Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 504
"Zhiqiang, talk to Zhiqiang." Seeing Cao Zhiqiang sitting there drinking tea and not talking, Cao Jiajia couldn't help but frowned and said, "You are the one who started the food, and you, the big boss, have to take care of this matter." an idea."

Only then did Cao Zhiqiang put down his teacup slowly, and smiled softly: "Don't worry, sister, you also said that the chef who eats the sky, except for the two silly uncles who brought them over from the cafeteria of their unit, everyone else is our celebrity." People from the optical machinery factory.

These people are all paid by us, even if Uncle Silly really wants to leave, it is impossible for them to leave with Uncle Silly.

Once they leave with the silly uncle, even if they don't worry about wages, are they afraid that I will let the machinery factory fire them?

Without the status of state-owned enterprise workers, they can only be self-employed cooks, with no way out, and all the way to the dark.

Therefore, even if there are people who go with the silly uncle, the number will not be many, and it will not affect anything.

You, if you care about it, you will be chaotic. "

Cao Jiajia was stunned for a moment, then slapped her hands and laughed, "Oh, look at me, I forgot about this, it's true that if you care about it, you will be chaotic."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Jiajia smiled and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "Brother, you thought of this at the beginning, that's why you asked an intern from your machinery factory to be an apprentice to the silly uncle, because you are afraid that such a day will come?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "That's not true. The biggest purpose of my doing this was to divert some of the redundant staff from our machinery factory and let Shiweitian become a pilot for a chef training class.

In other words, it is because our machinery factory has too many redundant employees and the burden on the factory is too heavy, so we need to find some jobs and outlets for some idle workers.

From this perspective, Shiweitian is not only an ordinary restaurant, but also a place with a training school, a bit like a hospital affiliated to a medical school.

Therefore, whether it is an apprentice chef or a waiter, they are all full-time employees of Hongguang Machinery Factory, but their jobs are different.

Even your sister, your official file is actually in the Hongguang Machinery Factory, but you were first transferred to work in Hongguang Publishing House, and then transferred from Hongguang Publishing House to work for food for the sky.

From this point of view, although the restaurant Shiweitian is my own, all the staff working in it are employees of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

I promised our factory and those apprentices at the beginning. Food for the Sky is just a pilot project. They are all seconded to work in the past and belong to the dispatch worker model.

Once they have learned the real skills in the food for the sky, I will continue to open a second, third, or even four, five, six, seven, eight, and let more idle workers in the factory go to work, thereby slowing down the factory. The wage pressure of the workers here is convenient for the transformation and reform of our factory. "

"Ah, that's what happened." Cao Jiajia suddenly realized, "I mean, we have too many waiters and chefs, so that's how it is.

But in this way, won't our own pressure be too great? "

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Sister, you have been managing the food for the sky yourself, and you should know best whether the food for the sky is in the end or not."

Cao Jiajia frowned and said, "It's not a loss but it's not a loss. Although the number of chefs and waiters in our family is more than five times that of other similar restaurants, our business is very good, dine-in and take-out, and the turnover is also large, so the overall Still pretty lucrative.

However, I always thought that you invited too many people, and it would be fine to cut half of them, but you didn't refuse any of them.

It turns out that you are planning to let those people become apprentices, and then open a branch store, so that these people can go directly to the branch store to work.

Good good good idea, really good idea. "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "It was a good idea in the first place."

After a short pause, Cao Zhiqiang said again: "Actually, I originally thought that it would be enough to be able to barely maintain a balance, and it would be fine to operate at a loss if it couldn't be done.

After all, I don't care about the loss in front of me, what I care about is the future.

As long as those chefs and waiters are trained, everything is worth it.

It's just that, at the beginning, the business was too bad. I think you were all emotional, and you couldn't hold it back, so you tried a small trick, found a few foreigners, and helped us do a little publicity. In addition, Uncle Silly came up with a takeaway model, and if one is not careful, it will make food go crazy. "

"Ah!" Cao Jiajia said in surprise, "The few foreign tourists who came to eat in our restaurant were interviewed on the spot and even published in the newspaper later. You did it?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled.

"Otherwise, where do you think there are so many foreigners, who just happen to eat food, who are full of praise after eating, and there are two reporters who are eating next to them, who happen to be caught by reporters, who happen to be photographed and recorded, It happened to be in the newspaper again.

It was all carefully designed by me, including inviting some foreigners to act in the show, and reporters, but it cost me a lot of money.

