The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 23 Regular Meetings
In the morning, the banquet hall on the fourth floor.

The usually empty hall was bustling with all the employees who came here today.They didn't even know they came here, and they all talked in low voices, expecting and guessing about what was about to happen.

The boss of the kitchen stall and the head of the front desk department didn't know what was the matter of calling everyone to the fourth floor, so they stood together automatically and asked each other.

Zhou Hongyou asked Yuan Hua: "Do you know why the regular meeting was held on the fourth floor?"

Yuan Hua shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zhou Hongyou asked Li Shuang: "Does Sister Shuang know?"

Although Li Shuang discussed with Zhang Li about holding a regular meeting between the front desk and back kitchen, Zhang Li didn't inform her that the matter was finalized. Come upstairs.

She felt that Zhang Li and Lao Tan had reached a consensus, starting from today the front desk and the back kitchen will hold regular meetings together.So he said, "It is estimated that we will have a regular meeting together in the future."

"Open it together?" Zhou Hongyou was a little confused, and then said: "Then how to open it? The front is said to be the front, and the back kitchen is said to be the back kitchen. It also affects."

"What's the impact, we have to stay together, we can't separate." Li Shuang gave Zhou Hongyou a white look.

Sister Shuang has a great reputation in the store, and no one dares to mess with her.Zhou Hongyou smiled awkwardly, thinking that it's okay not to mess with this tigress, she doesn't care.

Li Shuang is 36, looks like thirty, the charm and pungentness of a mature woman are vividly reflected in her, not a young man like Zhou Hongyou who dares to provoke her.

Li Shuang's optimistic, cheerful and carefree personality is attractive.He is unassuming, easy-going, and sometimes makes a few jokes, which can always make the tense work very easy.The waiter loves to work with her, and she is affectionately called Sister Shuang.

There is always a passion in her, and this passion is very contagious under her flamboyant personality, so everyone says that as long as Sister Shuang is around, working is fun.

Everyone is willing to work with a passionate person, even if there is a worry, it will disappear quickly.

Zhang Li gives the impression that she is beautiful, solemn, serious, with temperament and a strong aura.The waiters are terrified of her.Although she doesn't criticize people very much, the majesty she carries makes people dare not offend easily, and she has more or less fear.

Zhou Xiaomei has been here for a short time, but her beauty and aloofness have conquered everyone.She has Zhang Li's aura and Li Shuang's enthusiasm, so she handles it well.It has the temperament of coming out of mud but not stained, clean and clear but not demon.She has become the goddess in the hearts of many young boys, but she can only be seen from a distance but not dare to play close to her.

The old supervisor, Hu Jing, is as her name suggests, quiet and quiet, she works diligently and can't fault her.Most of the waiters are brought out by her.

Her position is like Li Xu in the kitchen. She is an old man and lacks management, but she is professional and professional, and a technical backbone.In addition, he is Mr. Xu's confidant.

While everyone was discussing, Zhang Li and Lao Tan came to the fourth floor.

The noise gradually died down.

Old Tan stood upright with a clean chef's uniform and a chef's hat on, and walked to stand in front of him with a serious face.

"The whole team in the kitchen!" Lao Tan ordered.

The three captains of the kitchen immediately formed a team, which was much faster and more standard than every day, and they were suspected of showing off in front of the front desk.

The staff at the front desk are envious or not.What I envy is to see how kind, imposing, and well-behaved others are; if I don’t cut it, Is it just to stand in a row, what’s so awesome.

Lao Tan shouted to the front desk staff who stood watching: "Serving family members stand still."

The front desk staff stood up immediately.

"Divide into three teams and connect behind the three teams in the kitchen." Old Tan ordered.

The front desk personnel quickly divided into three teams and joined the three teams in the kitchen. Each team joined more than a dozen waiters. The kitchen boy was a little excited, and looked back from time to time to see if the girl he liked was standing in his team.

The little girl at the front desk also involuntarily chose the team of the boy she liked when standing in line, which was also due to emotion.

Youth is beautiful and full of passion, and every young man has the vision and turmoil of love.

The restaurant is a place for young people. Although most of these children come from rural areas, they still have a desire for love.Maybe I still can't fully understand what love is, but the love in my heart really exists.

In this way, the formation of the three new teams was completed. Lao Tan asked the three captains to lead their team members to hold a 3-minute meeting. One was to welcome the new team members, and the other was to choose a vice-captain.Give your own opinion on the matter of choosing the vice captain, and ask them to choose a front desk staff.

Under the leadership of the captain, the three teams each found a place to form a circle, and held a small meeting in a warm atmosphere.This scene is not seen at the staff meeting.During the meeting, employees don't say a word or express their opinions. Even if they are asked to speak, they don't say anything, just listen.Now they are all open to speak, and they are actively making suggestions and contributing to their teams.

This is the effect that Lao Tan and Zhang Li want.

Seeing that everyone was in high spirits and struck while the iron was hot, after each team elected its own vice-captain, Lao Tan assembled the team and trained the formation.

Lao Tan issued a password, and everyone operated according to the password, shouting one or two in unison, and the sound shook the whole hall.

When it was announced that everyone would gather in the lobby to learn dancing at two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was very excited, and a few people who usually don't like to be lively also responded happily.

After the regular meeting, Lao Tan called Zhang Li to the office and showed Zhang Li the slogan he wanted.

Goal: Create our own future with our hands!

