The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 410
In the earthly world, the seasons change, the flowers bloom and fall, the sun and the moon cycle, and there seems to be a cycle of heaven.

People die every day, and new life is born every day.

The common people living in the world are ordinary and busy, running around all day long for food, clothing and housing, experiencing ups and downs, and also experiencing joys and sorrows.Create with your hands to make yourself, your family, and loved ones live better, and at the same time walk with your feet to measure the length of life.

This is our life.

Before Gu Yi's honeymoon, he told Lao Tan that he should stay in Suzhou for a while and wait for him to come back before leaving.Old Tan understood what he meant. He had been out for a long time this time, and there was no one at home, so he was afraid that something might happen.

People, the richer you are, the more cowardly you are.

Who is Gu Yi?That's the big brother, he's a rascal, now that he has money, he's more cautious.

In fact, this is also an inevitability for people to go from having no money to having money.As the saying goes, the richer you are, the more stingy you are, and the poorer you are, the more generous you are.

When a person has no money, he thinks that this is the case anyway, it’s okay to be generous, and he speaks proudly.

After going through the process of making money and becoming rich, and knowing that money is hard-won, they start to be stingy.In fact, it's not stingy, it's because you have a choice, do what is beneficial to you, and stay away from what is not beneficial.

Most people will still look down on the poor buddies who were together at the beginning, slowly draw a clear line, and cut back and forth.

Say a thousand words to 10,000 people. Love is divided into warm and cold, relatives are divided into thick and thin, good brothers when poor, and rich eyes are high.

Of course, Gu Yi is not that kind of person, he just doesn't rest assured that in the store, he can rest assured that he can spend his honeymoon happily with his wife without worrying about Lao Tan.

Now all ten stores in Suzhou carry "Aqiao's fish". In order to ensure the quality, Lao Tan goes from store to store and teaches from store to store.Under his guidance, the fish is very good, and the customers also like it. Soon "Aqiao's fish" became a hot dish. People in Suzhou City can see it as long as they open their circle of friends. Many of them come here for the name. For the quickest.

Don't accept it, the Internet is a powerful thing.In just half a month, Aqiao's fish spread to the provincial capital, Beijing, Hohhot and other places.

One day, Zhongqing called and asked Old Tan Aqiao if his fish could be sold in Beijing. Beijing has a lot of traffic and there are people from all over the world, so it should work.

Lao Tan said that you can try it, but it is definitely not possible in the provincial capital. The northerners have a strong taste and can eat salty dishes. They don’t like sweet and sour dishes, except for pot-packed meat.

So Zhongqing began to try to sell it in four stores in Beijing. At the beginning, it was the same as Suzhou. It was not very good, but it became very popular on the third day, and it became a hot seller a week later.

Within a month, "Aqiao's Fish" was popular in the catering market in Beijing and Suzhou, attracting the attention of many catering people, who came to taste and learn.At the same time, it also hit the headlines of catering and caused a sensation.

Aqiao Dumpling House also became famous through this, and there was an endless stream of people looking for cooperation and joining, but they were all rejected by Lao Tan's order.

He must follow the established plan and never expand blindly.

His decision first received Yanhua's unconditional support, and Zhang Yu and Yanzi's couple began to hesitate. After all, if they join in, they will get a lot of money. Even if they don't do anything from now on, they will spend the rest of their lives.But after calming down, he couldn't think about it and supported Lao Tan's decision.

Although Wang Shulan, Gu Yi, and Qiao Shan were tempted, they didn't have the right to join the franchise, and they were still partners, so they complained when they thought about it, but they still supported it.

But the group has lost some talents.

The catering market in [-] was not very good. Many restaurants did not make money, or even lost money.In this situation, I suddenly discovered that Aqiao Dumpling Restaurant is a money-making model. Which catering person would not be tempted?
It's a pity that people neither join nor cooperate, what should I do?
As a result, the same phenomenon as that of Haidilao appeared in the past. If the cooperation fails or the franchise fails, they will poach the wall. This is a good way of playing, simple and direct, saving money and effort, and is very realistic.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a great reward, and this saying is absolutely true.Some cooks, stuffing staff, dumpling workers, foremen, and ministers who couldn't resist the temptation of high salaries quit their jobs one after another and left without hesitation.

Of course, all the employees who have left have been employed for less than three years, and the old employees who have been employed for more than three years have not left, and they feel that it is not worthwhile.

