The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 389
Wang Shulan wants to open [-] Aqiao dumpling restaurants in Beijing, which is her goal.

She planned this way: there are four restaurants now, and three restaurants will be opened every year in the future, and nineteen restaurants will be opened in five years, and then a large restaurant will be opened.You don’t need to earn a lot of money. One store can earn 200,000 a year, and 4 stores can earn [-] million, which is enough.

Of course, a store is more than 200,000 a year.

After working in a restaurant for three years, she learned a truth - money is not earned by one person.

According to the current business model, a store can earn 500,000 a year, but the 500,000 cannot be fully pocketed.No one will say anything about it, but the restaurant may not last for a long time; if you don’t think about it, part of it will be returned to employees, part of it will be rewarded to those who have made contributions, and part of it will be used as development funds. This is the right way.

She believes what Lao Tan said, in the next ten years, the competition of restaurants will no longer be the competition of core technologies and marketing models, but must be the competition of people.This phenomenon is happening now. Many restaurant projects have been selected and the decoration has been completed. There are store managers, managers, and chefs who have mastered the skills, but they cannot recruit staff and cannot open for a long time.

In today's restaurants, waiters are not called waiters, they are called service elder sisters, and kitchen boys are called aunts instead of younger brothers.The same problem is faced by all catering professionals - it is difficult to recruit people.

Not only is it difficult to recruit people, but it is also difficult to keep them, especially in a Chinese restaurant like Ah Qiao.

Today's catering industry can be described as a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending, with various stores emerging one after another, selling everything.There are more and more single-brand stores in specialty stores. It doesn’t matter whether they make money or not. As long as someone designs the packaging, someone will do it. It’s best to get the first pot of gold.

Such stores take away some people, and they are all young.

Also, the sudden emergence of barbecue restaurants has directly impacted traditional catering.In the past, barbecue restaurants were just barbecues, skewers, and small barbecues, such as food stalls, places where you can drink cold beer and eat skewers.Although it is smoky, it is human fireworks.

Today's barbecue is not to be underestimated. The scale and momentum are no less than nightclubs. You can drink beer, sing and watch performances. It has already won a third of the catering industry.

Such a place undoubtedly attracts young people, including those who work.

Therefore, it is difficult for traditional Chinese restaurants to recruit people, and it is even more difficult to retain people.

Of course, it is easy to keep people, high salary and high benefits, all kinds of treatment are good, no one wants to leave, the premise is that the boss is willing.

Everyone sees that money is easy to see, there are few bosses who are afraid of money, and there are not many bosses who are willing, or how few successful people.

Those who have no money can't wait to get rich all at once, and spend two yuan to buy a lottery ticket and win the first prize.The more money you have, the better, and you wish that all the money in the world is yours.

Only a few people know where the money comes from, what it is for, and how it is spent.If a person earns money and understands how to spend it, it is like understanding a book thoroughly—knowledge is not power, but the use of knowledge is power.

Isn't it the same with money?

If you don't have enough flowers, you can't support your family. Spending indiscriminately is equal to prodigal, and enough flowers are equal to supporting your family. After you have enough flowers, you must know how to spend them. The best way to spend flowers is to return to the place where you came from. Gao Bige said that it is taken from the people who use it. Ordinary people say that they do not forget their roots.

According to the amount of money, there are four levels.

If you have less money, it belongs to you; if you have more money, it belongs to everyone; if you have more money, it belongs to the country; if you have more money, it must belong to the people, so it is called RMB.

In terms of cause and effect, this is the case: the money spent belongs to oneself, and the money not spent does not necessarily belong to anyone else.Stupid people are addicted to money, but wise people have enough money.

Money will only increase if it is exchanged repeatedly, which is called wealth, otherwise it will be paper, and it will become ghost money when it dies.

Wang Shulan told Lao Tan about her plan on the phone. Lao Tan agreed with her and wanted to go with her.

"If an enterprise wants to develop, it can't just focus on money. It's right to give up part of the profits to employees and set aside part of the follow-up funds. It's the same as living a life. When will there be money to cross the river? What if something happens?" He says.

"Yes, let's not talk about us first, in case any employee gets sick or something happens to the store, you need to be rich." Wang Shulan said.

Lao Tan understood what she meant.

"There's nothing wrong with being safe, the more famous you are, the more secure you are," Lao Tan said.

