The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 106 Long Talk
Many managers are unwilling to talk to their bosses about raising wages for employees. After all, it is a private company. A wage increase means taking money out of pure profits. That is real money, and no one wants to take it out.

It's not like a public unit. After all, if it is a public unit, there will be no such things.

From a responsible point of view, as a manager, you have to talk to your boss.If you don't talk about it because you are worried that the boss will be unhappy, or you are in danger of being laid off, then the work will not be easy to do, and you will not get the recognition and support of the employees.

Managers are the bridge and link between the boss and employees.

Blindly toward the boss regardless of employees' thoughts and emotions, the work is not easy to carry out; blindly toward the employees without considering profits, the layoff is really not far away.

Managers must ensure the normal operation of the hotel, ensure profitability, and ensure the interests of employees.It is necessary to have good communication with the boss and at the same time mingle with the employees.

It can well convey the strategic policies formulated by the boss to the employees and implement them effectively. At the same time, it can convey the needs of the employees to the boss and get them properly resolved.

"Old Tan, is our salary low now?" Mr. Xu first asked, he felt that the salary of employees in various positions is not low now.

Old Tan smiled at first, and then said: "Our family's salary is not low, but it's not high either. It belongs to the middle level and is quite satisfactory."

"Intermediate level? No way, I think it's quite high." Obviously Mr. Xu doesn't agree with Lao Tan's definition.

Lao Tan did not answer directly, but talked about the current market conditions of employees in various positions outside.

"The wages of employees are not low now. Take the garden hot pot as an example. The one who picks vegetables is [-] yuan, and the one who pays the meat is [-] yuan. The waiter is [-] yuan, but the commission is high. Every month the waiter gets more than [-] yuan. Home can't reach.

Also, the basic price for a chef is [-], the chopping board is [-], the lotus table is [-], the cold dish master is [-] to [-], and the salary of a dumpling worker is [-].

This is the price of years ago, and it has risen a lot after the Chinese New Year. Some restaurants will give you [-] yuan directly for a cutting board.It is difficult for restaurants to recruit people now, unlike in the first two years, every family in the countryside has many children, and they all come out to work, and they do it when they are paid.Now every family has only one child, and they are not willing to let it out, and those who come out are not willing to work in restaurants, because they feel tired and dirty.

In the past two years, we can still recruit people, but in the next two years, it will be difficult to recruit people.If an enterprise wants to develop in the long run, it must start to solve the personnel problem now and make long-term plans. "

Mr. Xu didn't make a sound after listening to Lao Tan, thinking silently.As a restaurant owner, it is impossible for Lao Tan not to know what he said, it should be said that he has it in his stomach.

However, there are [-] employees, if they want to increase, they have to increase, and it is impossible to lose even one.

This is a lot of money, if it goes up, it can't go down again, so he has to add it up.

Of course, according to the current business, this amount of money is nothing. Even if one person increases by 100 yuan, it is only [-] yuan a month, which is very easy to pay.What is he thinking about management?Is it also a one hundred increase like ordinary employees?Obviously not.

Take Lao Tan as an example, an increase of 100 yuan is the same as cursing, it is better not to increase.If it goes up, it has to go up by a thousand, and it looks like that.It’s raised for Lao Tan, what about Wang Gang?What about Zhang Li?What about Hu Jing?What about the executives—
This has to be summed up.

The red envelopes given to managers during the Chinese New Year are very shabby, which is a joke. If the salary is raised, it will still be the same as ordinary employees. It is estimated that those who leave are not employees.

How should I put it, Mr. Xu looks shrewd and looks very generous, but he is definitely not a generous person.When it comes to fundamental interests, the narrow-mindedness deep in my heart will immediately jump out to make trouble, and I will appear to be picky after finishing what should have been a decent job.

But sometimes some things are done quite generously, which is puzzling.

He thought about it for a long time and asked, "You mean to adjust the wages generally?"

Old Tan said, "That's what it means."

"How much is the general tune?"

"two hundred."

"two hundred?"

Mr. Xu was startled, and looked at Lao Tan in a daze.Just kidding, two hundred?I really don't feel bad about taking other people's money.Two hundred, that's 36 a month, and 36 is gone in a year, that's [-], not [-].

Old Tan didn't care about Mr. Xu's surprised expression, but smiled and said calmly: "Mr. Xu, I'll settle the bill with you. Our family's 2 million a month is not a problem now. If it's 2 million, the net profit should be 300,000. A The year is 600,000. We are just chatting, let me ask, how much money do you expect to make every year when you do it?"

Mr. Xu thought about it for a while and said: "At the beginning, I just wanted to earn 2 million a year."

