The story of a cook

Chapter 531 Research and Train Chefs
I thought it would be busy on October [-]st, but I didn't expect it to rain for three consecutive days from the [-]st, but it was not as busy as usual.It's raining, there are not many customers, and you can't go to the street to pull people, you can only accept your fate.

This is the case with catering. I am afraid of rain in summer and snow in winter.Bad weather affects business and also affects the mood of tourists.The mood of Zhang Li and her husband was affected, and the two went back as soon as they got angry.

I can only wish the two of them to have a baby soon.

The old man came over on the night of the [-]rd, and I, Manager Chen and the old man sat down and chatted together.

"Old Tan, are your points still valid?" the old man asked.

"Execution." I said.

"How's the effect?" the old man asked.

"It's okay, but not strong enough." I said.

"What happens after the employees sign the agreement?" the old man asked.

I said: "Very good, there are many old employees in the kitchen, and the agreement is good for the old employees."

"Where's the new employee?"

"The salary of the newcomer has to be paid in one go. If the agreement is signed again, the salary will be higher than that of the old employees. What will the old employees do? The new employees did not sign the agreement later, but they showed it to them. After reading it, they I don’t want to sign, I just came here, I want to do it for a while and have a look.” I said

The old man didn't speak, but thought about it.

"Isn't the basic salary of our old waiter [-]? After signing the agreement, it will be increased by [-], and now it is [-]. Waiting for the newly recruited waiter to give [-] is not at all, and he has to give [-] directly, and it will take three days." Rest, no three-day rest. I didn’t give three-day rest, but the salary was [-] yuan directly.” Manager Chen said.

"Isn't there no shortage of people now?" the old man asked.

Manager Chen said: "There is no shortage of people."

"Employee salary is a big issue, and it needs to be solved thoroughly." The old man said: "Our catering industry is a young industry, and it will become more and more difficult to find employees in the future. It is an indisputable fact that waiters and chefs are aging. How many young people love to learn to cook? There are not many, every family has a child, and they are not willing to let their children learn to cook—the wages are getting higher and higher.”

"October [-] is the Gregorian calendar year, and then the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, I have to be busy. Every Spring Festival is a time when it is difficult to find people. I think this year we have to prepare people now. If it is late, there will be not enough people. .” Manager Chen said.

"It's too early to prepare people," the old man said.

"It's getting late, it would be nice to find someone." Manager Chen said.

"Tell you that people are easy to recruit, it depends on how you recruit." The old man said.

"How?" Manager Chen asked.

"The salary of the waiter is [-], you can recruit it." The old man smiled.

Manager Chen smiled and said, "Then what are you talking about?"

"It's mainly for [-] lines. What about in the future? It will have to go up in the future, and the wages will not be lowered. In the future, the cost of labor will become higher and higher, and the profits will be smaller and smaller. Opening a restaurant will not make as much money as before." The old man said. explain.

What the old man said is indeed the case, the profit of the restaurant will no longer be the same as before.

"It looks okay now, but I didn't expect that in the future, the four major expenses of housing, water and electricity, personnel expenses, raw materials, and administrative operations will all rise and cannot be lowered. How do we make money by opening a restaurant? It is selling vegetables and drinks. Nothing else. The price of raw materials is rising slowly, but the price of vegetables has not been able to rise, so the profit has to be reduced? Now we can see more than 20 percentage points, and it will be good to see [-] points in two years. "

"That year I sold 1000 million and earned 180 million." Manager Chen said.

"It would be nice to earn 180 million. It's like coarse grain. Last year it caught fire, but this year it was hanged. I didn't make much money." The old man said.

"Opening a restaurant is still to make money." Manager Chen said with a smile: "If you don't make money, you won't decorate a new store."

The old man sighed, and said: "The building of the new store was 7000 million yuan, and the decoration cost 600 million yuan. It's not bad to earn it back in 20 years."

"You can't think that way. Isn't the building your own? It is guaranteed to appreciate in value in the future." Manager Chen said.

"Appreciation is certain. Even if we don't do it ourselves, we can still make money by renting it out." The old man said, "The main thing is not to save money. The bank loan will not be repaid? If the loan is not paid by the bank, it doesn't matter who you are, it will be given to you at that time." Auction, nothing."

"Leader, how much money do you use to repay the loan? I thought it was a one-off purchase." Manager Chen said.

