A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 745
With everyone's hard work, by seven o'clock in the evening, all the ingredients to be used were ready.

The rest are all fresh ingredients that need to be cooked fresh. There is no way to process them in advance and can only be cooked tomorrow.

Seeing the ingredients being put into the crisper, freezer, and storage room in an orderly manner, Hao Libao couldn't help but nodded with joy.

When he first came here, he thought that the chef was just a scumbag.

But after getting along with him for a day, he discovered that this grass-roots team did a pretty good job.

But this all depends on Li Yi's strong control. He seems to have three heads and six arms, and he precisely controls everyone in the kitchen.

He left all the difficult work to himself and only let the guests do simple pre-processing of ingredients.

He is able to make all guests understand what they need to do and do their best within controllable limits.

Even if there are some problems, he can find ways to remedy them.

In Hao Libao's view, Li Yi was like a spider, and the entire kitchen was his spider web. No situation could escape his perception.

Many times, he can predict what problems others will have, and will warn them in advance and tell them to pay attention.

The most important thing is that under such circumstances, he can still handle all highly technical and difficult tasks.

This ability is completely sufficient to serve as the executive chef of any large catering company.

After discovering this, Hao Libao suddenly realized that just in the morning, he was still considering accepting Li Yi as his apprentice and training him to be the next executive chef of the State Guesthouse.

But by observing his work status at the end of the day, Hao Libao discovered that he was definitely capable enough to serve as the executive chef of the State Guesthouse.

Even if he takes over the position directly, Hao Libao sees no problem.

This surprised Hao Libao, and even found it a bit difficult to understand.

How old is Li Yicai?
How did he do that?
For the chef, the head chef is the emperor of the chef, to put it bluntly.

But it also bears direct responsibility for the production of each dish.

If you want to be a head chef, you must be familiar with every aspect of the kitchen and understand all the steps and possible problems that may arise for each dish from procurement to delivery.

In addition to making good dishes, the head chef also needs to know how to manage, know how to identify and employ people, plan each type of work, and formulate processes to save time and improve efficiency.

This is not the same thing as cooking, and it cannot be mastered in a day or two.

You know, there are high and low levels of management.

Some chefs rely on merciless scolding to establish their authority and use coercive management, which is the lowest level.

Some chefs are well-known teachers and have real skills. Their subordinates will find ways to curry favor and work hard to do a good job. This is driven by profit and is considered a middle strategy.

But Li Yi relied purely on his strong personal strength, backward compatibility, considered all possible situations in advance, made plans, and could respond to emergencies at any time and handle them all properly.

This was accomplished with a group of grass-roots team members, which further highlighted the terror of Li Yi's strength.

Hao Libao asked himself, if it were him, he might never take this kind of job because it would be a thankless job.

Even if he accepted it, he might not be able to do it as smoothly and freely as Li Yi.

From this perspective, Li Yi seems to have more experience as a chef than he does.

After realizing this, Hao Libao felt quite complicated.

At the end of the day, he had revised his impression of Li Yi countless times, but Li Yi overturned his impression time and time again and gave him more surprises.

And the surprises accumulated one after another, and they almost turned into shocks.

He found that he no longer had much advantage in front of Li Yi.In terms of cooking skills, Li Yi is definitely not inferior to him, and may even have a wider range of experiences than him.

In terms of kitchen management, he was already at a disadvantage because he simply couldn't prepare a banquet with so many unprofessional laymen.

The only thing he can bring to the table is his experience in hospitality.

Waiters are responsible for recruiting and greeting customers, seating and greeting customers, introducing dishes, taking orders, taking dishes to the table, seeing guests off, as well as providing tea service in the front office, designing countertops, etc.

For restaurants, the job of serving at the front of the house is even more important than the kitchen.

Because he can't attract guests, no matter how good his cooking skills are, there is no place for him to use them.

That’s why there is an old saying in the catering industry, which is “the first place, the second oven and the third place”.

Among them, the head hall is where the reception is, while the stove and the pier are at the back.

As the top hotel in the country, the State Guesthouse is also the most stringent in terms of customer reception.

Although the front office manager is mainly responsible for this job, the front office and the kitchen must cooperate with each other, so Hao Libao is relatively familiar with these particularities and rules.

However, compared to the level of cooking and management, this kind of experience can only be regarded as a side detail.

In the most important field, Hao Libao found that he was at a disadvantage.

After preparing the ingredients, the program crew did not leave, but just asked the guests to go back to the hotel to rest.

All the staff of the program team stayed with Li Yi and other five people to hold another meeting.

According to the program flow, although the guests have been helping in the kitchen these days, in the official filming tomorrow, the guests will participate in the program as guests.

After all, in so many previous issues, guests have been summoned, and in the last issue, it is always inappropriate to still summon guests.

Therefore, in tomorrow's official recording, the program team decided to allocate some manpower to help Li Yi and others to provide good service to the guests.

Li Yi has already made plans for this.

All the male employees will help him in the kitchen, while the female employees will work as waiters in the front office.

All these require Li Yi to conduct training in advance. In addition, the preparation of props also needs to meet the needs of the [Dragon and Phoenix Banquet].

So, at the beginning of the small meeting, Li Yi asked the person in charge of the props team about the production status of Chang Ji and Jinlong's banquet table.

The main banquet of the [Dragon and Phoenix Banquet] is placed on the Golden Dragon Banquet Table.

This table is for the emperor's exclusive use. The table is surrounded by yellow satin embroidered with gold dragons and gems.

But because there are too many dishes, every dish cannot be reached, so a long table needs to be set up between the Golden Dragon Banquet Table and the diners.

At tomorrow's banquet, Li Yi, Liu Yifei, Wang Tian and others will dine on that long table.

In addition, all tableware must be made of sterling silver.

In ancient times, emperors often did not use gold tableware for meals, but mostly silverware.

Because most of the poisons in ancient times were mineral poisons containing sulfides, when they encountered silver, the silver would turn black, thus evading the poisons.

Li Yi asked the prop team to prepare these tools in advance.

Listening to the communication between Li Yi and the person in charge of the props team, Hao Libao looked calm on the surface, but he was extremely surprised in his heart.

He seems to have underestimated the abilities of Li Yi and this grassroots team. Is tomorrow's [Dragon and Phoenix Banquet] so particular?
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