Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 178 Eating Alone Food Has No Future
After Lou Xiaoe left and went back to his room to rest, Cao Zhiqiang did not leave immediately, but raised his legs, sat on the sofa and started the replay, to see if there was any problem with what he just said.

In fact, relying on the rewards given by the system, if Cao Zhiqiang only wants to do the hotel business, he doesn't need to cooperate with Lou Xiao'e at all, and he doesn't even need to cooperate with He Yuzhu.

The reason is very simple. He has "Three Thousands of Chinese Cuisine: You Are Hungry to Death", which contains detailed recipes for [-] dishes, which are extremely detailed. It is not so much about cooking as it is about the application of physical and chemical secrets.

With this secret skill, he can create a bunch of secret diet recipes that others can't learn, but are very popular.

In the restaurant business, in the final analysis, the food is delicious. As long as the food is delicious, then the business will not worry.

Compared with the taste of the food, everything else is imaginary.

For example, Cao Zhiqiang, he has top-level knife skills and top-level cooking spoons in Chinese cuisine. These two skills can already be regarded as the top in the country, but can you say that Cao Zhiqiang is a good chef now?

No, because Cao Zhiqiang no matter how good his knives are, and how good he is at cooking spoons, if he doesn't have the sense of a top chef and doesn't understand the combination of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and other tastes, it's just as useless.

For example, when Cao Zhiqiang first got the skills of knife skills and spoon turning, he excitedly made a sliced ​​meat with green onions for his sister, but because of his excitement, he forgot to add salt, which led to the failure of pretending to be coercive.

At first glance, it seemed that he was too excited to forget about this matter, but in the final analysis, Cao Zhiqiang did not have the consciousness of being a chef.

If you want to change to a chef who has learned to cook seriously and has been cooking for a long time, adding salt and other seasonings is a subconscious reaction, and there is no need to think about it, but Cao Zhiqiang has no such concept.

However, although Cao Zhiqiang has no sense of being a chef, if he follows the extremely fine cooking secrets, like cats and tigers, like high school students doing chemical experiments, the taste of the food will not be bad, it is nothing more than Do it once instead of twice, do it a few more times, and sum up the lessons.

With a complete cooking process and recipe, he never worried that there would be no special dishes in the catering industry.

Not to mention anything else, there are more than a dozen secret recipes of Malatang in the recipes, but these Malatang recipes are enough to start a food empire.

As for the hot pot base recipe and dipping sauce recipe, there are many in it. With these, he can also create a hot pot alliance by himself without partnering with others.

So, since Cao Zhiqiang has money and technology, why did he pull Shazhu and Lou Xiaoe and let them take a share?
The answer is - exchange of interests.

The purpose of Cao Zhiqiang pulling He Yuzhu into the group is self-evident, it is for the relationship between the big leaders behind He Yuzhu and Lou Xiao'e.

In addition, He Yuzhu himself is a very high-level chef with a strong sense of chef. Letting him be the head chef and chef teacher will also be very beneficial to Cao Zhiqiang's future catering industry.

After all, it is impossible for Cao Zhiqiang to spend his mind on cooking all day, nor is it possible to be the principal of some chef training class, it would involve too much energy.

In this period, there is a real shortage of chefs in China, especially professional chef training institutions, so Cao Zhiqiang came up with this one step earlier, and the value is self-evident.

He Yuzhu's personality is also good, he belongs to the kind that you give him some face and benefits, and he works wholeheartedly, without too much fuss.

As for taking food home and so on, as long as you include it in the cost calculation, it's not a problem. It's better than paying a higher price to hire other unfamiliar chefs.

As for Lou Xiao'e, the reason for letting her join the gang was to build a good relationship with her, let her taste the sweetness of working with him, and then trust him even more.

Only when a certain degree of mutual trust is established can Cao Zhiqiang ask Lou Xiaoe to help, allowing Cao Zhiqiang to extend his tentacles to Xiangjiang.

