The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 85 Meal and Wine
Before May Day, Lao Tan did two training sessions.

Training can't be like lectures, it's too formal and no one likes to listen.

Everything you do has a purpose.Lao Tan's purpose is very simple, it is to let the employees work here with peace of mind, obey the command, do not need to be loyal, just need to know that this job can bring him a income, and it is very stable.As long as you don't make mistakes and do everything according to the requirements at work, you won't be laid off.

He wants to pave the way for Sun Haicheng and Tuya.

At the same time, he knows what kind of people he is facing, so his training is like telling stories, entertaining and entertaining, easy to understand, and employees can accept it.

In the training, not only can learn knowledge, but also know how to behave.

During the training, Tuya called her cousin Mulan over. Mulan benefited a lot after listening to the first class, and brought several supervisors from her store to listen to the second class.

"You are a manager today, very good. But being good is not enough, you have to be great. Many managers are hard to be great because they are good."

After training the staff, Mulan sat down with several supervisors of her family, as well as Tuya and Sun Haicheng, and Lao Tan gave them a small stove to eat.

"When I was an employee, I was promoted to a manager because of my excellence. When I became a manager, I still demanded myself with the standards of an employee, maintained my state, took the lead in everything, did not fear hardship or tiredness, and did the dirty work by myself. I'm quite tired, but I don't get any results, do you feel that way?" Old Tan asked.

"Master Tan is right, I have this feeling." A supervisor said.

"I told you, don't be angry. It's because the position is wrong. Excellent employees take the lead; Standards, and then praise and encourage employees. These are two positions that need to be grasped. To put it bluntly, one is to take the lead and the other is to direct.

When you are an employee, what you see is how good you are. When you are a manager, what you see is how good your employees are. A popular saying is how good the team you lead is. "

"Master Tan, you have been in management for many years and have rich experience. Can you tell me what the best management method is?" a supervisor asked.

Old Tan smiled and said four words: "Lead by example."

After sharing for a full hour, seeing that it was time for dinner, Mulan led her men back, and before leaving, she invited Lao Tan to her house to eat roast lamb chops at night, and told her to go, she was waiting in the store.

There are not many guests at night, but fortunately, it received a tourist group of 20 people, which is not bad.

At eight o'clock, Lao Tan took Tuya to the guest room for inspection.In addition to the tour group, there are more than ten guests staying, and the business of the guest room is good today.

After the inspection, the two came to the reception hall.

"Master Tan, my sister called just now and asked when we will arrive." Tuya said.

"I'm a little afraid of drinking with your sister. I can't drink too much." Old Tan joked, but he told the truth.

"It's okay, I will escort you today." Tuya said.

"You drink a lot too." Old Tan said, "Let's leave in a while, I'll go to the kitchen and check the front desk."

When Lao Tan came to the kitchen, the kitchen had already been tidied up and the work meal was ready, and he was about to serve dinner.

Seeing Lao Tan coming, Meng Meng asked with a smile, "Master, are you going to the street later?"

"Go. Are you going too?" Old Tan asked.

"Go, Xiaolong and I will go. If you call for a car, I won't call it. Hee hee, take your cheap car." The little girl said.

"Okay, I called just now, I'll be there in a while, you go change your clothes."

The little girl happily asked Xiaolong to change clothes, Lao Tan exchanged a few words with Sun Hai, and then left the hotel.

Before the car came, Tuya went outside the store after checking the front desk, and waited for the car with Lao Tan.

"Your sister works as a manager in a restaurant, what does your brother-in-law do?" Old Tan Xian asked.

"You don't know, my sister got divorced." Tuya then briefly talked about Mulan's situation.

Mulan's husband's family is in Kailu. After getting married, he opened the restaurant with his husband. The young couple managed it very well and made a lot of money.After Mulan gave birth to a daughter and a son, she seldom went to restaurants and began to take care of the children at home.

When my daughter was in elementary school, my husband had a relationship with a restaurant waiter, and the waiter was pregnant.

So the two divorced, and Mulan left the house.

Now my daughter is in middle school and my son is in elementary school.

"Your sister didn't find another one?" Old Tan asked.

"I fell in love with one in the first two years, who sold souvenirs on the street, and was able to drink, and died of cerebral hemorrhage after drinking, and then I didn't get in touch again." Tuya said.

Old Tan wanted to say that your sister's life was miserable enough, but he didn't think about it, when the car came, Meng Meng and Xiaolong also came out after changing clothes, so the four of them got in the car and went to the street.

In the car, Lao Tan asked Meng Meng what he was doing in the street, and Meng Meng said to go to an Internet cafe to download WeChat.Lao Tan curiously asked what WeChat is, and Meng Meng laughed, saying that Uncle Shi, you are out, and you don’t even know what WeChat is.

"It's been more than a year since I came out. It's like QQ. You can chat, post on Moments, and post photos." Meng Meng said.

