The story of a cook

Chapter 536 Too Late

Life is indeed rich and colorful, but the days are dull.We are living the normal life of ordinary people, without so much drama and vigor.

The life of working in a restaurant is two points and one line every day, the kitchen at work and the dormitory after get off work.Call my wife when I miss a child, drink some wine when I am depressed, and just think about it when I miss a woman. I dare not go out to find a lady.It's not like people think that you can be ironed at will and solve your own physical problems.

Of course, there are advantages, and no one said anything after they were engaged. At most, they became people's gossip conversations at the beginning, and after a while, no one talked about them.Now that the information is so developed, what happened in the morning is no longer news in the afternoon, who cares who you are with?Everyone is living their own life, taking care of their own life, no one will live in someone else's life.

In Binhai, in November, the weather turns cooler, and the sea breeze with a hint of chill in the air feels cold on people.

At the end of October, Wang Haitao, the chef of Marina Bay, Xia Haihua, the chef of Fulinju, Hao Guangsheng, the chef of Yanli Restaurant, Master Du, the chef of Coarse Grains, and Li Shuangliang, the chef of Xindian, got together to decide the culinary competition for a moment.

This competition is divided into three parts.

The first is cold dishes. Each family selects a cold dish master to participate, and the top three are selected;
The second is seafood. Each family selects a chef to participate, and the top three are selected;
The third is Northeast cuisine. Each family selects two masters to participate, and the top three are selected.

The format is the same as last time, awarding prizes and certificates.

Each family invested 1000 yuan to buy prizes and competition fees. I handed over the money to me for safekeeping, because the competition was still held in the old shop.

Our six chefs cannot be judges, nor can the boss be judges. In the end, it was decided that Wang Haitao would be responsible for finding two from the Binhai Catering Association, Xia Haihua would find two from the government, and I would be in charge of the rest. We would find seven of our four restaurants. a judge.

The date is set for the night of November 28th.

After it was settled, I made a report to the old man. The old man agreed and transferred Mr. Wang to be in charge of the competition as a whole.Mr. Wang is in charge of me. I am much more relaxed. He is familiar with these things and is willing to do them. The main reason is that he is not doing well in coarse grains. It is better to go back to the old store. Manager Chen and I can cooperate well with him.

Old restaurants are good candidates for the competition. Seafood is Zhao Xiaojun, cold dishes are Li Mingjuan, and Northeast dishes are Li Haicai and Zhang Zhicheng.After receiving the notice, the four of them began to actively prepare for the competition, and the rest of the masters who did not participate also cooperated with all their strength and gave a lot of good advice.

Each chef participating in this competition has only one dish, and there is a limit on the production time. All must be made on-site and completed within four to 10 minutes.Each master can bring a deputy, and processing in advance is not allowed.With these requirements, it is a good test for the participating masters' raw material selection, knife handling, first-cooking processing, cooking techniques, and production techniques.

What you want is real skill.

I didn't participate in the selection of Zhao Xiaojun's entries, but just gave some opinions. After all, they are participating. If they participate too much, they will not know who to listen to, and they will be at a loss. It's better to let them play freely.

Zhang Zhicheng's partner was Huang Liguo, Li Haicai's partner was Cao Jianjun, and Zhao Xiaojun's partner was Master Fu who had worked with him for a long time. Now Master Fu is also very good at cooking Northeast dishes, very clever, and he is a talent to create.Li Mingjuan's partner is her deputy.

I sincerely wish them good results in the competition.

The first thing Mr. Wang did when he was transferred back to the old store was to invite Manager Chen and me to dinner.Now I don't have much interest in eating and drinking, but people are very enthusiastic, so I don't want to go, so I went to Hongfu Restaurant.

"It's better to have our old store. Going back to the old store is like returning home." Mr. Wang said.

"It's an old store. You can do it too, Mr. Wang. We have closed all three stores." Manager Chen said.

"I'm a brick of the company, and I can move it wherever it is needed." Mr. Wang said with a smile.

I said, "It's just right for Mr. Wang to come back, and I'll leave the culinary competition to you."

"It's okay to leave it to me. The old man told me that he wants me to fix this matter better." He said.