According to the character design in the TV series, although Lou Xiaoe is very smart in business, she has a kind nature and is very emotional.

For example, in the second half of the Qingman courtyard, He Yuzhu turned the courtyard into a nursing home, and almost all the funds came from the restaurant opened by Lou Xiaoe.

In other words, He Yuzhu and Xiaodang Huaihua almost clearly invested all the profits of the hotel into the courtyard nursing home.

Does Lou Xiaoe know?Of course she knew, but she chose to forgive, or in other words, she just took it as the hotel was given to Sha Zhu for nothing.

What's more, Lou Xiao'e opened the restaurant for Shazhu's sake, and she thought that after chasing Shazhu, she would give the restaurant to Qin Huairu as compensation for her.

In addition, Lou Xiaoe also said before that she came to China before taking her son to see Sha Zhu, and she already had other projects in China.

As for the project, although the TV series did not specify it clearly, it is most likely also in the catering industry.

The reason is very simple. If Lou Xiaoe was not engaged in the catering industry, she would not know so much about the catering industry. Moreover, as soon as the restaurant opened for Shazhu opened, she immediately transferred her own staff from the south as the manager, and used more advanced management methods. , took the overall management of the restaurant.

If Lou Xiao'e hadn't been involved in the catering industry a long time ago, she wouldn't be so understanding. After all, Lou Xiao'e had never made a living in a restaurant before leaving Xiangjiang.

So there is a high probability that after Lou Xiaoe's family ran away to Xiangjiang, they started the catering industry, or at least had a catering industry, and let Lou Xiaoe take control.

This is also understandable, after all, after Lou Xiaoe's family ran away to Xiangjiang, they had nothing but money.

And working in the catering industry was one of the best livelihoods for those who fled Xiangjiang back then.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e likes Shazhu, so it may not be because of Shazhu that she joined the catering industry.

Of course, this is just Cao Zhiqiang's conjecture. The specific projects that Lou Xiao'e is running are not mentioned in the TV series, and Cao Zhiqiang can't be sure.

But at least, if Cao Zhiqiang brings the restaurant business to Shazhu, Lou Xiaoe will definitely be tempted.

After all, one of the reasons Lou Xiaoe returned to the mainland was to relive old dreams with He Yuzhu.

Because in the TV series, Lou Xiaoe once said to herself that after she got divorced, it was difficult for her to find out that Shazhu was her favorite, so she wanted to come back and rebuild the old one.

For example, this time, there is a high probability that she also wants to balance public and private interests. First, she will find out if there is a suitable investment project, and then go to see Sha Zhu by the way.

If Sha Zhu is not married, then of course it would be best, she can immediately launch an offensive without any scruples.

If Sha Zhu gets married, she will have to think of a way, such as not meeting her first, and bringing her son with her later.

To put it bluntly, the current Lou Xiao'e is no longer the idiot and sweetness of the past, and she also has her own little girl.

But even so, her kind and soft-hearted nature is hard to change. No matter how principled she is in the business world, she will still be soft-hearted when people cry with her about being poor and weak.

For example, in her subsequent struggle with Qin Huairu, she lost because of soft-heartedness. Of course, her good son who looked kind but was actually a bit of a motherfucker also played a big role.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e was principled and wanted to reform Shazhu prematurely, which was also a major reason for Lou Xiao'e's failure.

If Lou Xiao'e hadn't always wanted to change Shazhu, violated Shazhu's taboo, and caused Shazhu's backlash, she wouldn't have lost so completely in the end.

After all, from the bottom of his heart, Shazhu really wavered, and really wanted to live with Lou Xiao'e.

If it weren't for Qin Huairu's high level of tea art, coupled with the various moral kidnappings of one, two, three uncles and others, and Xu Damao's reverse help, it is really possible for Sha Zhu to divorce Qin Huairu and then live with Lou Xiao'e.