Lao Tan really doesn't know what WeChat is, and even QQ is just beginning to understand.Not only did he laugh at himself, but he also said that he was outdated and couldn't keep up with the pace of the times.

Meng Meng took out her smartphone and said, "Master, you can only download WeChat on a smartphone. Hurry up and change to another smartphone. I'll download one for you. It's fun, better than QQ."

"Okay, buy one." Old Tan Hengha agreed.

The Mongolian restaurant where Mulan works is not small, and the decoration is very distinctive, full of Mongolian elements.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a small altar on which Genghis Khan is enshrined.There is a saddle next to it, and a Lele cart behind it.

The hall on the first floor is full of booths, separated from each other, with solid wood tables and chairs, giving people a rough and bold feeling.

The private rooms on the second floor are all in the form of yurts, which are the same as the yurts on the grassland, except that they are more spacious and have air-conditioning and audio systems inside.

The waiters wear Mongolian robes, which are eye-catching and pleasing to the eye.

Mulan knew that Lao Tan was close to Director Wu and Zhang Zhigong, so she invited these two people to avoid Lao Tan's embarrassment.

After everyone greeted each other after meeting in the private room, the dishes began to be served.

The grilled golden lamb chops with a tempting aroma are served on a red-painted gold-rimmed wooden plate, and the waiter in a long robe smiles and puts them on the table.There were six Mongolian knives on the wooden plate, and the waiter picked up one and cut them along the ribs of the lamb chops one by one, connecting the tails.

"This is my family's signature grilled lamb chops, please use it slowly." The waiter said with a smile and walked out of the private room.

"The training is pretty good." Old Tan praised.

Mulan smiled and said: "It's okay, the main thing is that I'm familiar with this dish every day." Then she greeted: "The lamb chops are delicious while they're hot, but they'll get boring when they're cold. Try it first."

After speaking, the Mongolian knife was handed out, and everyone took the knife and cut a rib to eat.

The lamb chops are grilled well, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, full of flavor and fragrant.

While everyone was tasting lamb chops, Mulan filled the wine dispenser in front of everyone with white wine.

Immediately afterwards, two more dishes came up, one was hand-pulled mutton and the other was hand-pulled beef.

Put the mutton in a copper pot by hand, with the original soup inside, and the bottom is heated.There are four flavor plates on the side, which are wild leek flowers, garlic chili sauce, cumin powder, and chili noodles.

The shredded beef is very characteristic, square and large, directly roasted.This is much better than the sauce cooked and deep-fried. It has the taste of beef jerky, but it is softer than beef jerky and has a chewy head.

Immediately afterwards, three more dishes were served, namely rotten pickled vegetables, fried air-dried meat with potato chips, and lamb haggis soup.

As expected of a Mongolian restaurant, almost all meat dishes.

Mulan is the host, and everything is carried out according to the rules of the Mongolian people.

She made a drink first and then started playing rounds.

The so-called rounds start with her, use small cups to drink three cups with each person, and so on.

The wine dispenser is two taels, the small cup is three cents, and the three cups are one tael. There are five people in total, and four taels of wine is given in one round.All five of them finished the round with each other, and each of them happened to have eight taels of wine.

After the round is over, the official drinking is started.

Therefore, if you have a small amount of alcohol, try not to make gestures in Inner Mongolia. You may have to get under the table before the first round.

At the end of the round, everyone drank eight taels of wine.

The drink is the blue bag Mongolian King, the degree is not high, 38 degrees, if the Beijing Erguotou is 52 degrees, no one can stand it.

Now is free drinking time.

Tuya first toasted to communicate with Director Wu and Zhang Zhigong alone.

"Angkor, Brother Zhang, my sister treats you two for a cup, thank you for always supporting me."

The three of them chatted while drinking, and Mulan and Lao Tan did the same here.

"Master Tan, how much will I give you here?" Mulan asked, she felt that Lao Tan's salary should be very high.

Old Tan smiled and said, "Not much, I'm helping."

"That can't be less, the ability is there." Mulan paused after speaking, and then said: "The wages here in Gan Qika are low, after all, it is a small place, like I have worked here for six years, and it is only three thousand and five .”

"It's a little less." Old Tan said.

"I'm pretty high, and everyone else's is [-] yuan. The benefits are not very good, and the boss doesn't want to do it anymore. I think about it. If he doesn't do it, I will go to Hohhot. Why do they say that the salary is higher than this?" Mulan said. .

"Isn't the business going well? Why doesn't the boss want to do it anymore?" Old Tan asked.

"Hey, I have been working for a long time. The boss is tired, and he is earning almost enough money. Beef and mutton are so expensive now. If you don't make money, you don't want to do it."

"Oh, the price of beef and mutton has risen really sharply now."

"Come to Master Tan, I would like to offer you a toast. To be honest, I am too late to meet you. I can learn a lot if I know you earlier." Mulan said sincerely, holding a glass of wine.

Lao Tan smiled embarrassedly and said, "I can't do it either, let's make progress together."

(End of this chapter)