"It is not a problem to earn 3 million a year now, and it has exceeded 1 million. And seeing the momentum of our family, it can only get better and better, and there will be no decline. I can guarantee this, because your decision was absolutely correct at the beginning. Our family is the largest farmyard in the provincial capital, and it is still the best, and now our family is also the largest and best in the entire Northeast." Lao Tan said.

President Xu nodded proudly.

Lao Tan said again: "Mr. Xu, you are now a successful person in the catering industry in our provincial capital. To be honest, I admire you very much. I have always wanted to ask you a question. Do you think you earn 2 million a year? Is this 2 million money or wealth?" ?”

Mr. Xu thought for a while and said, "It's money and wealth."

"Maybe I don't earn as much as you, and I don't have that much ability. But my understanding of money and wealth is that money is money, and wealth is wealth. If you don't talk about it, let's talk about our family. It looks like it's more than four thousand square meters The profit of the hotel is 2 million per month, which is very good and profitable. I feel that the hotel and the profit are not the real wealth, but the real wealth is the employees.

How should I put it, I speak straight, don't be angry.You are the boss, I think the wealth you have should be these one hundred and fifty employees. The money you earn every year is created by these employees. Without them, we would not be able to earn anything.

Treat employees as wealth, and the money will come naturally.We all know this, but few actually do it.Let me tell you about my feelings. After years of management, the biggest feeling is that once the employees are put first, their needs are met, they have a sense of belonging, and the business is the best at that time. best managed. "

"I admit what you said, and I always want our employees to get the best treatment - I didn't make much money before, and I didn't do well -" Mr. Xu said.

"Employees are easy to be satisfied." Lao Tan said: "We often say that we treat employees as family members and treat them like family members. To be honest, most of them are lip service, and they are not in place at all. Not only are they not in place, but they are always required Employees regard the hotel as their home and are loyal to the hotel.

How can I say that I have been in management for many years, not to say that I am very good, but it is almost the same, but I never say that employees are loyal to the company.why?Do we really treat our employees like family?Are we being loyal to our employees?When we can't be loyal, we can't require employees to be loyal to the company.

Any restaurant hopes to have a good business, but the premise is that there is a stable workforce, and there is no such thing as a stable workforce.So wherever I go, I stabilize the employees first, and then start work.

Stable employees are nothing more than two points - ideal salary and generous benefits.

This is also the basic demand of employees. If this cannot be achieved, it is normal for employees to leave the hotel.As the saying goes, people go to high places and water flows to low places. We want to make more money, and so do our employees.Only when they earn more can we earn more, which is directly proportional.So it is absolutely right to spend more money on employees, because they are the ones who create wealth.

You are the boss and own the wealth but don't create it.To be precise, your wealth is one hundred and fifty employees, not 2 million.There is nothing wrong with raising wages for these 50 people. This is wisdom. "

"I heard you say that the salary must be raised?" Mr. Xu laughed.

"You take your own ideas, I'm just talking about my ideas." Old Tan smiled, and then said: "Our family is doing well now, an excellent catering company in the provincial capital, and you are the vice president of the District Catering Association, you should set a benchmark .

Again, personal opinion, my own opinion.Money is a good thing, it can solve many problems and meet material needs.If you're right, you don't need anything materially now, and you can enter a well-off society ahead of schedule.In your eyes, money is just a number, and nothing else means anything.

Money is good, but after all, it is something outside of the body. If you don't bring it with you when you die, you just need to spend it.How should I put it, I don't have that kind of money, and I don't know the life of the rich, but I feel that no matter how much money I have, I still have three meals a day, which are nothing more than delicacies and simple meals.People can't take money to the grave, but money can definitely take people to the grave.

A shrewd boss calculates money, and a wise boss divides it.People's failure is often because they forget their original intentions and cannot control their desires.No matter how much money you have, you can only be a rich man, which has nothing to do with wealth.

People who really own wealth must be people with great wisdom and great merit. They use their wisdom to make money, and use their merit to accumulate blessings, which in turn make real money.As enlightened people say, only by using the wisdom of the world to do things in the world can we be successful. "

After this conversation, Mr. Xu promised to transfer 200 yuan to the employees.

The two of them also talked about the salary of the management staff. Lao Tan's suggestion was that the salary of the management staff is not low compared to the provincial capital, and they are all acceptable. They can be adjusted to [-] like the employees.

As for wanting to give more, that is the boss's personal behavior, and I have no opinion.

At the same time, Lao Tan revealed the news to Mr. Xu that Dongfang Cuisine is going to the provincial capital for inspection, and it is specially inspecting farmyards. It is now negotiating with the Catering Association.

Mr. Xu also knows about this, but there is no definite news.

If you really come to the provincial capital to inspect the farmhouse, the Guandong family is the first choice.

(End of this chapter)