The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 105 New Questions

Soon, it was the Spring Festival of [-].

The New Year's Eve dinner reservations in Kanto people are better than every year. From the [-]th to the [-]th of the first lunar month, all private rooms, large and small, are booked out, and many scattered tables are also booked out.

It's been a busy year.

Both Lao Tan and Zhang Li adopted the method of resting in batches during the year and year, so the staff attendance during the Spring Festival was good. Although they were busy, there were enough staff and they completed all the reception tasks very well.

And there were two high turnovers, 160,000 sold on the sixth day of the first month, and 200,000 sold on the eighth day of the first month.

During the Spring Festival, every restaurant is busy, and the business is double, and some even triple.

Due to being busy, the employees couldn't go home for the New Year. The boss gave everyone red envelopes on the 1000th day.There are big and small red envelopes. Generally speaking, the average employee is [-] taels, and the management team will be more.Like when Lao Tan was in Binhai, it was five thousand.

The Guandong family is no exception. On the [-]th day, Mr. Xu held a stack of red envelopes in his hand and distributed them to the employees one by one.

Finally, it was sent to Lao Tan. Lao Tan took the red envelope with a smile and said thank you.

After Mr. Xu left, Li Zhongqing smiled and asked Old Tan: "Master Tan, your red envelope is the biggest, how much is it?"

Lao Tan was not modest either, and opened the red envelope directly.

Many people in the kitchen looked over with envious eyes. In their minds, Mr. Xu had to give Lao Tan at least a few thousand yuan in red envelopes.

However, there is only 100 yuan in the red envelope!
100 yuan!
Everyone couldn't believe it, but it was indeed 100 yuan.

Old Tan's complexion was a bit ugly——
He didn't expect it to be 100 yuan. Although he felt very thin when he received the red envelope, he never thought it would be 100 yuan.

This is a bit of a curse.

Even ordinary employees have to pay 100 yuan, let alone a chef?

Everyone doesn't believe it either, but the red envelopes are there, so you can't help but not believe it.

Old Tan's face was ugly, and Li Zhongqing was embarrassed.

Everyone is embarrassed...

"It's love to give, it's duty not to give, it's not too little, come on, brother, take it to buy cigarettes." Lao Tan eased up and handed the money to the younger brother Dahe behind him, telling him to buy cigarettes.

The younger brother understood the matter very well, picked up the money and went out.

Everyone also looked away, what to do.

The red envelope incident really made Lao Tan angry, but it passed quickly.It's still the same sentence, it's love to give, it's duty not to give, there's no reason for it.What you do is work and what you earn is money. A red envelope cannot live a lifetime.

Of course, it does have some impact.Some say that Mr. Xu is picky, some say that Mr. Xu is not going to use Lao Tan, and some say that Mr. Xu has gone too far...

As for why Mr. Xu only gave Lao Tan 100 yuan, there is nothing to explain, because Wang Gang, Zhang Li, and Hu Jing also all received 100 yuan.

In a way, it's the same.

Here I have to say that Mr. Xu does things very strangely. He doesn't buy people when he should buy people's hearts. He has to make everyone feel unhappy.

In addition, the business of the Kanto family has really picked up now, reaching 2 million per month, and the unprecedented sales of 200,000 during the Spring Festival, which has become a historical record.

Before the Spring Festival, Sister Yuan from Gan Qika called Lao Tan. Due to the impact of the eight regulations, the hotel business in the park was very bad, and the occupancy rate of the rooms was not good. The group decided to temporarily close for a period of time.

This is just right, Sun Haicheng, Xiaolong, and Meng Meng there are transferred back, and the new dumpling restaurant opens after the Chinese New Year and goes directly to work.

Tuyaqiqige is also ready to come, so there is also a front desk manager.

Zhang Yu's restaurant business in Hohhot is doing well, and it has risen to 9000 yuan before the Spring Festival.

Ulan and Yang Zhijun cooperated very well, and I heard that they are already in love now.

Love is really everywhere.

Lao Tan has never been to Hohhot, nor to Ganqika, he is really too busy.

Soon, after the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the restaurants became less busy and began to enter the off-season after the Spring Festival.

During this period, Lao Tan took his son back to his hometown Beipiao to visit his mother.I didn't stay at home for a few days, the new store of the dumpling restaurant is still being renovated, and my son will start school soon and will be back soon.

When I came back, I hurriedly renovated the dumpling restaurant, and at the same time recruited and trained personnel in the old store.

This time, Lao Tan did not do the training himself. The kitchen was handed over to Huaqing, and Li Shuang was in charge of the front desk. The two of them only needed to copy the model of the old store.