The old man said: "You think too simply—" Then he said: "Now the old store is making money. Coarse food has been in business for four years, and it has just started to make money. Let alone the new store, it is fast to see the money back in a year and a half Yes, it has to be said that it is operating well.”

"The new store now costs more than [-] yuan a day, and the business is so good." Manager Chen said.

"The cost is also high. There are nearly 100 employees, and the monthly capital is [-] million." The old man said.

Manager Chen was taken aback and asked, "That much?"

"Then you should think about it." The old man said.

Manager Chen said: "Now the old store can earn 200 million yuan a year at least, the coarse grains can earn 200 million yuan a year, the new store can earn 400 million yuan if it doesn't, and the three stores add up to 800 million yuan a year. What are you doing with 800 million? Old Tan and I can’t even earn [-] a year.”

"What do you say if you can earn 800 million? You don't know that you can't earn that after being a manager for these years." The old man said: "The money earned in the past few years has been invested, even if you don't earn any money. Now everything is going up. It’s not bad to earn 400 million during the Chinese New Year.”

Seeing that I hadn't spoken for a long time, the old man asked, "What's Lao Tan's opinion?"

I said: "I don't have any opinion. The leader's analysis is correct. Now the profits of the catering industry are getting thinner and thinner, and the cost of labor and raw materials is getting higher and higher. It is really difficult to do." Then I said: "But it is still profitable, that is Earn more and less problem."

"I want to make money in business." The old man said, "The main reason is that money is getting harder and harder to earn."

"House water, electricity, and raw materials cannot be guaranteed, and can only be increased. Labor costs and operating costs cannot be reduced, but only these two aspects can be controlled." I said.

Manager Chen said: "The salary of the staff cannot be controlled, and it has to go up."

"It's sure to rise. Not only will it go up, but it's not easy to recruit people." I said.

Manager Chen nodded in approval.

I said: "Why do restaurants rely on people to work, especially our Chinese food, no one can't do the work, robots can do other things, and can't cook." Then I continued: "Like our dumpling restaurant, everything has to be made by people. We have to make it now, and it will not work if there are fewer people. Now the dumpling worker is [-], and in two years, at least [-]. The main thing is [-], and it counts if we can recruit people. Can't get it."

"There are people, and they can be recruited at any time." The old man said: "The cost will be high at that time, and the benefits will be high."

"Now we have to think that labor costs cannot be reduced, but we have to find ways to control them." I said, "Take the kitchen as an example. In our old shop, there are a total of twelve masters. Now the average salary is [-]. It can rise to [-] in the future. Our family now has a chef who leaves and has to hire a new chef immediately, otherwise no one cooks. The cost of the chef has not been reduced. In fact, our family can cultivate its own backup force. Now there are three restaurants Well, there are only about [-] chefs in charge, if we train [-] back-up chefs from the cutting board to the top, the cost will be reduced a lot, and the chefs trained by ourselves are still highly loyal and will not leave easily."

"I have always wanted to train chefs by myself, but the main reason is that I almost left after the training, and let others train me." The old man said.

I said, "We have to give people a chance, and at the same time, the wages have to rise gradually, and good people have to take care of them, otherwise they have to leave after they are trained. It's [-] a month in our house, and [-] a month outside. Who cares? We all have to go."

The old man said: "It is right to train yourself to be a chef. This is a long-term solution." Then he asked: "Is there any child who is a chopping board worth training?"

I said, "There is one, and it can be stir-fried."

"The old grass on the chopping board that was transferred to the coarse grains is also very good and can be cultivated." The old man said.

I nodded and said, "Well, he can do it too."

"Now our family has to train its own chef, not only for hot dishes, but also for cold dishes. This will not only preserve our traditional dishes, but also improve the quality of the dishes and reduce labor costs." The old man said.

What he said about reducing labor costs and keeping traditional dishes, I admit that it is still impossible to improve the quality of dishes. If you want to improve the quality of dishes, you need experienced masters to operate, plus strict assessment and inspection to improve .

"Old Tan, the old shop will be our training base from now on, and you are in charge of the training." The old man looked at me and said.

I said: "Okay, obey the arrangement."

"I see that you are good at training people. Now Xiao Du is doing very well in coarse grains. Didn't you bring them out? Bring a few more." The old man said with a smile.