Of course, the effect is also great. You see, when it was published in the newspaper, everyone knew that our restaurant was favored by foreigners. The so-called foreign monks can chant scriptures. Since foreigners are full of praise, why not go and try it? "

"That's right." Cao Jiajia nodded, "That's not right. Later, there were many foreigners who kept going to our place to eat. You paid for that too?"

"That's not true." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head with a smile, "That's because I had a meal with the manager of the travel agency. In the future, foreigners who come to Beijing to travel, especially Europeans, Americans and Japanese, will ask them to recommend tourist attractions In the list, we deliberately add that we eat for the sky.

Those foreigners who are not overseas Chinese come here to travel, basically they are looking at the recommended travel, and they have to punch in their cards and come here for a visit.

It is precisely because we have been recommended by the travel agency that we eat for the sky, so there are a steady stream of foreign tourists coming to eat, which in turn stimulates us local people. "

"Awesome!" Yu Li, who had no chance to intervene, couldn't help but raised her thumbs up, "Cao Zhiqiang, you are really here, you can come up with such an idea.

But it has to be you, if we change, even if we can come up with this method, it won't work.

At least we didn't know the manager of the travel agency and couldn't get someone to do it for us. "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "This is just one of them. Most of them attract middle- and low-level diners. Looking at the crowds, the profit is not high. The real high-profit part is those high-end diners with stronger spending power."

After a short pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "I have met a lot of high-end people through various channels. The more people I know and the relationships are in place, they will naturally sell my face and decide to eat for the sky.

In the beginning, they might just sell me to eat.

When there are more people trying to sell my face, once everyone meets, they will find that this is a very good meeting place to expand their social network.

Gradually, Food for Heaven is not just a simple restaurant, but more like a good social place.

Because you can always meet other high-end people when you come here to eat, you can expand your social network and meet more friends.

The more friends, the more roads, this is an obvious truth.

So, for the sake of friends and roads, those high-end people will more and more like to come to eat for the sky.

Even if it's not for eating, just to expand their social circle, just to make more friends, they still have to come to eat. "

"That's what happened." Cao Jiajia nodded, "No wonder, at night, all our boxes are full, and we can't get a reservation at all if we don't make a reservation in advance, and people from different boxes often come together to toast. Think of it as a place to meet friends."

"That's the reason." Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile, "Actually, for the so-called high-end people, that is, those who think they are superior, what they really care about is not what they eat, but who they eat with.

Therefore, they are eager to have a place that is safe enough, secluded enough, and can let go a little bit, to eat and socialize with people of the same class or even higher class.

Without us, food is the sky, and sooner or later there will be other places to take on this function, such as a big hotel or something.

But as far as the present is concerned, firstly, the price of big hotels is too expensive, and credit is not allowed, and secondly, gathering in such places is too troublesome, too conspicuous, not concealed enough, and it is easy to cause bad influence.

Therefore, a place like ours that doesn't look very tall on the surface, but has luxurious decorations and luxurious food inside, is the best meeting place for high-end people.

With these high-end people coming to eat and drink, the consumption level will immediately rise. After all, these people's spending power is really strong.

And these high-end people come to eat, are they really here to eat the taste?Can they really tell what kind of cuisine it is?

No, at least most of them aren't.

When these people come to eat, they just want to be expensive!

Not seeking the best, but seeking the most expensive, this is the kind of person he is talking about.

There are abalone wings, hump bear paws and Maotai Wuliangye that no one dares to eat, all of which are available here, and they can afford them!

I can say this, at least for most high-end people, as long as you have high-end ingredients and high-end drinks, so that they can not lose face on the wine table, and there is something to blow after the banquet, that is enough.

As for who is cooking, is it a chef like Uncle Silly, they can't figure it out.

Even if there are really gourmets who can tell the difference between chefs, because of the face of other people of the same class, and because they know a little about my background, they will not deliberately make trouble.

On the contrary, it is the ordinary diners who really like to make trouble.

But for ordinary diners, what they pay most attention to is not the taste, but the benefits.

Food recipes for ordinary diners in Shiweitian are all systematic and standardized operations. As long as ordinary apprentices strictly follow the recipes, the taste of the meals they make is not bad.

And the service quality of Shiweitian is also different. Let’s say that the waiters in Shiweitian are all in uniforms, makeup, eyebrows, and smiling services. This kind of high-standard service, you go out and have a look. Among the few comparable, only Jianguo Hotel can compare.

