The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 562 Vaccination

In [-], the catering industry suffered heavy losses due to the impact of the epidemic. Many previously good restaurants across the country closed down, let alone those with no foundation.Especially the restaurants that were renovated in the second half of [-], almost all of them were lost, and very few made money.

Using the Great Depression to describe the restaurant industry in [-] is not an exaggeration.

Let's take the familiar first day of the new year as an example. After the unblocking, only seven of the twelve stores opened, and five stores closed.

The five closed stores couldn’t exchange money even if they wanted to, and no one dared to do it.If you can’t cash it out, you have to pay the rent every month. If you don’t pay the rent, the owner will only give you one month to move out. In the second month, you will take back the house and rent it out again.

This is not to say that when your illness kills you, the owner of the house has to live too.

The efficiency of the seven stores that are open is not good, and the employees are divided into two parts to work, one for the other day, and half a month's salary every month, all complaining.

His house is like this, and the situation of other houses is similar. The good ones are just a few restaurants with a good reputation.

Is Aqiao's business doing well?

Well, good indeed, but also in comparison.

There was no business for three months in the first half of the year, and the number of customers was limited in the first two months after the unblocking. The business situation was flat, and there was no loss of money.

In the first half of the year, even the rent brought to the employees and the living expenses, the average compensation for each store was 400,000, which is not a small number.Fortunately, it started to make a profit in the second half of the year, and at the end of the year, there was no loss or profit, zero profit, and nothing to do.

This result was expected by Lao Tan, so in mid-October, the bosses, managers, chefs and others from the five major districts gathered in the provincial capital for two days to exchange ideas and get a vaccination in advance.

October NO.16, meeting room of Aqiao headquarters in the provincial capital.

Yanhua and Yanzi sat at the president's seat, Lao Tan sat opposite them, and on both sides were the bosses and executives of the five major districts.

The first is Yanhua's speech.

"There are two main reasons for calling everyone here. The first thing is that the business caused by the epidemic is not good. We are very upset that we can't make money. Come and listen to Lao Tan to chat with us and comfort us.

The second thing is to discuss the future development of our family, mainly how to operate under the epidemic.

As far as these two things are concerned, I won't say much else, and I will leave the time to Lao Tan. "

Everyone applauds.

Lao Tan didn't speak immediately, but played a video first.

The video was made by the planning department, and the first screen is a snapshot of the catering situation in the five major districts:
Screen [-], the actual scene of each restaurant street in the cities where the five major districts are located, almost half of the doors are closed, and the sign on the door face is for rent.

In the second picture, the restaurant in operation is deserted and deserted, with few customers.

Screen [-] is the real shot of the dumpling restaurant in Wuhan where Qin Haixuan quit last year. The decoration of the store is really good, almost exactly the same as Ah Qiao, except that the door is locked and the phone number is pasted on the door glass.

Next is the current business situation of the stores in each district and real shots of the work and life of the employees.

Among them are the reception service in the front hall when going to work, the sanitation screen at the close of the market, the dish production and workflow screen in the back kitchen, the real scene of the dormitory life of the employees who live in the dormitory after get off work, and the record of the home life of the employees who go home.

The video is not long, 15 minutes, a line of words is typed on the final screen:

How our Aqiao develop
"How do you feel after watching the video?" Lao Tan asked everyone with a smile.

The first person to speak was Huang Lijuan from Hohhot. In the first half of the year, she lost 2 million from five stores. This was very difficult for her to accept, and she felt unwilling.

"The restaurants are getting worse and worse, and they don't make money at all."

As soon as the words fell, Qiao Shan from Suzhou said: "I think our family is doing well, and we have turned around since August."

Qiao Shan didn't object to Huang Lijuan's statement, she also lost 2 million in the first half of the year.The main reason is that she has a good attitude, and she is also rich and powerful. 2 million is nothing to her.

"As long as the epidemic is over, nothing will happen to our family, and it will be the same as before." Gu Yi is very confident.

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Others also expressed their own ideas, although they were different, but they all had confidence in the future and did not say they wanted to quit.

After everyone finished speaking, Lao Tan began to speak.

"Our Aqiao was designed and prepared in 11, established in [-], and this year is exactly [-] years and [-] years as the leader.

In the beginning, to be honest, I didn’t have any plans, I just wanted to do it well, and try to open two branches to earn some money steadily.

I remember that it was the Spring Festival of [-]. On the first day of the new year, for some reason, I asked myself three questions repeatedly.

First, do I like being a dumpling restaurant?

Second, is running a dumpling restaurant beneficial to the common people?
Third, whether it can persist for more than ten years. "

Old Tan paused to take a sip of water, and then continued: "The first question is easy to answer, but it is not easy to answer. In 19 years, I was [-] years old, and I have been doing catering for [-] years. To be honest, I have done enough.

But why not do it?I don't understand other industries, and I have no other abilities except hard work.Having said that, you have to support your family, and you can't make your children and wives hungry.

To be honest, I like it. It is my goal to develop the home-cooked dishes of Northeast dumplings, otherwise it would be impossible to stick to it for 19 years.

In 19 years, I served three dumpling restaurants, Heyuxuan, Linjiangxuan and Qinghuage.

He Yuxuan disbanded during SARS, let's not talk about it.Linjiangxuan and Qinghua Pavilion are well-known dumpling restaurants across the country, and Linjiangxuan has made dumplings in Japan and South Korea, winning glory for the country and earning foreign exchange.

Although Qinghua Pavilion has gone downhill in the past two years, it still has more than [-] physical stores, which should not be underestimated.

That's what I thought at the time, since Lao Tan can build these three stores, so can Aqiao.After working in restaurants for half my life, I have to build my own brand.

So I made up my mind to do it, and I did it for ten years.

Isn't there a ten-year rule? I didn't know it at the time, and no one told me about it.I only know that as long as I work hard and be worthy of my conscience, don't give up halfway. If I persist for ten years, I will definitely be able to build the brand of Aqiao.

Hehe, it was really built, not in vain.

So is it beneficial to the common people to be a dumpling restaurant?

I thought this way at the time: Food, clothing, housing and transportation have been the four major needs of ordinary people since ancient times, and restaurants belong to the "food" category.

And set a goal for myself - to be the dumpling that ordinary people love to eat.

That's what I thought at the time, and it's a little bit different now.

Why is it different?
Everyone watched the video just now. It showed the actual situation of the catering industry this year. To be honest, it was very depressed. It was not a pleasant experience to watch.

In fact, this is not the main thing, the main thing is the employees in the video.

I don’t know if you have noticed, but there are a few pictures, one is the employees returning to the dormitory after get off work, talking and laughing very warmly; the other is the real life scene of several employees’ homes, which is also very warm.

The other one is the real work scene at work. I wonder if you have noticed that the employees are very proactive and have smiles on their faces. The kind comes from the heart, not just pretending. "

Speaking of this, Lao Tan stood up and left his seat, took two steps back and stood on the podium and said with emotion: "I told you that if a fast food restaurant hires a waiter and a cook, then there are two families who are interested in this fast food restaurant." full of hope.

If a hair salon hires three shampoo girls, then there are three families who are full of hope for this hair salon.

We Aqiao now have a total of 64 employees. You may wish to think about it, are there 64 families who are full of hope for our Aqiao? "

(End of this chapter)