It was said that a well-known Wang Shulan remembered something and said: "On the first day, the City Catering Association sent an invitation letter. There will be a summit at the end of the month. Do you want to participate?"

"From Beijing?" Old Tan asked.

"Ah."

"You go, I can't make it through."

"You can write your name." Wang Shulan reminded.

"I don't even go to write a name. I don't have time. Decoration is inseparable from people. You and Xiaomei can go."

Wang Shulan meant to ask Lao Tan to participate, so that he could take Lao Tan to the old Chinese doctor to have a look, mainly because he was worried about his health and worried about him.Seeing that Lao Tan insisted on not coming, it was fine, but after all, he was worried and wanted to see him when he had time.

In the blink of an eye, it is May, and the decoration of the central kitchen store is about to be completed.During this period, Lao Tan went back to the provincial capital, and went back to his hometown to see his mother.

My mother is in good health, can eat and drink, and is full of energy. An 85-year-old man has such a good physique, a blessed man.

The night before leaving home, my mother did not fall asleep as early as in the past. She sat on the kang and said to Lao Tan: "You are almost fifty, and you know everything, so you don't need to talk about it. From now on, you will use less alcohol and tobacco. What's the benefit, eat more food, but eat less food at night.

Regardless of whether I'm not in front of you, you can know what it's like after thinking about it, and you're not old and confused.You are always outside, and Lin Yan and the children are the only ones at home. It won't work after a long time.Children are troublesome when they are small, but they are obedient; when they grow up, they are not troublesome and disobedient, so their mother can't control them.

Jia Heng will go to high school next year and become a young man, so you have to be at home.The father is said to be a man, so the child has to be afraid. "

Old Tan said, "Yes, I see."

"The child has to be disciplined since he was a child. The mother is not so cruel in controlling the child. She always obeys. You have to take care of it. How can you say that he is a good person? Now that the conditions are good, young men in their [-]s, [-]s, and [-]s can still Studying, taking college entrance examinations, postgraduate entrance examinations, etc., how can there be such a good thing in the past, on the [-]th and [-]th, I got married, established a family, and lived at the door.

Saying this is not to tell the child not to study, you have to tell him how to be successful.Some things are taught in the school, some things are not taught, it all depends on parents.Didn't you hear that sentence, the son does not teach the father's fault. "

"Well, I know, don't worry, I must take care of it."

"I can live for a few years, more than eighty, and the soil is buried in the neck. The main reason is that you all have sons and daughters. If you think that you will be like me when you are old, you have to beat the children. It is not just talking about filial piety. Yes, I learned it from my parents.

Parents are not compatible and children are cold, and fathers do not teach children to be unfilial.Now you can't think about yourself, so you have to think about him.As the old saying goes, if you earn tens of millions of dollars, your unworthy children and grandchildren will spend more money.Competing for fame and fortune is nonsense, and dying with empty fists.

Living a life looks like spending money, but too much money is useless, it is still living a life.Your sister and you may not be as old as me. I have six children, one is not good and the other is not bad. Someone will take care of them and they will not fall to the ground.You are all one family, no one cares if you don’t care.

Don’t you have those apprentices who have been working for these years? They are all good, so let’s go.Don't run away all the time, take care of the children at home, Lin Yan should be more brisk.Lin Yan is not bad, a woman who has taken care of her own children for more than ten years, and still has to be a housekeeper, you go out and be a shopkeeper, that's enough to say. "

Old Tan kept silent, what his mother said made sense.

"People put benevolence, righteousness and propriety first, and trees say that the branches and leaves are round. Three people can't resist a word of reason, and it's your turn to be the housekeeper and take care of the children. Living at home doesn't mean that the old men just earn money back, and they can earn money There are many, life does not necessarily lead to a good life, and children do not necessarily make a good future.

Living daily necessities, working outside the home and working outside are not considered, is it all right to be just a woman?Don't look at your father who has been ill for a long time, and the days are not up, but everyone who knows dares to say no.

He takes care of his family, so I don't need to worry about outside affairs.Another thing is to take care of you and your sisters, each of you is upright and filial, otherwise I can have this blessing?
When you go back, tell your boss that your mother can’t take care of the child when he grows up, and you have to take care of the child at home instead of going out of town. "

Old Tan didn't speak, but nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)