Now there are three chefs, Huaqing, Sun Haicheng, and Xiao Gao. Lao Tan recruited one through Lao Siyou.

For cold dishes, Fang Jianjun is the master, and he assigned a younger brother, so that after the new store opens, Xiaolong will go over to take charge of the cold dishes, and the handmade products will be made in the old store, and then delivered to the new store.This not only ensures the quality of the dishes, but also saves manpower.

Wang Hong is now the chief dumpling chef, responsible for mixing fillings and noodles. After the opening of the new store, all dumpling fillings and noodles will be delivered from the old store.Wang Hong is in the old store, and Meng Meng is in the new store.Now the task of master and apprentice is to train dumpling workers.

Tuya Qiqige came here after the Chinese New Year, followed Li Shuang to learn front desk management, and went to work as a manager after the new store opened.

Everything is going on step by step and in an orderly manner.

Lao Tan arranges the work of the Kanto family every day, and then goes to the new store to have a look, and returns to the Kanto family at noon.During the break in the afternoon, I went to the decoration site to inspect the command, returned to the Kanto family in the evening, and went to the dumpling restaurant after get off work to see the training situation here.

The schedule is full, and I get home at eleven or two o'clock every day.

Back home, my son and Lin Yan went to bed early.He took a shower first, then sat at the desk and smoked a cigarette, went through the day's events in his mind like a movie, and then considered and planned the next day's events.

This was the quietest time of his day, and the most mentally exhausting.

The business of the Kanto people is up, but it needs to be stabilized.As the saying goes, big rivers and mountains are easy to defend and difficult to defend. It took nearly ten months to abruptly increase the benefit by 500,000. There are many unstable links in it, and it needs to be thoroughly solidified before we can rest assured.

When the business is good, the workload will naturally be heavy, and some positions require additional manpower.A chef needs to be added to the stove, and a chopping board and a lotus table must be added accordingly.Cold dishes also have to add one person, as do pasta.

After the Chinese New Year, he and Wang Gang had a discussion first, and then the two of them approached Mr. Xu together. Mr. Xu agreed, but he didn't seem very happy.

After the talk, Lao Tan didn't care about Mr. Xu's displeasure, and quickly made up for him.In his words, how can no one work?Chinese food has not yet reached the level of KFC McDonald's, and it operates like an assembly line.

People have been recruited, but they are faced with a new problem right away—the business is good, and it is inevitable to be busy and tired, which is almost twice the labor of others.To give a simple example, chefs from Kanto cook an average of [-] dishes a day, while chefs from other families cook up to [-].If there is a wedding banquet on the weekend, you have to go to work at [-] o'clock in the morning, and you don't even have time to rest at the end of the day. Several chopping boards and lotus tables are exhausted.

So tired, the employees naturally demanded a wage increase.

And wage increase is the most difficult issue.

Veteran employees like Li Xu and Li Zhongqing don't ask for a raise. There is a work point system, and the score will naturally rise when it reaches it.But most of the kitchen staff are new employees. They can't wait until then, so they ask for a salary increase, and they quit if they don't.

To be honest, people in Kanto are really tired. Now there is a popular saying in the restaurant circle of the provincial capital, "In people in Kanto, women are used as men, and men are used as donkeys." When they heard that people in Kanto are recruiting, they shook their heads and said no. Go, that's not where people go.

Although Lao Tan has made up the staff, but the wages are not up, many employees don't like to work, and many leave.Not only in the kitchen, but also in the front desk.

Zhang Li recruited six waiters at once. The six waiters had blisters on their feet that day, and they all left the next day.Not only did these six go away, but two were also kidnapped and kidnapped. It was really a loss for my wife and a soldier.

It has been four years since Kanto Family is an old store.

The four-year-old store has its own heritage.

There are a total of [-] employees, and half of them are old employees who have worked for more than two years. These employees are used to working here, so they don't feel too tired and have a sense of belonging.

In addition, the work-point system is beneficial to them. They feel that as long as they work hard here and do not make mistakes, their wages will automatically rise, which is more stable than other places, so they use this place as their unit.

After all, the benefits here are good, the capital can be guaranteed, and it is no problem to support the family.

Isn't working outside just to find a stable place where you can get paid on time?

However, it is not enough to have only half of the stable employees, and the other half is necessary.

Only by making the working environment more relaxed and with higher wages and benefits than peers can we recruit and retain people.This is a real problem.

So there was a long talk between Lao Tan and Mr. Xu.

(End of this chapter)