A "Aqiao's fish" became a hot seller in the market and became a popular "Internet celebrity dish" nowadays. It brought benefits to the store and became popular, but it also brought disasters.

Blessings come from misfortunes, and misfortunes depend on blessings. The wisdom of the ancients is remembered by people today.

Lao Tan became very angry, and received calls for help from Zhou Xiaomei, Zhang Li, and Mulan every day.

In a fit of anger, he postponed the opening of the two stores under renovation in Changsha, and Wang Shulan also postponed the opening of the fifth store in Beijing, and added the staff who were preparing for the opening of these three stores to the positions lost in other stores. situation.

To be honest, this was an afterthought, and it sounds easy to say, but the situation at that time was very serious, and it was the biggest employment crisis that Lao Tan had encountered in his life. His hair turned white in a few days—although he couldn’t see it with his bald head, it was indeed white. .

In the blink of an eye, it was August, and Lao Tan had been in Suzhou for two months. Now that the staff is stable and everything is running normally, he is going to go home and have a look.

Yingzi has been working at Aqiao for half a year. She is smart, studious, and diligent, and her colleagues like her very much.

In the beginning, everyone felt sympathy for her. It was really not easy for a disfigured divorced single woman with a child.

Everyone is around, and they get to know each other after a long time. In addition, Yingzi is easy-going, kind to others, and works hard without complaint, which naturally won everyone's approval.Although the sympathy is still there, it is more of a friendship.

Yingzi sang well, and she generously took off her mask and sang a few songs in her spare time, which won rounds of applause from everyone.

In May, she passed a series of assessments of stuffing, dough, preparation, rolling, and dumpling making, and officially became a junior dumpling chef, with her salary raised to [-].The days that were so tight for her can finally take a breather, and the mother and daughter can eat and use more freely.

In addition, with Lao Tan's relationship, everyone from top to bottom takes good care of her, whether it is in life or work.It can be said that this is the most beautiful life she has ever lived alone with her children.

There are six people in the pastry room in the central kitchen, five women and one man.

Wang Hong is the leader, Yingzi and the eldest sister Gao Guilan are in charge of mixing the stuffing, and the remaining two women are in charge of making the dough.The only man is mainly doing physical work, carrying vegetables and noodles, and distributing and packing.

The pastry room in the central kitchen is responsible for the training of dumpling workers, so the four women have to know how to prepare dumplings, roll skins, and make dumplings, and they have to be good at it, otherwise they will not be able to be masters.

Wang Hong often goes to the store to check. When she is not around, the eldest sister Gao Guilan is in charge.

Gao Guilan is 52 years old, a laid-off worker, and has worked at Aqiao for five years.She is an optimistic person, she has nothing to worry about, and she is cheerful all day long.He is also kind to people, not mean-spirited, and warm-hearted.

The other two female workers are younger, they are the wives of the cook in the shop, and they are nice people.

The only man whose surname is Zhu, Zhu Debao, 40 years old, is Li Shuang's cousin.Be honest and honest, don't talk too much and laugh first.It's just that he was deaf in his left ear the day after tomorrow, so he looked a bit dull.

Because of his unremarkable appearance, incompetence and helplessness, and being half-deaf, he has been single all the time.

This day Wang Hong is not around, so Yingzi and Sister Gao are the only ones in the room.The two finished adjusting the other fillings, leaving only sauerkraut uncooked.

Sister Gao said to Yingzi: "The only sauerkraut stuffing is left, you work hard, my daughter-in-law is coming home today, I will go back early to cook."

Yingzi said: "Then you go quickly, I will finish it in a while."

After Gao Guilan left, Yingzi took the sauerkraut with controlled water to the stuffing machine, and pressed the switch as usual, but the stuffing machine didn't respond at all.She tried twice more, still the same.

So he called Zhu Debao over and asked him to see what was going on and whether it was broken.

Zhu Debao pressed the switch and saw that the machine did not respond. He said it was broken, and then called the maintenance worker. The maintenance worker said that he was repairing the refrigerator in another store and had to come after four in the afternoon.

Yingzi sighed as he looked at the three big pots filled with more than two hundred catties of sauerkraut. It seemed that he had to chop it up bit by bit with a knife.

"Don't worry, we'll chop it together when I'm done," Zhu Debao said.

(End of this chapter)