Most of the food prices are acceptable, but the service quality is comparable to foreign-related restaurants, and the dining environment is also good. In addition, you can meet foreigners from time to time, so Shiweitian is not just a simple restaurant, but also a place to show off. Just like the old Mo restaurant back then.

So, even if there is a temporary problem with the taste of the food, it is not a big problem. After all, the taste is not the only attraction in our Shiweitian restaurant, but there are many, many attractions.

At present, although Shiweitian has not opened for a long time, its reputation has already risen. Everyone knows that it is a high-end place that foreigners and high-end people often come to.

In this case, even if the silly uncle really wants to leave, it won't affect the overall situation. At most, there is a temporary shortage of chefs, but as long as I am willing to spend money, what kind of chef can't be invited? "

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang felt a little thirsty, tapped his mouth, and was about to pick up the teapot to pour tea, but Yu Li grabbed the teapot first, poured Cao Zhiqiang a cup of tea with a smile, and then offered it with both hands: "Come on, Zhiqiang , Say you’re tired, drink some tea and moisturize.”

Cao Zhiqiang took a surprised look at Yu Li who was smiling all over his face. After nodding his thanks, he took the cup of tea and drank it with his neck raised.

After drinking tea and moistening his throat, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "Ahem, where are you talking?"

Yu Li hurriedly said: "Speaking of which, you are rich, so you can't hire a chef of any kind."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "With a great reward, there must be a brave man, as long as the money is in place, you don't have to worry about not being able to hire a good cook.

There are many famous chefs in the capital, not only Uncle Sha can cook, but not all famous chefs who can cook have the same fate as Uncle Silly, there is a rich Lou Xiao... Aunt Lou helps.

What's more, not only can I be hired with a high salary, but I can also give indicators to the factory, so that the other party can become a regular worker in the factory, with formal worker benefits, and can go to the doctor and provide for the elderly just like the workers. This is for many cooks without formal worker status , is also an attractive condition.

Therefore, I was never worried about Uncle Silly leaving. If he really wanted to leave, it would be him who suffered the loss, not me.

After all, my food is the sky, and sooner or later I will expand externally, become bigger and stronger, open more branches, and then become a catering group, which is not just as simple as a restaurant.

If Uncle Silly really leaves, the matter will be even simpler. I can take back [-]% of the shares I gave him back then, convert it into money and give it to him. "

"Wait, [-]% of the shares?" Yan Xiecheng, who had been speechless, said in surprise, "You mean him, he still has [-]% of the shares? Why don't we know about this? He didn't say that. ah?"

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Hehe, I'm not sure about that, you have to ask him, anyway, I gave [-]% of the shares, and it's all written in the contract."

"Hey, this silly Zhu!" Yan Jiecheng slapped his thigh, his face full of jealousy, "He didn't say that he had dry shares, but he kept it hidden. It seems that he had planned it long ago and was on guard against Qin Huairu. It’s no longer one-hearted!”

"What are you talking about?" Uncle Yi frowned, glared at Yan Xiecheng and said, "Silly Zhu doesn't talk about it, but he doesn't want to show off and cause trouble, so don't talk nonsense."

Yan Xiecheng glanced at Uncle Yi, curled his lips, and continued eating melon seeds with his mouth crooked, obviously disbelieving.

Cao Jiajia asked at this time: "Qiangzi, that is to say, it doesn't matter if Uncle Silly leaves or doesn't leave, it won't hinder us? Even if he leaves, it will be a good thing?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang said with a serious face: "Actually, I respect the silly uncle, and because of his favor, I gave the silly uncle such a high treatment.

Not only did I give him such a high salary, and I promised him to bring meals home, I also promised that he would be the chef in the food industry by himself.

Think about it, I have two thousand and five thousand a month, plus [-]%, that is, [-]% of dry stocks, and let him take charge of the back kitchen. With such good conditions, how can the chef not be invited?

If I didn't accept the silly uncle's love, would I be able to do it? "

"It makes sense, it does make sense." Yu Li nodded quickly.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "So, I don't know what the silly uncle thinks, I only know that it doesn't matter if he is benevolent or not, I can't be unrighteous."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang stood up, put his hands behind his back, looked up at the cornices of the gazebo, and sighed heavily:

"Life is alive, why bother so much, but peace of mind is enough!"

(End of this chapter)