To put it bluntly, on the surface, Lou Xiaoe’s return to China is mainly for business, but in fact, the real purpose is to find Sha Zhu and make the family complete. This is what Lou Xiaoe’s mother meant.

After all, as people get older, money is actually not so important to them, but family affection is more important, and they miss the beauty of the past even more, everyone is like this.

Because Lou Xiao'e said that if she wants to make money and make money, she doesn't need a fool at all. Now that she is a Hong Kong businessman, there are people begging her for cooperation everywhere, so she doesn't have to worry about business at all.

In addition, does Lou Xiaoe really have nothing to do with being in the mainland?not necessarily!

You know, Lou Xiao'e is not a native of Xiangjiang, but grew up in the capital and is very familiar with the capital.

Her father was a big capitalist back then and the major shareholder of Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant.

Thinking about a character like her father, how could it be possible to say that she had no connections back then.

If she had no connections, her father would not have been able to sneak away as a family back then.

It's just that these connections may not be as powerful as the big leaders that Sha Zhu knew, so when something happened, Lou Xiaoe's relationship with her father didn't work, and it was only thanks to the big leaders behind He Yuzhu that the situation was resolved.

If it weren't for the help of the big leader at the beginning, Lou Xiao'e's parents and relatives would never have had the chance to run away, so it is not an exaggeration to say that He Yuzhu is the benefactor of the Lou family.

Judging from the later plot, Lou Xiao'e's father should have died a long time ago, and then Lou Xiao'e's brothers and sisters probably didn't deal with Lou Xiao'e, and they all separated.

Thinking about it, Lou Xiao'e's mother was born as a concubine after all, and Lou Xiao'e is her mother's child, but Lou Xiao'e's older brothers and sisters are not from the same mother.

It used to be fine in China, but once something happened and you fled to Xiangjiang, you still expect to continue to be harmonious?

This also explains why Lou Xiao'e's old mother always wanted to go back to the capital, and even wanted to live in a courtyard house for the elderly instead of staying in the bustling Xiangjiang.

Most likely, apart from the fact that the old people miss the past and want to return to their roots, it is also possible that Lou Tan doesn't like Xiangjiang because it makes her sad.

Don't say that Lou Tan's heart is moved, and he fell in love with He Yuzhu's father, that's really not true, at least it didn't show in the TV series.

All in all, He Yuzhu has that kind of friendship with Lou Xiao'e, so Lou Xiao'e can help with all his strength without saying anything.

But Cao Zhiqiang is different.

Even Cao Zhiqiang was born in a courtyard house, but this friendship is of no use to Lou Xiaoe, and it is still a deduction item.

After all, Lou Xiaoe had more bad impressions than good impressions of that courtyard house at this time.

Maybe I have to say, why did Cao Zhiqiang have to hang Lou Xiao'e?

Now that there are so many domestic and Hong Kong businessmen, why can’t they find others to cooperate with?

Yes, there are many Hong Kong businessmen in China at this time, but not many are reliable.

As for Lou Xiaoe, Cao Zhiqiang took advantage of his familiarity with the plot, at least he knew the basics, and knew that this person valued friendship and principles, and was the best business partner.

Moreover, her son is a typical bad guy with soft ears, and Lou Xiao'e only has one son, who is usually a baby, so as long as He Xiao is controlled in the future, it is equivalent to controlling Lou Xiao'e.

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang feels at ease when cooperating with Lou Xiaoe.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang chose to cooperate with Lou Xiaoe, and there is another most critical factor-policy factors.

You know, the kind of chef training course that Cao Zhiqiang wants to hold sounds like that, but as far as it is concerned, it is actually a franchised restaurant group, or a restaurant company.

However, in China at present, since the establishment of private economy is not allowed in the country, the current domestic companies are either state-owned or collective, or they are foreign capital and joint ventures. There are no private companies belonging to Chinese people.

To open a restaurant by an individual, in addition to contracting public canteens, he can only use a self-employed license, and self-employed has many restrictions, such as the number of employees cannot exceed eight.

