The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 39 Preliminary Preparations
At the end of August, the hotel was ready to receive guests. The first guests to check in were eight young people, four men and four women, who opened four rooms.It looks like a college student who is about to start school, in the period of passionate love, the former classmates reunite at the beginning of school, the people who are in love can't help themselves, they dare not open a room in the hotel on the street, for fear of meeting acquaintances or relatives, they come here for romance.

Today's young people are really open.Ten years ago, no one dared to do this. 20 years ago, you had to get a marriage certificate. 30 years ago, it was called messing with men and women.The society is developing and the times are progressing. Now it is common for men and women to open a house, but it is abnormal not to open a house.

Sister Yuan jokingly asked Lao Tan if he had slept with Tie Zi, and Lao Tan smiled and said no, and there was no Tie Zi.Sister Yuan said that you should pay attention. The women in this place are generous, especially the Mongolian women.

Lao Tan thought it would be fine if there was such a thing, and he has no objection to having a romance in Inner Mongolia.

The hotel has not been renovated yet, the hotel is only open for trial operation, if anyone knows about it, come and stay, it doesn’t matter if you don’t stay, it’s mainly for military training.

In the past two days, the people from the kitchen came up, and Lao Tan was very dissatisfied with the chef after trying the dishes.Those who came to apply for the job said that they are very good, they can cook all kinds of dishes, but they can't do it when they really make gestures. In Lao Tan's opinion, they are only at the level of small restaurants, and the dishes are cooked without any taste, let alone special features.

Sister Yuan wanted to be an instant hit when she opened, but a chef of this level would definitely not do it.Especially when it opens, all the leaders come here. Old Tan knows what kind of leaders these leaders are, they are all from the mouth of the emperor.

Sister Yuan, Director Gao, and Director Zhang were also there during the dish test, and they all shook their heads after tasting.

Jinxing Copper is a large group, and it came from the Tongliao area to attract investment. The industrial park is the largest copper product trading center in Northeast China.

Old Tan said that the chef must be transferred here from the provincial capital.But Ganqika is a small place, and chefs from the provincial capital are reluctant to come.Sister Yuan offered a high price when she said no, Lao Tan laughed, and said that the high price is too much, one is not willing to come, and the other is that this place will not last long, no matter who is in charge, it is impossible to hire a high price for a long time when there is no business. The high chef is cooking here.

Now that I know it won't last long, it's only a month or two, who can resign from a job that was well done and come here.Besides, Lao Tan couldn't do that—knowing that he wouldn't be able to do it for long, he introduced people here.

But now that we have taken over, we have to find a way to solve it, and we can't leave the problem to Sister Yuan.

He said: "Don't worry, everything can be done, no problem, don't worry, leave it to me."

After more than two months of cooperation, Sister Yuan has already trusted Lao Tan very much. She smiled and said, "I can rest assured that I have you. There is nothing that Lao Tan can't solve." Then she thought of something and said, "Go to the street to eat barbecue at night." Leg of lamb, Director Gao treats you."

Speaking of roasted lamb legs, Lao Tan thought of Mongolian food. The Mongolian food chef who applied for the job was named Bao, 30 years old, Mongolian, and he made very good Mongolian food, so he has already been hired.When I bought tableware, I didn’t buy Mongolian meal. Master Bao asked to buy some, and Lao Tan agreed to go to Tongliao to buy some.

Said to Sister Yuan: "Sister Yuan, I have to buy some tableware for Mongolian meals."

Sister Yuan said: "Buy it, let me know how much it costs, and I will give it to you tomorrow. I will go back to the Liaozhong headquarters for a meeting the day after tomorrow, and you can lead it to buy it."

Old Tan said, "Okay, it's fine."

As the saying goes, a good man has a good life. When you are sleepy, someone will give you a pillow.The brothers-in-law of Li Zhongqing and Li Zhongqing from the Guandong family are also chefs. Their family is from Tongliao. They have been working in the provincial capital and they cook well.It's been two days and I'm going back to my hometown Tongliao.Li Zhongqing's younger brother, Li Huaqing, felt that it was boring to work in Guandong, and his father-in-law was also from Tongliao, so he and his brother-in-law planned to go back to Tongliao for two days.

Li Zhongqing knew through Zhang Li that Lao Tan was working in Ganqika, so he asked his younger brother Huaqing to call Lao Tan, and told Huaqing to visit Lao Tan in Ganqika when he returned to Tongliao, as a landlord.When Lao Tan worked in the Kanto family, he got along well with his brothers, and they respected Lao Tan very much.

After Huaqing and his brother-in-law Sun Haicheng had a meal with Lao Tan and drank some wine, they talked about the hotel at the wine table. Huaqing said that there is no work now anyway, and he and his brother-in-law can work here for two months. When Lao Tan If we evacuate, we will evacuate together. It is best to be able to do it until the Spring Festival. You can celebrate the New Year in Tongliao, which is still close to home.Lao Tan is of course happy that they are working here, the quality of their dishes can be guaranteed, Huaqing has worked with Lao Tan for two months, and he is familiar with Lao Tan's dishes and style of play, and it is easy to learn.

