The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 102 Foreshadowing
"There is a shortage of employees, we can't recruit employees, we can't keep them when we recruit them, and the turnover of employees is high. It's as simple and easy as playing house. If you say you don't do it, you don't do it. These are the current situations we are facing. I personally feel that the whole country Every restaurant up and down is the same."

Lao Tan started his speech at the sharing session in the evening.

"Why do employees leave? Is it because we didn't pay enough wages, or did we treat them badly? In fact, our wages are in place, and various benefits and benefits are also kept up, but employees still leave. Sometimes we are confused. Can't find the reason at all.

Let me tell you a real case.I have a kid in the kitchen who does a really good job, very good.I like it from the bottom of my heart, and I am going to train, train and exercise, and then I will be promoted and my salary will be raised.I thought so, without telling him first.

It was a week, and he suddenly didn’t come to work for two days. I asked the people who worked with him why he didn’t come, and the people who worked with him said they didn’t know, so they just didn’t come.I thought it must be something at home, otherwise I had to come, so I called to ask.

After the phone call, I asked him why he didn't come to work.Let me tell you that my tone was very peaceful at the time, because I like this child.But I never expected that they were very arrogant, telling me what's wrong with not going to work, if you don't want to go, you can't go, is it a violation of the law?
At that time, I gave me a thumbs-up, and I said, what are you talking about, kid? I called to ask because I cared about you.The kid's tone was a little better, but he was also quite blunt. He said that he didn't want to do it anymore, that he wouldn't go, and that he wouldn't call anymore.After speaking, I hung up.

I told everyone that I was very angry at the time. I thought to myself, what is the child like now? He doesn’t take work seriously at all. He can do whatever he wants to do or not. Busy, as long as he is happy.

Also, do you pay employees who don't come if they can't come?Hehe, if you say no, okay, you don’t have to, but I dare not.It is necessary to be paid even if you work for a day.

In other words, there is no cost for employees to leave, and the cost is zero.He walks away from you without any worries, he just walks away with his legs free.

So can we give employees a cost?That is to say, when an employee leaves the company, he realizes that if he quits, he will lose a lot and have to start all over again when he goes to other places.

When employees have this idea, do they have to think about whether they want to leave the job?

In this way, we started to implement the work-point system management, giving employees points from the first day of employment, and the points can be accumulated, as long as they work here, they will never be cleared—”

Lao Tan made four 10 minutes of sharing.It is very exciting, and it is targeted and practical. The listeners are very educated and give warm applause from time to time.

At the end of the sharing, Lao Tan properly promoted the catering industry in the provincial capital, introduced the characteristics of the Kanto people in a concise manner, and sincerely invited colleagues from all over the country to inspect and exchange.

What he didn't know was that because of this sharing and introduction, the Kanto family was really promoted to the whole country.

Yanhua and Yanzi choose a place on Chishan Road.This place is now a cheap supermarket, with an area of ​​[-] square meters and one floor as a whole.The reason for the boss to exchange abroad is to prepare to go abroad and transfer at a low price.

Chishan Road is not as prosperous as the Songshan Road in front of it. Yanhua and Yanzi preferred Songshan Road, but there was no place on Songshan Road, so they had to settle for the next best thing.

Geographically, Chishan Road and Songshan Road are 100 meters apart.

100 meters is not far, even negligible, but there is a big difference in terms of opening a restaurant.

Songshan Road and Chishan Road are two east-west streets crossing Huanghe Street, Changjiang Street, Nujiang Street and Xijiang Street.The distance between Songshan Road and Huanghe Street to Nujiang Street has been fully developed, and the restaurants on both sides of the street, no matter how big or small, are doing well.Waiting for Chishan Road is not enough. From Huanghe Street to Changjiang Street is okay. After passing Changjiang Street, there are not many good businesses.

The best location on Chishan Road is from Huanghe Street in the east to Changjiang Street in the west.Needless to say, the Chishan Restaurant in the east is the leader of Santaizi Restaurant.Inside are Niuzhuang Pie Shop, Tieling Farmhouse Restaurant, Little Sichuan Boiled Fish, Homemade Spring Cake Shop, Bajie Slaughtering Pig Dishes, and Huangni Roast Pigeon. These six shops are doing very well.

The newly opened stores further inside are fine, but they are not as good as the previous six in comparison.

The parity supermarket is at the intersection of Chishan Road and Changjiang Street, and the location is okay.To the north is the Guo'ao Community, to the south is the Songshan Community where Lao Tan lives, to the west is a small park, and to the east are two supermarkets and a hair salon.There is a distance of 100 meters from the six stores in front, which is slightly off.

Yanhua and Yanzi took a good look at this place, but they were not sure, so they planned to ask Lao Tan to come and have a look.

Lao Tan just came back from Chengdu, so he came here to take a look during his lunch break.In fact, he knows this place even if he doesn’t come here. He walks here every day when he goes to work in the Kanto people’s house. Those who are familiar with him cannot be more familiar.From his point of view, this place has not improved much within two years, and it will be a good place to develop after two years.