Manager Chen asked: "Mr. Wang, how is the coarse grain business now?"

"Coarse grains are okay, more than 4 yuan a day." Mr. Wang said.

"More than 4 yuan is not too much for his family, and the old store can still sell [-] yuan a day." Manager Chen said.

"Now the old stores are selling very fast, and the new stores are now selling more than 8 yuan a day." Mr. Wang said.

I said: "Now all three of our stores are selling, and the business is good. There are quite a few other stores that can't sell ours."

"Old Tan is right. Our family is very powerful in Binhai. When it comes to Qinghua Pavilion, everyone knows about it." Mr. Wang said.

In the Binhai catering industry, the Qinghuage Group is now considered to be a big name. The three directly-operated stores have a daily turnover of more than 16, not to mention second to none.

It is also a great honor to work in such an enterprise.

The three of us chatted while drinking, and talked about the strike of the employees of the new store last time.

Mr. Wang said: "In fact, the old man doesn't need to be so anxious to ask the employees to sign the agreement. It can be signed after three months. It has just opened and the employees are not stable yet. I promise not to like to sign."

I said: "The old man asked the employees to sign, not necessarily right away, you can talk to the employees about the content of the agreement first, let everyone understand, sign slowly, just too anxious."

"I also told Mr. Zhai at the time not to rush to sign with the employees, but he disagreed, and ended up falling out, which was not good." Mr. Wang said.

"You are the most unlucky one. You belong to the eating scrape." Manager Chen laughed.

Mr. Wang smiled awkwardly.

Manager Chen went on to say: "It's Mr. Zhang who is always treacherous and cunning. He won't go there when the opening opens. When something goes wrong, he will settle the matter. The old man has to take a good look at it and arrange to be the manager of the new store."

"That can't be said, who told us that we didn't fix it well, and we can't blame anyone." Mr. Wang said, and then said: "Old Zhang won't grow up there, just look at it, at most he will work until the New Year, and he will have to withdraw after the New Year." .”

"It's difficult to manage the new store?" Manager Chen asked.

"It's difficult to manage, but it's not difficult to manage. The main reason is that you can't cooperate with each other, you can't connect, and you always feel that something is missing." Mr. Wang said: "When I was here, I didn't work hard, and it was difficult to communicate with the chef. The head chef was recruited by Mr. Zhai. He communicated directly with Mr. Zhai if there was anything wrong. He didn’t care about me at all. The two floor managers in front of him were also arranged by Mr. Zhai. Communicate directly with Mr. Zhai and use me as air. I am alone there, and no one listens to me. This is the case, and even if there is no such thing, I plan to quit and plan to resign with the old man. "

I said: "This time there is no need to resign, just to send a favor, let Mr. Zhang take care of it."

"Knowing that the new store is full of troubles, it's better not to let Zhou Xiaomei go. I'm still short of her." Manager Chen said.

"Zhou Xiaomei is good at work, has working ability, good image, and temperament. I heard that she hired two floor managers from the provincial capital, and now she has put the front together very well." Mr. Wang said, and looked at me after speaking.

I said, "Two managers were transferred from the provincial capital. She said that her work ability is not bad. I haven't seen her before."

Manager Chen asked: "Have the employees of the new store signed the agreement now?"

"No, I haven't asked about the new store since I came back, and it has nothing to do with me." Mr. Wang said, he could see that he was a little bit worried about being transferred from the new store.

I said: "The employees of the new store have not signed the agreement now. It is not easy to sign. The wages of the entire new store employees are now the same as those of the old store and coarse grains after signing the agreement. If they sign the agreement again, the salary is higher than that of the old store and coarse grains. What about the employees of the store and coarse grains? It is always said that it is a company, and a company can't arrange two salaries."

Mr. Wang said: "Now the old man is also riding a tiger, and the matter of the agreement is not mentioned."

"I heard that the salary in the new store is quite high, and Lao Zhai's salary is [-]." Manager Chen said.

"Isn't he the boss?" Mr. Wang said.