In this way, the chef problem was solved, not only solved the chef problem, Huaqing's brother-in-law Sun Haicheng also introduced a cold dish chef, who was very skilled, and solved Lao Tan's urgent need.

Now the kitchen is short of a pastry chef.Sister Yuan meant that she couldn't order those kinds of pasta. She loves to eat dumplings, so she was going to serve dumplings.This old Tan is good at it. From Heyuxuan to Linjiangxuan, and then to Qinghua Pavilion, he has been studying dumplings, and has trained several stuffing masters and many dumpling workers.

He thought of Wang Hong, so he called her.Without saying a word, Wang Hong resigned from her job in the Kanto family, and came to Gan Qika by car.

The kitchen staff is all in place, and now the manager and foreman at the front desk are still missing.

Let me talk about recruiting. At first, Lao Tan thought that it would be easy to recruit people with the brand of Jinxing Copper. After all, it is a big company with guaranteed wages. The treatment is relatively better than the private restaurants in the street. The reward includes rest and overtime pay. Those who are far away from home provide accommodation. The accommodation conditions are not good. There are four people in a dormitory, with TV, Internet, and bathing.

Such conditions should be easy to recruit, but the actual situation is not the case.The location here is one reason. After all, Ganqika is a town. Although it has a population of more than [-], there are not many people living in the street. There are only more than [-] people. Most of them are scattered in the surrounding villages and villages. check.The children of every household also come out to work, but they are not in the town. They all like to travel far away, to Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, or to the neighboring provincial capitals. After all, it is a big city. Young people go out once, of course they all go to big cities. The city ran.

Most of the people staying at home are the elderly or middle-aged people who cannot leave, and there are very few young people.Almost all young people on the street have formal jobs, and it is impossible to go out to work.Even most of the workers who work in the copper factory are over 35 years old, and there are very few people in their twenties, almost none.

Take the room attendant and housewife as an example, it is very strenuous.I originally planned to find two people in their thirties, with good looks and clean work, but all the applicants were housewives over 45 years old. Regardless of their appearance, they were mainly Mongolians. Recognize Chinese characters.In addition to these, I can't work full-time, and I have to go home to cook at five o'clock in the evening, and some have to pick up their grandchildren.

Of course this doesn't work.

Finally, through Bart, I found two Mongolian women in their thirties in Kulun. They were divorced and had no problems. They could live here and like the job very much, so they were able to solve the problem.One is Wulan and the other is Tana. They don't speak Chinese fluently and can communicate normally.Work is also cleaner.

There is no difference between the two in terms of dressing and dressing, Tana is more avant-garde, and Ulan is more solemn.

The waiters and students of the hotel cannot recruit those who are too old, but it is difficult to recruit young people. The applicants are all women who are nearly 40 years old, the youngest is 30 years old, and there are no ones in their twenties.

The Mongolian meal bag master said that most of the restaurants on the street are like this, even if there are little girls, they all live in the street, not far from the restaurant, so the adults in the family can rest assured.Coming here to work is far away from home, and it is dark after get off work at night, so the little girl dare not go back alone.If you live here, the family members are not at ease, or even let it go.If it is allowed, the children are allowed to go to other places to work, and they will not stay at home.

There is no other way, we can only select generals from among the poor, and choose good-looking, young ones, who can write, open menus, and use a la carte treasure.In the end, five waitresses in their thirties and two food passers were recruited. The food passers were also women, around 40 years old, with a bad image but good physique, able to work.The little boy didn't recruit at all.

Since our country entered the brand-new 21st century, the generation that started family planning in the [-]s has become the main force of young people, including those born in the [-]s.

After 30 years of reform and opening up, the society has developed rapidly, the living standards of ordinary people have been continuously improved, and people have lived a good life.The old adage that life is seventy years old has been successfully broken, and 70 years old is no longer a hurdle, but a normal phenomenon.Eighty and ninety years old people are gradually increasing, and they are healthy and healthy, even centenarians are not in the minority.

The post-[-]s and post-[-]s who have grown up are not as dense as those of the post-[-]s. At the same time, all walks of life in the city are flourishing, and a hundred schools of thought are contending. When children from the countryside go to work in the city, restaurants and construction teams are no longer the only choices.There are many industries and opportunities to choose from.Sales offices, barbershops, beauty salons, factories, pharmacies, etc. These places are not less profitable than restaurants, and they are lighter than restaurants. Most children are willing to go there.

There are also places in the catering service industry that can easily recruit young girls and boys, such as karaoke halls, bathing centers, bars, clean bars, etc. Young people like to go to these places. First, they are free and not strictly controlled. Second, they can play , more enjoyment.