"Master Du did a good job in the first place, so I didn't take it with me." I said.

"Lao Tanxing not only cooks well, but also manages well." Manager Chen said.

"You can do it too. The two of you cooperate very well. The old store was taken care of by you two. Now the company counts you two as the best." The old man said.

"Then give us a raise in wages." Manager Chen said with a smile on his face.

"The salary will definitely increase, don't worry." The old man smiled.

After finalizing the details of training chefs, I told the old man that Wang Haitao and his stores wanted to join forces to hold a cooking competition. The old man said yes, yes, let me study it with them in detail, and let him know when it will be held That's fine, and at the same time bring the coarse grains and the new store.

After the old man left, he went to the kitchen on the second floor to have a look, and found Wang Hong crying there, and she didn't say anything when asked what was going on.Jiang Yajun and Sister Ma were on the side, probably trying to persuade them.Jiang Yajun pulled me aside and said that Wang Hong's husband had come and told her to go back to her hometown.Wang Hong said she couldn't go back, and the two started arguing, and she scolded her husband and ran away.After her husband left, she felt wronged and shed tears alone.I told Jiang Yajun to try to persuade her, and if she couldn't do it, I would let her go back and find another minced meat.

"You don't know the chef. I heard that her husband is looking for a young lady again at home this time. It is impossible for Wang Hong to live with him again." Jiang Yajun said.

"Looking for Miss? How do you know?" I asked.

"I have some relatives with his family, and the two families live not far away, so I don't know anything about it," she said.

"Her husband is already looking for a young lady at home, why ask her to go back?"

"Who knows? Do it."

I shook my head, a little confused.

It was about to get off work, Zhang Zhicheng said to go out for a drink, he alone, the newcomers Huang Liguo and Cao Jianjun, and Li Haicai and Wang Tie, the five of them had already discussed and wanted to have a drink.Huang Liguo and Cao Jianjun haven't had dinner together since they arrived. They originally planned to get together after they were busy on the eleventh day. Since they were busy, they would go out for a drink.

After get off work, I came to Hongfu Restaurant, ordered the dishes and poured wine, and just 10 minutes after the dishes were served, Sister Ma called and said that Wang Hong’s husband had drunk too much and was making trouble at the entrance of the dormitory. I'll go back and have a look.I asked the five of them to drink first, and then walked out of the hotel to the dormitory.Getting angry while walking, drinking was interrupted, and if Wang Hong's husband was disobedient, he would have to give him a good beating.

20 meters away from the dormitory entrance, I heard Wang Hong yelling: "You fucking have to be shameless, just drink some horse urine and play, the child is still in front of you, can you show some face!"

Looking at the entrance of the building, there are seven or eight people around. Sister Ma is standing beside Wang Hong, Jiang Yajun is standing behind, the dormitory manager is standing on the steps, Wang Hong’s husband is standing three meters away on the opposite side, and there are a few people left It's not a big deal to watch the excitement.

"You, you just said to go back with me?" Wang Hong's husband said.

At this time I was still 15 meters away from them.

"I'll tell you again, if I don't go back, my ears are stuffed with chicken feathers? I still can't understand Chinese? Get out of here, I don't want to look at you!" Wang Hong shouted loudly, and it seemed that she had been shouting for a long time, a little Tired look.

Ten meters away from them.

"Say it again if you have the ability!" Her husband said.

"Go away, go away!"

"I fuck your mother, I'll kill you today." Her husband took out a small knife from his trouser pocket, the kind that people carry around, it can't be killed unless you lie there and ask you to stab it, otherwise you won't be able to. use.But no matter how useless it is, it’s still a knife. Even a cut requires a few stitches, and it won’t heal within a few days.

Wang Hong fought very well, but she was a woman after all, and she was afraid of knives, so she hid back in panic.Her husband didn't dare to do this normally, but today he used the strength of alcohol, which was strong and courageous, and stabbed Wang Hong with a knife with red eyes.

Just like the storyteller, it was too late and then quickly, and I didn’t know how to get there before Wang Hong, grabbed her husband’s hand holding the knife, and pushed down hard, but the knife didn’t fall, and her husband was taken by me. Fall forward.This stupid man, he let go of the knife. He didn't let it go. The knife scraped my calf directly when he fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)