The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 556 The Story of Braised Lamb

"Today you have an apple and I have an apple, and the result of our exchange is still only one apple each.

If you have one thought and I have one, then our exchange will result in two thoughts each—"

Lao Tan started the first training for the introduction of points system management. This training is for the management and lasts for three days.It starts at [-]:[-] in the morning and ends at [-]:[-]; it continues at [-]:[-] in the afternoon and ends at [-]:[-].

This arrangement will not affect the normal business, and the meal time management personnel can be on the job.

On the first day, Lao Tan did not talk about point-based management, but combined with the "Tao Te Ching" to talk about what management is, what is a manager and the rules of managers.If this kind of training is taught according to academic tutorials, it is boring and no one can listen to it.

Fortunately, Lao Tan is not an expert or scholar. He reads the Tao Te Ching at the level of ordinary people, so he naturally understands it according to ordinary people's thinking, and then combines it with the actual situation of catering, so it is easy to understand and everyone loves to listen.

As the saying goes, people are not far away. I think that when Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching, it was not all written for the king, but more for the common people. Otherwise, there would be no four realms of administrators.

The Supreme Being does not know about it; the second is to praise it with relatives; the second is to fear it; the second is to humiliate it.

Lao Tan's speech is vivid and has the feeling of listening to cross talk.Everyone listened with gusto and was deeply inspired, and they all changed subtly in their hearts.

After the training in the morning, Zhang Liguo held Lao Tan's hand and said excitedly: "Teacher Tan is very good. If I had heard your lecture earlier, my shop would not be like this. Now I understand why Aqiao is popular and outsiders don't like it." cannot be copied.”

Old Tan said: "Boss Zhang praises you, you did a good job."

"I'm ashamed, I'm really ashamed." Zhang Liguo said: "I always wanted to make the store bigger and stronger, to be the number one in Zhengzhou City, which would impress people. I didn't realize that I made a mistake, and my original intention was wrong.

Just like what you said, if you want to be strong, you must first be strong. After the store was established, I started to set my sights high and not focus on the most basic construction. As a result, the employees were alienated and had no sense of belonging.The two stores seem to be strong, but they are not far from bankruptcy. "

Old Tan smiled and said: "It's not that serious. As long as we take our hearts back and do it like we did when we opened a small restaurant, don't treat ourselves as a big boss or boss, it's still the same.

After all, our family has a foundation, a source of customers, a good reputation, and a good management team. As long as we change our mentality and attitude a little, it will work just as well. "

"Thank you, Teacher Tan." Zhang Liguo held Lao Tan's hand tightly again, and said sincerely: "I know about my family's illness, and it's hard to get back. These managers have learned the same thing as me over the years of working with me. There are a lot of superficial articles. It’s not practical, you must teach us well.”

"Don't worry, for sure." Old Tan said.

In the evening, Lao Tan and Wang Shulan went to "Ge Ji Red Braised Mutton Restaurant" on Dongming Road.

Geji Red Braised Lamb is famous in Zhengzhou, you must try it.

Lao Tan has studied the stewed mutton, but it has been unsatisfactory. It is not as good as the "Aqiao red soup mutton" he developed.

Speaking of braised mutton, there is another story.

That was when Lao Tan was working at Linjiangxuan. Linjiangxuan was located in Huaiyuanmen, a middle street in the provincial capital. There was a street outside Huaiyuanmen that was almost entirely run by Henan people. It was very famous in the provincial capital.

At that time, a chef working in Linjiangxuan was about to leave his job to work in one of the stewed mutton restaurants, where the salary was high and the treatment was good.

The chef's daughter-in-law is also working in Linjiangxuan, working as a waiter at the front desk.The daughter-in-law didn't want to ask her husband to work in a mutton restaurant, so she found Lao Tan and asked Lao Tan not to approve her husband's resignation.Lao Tan asked why she said that it was convenient for two people to work together, they could commute together, and they could take care of each other.

At that time, Zhang Li was the general manager of Linjiangxuan, and Lao Tan told her about it.Out of curiosity, Zhang Li said that we should go to the braised mutton restaurant and have a meal by the way to learn about the situation.

So the two went.

The mutton restaurant is not big, less than [-] square meters, it is very clean, and the business is also very good.

The boss is a woman. Seeing her, Lao Tan seems to have guessed the reason why the chef left.Friends who have read the first part should still remember Du Dapeng, the nephew of the third boss when Lao Tan was the head chef at Linjiangxuan.

Du Dapeng likes to gamble and always plays mahjong. Lao Tan went to the mahjong parlor to find him.At that time, the proprietress was sitting opposite Du Dapeng playing mahjong. Lao Tan was very impressed, because she said that the chef still cares about the staff playing mahjong?Dapeng can't do it, don't do it, go to my sister, she doesn't care about you.

Lao Tan ignored her at that time and took Du Dapeng away directly.

And the chef who is about to resign also has a problem with playing mahjong, probably because of the instigation of the proprietress.

Lao Tan recognized the proprietress, and the proprietress also recognized Lao Tan.

Old Tan didn't hide it, and asked directly: "I heard that a chef in my family is coming to your house?"

The proprietress smiled and said, "There is such a thing."

"You are quite charming." Old Tan said.

"It's not that I'm attractive, it's that he wants to come." The proprietress then said, "To tell you the truth, he owes me more than [-] yuan for playing mahjong, and his salary is [-] yuan a month when he was with you. It will take at least half a year to pay me back. What if someone else leaves one day?
When it comes to me, I will give him [-] a month, and two months is enough to pay back my money, right? "

What the proprietress said was very straightforward, and the reality was chilling.

The way this matter was finally resolved was that Lao Tan lent the chef 4000 yuan to repay the gambling debt, and then the young couple stopped working in Linjiangxuan and lived a peaceful life.

After Lao Tan finished speaking, Wang Shulan asked, "Is that proprietress from Henan?"

"No, we are from the provincial capital." Old Tan said.

"This man is bad enough, isn't he beautiful?"

"It's pretty good-looking—mainly she caught the chef's psychology. If she didn't do it for her, she would go to the restaurant to make a fuss. The chef must be afraid, so he could only do it for her, and it was still for nothing."

Wang Shulan snorted and said, "Gambling is the foundation of mourning." Then she asked, "Did the chef return the money to you?"

"I paid back part of it, and then I stopped working there, so I lost contact." Old Tan said.

"You are quite generous."

Lao Tan smiled and said: "So I was deeply impressed by the braised mutton, and I never thought it was delicious." After speaking, he picked up a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth. After eating, he said: "But his family's cooking is really good. , Ruanru tastes through, neither smelly nor fishy, ​​sweet but not greasy."

"It's not as delicious as our red soup mutton." Wang Shulan said.

"Our family mainly has good raw materials, pure tin and Dongsu sheep."

"That's what I drank."

Almost at the same time, the scene of drinking with others in Ximeng eight years ago to discuss the mutton cooperation appeared in front of the two of them. On that day, Wang Shulan gave full play to the charm of a sociable woman, killing all directions on the wine table until everyone was drunk. He drank until he was unconscious.

"Indeed, without you, there would be no mutton from our family, I respect you!"

Lao Tan picked up the wine glass and touched the glass held by Wang Shulan, and the two drank it down in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)