The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 545 Talking about the situation
Lao Tan went downstairs to buy vegetables.

The restaurants in the provincial capital are closed but the vegetable market is open, and the freezer at home is almost empty and needs to be replenished.

After Lin Yan came back, she didn't stand at home, but went directly to the company, and sent ten long boxes of cold chain trucks to transport vegetables to Wuhan. She followed suit. She estimated that she would come back in a week. More than ten days later.

The son didn't come back with him. It's safer to stay at the grandma's house in the countryside than to stay in the provincial capital.

The vegetable market has a full range of vegetables and the prices are not expensive. Both the vegetable buyers and sellers wear masks, and they need to take their body temperature when they enter.

"Now you are the only ones with a lot of people." Lao Tan greeted the vegetable seller.

"We are risking our lives to solve the food problem for the people." The vegetable seller is quite humorous.

"It also makes money."

"Hey, to tell you the truth, you said it was to make money. In fact, it's the same as usual. The main reason is that the purchase price is expensive, and we don't dare to increase the price. Let's make do with it. Sell some money to buy masks."

The vegetable seller spoke out the aspirations of the common people.

Now there is no shortage of masks.

Lao Tan went upstairs after buying vegetables, and suddenly thought of Yingzi, thinking that Yingzi's house might also be short of vegetables, so he should buy some and send them over.So after putting the vegetables at home, he turned around and went downstairs to the vegetable market. He bought two big bags of meat and vegetables and went to Yingzi's house.

The security guard at Yingzi's house saw that Lao Tan was carrying two large bags of vegetables and didn't check carefully, so he called in after taking his temperature.

He knocked on the door of Yingzi's house, and it was Ruoxi who opened the door. The little girl had already caught up with her mother's height, her body was torn apart, and she came out slim and graceful.

"Hi, Da Da!" The little girl greeted Old Tan first, and then called: "Mom, Da Da Tan is here."

Yingzi and Zhu Debao walked out of the hall, and the family of three warmly welcomed Lao Tan into the house.It seems that Yingzi and Zhu Debao are doing well, and their faces are filled with the expression of life and beauty, joy and happiness.

"Brother, where is Jiaheng? Didn't you come?" Yingzi asked.

"Not at home, but at his grandma's house, where he spent the years." Old Tan said.

"Oh, what about online classes?" Yingzi asked.

"You can go there too, the same."

"Where's my sister-in-law?"

"Follow the car to Wuhan and deliver vegetables."

"Ah—" Yingzi yelled in surprise, and then quickly asked: "Then you have to be quarantined when you come back?"

"Well, we have to isolate." Old Tan said.

"Why doesn't their company send a man there?"

"Your sister-in-law is voluntary, and there are men too."

"Oh--"

While talking, someone knocked on the door again, and it was Yanhua and old Deng who came to bring food to Yingzi's house.So Yingzi started to make a fuss about cooking, leaving Lao Tan and Yanhua for lunch.

The topic of chatter during meals is naturally inseparable from the epidemic. Everyone is in a heavy mood, and they all look forward to the early end of the epidemic so that life can return to normal.

Lao Tan said: "This time the catering industry has suffered heavy losses. When the epidemic is over, many companies will not be able to continue to operate, and they will all have to rent out."

Yanhua said: "Depending on what you said last year, we didn't expand. Otherwise, our family would be in trouble. We opened four new stores last year on the first day of the lunar new year. Let alone investing 3 million, we wouldn't even be able to return."

"Everything is booming and must decline-this is catching up with the epidemic. Even if there is no epidemic, the dumpling market this year will not be easy to do. There are too many dumpling restaurants, and the supply exceeds demand, which has caused vicious competition. Wait for those with poor background Naturally we will be eliminated," said Old Tan.

Yingzi said: "A lot of people were poached from our house on the first day of the new year last year, and now those people regret it, especially when they heard that our family paid living expenses during the holiday."

Zhu Debao said: "It's useless to regret, what did you think when you left, didn't you all go for the high salary they gave you?"