Since 30, restaurant waiters have begun to age, and have entered the stage of serving older sisters and serving older sisters. The average age is over [-] years old, and it is still growing.

This is also the necessity of social development.

There are waiters and food delivery staff, and the bar counter is a distant cousin of Sister Yuan.There is still a manager and a foreman short, so it is a bit difficult to recruit.Lao Tan had no choice but to recruit two more waiters, and planned to train himself among these people instead of hiring outsiders.

Considering that all the leaders will be here on the opening day, and that the food and service must be done well, so she called Zhang Li and asked her to send Zhou Xiaomei over to help for two days during the opening.

Zhang Li readily agreed, and said that by the way, he would send a few waiters over to help with the business.

After finishing these things, we started to train the kitchen staff on the dishes and the front desk staff on the service.Since the hotel is being renovated, all employees do not go to work, and the training period is from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm.

Lao Tan has no problem doing training, it is professional, and his speech is humorous and practical, everyone loves to listen.Although the front desk staff are all housewives who are 30 years old or older, Lao Tan also has a way to train them, talk about what they like to hear, and transfer them to hotel services based on the situation of housework at home, just to regulate language and behavior. Women are also accepted, and learn very quickly.

In his words, it is a visitor at home, how to entertain them, how to entertain them, smile more, be more enthusiastic, and be eloquent, introduce the delicious food at home to the guests, bring out the delicious drinks to the guests, and make the guests satisfied.

Five of the seven waiters are Mongolian, and one of them, Tuyaki Qige, asked the guests what to do if they want to order a drink?Old Tan asked, what do you do when you have guests at home?

Tuyaqiqige said: "Drink together, and sing when you are happy."

"Then let's drink too, and sing when we're happy." Then he asked, "Can you sing?"

Tuyaqiqige said generously: "Who can sing, I will sing one for you."

After finishing speaking, the Mongolian woman did not pretend to be pretentious, and sang a song called "Short Horse Wine". The singing was beautiful and the voice was loud and clear. It was very pleasant and loud without accompaniment music. It gave Lao Tan the feeling of the original ecology.

This is the real singing, he sighed in his heart.

During the training, Lao Tan explained the profound things in simple terms, and when talking about professional knowledge, he added how to behave and do things.Starting from gratitude and filial piety, sometimes people are moved by talking about it, and those with a low tear point will involuntarily shed tears, deeply moved.

"It's not easy for us humans. From conception to landing, from a shithole to adulthood, it's my mother who pulled us into adulthood bit by bit. Do you know who has done the most to make amends to others in his life? Our father Mom. When we were young, we did something wrong and got into trouble. Although we were afraid, the first thing we thought of would be to go home and find our mother. But our mother and our father had to go behind our backs to make an apology to others, humbly If you want to say good things, you have to look at other people's eyes and smile with them."

"When we grow up and have our own ideas and ideas, the first ones who contradict us are not others, but our parents. To be honest, everyone and I are the same age and have children. Ask, when Are our children very angry when they are disobedient and contradict us? When the children do not come home on time after school, are they very anxious, worried, thinking, thinking wildly, afraid that something will happen to the children? Only when the children finally come back do they let go, What if you don’t even want to eat or even sleep if you don’t see your child?”

"If you don't manage your family, you don't know the cost of rice, and if you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents. When we become parents, we have thoughts and worries about our children, and we have hopes and expectations. Dear sisters, now, at this moment, we might as well calm down and think about it. Think, how many years ago, weren’t we also the children of our parents? Didn’t our parents worry about, worry about, and worry about us just like us? But how did we treat our parents at that time? Take a look. When we were so angry with our children that we secretly wiped our tears, do you know how many tears our parents have secretly shed for us?"

"Not to mention anything else, now we can hold a big banquet for our child's birthday, invite relatives and friends over for a meal, and watch the child grow up while eating and drinking. I will also cry secretly. Yes, my son’s birthday mother’s bitter day, we sometimes forget our own birthday, but we can’t forget our child’s birthday. Thanks for your hard work'."

"We do forget our own birthdays, but there is one person in this world who remembers our birthdays like we can remember children's birthdays, none other than the mother who gave birth to us. Have we ever given us life and put us The mothers and fathers who raised them said, 'Dad, Mom, you have worked hard——'"

"Always remember that parents are the first teachers of children. The reason why we are today and live like human beings is that we have inherited the genes and conduct of our parents. Many people like to go to the mountains to worship Buddha and burn incense in temples. But, dear brothers and sisters, do you know that the fathers and mothers who gave birth to us are the living Bodhisattvas who truly bless us!"

"The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, and the child wants to be filial but not to the relatives. Don't wait until then to think about filial piety. The last thing in the world is filial piety. If you want to be filial to your children when you are old, and enjoy your old age, take action while your parents are still alive. This is what we are supposed to do as human beings and children.”

(End of this chapter)