"Mr. Zhang used to be the boss this time, and his salary must be quite high." Manager Chen said, she was more concerned about this. Last month, the old man adjusted my salary and her salary. Her current salary is the same as that of Manager Meng.

I don't know how much the salaries of Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wang are, but I don't think they will be too high.I never inquire about salary, just pay me every month.In addition, salary belongs to personal privacy, it is best not to ask.How much other people earn is other people's business, and it has nothing to do with us.It is not good to know too much about some things, and it is easy to get upset.

Mr. Wang said to Manager Chen: "I really don't know what Lao Zhang's salary is. The old man transferred him to give him a chance. If the new store is not well organized, he may have to be laid off."

Manager Chen asked: "Mr. Wang, you and Mr. Zhang have been together for a long time. Has he managed a restaurant before?"

Mr. Wang said: "Old Zhang has been doing reception work all the time. There are few social restaurants in management. He is the manager of our Binhai Hotel and has worked there for ten years."

Hearing that it was the manager of the Binhai Hotel, Manager Chen smiled and said, "The Binhai Hotel is owned by the public, which is different from our private restaurant. It is all about face-saving work there, and everything is done by taking care of the leaders. Our family is different. , You have to work hard. I said that he always talks in the same way, and he seems to be too airy. It turned out that he came from the Binhai Hotel."

There is a difference between a hotel and a restaurant. Although they are both in the catering service industry, they are still managed differently.Generally, those who have managed restaurants can manage hotels, but those who have managed hotels may not be able to manage restaurants.

I don’t make any comments on whether Mr. Zhang can manage the new store well, because I know what I am, and I am capable of managing the kitchen of the new store. I believe that as long as I give me two months, I will be able to straighten it out, and I will be able to benefit in the third month.If you ask me to be the manager of a new store, I can't do it, I don't have that ability.If we can't do what others can do, then they will be better than us, I accept that.

The three of us didn't drink too much, mainly because I didn't drink so much, and the two of them lost their enthusiasm.But the chat was very happy, and we speculated on each other.

It was eleven o'clock when I came out of the hotel. This time, Manager Chen didn't need me to see him off. He took a taxi with Mr. Wang and left.

When I returned to the dormitory, Sister Ma fell asleep on my bed, and woke up when I heard the door open.She felt embarrassed that she fell asleep, her face was a little red, she sat there and said: "After changing the sheets and quilts for you, lie down for a while and think about it, and fell asleep."

I took advantage of the alcohol and said, "Then sleep here."

"Smelly, I'm sleeping here, are you still asking me to live?" She was angry.

I laughed, "Aren't we two sisters?"

She didn't answer the question to continue, but asked me: "I thought you had to take Manager Chen off again, but it seems that you didn't do it when you came back so early."

I said: "She took a taxi with Mr. Wang and left, and the two of them stopped by."

"It looks like you didn't drink much today?"

"I didn't drink much, we chatted."

"In the future, drink like this when drinking, don't drink too hard, this is just right."

"Okay, listen to you."

She gave me a blank look and said, "Listen to me, listen to me, you should stop drinking."

Taking off my coat and sitting on the bed, she made me a cup of tea.

Looking at her, I felt the urge to hold her in my arms.

"Sister Jiang will rest tomorrow."

She said, taking my coat off the bed and hanging it up.

"You can take care of Miss Jiang's rest, and everyone will listen to you." I said.

"Wang Hong's face-to-face is very good now. I see that he and Lao Yang are talking and laughing all day long." She said.

"Lao Yang is honest, she didn't bully Lao Yang, did she?"

"What's the bullying? Wang Hong doesn't show her temper right now, she's pretty good with everyone."

"She learned it from you, don't you know? She learned it from someone."

"What's wrong with me? I still learned from me."

I looked at her and said, "Sister, you don't know, you are old enough, there is no one in our kitchen who doesn't like you, and everyone is willing to be with you."

"Go, joke with your sister, drink the water, hangover, I'm going back."

She got up to leave, and I said, "Sit down for a while—"

"I don't even look at what time it is. I'm confused, or I'll leave early, and I won't be able to wait until this time." She said.

"Yes, it's too late," I said.

"too late--"

she went back.

(End of this chapter)