Attitude: I know, I do, I succeed!

Style: earnest, fast, rapid, guarantee to complete the task, never make excuses!

Lao Tan explained the meaning of these three sentences to Zhang Li, Zhang Li thought it was good and agreed.

"These auxiliary things are mainly to improve employees' enthusiasm for work. Our real work is dishes and services. We can improve employees' team awareness through team PK, but all work is carried out around dishes and services. Said One thousand and ten thousand is only true if the business is successful, and if the business is not successful, it is useless." Old Tan said.

It is indeed important to enrich the spare time life of employees, organize some activities, and let employees eat well, play well, and work well, but any spiritual construction is based on the economic foundation.

For restaurants, making money is the last word.

In April, Lao Tan came to the Kanto family for a month.

Within a month, some well-sold dishes such as hospitality dishes and pot-packed meat were improved, and Sichuan and Hunan dishes were adjusted at the same time.We have launched small fried yellow beef, farm fried dried vegetables, scrambled eggs with ground vegetables, and fried boneless meat with dry pepper skin.These four dishes have been well received by customers as soon as they were launched, and the click rate is very high.

Business started to pick up gradually.

The small kitchen for cold dishes has been built. Braised pig’s head, puff pastry, meat tongs, crystal elbow, meat sausage, egg sausage, and powder sausage are all available for the rural feast, and the cold dish immediately has its own characteristics.

Now cold dishes have outstanding flavor, clear primary and secondary, simple and smooth process, strict standards, and greatly improved product quality, which are often praised by customers.

By mid-April, the sales amount had reached [-].

Mr. Xu sent Wang Gang and Hu Jing to study.

Mr. Xu took a conservative approach in sending the managers out to study. Wang Gang and Hu Jing had been with him for a long time and had high loyalty, so he sent them out first.Although Lao Tan, Zhang Li, Li Shuang, and Zhou Xiaomei are capable and talented, they have short time with themselves and don't have that much trust.

After finding the eldest sister who was picking vegetables, Lao Tan transferred his second aunt out of the green vegetable room, and at the same time adjusted the commuting time of the vegetable picking staff.Go to work at seven in the morning and leave at seven in the evening.

The kitchen staff go to work at [-]:[-]. When they go to work, almost all the vegetables for lunch are picked and washed, so there is no delay.After seven o'clock in the evening, there is nothing to do in the green vegetable room, and it is perfectly fine for those who pick vegetables to get off work.

The second aunt had nothing to do after being transferred out of the vegetable shop, so she didn't make a fuss with Mr. Xu, so she probably knew why he was transferred out.After staying for a week, I went to Lao Tan two days later and asked him to arrange a job.

Lao Tan said that there is not much work in the kitchen now, and what else to do at this age, it is good to take a stroll and exercise.If you really can't take it easy, you can sweep the yard, pick up the paper shells from the front and back kitchens, and sell them for some money.

The old lady heard the same thing, so she started to pick up cardboard boxes and sell them for money. She picked up a lot every day, and she could sell them for seven or eight yuan.But I was too embarrassed to take the wages and not work, and I picked up the cardboard to sell money, and I went to Lao Tan twice.Lao Tan asked her if she could work obediently, and she said she must be obedient.Lao Tan arranged her to help Zhou Hongyou in the small cold dish kitchen.This work is not tiring, brisk, and only three or four hours a day, which is just right for her.

The management of the Five Standing Committees has been fully implemented. The most obvious change is that the sanitation is better than before. You can see where it is clean. Guests can enter the kitchen to visit, and there is no place to bury them.

All the tools used have their names and surnames, and all the raw materials are packed in crisper boxes with obvious signs on the crisper boxes.

Separate raw and cooked foods, seafood, meat, and vegetables.

Each employee is issued uniform work pants and work shoes, and then matched with uniform work clothes, which looks neat and tidy, and is a regular army.

The morning regular meeting will be held in the lobby on the fourth floor.The three captains led their teams and chanted slogans, like volunteer soldiers crossing the Yalu River with great arrogance.

The three teams compete with each other, and promise to reward No.1 with 2000 yuan, No.2 with 3 yuan, and No.[-] with [-] yuan by the end of the year.

As long as everything is hooked with money, enthusiasm will come.Under the leadership of the captain, the enthusiasm of the employees is high. Those who were late before are not late now. When the time comes, they will be called up by the family members of their own team and forced to go to work. Being late not only fines money, but also deducts points for the team. What everyone doesn't want to see.

The kitchens are all young, full-blooded, and hot-tempered. It is inevitable to have conflicts and frictions with each other. It is normal to quarrel and scold.Now this kind of phenomenon has decreased sharply. When you see that it is your team’s smile, it will pass away. Those who are not from your team will not fight. You let him take a step back and talk about it.

No one can bear the deduction of points, and will be criticized and educated by the entire team.

Employees may not listen to managers, but they are absolutely afraid of the captain and companions.Once you humiliate the team because of yourself, you don't need others to say that you are embarrassed, and you will try to make up for the loss.

This is the normal psychology of people, and no one cares about it when they are all stirring thick and thin in a pot.If you make a mistake, you will be fined some money at worst, and you dare to be fired?I'm in a hurry and quit.

After forming a small team spontaneously, the small group consciousness in people's hearts began to show, and they didn't want their own team to deduct points, they all wanted to be the first, so disciplines and standards began to be consciously observed.

(End of this chapter)