Yingzi said: "When the two little girls I brought left, they said that the salary increase in our house was slow, and everything depends on the score. When the score is up, it will be raised. If the score is not enough, it can only be done in a hurry, unlike others who go to the first day of the new year. Just give it in place.

It's good now, I can't go to work if I stay at home, and I don't have a penny. I heard that after the lockdown is lifted, those shops may not be fully open. "

Lao Tan said: "On the first day of the new year, there are now fourteen stores. I estimate that Zhang Xiangdong will have to sell seven to eight stores, or his capital chain will be broken."

Lao Deng said: "The main thing is that it can be exchanged for business, but can't it be exchanged? A store is conservatively estimated at 500,000, and he can't afford to lose it. In addition, there is rent. You can close the business, but you have to pay for renting a house, and you don't. Even the rich can't let you do it."

Lao Tan said: "This is the result of blind expansion, and there is no rational prediction of the prospects."

Yanhua said: "Our family has been developing for ten years, and it was only in May last year that we fully recovered the cost. Otherwise, we would not be able to make that money last year. Now it is equivalent to [-] stores for nothing. Even if we quit, we will sell all of them. Pure profit, which he can't do on the first day of the new year."

Old Tan said: "Zhang Xiangdong is just too young, young and energetic and too conceited. It is inevitable to stumble. If I were at his age, I would probably be the same."

Yanhua said: "You can't, everyone knows how steady you are. I talked to Yanzi on the phone yesterday and I said that you are Ah Qiao's Dinghai Shenzhen. With you, everyone is not afraid of anything.

Taking the Chinese New Year holiday as an example, it saved a small 4 million at once.If it’s not a holiday, you have to buy it. During the Spring Festival in our family, one store can’t stock more than 4 yuan, and [-] stores can be as small as [-] million.

If it is open for business, all the goods of the small 4 million have to be suppressed, and they cannot be sold for a penny. In addition, the employees have to be paid wages, and they have to be supported. Three meals a day are not money. There are [-] people. Woolen cloth.

So Lao Tan, you are the lucky star of our family. With you, we have everything. "

Old Tan smiled and said, "So you can use the saved 4 million to pay the employees living expenses."

"I didn't think about it that much at first, but when I was on the phone with Sister Wang in Beijing, she calculated this account, otherwise I didn't calculate it." Yanhua said.

"She knows how to calculate." Old Tan said with certainty.

"Sister Wang is now an expert like you. She said that people should know how to be willing, and those who don't know how to be willing to get a rare blessing. Since the small 4 million was saved by Lao Tan, then the money is not his own. Give it out, if you don't give it out, you will lose it sooner or later, and the loss may be even greater.

It is correct to pay living expenses to employees. It is all thanks to everyone's joint efforts and perseverance that Aqiao has come to this day. The most valuable thing about Aqiao is not product technology, nor those delicious health wines, but these loyal employees. They are Ah Qiao's greatest wealth. "

"Well said!" Old Tan took the lead in applauding.

"There is one more thing to tell you." Yanhua continued: "Xiaomei called yesterday and said that the two bosses in Wuhan would transfer their newly renovated store last year to us at a low price, photos, videos and related materials. I’ve sent them all over, and I’ve seen that it’s really suitable.”

"No." Lao Tan said directly: "No one can say for sure what will happen in the future. This year's plan is not to expand and defend the position. If you hold the position, you will win, and you don't want to do anything else."

Lao Deng said: "I agree with Lao Tan's opinion. It is right that the form is not clear and not expanding."

Yanhua said, "I thought so too, but after seeing the photos and videos, my heart itch. It's almost like I came to the store for nothing."

"Hey, there's nothing for nothing. It's just that you don't spend a penny. If you want to start a business, you have to invest. It's all money. In addition, it's outside the five major districts. If you want to do it, you have to re-open the market. It's not worth it. What's more, it's the city with the worst epidemic. , not suitable for investment.” Lao Tan said.

(End of this chapter)