Eight people is enough for a small restaurant, but it is far from enough for the franchise chain group that Cao Zhiqiang wants to open.

That's why Cao Zhiqiang took the sidelines and started a chef training class.

In this way, those chef students who come to the restaurant to learn their skills are apprentices, apprentices who come to learn their skills, not restaurant employees who are hired to work.

Since you are not an employee, you don't need to follow the eight-person limit for self-employed workers.

As for the apprentices, they also participated in cooking and serving dishes during their studies...

Well, it's voluntary, and we can't stop it.

As long as you don't pay a salary, you are just an apprentice, not an employee!

You see, in this way, Cao Zhiqiang can circumvent the limit on the number of employees of the self-employed.

As for the franchise model, franchisees contribute money, and Cao Zhiqiang's restaurant provides personnel and technology. The two parties work together to avoid restrictions on investment scale.

As for this matter, if people really want to ask, you can say it like this, that is, someone else opened a restaurant, and then I learned technology from me, and I recommended him to be a chef. We are a cooperative relationship between friends.

As long as it is not a direct relationship between the top and bottom, and it is not a business license, it can circumvent the restrictions on the scale of the self-employed business.

As for the restaurant opened by others with the same name and decoration as mine during this period, it can be said that they thought my signboard was good and they wanted to use it directly for doctrine with my consent.

There is no patent law in this area in China at this time, and the restaurant has the same name as yours, and the decoration and dishes are almost the same, so there is no problem at all.

As for the franchise fee and management fee, you can say that it is a personal thank you fee, or an earnest money. Anyway, as long as it is voluntary, it is easy to say.

In other words, this kind of franchising chain created by Cao Zhiqiang can avoid various business scale problems of self-employed individuals, and can also build a brand and expand its influence.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang has the secret recipe of special dishes and the loyalty of those chef apprentices, he has mastered the core technology of this kind of franchise restaurant chain.

This point, look at the original plot, when Yu Li drove He Yuzhu away and let He Yuzhu's apprentice Fatty be the chef, but the business plummeted and it was obvious.

The key to the taste of many dishes is the recipes of the dishes. As long as these recipes are not handed over and are only used as seasonings for the finished products of the franchise stores below, they are not afraid of others stealing them.

Just like Coca-Cola, it only supplies raw pulp to various places, and the branch factories in various places only dilute the puree and sell it.

The same is true for franchised chain stores. As long as the seasonings for all special dishes are provided by the headquarters for all the dishes of the franchised store, then the franchised store's lifeblood can be grasped.

If the franchise stores refuse to accept the management, they will not provide secret seasonings and ingredients, and you will not be able to make special dishes.

Without specials, you are just an ordinary restaurant. If the name is the same, it will only be regarded as a parody. Customers eat it once and never go again.

In addition, people in this era pay more attention to the inheritance of master and apprentice. If the apprentice betrays the master privately for the sake of profit, everyone will look down on you, even the guests will look down on you. use you.

In the original plot, after the fat man betrayed He Yuzhu, he was pushed out by He Yuzhu's various insults, which was a typical portrayal at that time.

That is to say, the chef training class project that Cao Zhiqiang wants to run is essentially to use the traditional master-student relationship, and of course, the benefits of regular salary payments from the headquarters to maintain a close-knit small group of chefs.

In this way, with the addition of a secret recipe that cannot be disclosed, other franchisees are controlled, so as to circumvent the country's self-employed policy.

But this kind of thing, after all, is playing side-by-side, and there is still a certain degree of danger. After all, this model has no backstage, and once it makes money, it is easy to be targeted by others.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang had an alternative plan, that is, if there was any trouble, he would go to the Hongguang Machinery Factory and use the Hongguang Machinery Factory to scare off ghosts and snakes.

But now, since I met Lou Xiao'e so early, I can have a new mode of operation.

