman sitting there, I feel familiar.

"You don't know me anymore, Brother Tan?" The woman stood up and said to me with a smile.

I was a little blindfolded, and said, "It looks familiar, but I can't remember it."

"Yao Liying—"

When she said she was Yao Liying, I suddenly remembered, it's not a big deal, she is Yao Liying.In my memory, she was still a little girl, I hadn't seen her for more than ten years, and now she was a woman.If she didn't say that she was Yao Liying, she wouldn't dare to recognize her.

"You—" I said in surprise, "Why are you?"

The mood at that time was surprise, surprise, and incredible.

"Didn't expect that?" Yao Liying asked with a smile.

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it." I said.

Zhou Lan said: "Don't think about it, sit down." Then she asked me: "Is it a surprise?"

I sat down and said, "It's really surprising." Then I asked, "Why are you two together?"

Zhou Lan said: "Why can't we two be together?" After speaking, he smiled, and then asked: "Is it normal for us two to be together?"

"I didn't expect—I didn't expect to meet you two here." I said.

"I didn't expect that either." Yao Liying said: "Sister Lan went back and told me that I ran into you. I still didn't believe it. I thought she was lying to me. She told the truth, saying what are you doing here? I have eaten at your house. I’ve made dumplings several times, but I haven’t seen you, so I didn’t know you came to Binhai as well.”

I said, "I came last year. When you came, I must have been cooking in the kitchen. It's impossible to see you."

After speaking, I looked at the two of them and saw my old friend in a foreign country. I was very excited and very kind.Unexpectedly, Yao Liying also came to Binhai and was with Zhou Lan.

"I didn't know you were here. If I knew, I would have called you." Yao Liying said happily.

"It's not easy meeting old friends in Binhai, come, let's have a drink." Zhou Lan suggested.

The three of us took a sip.

"How did you two get together?" I asked.

Zhou Lan said: "The child has no mother, it's a long story." After she finished speaking, she looked around and saw that there were no customers, so she asked me, "Brother Tan, are you off work?"

I said, "Not yet, the waiter gets off work at ten o'clock."

"Is it okay for you to come out for a drink at this hour?" She asked.

I smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm off work at this point."

She said: "It's good to get off work, the dishes are cold, I planned to come to you to chat, but I didn't expect you to be very busy, so Brother Tan, are you okay?"

"It's okay." I said.

"Don't drink at your place, go to my place. It just so happens that I have nothing to do today. Let's have a good chat. We haven't seen each other for more than ten years." She said.

"It's at my place, why don't you go when you're here, I'll ask the kitchen to heat up the dishes." I said.

"You get off work at ten o'clock, and it's almost nine o'clock now. If you're not here, go to my place." She said.

Yao Liying also said: "Let's go, Brother Tan, we promise we won't finish chatting at ten o'clock, and we delayed the waiter from get off work. Then it's time to scold us. I used to be a waiter, and the most annoying thing is that customers don't leave until late. Let's go, take the food." , Sister Lan’s house has everything, let’s go to her house to have some hot dishes and let’s have a good drink.”

Thinking about it, the three of us may not be sure when we will drink and chat. It is guaranteed that it will not be over at ten o'clock, which will delay the waiter from getting off work.If I’m a good customer, and I’m still the head chef, I’ll eat at a restaurant with my friends until midnight, and the waiter will scold me even if they don’t say anything, so I might as well go out to eat.

So I packed the food, and I went to the kitchen to explain to Zhao Xiaojun. Now that Master Du is gone, I have to tell Zhao Xiaojun to take care of some things. It is not enough to tell Wang Yaxin, no one listens to him.

Zhou Lan rented a two-bedroom house in Binhai, where she lived with Yao Liying.

After arriving, Yao Liying went to the kitchen to warm up the dishes, and Zhou Lan and I sat on the sofa and chatted.

"Didn't I quit Shengmei after divorcing my second child?" she said.

I nodded.

"First, I went to the Yellow River Hotel. I worked there for three months. His family took care of the girls, you know." She said.

"I know." I said.

"I remember that I was going to his house to fuck you and you advised me not to go, for fear that I would become a lady too, but at that time I didn't know anyone, and I had to go home if I didn't work. I just got divorced and didn't want to go home, so I went to his house After doing it, you have to find a job for yourself, don’t you?”

"That's true."

"Do you remember your friend Hebei? The one with you and the second child?" she asked.

I thought of Hebei and said, "Remember, but I know you don't know him."

"I didn't know each other. Later, I met at the Yellow River Hotel." She said: "I started working as a young lady in the second month of my work at the Yellow River Hotel. At the beginning, I didn't make a show. I just sang and drank with the guests, mainly drinking. , isn't it selling wine, there is a commission, so you can earn more."

I nodded.

Yao Liying brought up the two hot dishes and put them on the coffee table, and said to me and Zhou Lan, "The dumplings will be ready soon, you two have a lot of alcohol, so drink first." After speaking, she went into the kitchen.

"Let's drink first." Zhou Lan said, pouring the wine.

We both took a sip.

"I went to Shanghuanghe Hotel in Hebei, did you two know each other?" I asked.

"Yes, once he went to play with some friends, and I happened to be with them, and they started chatting. I said that I had worked in Shengmei, and he said that he knew everyone in Shengmei, and chatted with those who came and went, but I didn't say it was the second daughter-in-law," she said.

(End of this chapter)