The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 400
As soon as Lao Tan finished speaking, he saw Liu Yang got up and left his seat. He came to Lao Tan excitedly, knelt down on his knees with a "plop" under the surprised eyes of everyone, and then kowtowed.

"Tan Dong, I want to worship you as my teacher, accept me."

This move was so unexpected that not only stunned everyone, but Lao Tan was also stunned.

He was at a loss and didn't know what to say, so he hurried to help Liu Yang, saying: "Get up, get up."

"I won't get up if you don't charge me."

This girl is quite stubborn.

When everyone saw that they were apprentices, they all felt relieved.

"Get up first." Lao Tan dragged Liu Yang up, but the girl also twisted, and couldn't afford to drag her.

"If you don't accept it, I won't afford it."

"I won't accept apprentices anymore."

"Take me the last one."

"I really don't charge——"

Seeing Lao Tan's refusal, Liu Yang turned to Wang Shulan for help.

Wang Shulan was also stunned by Liu Yang's actions just now. She knew that the little girl had always wanted to worship Lao Tan as her teacher, but she didn't expect to come out like this, and she was suspected of forcing the palace.But in my heart, I felt that the little girl was smart and had a good grasp of the timing. On this occasion, she knelt down and kowtowed, and even she was moved, and Lao Tan couldn't help it even if she didn't want to.

"Liu Yang has wanted to ask you to be his teacher for a long time, please accept it." She said.

"What are you talking about?" Old Tan gave Wang Shulan a hard look.

To be honest, Old Tan had no plans to take any more apprentices, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Gu Yi's son to be taken by Erdun, so he would take it himself, okay?

He thinks this way, he doesn't cook anymore, he can't teach others anything, accepting it is tantamount to misleading his children.

As for the female apprentice, I didn't even think about it. Accepting Li Shuang was purely accidental. To be honest, I regretted it a bit.

Liu Yang, who was kneeling on the ground, saw that Wang Shulan couldn't speak well, and still didn't give up. He looked at Xiaofeng again, and cried pitifully, with tears in his eyes, "Aunt Feng—" As he spoke, tears fell one by one. Those who see it are pitiful.

Liu Yang will come to work, and he is liked by others. He and Xiaofeng get along very well within less than two months. He calls each other "Aunt Feng" all day long, and sleeps together lazily at night. He really looks like a real aunt Son.

Xiaofeng also likes her, and even has some maternal love bursting out, like a daughter's love, so naturally she wants to talk to her at this time.

"Old Tan, the child begs you sincerely, please accept it." Xiaofeng said.

"That's not true." Wang Shulan also said.

"Tan Dong accept it." Han Jun said.

"Master Uncle, Sister Liu Yang is alright, let's take it, I just happen to have a junior sister too." Meng Meng said.

Seeing someone speak for himself, Liu Yang seized the opportunity to raise his pitiful face, and did not speak, letting the tears well up in the circles of his eyes, and then fall down touchingly——
In this way, Lao Tan accepted his last apprentice.

In mid-May, the Central Kitchen store opened.

One month after the opening, Lao Tan non-stop negotiated two stores one after another. Both stores are in Yuhua District, echoing the old store in Furong District and the central kitchen store, forming a four-legged trend.

The renovation of the two stores will take three months.

Now the most worrying thing about opening a restaurant is decoration. As long as the money is in place, I want to pretend to be whatever I want, but I have no proof.The worry is people, it's really hard to recruit.

Once recruited, they have to be trained and trained.As the saying goes, if a restaurant is to run well, training is indispensable.Many restaurants take three months to open, and they fail after three months. Most of the reasons are that the training before opening is not in place, and the employees rush to work without training, which eventually leads to failure.

In terms of operations, an untrained employee will offend customers and lose profits all the time, leading to the silent death of the company.

In addition, running a business requires costs.

Tangible costs such as decoration costs, equipment, furniture and other hardware facilities, these are one-time investment.There are also fixed costs such as housing, water and electricity, personnel wages, and logistics supplies invested on a monthly basis. These are all visible, easy to control, and easy to focus.

However, the biggest cost for an enterprise is those untrained employees, and the most invisible cost is internal friction in management. If these two points are not done properly, it is easy to die.

Having said that, since untrained employees are the biggest cost, you have to work hard on training and training.More investment in this area will result in less loss and more profit in operation.

It is difficult to recruit employees, and training is required after recruiting, which takes time, so the recruitment advertisements for the two stores in Yuhua District were put out when the renovation began.

"It's mainly the waiters, the passers-by, and the kitchen boys. Come one and leave the other, and arrange internships in the old store and the central kitchen store. They will all be taken by the master." Lao Tan is preparing to go to Suzhou to participate in Gu Yi and Sister Wang Explain to Xiaofeng before the wedding.

"Yes." Xiaofeng said.

"The store manager and head chef don't need to worry, the headquarters will prepare and come here a month before the opening."

"Let's train the foreman and the master by ourselves."

"Yeah." Lao Tan thought for a while and said, "There must be a head chef in the kitchen to cooperate with you."

"Yes—is there a suitable candidate?" Xiaofeng asked.

Old Tan pondered for a while, and said, "You talk to Zhongqing about it."

"it is good."

Old Tan does have someone to choose, but he is not sure yet.Zhongqing is the director of kitchen affairs, and he knows more about the cooking level and management ability of the existing head chef than himself, so his arrangement is more suitable.

In addition, Mr. Tan forgot that Zhou Xiaomei was the CEO. He was doing the job of the CEO in front of the director, and he couldn't let go of others' jobs.

So he said: "In the future, just communicate with Zhou Xiaomei if you have anything to do. You don't need to look for me, just tell me to be brisk and brisk."

Xiaofeng smiled, "Isn't it convenient for you to be around, besides, I'm used to it."

"This habit is not good, change it."

"Okay, I will look for Xiaomei in the future, not you."

Xiaofeng then looked Lao Tan up and down, surprised as if discovering a new world: "Oh, didn't you notice that you lost weight?"

"It's a little thinner." Old Tan looked down at his stomach.

"How can I be thinner? At least ten catties."

"have it--"

Lao Tan doesn't know how much he has lost, but he is definitely thin, and he can feel it.

Xiaofeng looked up and down again, and said suspiciously: "You've lost weight too quickly—I don't think there's anything wrong?"

"No, it's just brisk." Old Tan said.

"Oh, that's good."

Xiaofeng was no longer curious about Lao Tanshou, but chatted about Han Jun.

It is a good thing that Han Jun and Bai Jiaqi have confirmed their relationship, and Lao Tan is also happy.It's just that there seems to be a change after Dameng Meng came. Xiaofeng found that the two of them went out to drink alone twice after get off work, and they came back very late.

"You mean the two of them—" Old Tan asked suspiciously.

Xiaofeng wasn't sure, and said, "I don't think it's possible, but the two of them—after all, they're alone, and it's midnight, and Meng Meng just got divorced, so it's hard to talk about it."

"Sister Feng, Han Jun was the one who transferred you here. At first I thought it was you two—you care about this matter, so I won't care about it," Old Tan said.

"Just chatting with you, I will find time to chat with Meng Meng."

(End of this chapter)