If Cao Zhiqiang can get Lou Xiao'e to agree to invest and cooperate, he can take Lou Xiao'e's plan to cooperate with him to open a catering company, plus a letter of introduction from Uncle Wang, and go to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for negotiations.

Cao Zhiqiang remembers that the first private company in China in his previous life was also because the company’s boss Jiang wanted to cooperate with a Hong Kong businessman, but he was originally a self-employed person, and self-employed persons are not qualified to set up a joint venture company.

In the end, after many efforts, he finally obtained special approval and established the first private company.

It was also from that moment that private enterprises began to loosen, and various private companies sprung up like mushrooms in the future, so that year was also called the first year of domestic enterprises.

Cao Zhiqiang decided to copy the story of Boss Jiang, and also made a cooperation plan with Lou Xiaoe, and then took the plan of this joint venture catering company, plus the letter of introduction from Uncle Wang, to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for negotiation.

At that time, the other party will most likely agree to let him set up a private catering company.

As long as he agrees to set up a private catering company, he can happily enter into a joint venture with Lou Xiaoe.

Once it becomes a joint venture catering company, there will be more benefits, at least three years of tax exemption, right?
And even if joint ventures pay taxes, they are much less than state-owned enterprises, which can be said to be quite cost-effective.

Furthermore, joint ventures can facilitate import and export trade more conveniently. If internal employees of joint ventures want to travel between inland areas and Xiangjiang, the review by relevant departments is also looser and easier to pass.

This means that once Cao Zhiqiang and Lou Xiao'e really set up a joint venture company, it will be more convenient for Cao Zhiqiang to go to Xiangjiang to do business in the future, at least the inland side.

It means that through this joint venture company, Cao Zhiqiang has an identity and a platform to go to Xiangjiang from the inland.

What's more, if because of this incident, the domestic private enterprises are torn open, the hidden benefits to themselves will be even more.

For example, the title of private enterprise No.1 probably has to be worn on oneself.

At that time, I can register several companies.

For example, registering a hot pot chain company, or Malatang chain company, I can do all of these by myself.

All in all, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of recruiting Lou Xiaoe into a joint venture company.

This is the benefit that Cao Zhiqiang can think of, and I am afraid that more benefits will be known slowly in the future.

"Oh, it's not easy."

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang pinched the bridge of his nose.

"I can't help it. I'm in the initial stage now. I have to be carried in a sedan chair. There is no future if I eat alone!"

Just as he thought of this, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Cao Zhiqiang looked up, but it was Shen Zhenhua who came.

"Boss, are you finished?" Shen Zhenhua nodded and asked with a smile.

"En." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, no longer sitting, but stood up directly, "It's over for the time being, Hua Zi, you did a good job, and I will give you a bonus later."

"Then can I go back?" Shen Zhenhua smiled, "I'm hungry and want to go back to eat."

As soon as he said this, his stomach suddenly growled.

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly laughed: "What are you going to eat when you go back, let's go, I'll take you to eat western food, just eat from this restaurant!"

"Ah?" Shen Zhenhua was also taken aback for a moment, then quickly waved his hands, "I can't help it, the western food here is expensive, I can't afford it."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, and patted Shen Zhenhua on the shoulder: "Okay, don't pretend, I'll treat you, and you don't need to spend money!"

"Really?" Shen Zhenhua's eyes lit up.

"Really!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile, "You have helped me so much, what's the point of treating you to a Western meal?
Besides, I'm hungry too, why don't we just come together and treat it as if you eat with me. "

"Hey hey." Shen Zhenhua scratched his head, "That's a good relationship, and I've got what I want, and I dare not ask for it."

"Oh hello." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "You are much more slippery than Lao Yang."

Shen Zhenhua quickly smiled and said: "No, boss, I'm just a slippery talker, and I never do things slippery!"

"Okay, okay, I know you're reliable." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Let's go, eat western food! Let's try the western food here!"

(End of this chapter)