Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 60: We agreed to sleep in together, but you secretly went to class

In the morning, when Chen Pingjiang was about to realize his dream, he was woken up by an alarm clock.

Chen Pingjiang turned over and wanted to continue sleeping, but he heard He Siyu patting the edge of the bed, "Brother Chen, today is the class of the old professor of marketing."

"Oh." Chen Pingheng hummed and looked at his phone sleepily. "It's already 7:40. It's too late. Go back to sleep."

Well, it takes twenty minutes to get dressed, brush teeth, eat breakfast and then walk to the classroom. I'll be late anyway, so I might as well not go.

Zhao Shaoyang, who was sitting opposite him, had a messy hair and yawned listlessly. He was already hesitating whether to go to class or not. When he heard Chen Pingjiang's words, his mind suddenly slipped and he felt sleepy again. His eyelids were fighting and he fell back on the bed, mumbling, "Then I won't go either."

It was almost eleven o'clock when Zhao Shaoyang woke up slowly. He finally had a good sleep.

He struggled to get up and shouted, "Brother Chen, what do you want to eat for lunch?"

No one responded for a long time.

Zhao Shaoyang turned his head and saw that Chen Pingjiang's bed was clean and there was no one there. He looked back and saw that he was the only one in the dormitory.

At this moment, Chen Pingjiang and Dong Tinghui walked into the dormitory laughing, followed by Guo Dewen and three others, carrying lunch such as fried rice and fried noodles in their hands.

"Brother Chen, why did you come back with Lao Dong and the others?" Zhao Shaoyang asked suspiciously. Chen Pingjiang took a nap with him in the morning and he was usually not in the dormitory during the day, so why did he come back at this time?

Chen Pingjiang threw the fried rice on the table, looked at Zhao Shaoyang and smiled: "How fresh, I must have gone to class, you think everyone is a bad student like you. Oh, you were not there for the morning roll call, the old professor said that all your usual points will be deducted, you can prepare for the marketing makeup exam now."

Zhao Shaoyang was stunned, and for a long while he covered his head with his hands, wanting to cry but no tears: "Brother Chen, you are such a dog. I was planning to go to class this morning, but I continued to sleep after hearing what you said."

Chen Pingjiang cursed: "Damn it, you wanted to skip class and you threw it on my head. If I eat shit, you will eat it too."

Seeing that he didn't believe him, Zhao Shaoyang immediately cursed: "If I lie to you, I will really eat shit."

Chen Pingjiang chuckled: "Stop cheating on food and drink and focus on preparing for the make-up exam, you naughty brother."

"..."

"We agreed to take a nap together, but you secretly went to class. You are such a jerk."

……

In the afternoon, Chen Pingjiang hid in the library alone.

Chen Pingjiang was very happy with Wei Xiaoqing's suggestion, but he had to admit that he had been too focused on the preparations for Renren.com recently and had neglected Xiaochen BBQ. Xiaochen BBQ was very important to Chen Pingjiang, and only by providing continuous cash support could Renren.com go faster and further.

However, as the number of stores increases, this kind of single-store fighting alone and extensive management will become increasingly incapable and unable to achieve standardization. It is very likely that the fourth and fifth stores in the future will fail, which is something Chen Pingjiang does not want to see.

So he had to take some time to carefully write a plan for the future development of the barbecue restaurant.

Why are there so many barbecue brands in later generations, but chain brands with hundreds of stores are rare?
Because barbecue itself is a food that is difficult to standardize. It is not like hot pot, where each store can use the same ingredients and ingredients, which are shipped directly from the headquarters, and the taste is almost exactly the same after cooking in the pot. It is also not like a milk tea shop, where the same ingredients and fixed proportion processing procedures are used.

Therefore, hot pot restaurants and milk tea shops can be copied in large quantities, but barbecue restaurants are difficult, just like steaks in Western restaurants, each restaurant has a different taste, each chef has a different taste, and even each time has a different taste. A good steak costs thousands of dollars, while a bad steak costs tens of dollars. The most important thing is that a steak chef with a thermometer and a blood test needle takes a long time to make the same dish. You can imagine how difficult it is for a barbecue chef to grill more than a dozen kinds of meat and keep the same taste.

The type of meat, the quality of the meat, the level of marinating, and the level of the barbecue chef all determine whether a restaurant's barbecue is delicious. The same goes for stir-frying.

Chen Pingjiang had no doubt that as Xiao Chen's barbecue stall expanded, problems would arise. The barbecue chef would resign, the new chef's barbecued meat would taste much worse, or the old chef would use his unique skills to ask for a raise, or even the new store's taste would be bad and ruin its reputation.

There are actually many tricks to grilling skewers. For example, the taste of electric grilling, charcoal grilling, and even special wood grilling are very different. However, there is no standard for the firepower of charcoal grilling and wood grilling. It all depends on the chef's feeling. If the Maillard reaction is inconsistent, the taste will be very different. This is like the same semi-finished skewers, the taste presented in an air fryer, oven, and charcoal grill are completely different.

Chen Pingjiang called Ai Zhiwei for advice.

Ai Zhiwei was busy on the other end of the phone, saying, "Boss, this is very difficult, almost impossible. Just like our store is doing so well, my stove is only two meters long, and I have to estimate the time to roast so much meat at one time. The roasting time for each type of meat is different, the turning time is different, the time to take it out of the oven is different, and the seasoning oil must be sprinkled evenly to ensure both the taste and the speed of serving."

Chen Pingjiang thought for a moment and asked, "Can it be quantified to form a standard?"

"It's not impossible, but if that's the case, you need to add more people, one person will be responsible for a few fixed types of barbecue, and the source of the ingredients, size, fire temperature, time, marinating seasoning brand, ingredients, and turning frequency will all be standardized. And that's not enough for you. Every new chef you recruit must go through a lot of strict training before they can become a master. Maybe they will run away after they learn it."

Ai Zhiwei hadn't finished his words yet. Even if the people didn't run away, the cost during the training period and the increased labor cost in the kitchen were far from being supported by the profits of the low-priced barbecue restaurants around the school.

"Let's take it step by step." Chen Pingjiang thought for a while.

The most urgent task is to hire an experienced and formally registered catering management company to carry out standardized management of all Xiao Chen BBQ stores, which can greatly solve Chen Pingjiang's worries. Personnel must also be prepared, you can't always have to recruit by yourself or rely on introductions.

Do you think this is the end?
too young!
With more stores, unified purchasing and distribution will still require more people, otherwise it will be impossible to form economies of scale and the quality of food cannot be controlled.

For food development, is pre-job training necessary?
In this case, we need to prepare a larger office space.

Chen Pingjiang felt a headache just thinking about it!

"It's really hard to make money with your money. Now, if anyone gives me a lot of money, I'm willing to sell my ass." Chen Pingjiang cursed. If he was given another chance, he would definitely sell milk tea like the rebirth novels he had read before, one machine, two people, three recipes and four flavors, and make a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)