If you open a store here, business will not be a problem according to the reputation of Aqiao Dumpling Restaurant.The front and back are residential areas, and they are all employees of the aircraft factory. They have spending power, and the dumpling restaurant is down-to-earth. The common people like it, which is totally fine.

After getting Lao Tan's approval, Yanhua and Yanzi began to discuss the transfer with the supermarket owner, and everything went smoothly.The owner of the supermarket continued to operate for a month, sold the rest of the goods, and officially handed over the keys on January [-]st.

During this period, something happened in China that had a profound impact on the catering industry.

On December [-], [-], the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting, deliberated and approved eight regulations of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on improving work style and closely connecting with the masses.

The promulgation of the eight regulations has been praised by the common people. This is a good thing. It has established rules and standards for our party's clean and honest office.

Of course, the impact of the eight regulations on the catering industry is huge, and it can be said that it is mixed.

The high-end restaurants, which focus on eating and drinking with public funds for business banquets, have changed from the old days of feasting and drinking, and the bustling traffic has begun to be gloomy and business is sluggish.This is not a matter of one or two families, it is like this all over the country, it is a common phenomenon.Many restaurants closed down due to poor business.

Where there is decline, there will be prosperity, and the characteristic small and medium-sized restaurants ushered in the spring and began to develop vigorously.

China's catering industry is ushering in a huge transformation and change.

This transformation is inevitable.The society is developing and the times are progressing. Any change is the need of development, which is also the inevitable progress of human society.

As a professional catering person, you can correctly understand the eight regulations and treat them correctly.

Since the Guandong family is a farmyard, it has always followed the common people's line, and the impact is not great.As soon as the regulations came out, Lao Tan discussed with Mr. Xu, and immediately adjusted the vegetable prices and banquet standards, and made a slogan of "being a canteen for the common people", and quickly stabilized the business, and it was slightly improved than before.

Chishan Restaurant was hit hard, and its business dropped from [-] a day to [-], and it was still declining, falling behind the people in the Kanto region.

This is the way of doing business, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, if you want to continue to be brilliant, you still have to have a mass base, and it will not work to always take the high-end route.

Fast forward to [-].

Yanhua and Yanzi's new store starts to be renovated, and Lao Tan is also busy.Arrange the work of the Kanto people every day, and come to the site during the noon break to see, one is the supervisor, and the other is the command.

The temperature in winter in the north is below zero, which is very inconvenient for decoration.Before the Spring Festival, the civil work can be completed, the kitchen can be installed, and the decoration of the store will have to wait for the next year.

Fortunately, the two bosses were in a good mood, they were not in a hurry, and they didn't even bother to ask much, leaving everything to Lao Tan to be responsible for.Lao Tan did some calculations and estimated that it will open in April after the Chinese New Year.

It was cloudy from the morning on this day, and it became more and more cloudy after noon, and snowflakes floated in the sky at four o'clock in the afternoon.At first, the snowflakes were not big, just sporadic.As the sky darkened, it began to grow bigger, profusely like goose feathers, and soon there was a layer on the ground.

The Kanto houses in the snow are brightly lit. Although it is not as popular as usual, the parking lot is full of cars.The halls on the first and second floors were full, the private rooms on the third floor were full, and only the eight private rooms on the fourth floor were empty.

Zhang Li and Hu Jing were standing at the reception desk on the first floor, behind them were the bustling diners, making a lot of noise.People who have worked in restaurants for a long time are used to this kind of noise and don't feel anything.If people who always work in a quiet environment come here, they will definitely not be able to bear it, their heads will be buzzing.

Hu Jing was called by the guests in the private room to drink a glass of wine just now, her face was flushed, she was really pretty.

After returning from Chengdu, she had nothing to do with Wang Gang.It wasn't that Lao Tan's words played a role, but mainly because I realized it.After all, it was not a normal relationship between a man and a woman, and it was not good for her and Wang Gang. In addition, the two of them hadn't developed to that point, so they broke up.

The so-called break means returning to the previous state, smiling and nodding normally when meeting each other, no longer getting together, and no longer going out to eat alone.

As if nothing happened.

Once the two people have no ambiguous relationship, they both feel relaxed and relieved, and even take a long breath in their hearts.

Cheating is indeed emotionally and emotionally pleasurable and as addictive as a drug, but it can also be scary.We all know that being together is just looking for feelings, there is no love, and we are afraid of being found out like thieves, and we suffer a lot.

This is the true feeling for Hu Jing.

From another point of view, they are all people with families, they can get divorced if they can’t live on, and they can look for them again after divorce, but they can’t indulge themselves, once they indulge, there is no turning back.Not only will the personality be degraded, but it will also be looked down upon.

When it comes to divorce, Hu Jingzhen has embarked on the road of divorce.This is not because of Wang Gang, but because of looking away.

Husband has a woman outside, why do I guard it?

Yes, because I didn't care enough for my husband, I couldn't be considerate and gentle as a wife should be, but this is not a reason for my husband to cheat.

Before, I was stupid and wanted to do whatever I wanted, as long as I didn't get divorced, it looked like a family, and the children had real parents, so they wouldn't be single parents.It's silly to think about it now, it's unnecessary.

She has filed for divorce and is no longer guarding this hopeless marriage.

(End of this chapter)