The story of a cook

Chapter 172 Feeling Management
In terms of management, Chinese restaurants have gone through three stages.

The first is the stage of rule of man; the second is the stage of legal system; the third is the stage of culture.

At the beginning, that is, the initial stage of my part-time job, the restaurant was like this.Generally very popular restaurants are almost always made by a famous master leading his apprentices. At that time, it can be said that a chef can stir up a restaurant.This can be called capable person management.As long as the chef is here, the restaurant will be popular, and if the chef leaves, the restaurant business will decline.

For example, Shengmei was very popular when the boss was there. After the boss left, the business started to deteriorate day by day, and finally had to close.

The hotel is in the mode of "capable man management", and its development is subject to certain limitations.

After SARS passed, restaurants underwent a major reshuffle, and some irregular and substandard restaurants were eliminated. More advanced management models were introduced, and the catering industry began to transition from "capable man management" to " Institutional management” is called the legal stage.The most obvious sign at this time is that most restaurants have begun to introduce "five permanent management".Great changes have taken place in restaurants from the kitchen to the front hall. Every restaurant has strict rules and regulations and implementation standards. Some welfare benefits have also begun to enter the catering industry, making catering people feel their own existence and belonging.The catering industry has also developed rapidly.

After that is the current stage of cultural management.Now every catering industry is paying attention to "team winning", building management teams and employee teams, and pushing culture to the first place.After the catering industry has been polished by the Wuchang management, the current restaurants are more standardized and standardized, with their own operating procedures and operating standards. From the beginning of the healthy kitchen and green catering to the bright kitchen and bright stove, rest assured catering, and today, the beginning Open kitchen, participatory catering, each step is through the unremitting efforts of the catering staff, step by step.

Today’s restaurants will never undergo major changes because of a chef’s departure, because every product that has been solidified in a good and formed restaurant has its own process and standards, and there will be no major changes due to the flow of chefs. The change.

Take this new crown epidemic as an example. Now that the catering industry has been unsealed, but the catering market is full of joy and sorrow. The joy must be those restaurants with strong cultural heritage, excellent team building, and good process standards. It has almost no impact. Still full of customers, making money every day.Don't look at those worrying restaurants. They must be those that don't pay attention to cultural management and team building. Without processes and standards, there will be no excellent products for guests and brand culture, so they will be eliminated naturally.

I thought what Zhang Li said might make sense, so I wanted to take a look at Yangchun to see how I look now after I'm gone.Yangchun is the first restaurant where I went out to cook as a chef. It is very meaningful and emotional, especially in the kitchen. There are "drinking dishes", "dry seasonings", "dog meat hot pot" and the sauced pig's trotters I have studied. , Sauce pig ears, these are all my efforts.

When working in Yangchun, the kitchen is very friendly, and everyone doesn't say anything, just like a family.Especially Sister Jin and Sister Ma, we are also long-term drinking friends, and we just don’t get drunk at all times.I miss that time very much and left many good memories.Up to now, I haven't contacted Sister Jin and the others for more than four months. I had a drink at Sister Ma's house when I came back from home during the Spring Festival. I haven't seen each other since then, and I haven't been to the store. I really don't know. What is it like now.

After returning to Santaizi, I called Sister Jin and Sister Ma once. Sister Ma called back, but she didn’t ask about the hotel at that time, but told her that she was not working in the club, and returned to Santaizi, and said nothing else. I haven't been in touch since.

How should I put it, if people don't work together, they are all busy with their own business, and if they don't contact each other for a long time, the relationship will gradually fade away, a little alienated, and eventually they will be forgotten.This can't be said that anyone is indifferent and ruthless, real life is like this, everyone is running around for their own livelihood, and they can't just work hard for the sake of feelings and meaning.

There is one more difference between men and women compared to Sister Jin and Sister Ma. After all, I am a man and they are women. connect.If it is okay to have a mobile phone like now, pick up the mobile phone and make a call, greet each other, chat casually, and maintain the relationship between each other.At that time, there were no mobile phones, and you had to have time to call back when you made a paging call. If you didn't have time, it was impossible to call back.

Not only Sister Jin and Sister Ma, but also Sister Zhao. I haven’t seen each other since the new year. Sister Zhao knows that I have returned to Sandaizi. She is very busy and has no time. In addition, she has to think about herself. It's time to find a man.If you really find a man, it is impossible to always come to see me, or always contact me, after all, there are certain taboos.

After finishing my work at around 07:30 in the evening, I went to the front and talked to the proprietress, telling her to go out a little earlier to do some errands, the proprietress agreed without saying anything.

When they came outside, Zhang Li followed, and it seemed that they were well prepared.

I asked her, "What are you doing next?"

She asked, "What are you doing?"

I said, "Didn't I tell you, go to Yangchun."

"I'm going too," she said.

I said: "Don't make trouble, I asked for leave, have you asked?"

She smiled and said, "Hehe, I'm sorry, I asked for leave with my sister-in-law in the afternoon and said that I would go out with you."

I looked at her, and she smiled harmlessly, which means what can you do to me.

I said, "Can we stop making trouble, I just went over to take a look, and I'll be back in a while, and I won't eat there, what are you doing?"

She said, "I didn't follow you either, you go to yours, and I go to mine."

I sighed and said, "Okay, let's go, but we have agreed in advance that I will enter the store when I go to the place, and you are not allowed to enter. Wait for me outside."

She said, "OK, I'll wait outside."

It takes 25 minutes to ride a bicycle to Taishan Road. This is riding by myself, but now it takes more than half an hour to carry someone on my back.Zhang Li was sitting on the back seat. It was alright at first. There was a little distance between the two of us. When we approached the west gate of Beiling, he leaned on my back, and his hands also changed from holding the corners of my clothes at the beginning to half hugging. around my waist.

This pose is very ambiguous, only between lovers.

I said to her, "You're too close to me, you're a little nervous."

She laughed from behind and said, "I'm not nervous, what are you nervous about?"

I said, "I haven't enjoyed this kind of treatment before."

She said: "I haven't enjoyed it before, but this time I will let you enjoy it."

I stopped talking and rode forward.But it feels good, after all, she is a beauty, and there is a warm feeling in the place where she hugs her.

In fact, she was also very nervous, and I could feel her hand resting on my waist, not daring to move, very stiff.

Seeing that I was silent, she asked me: "Master Tan, do you know how I know where your family lives?"

I said: "I don't know."

She asked, "Do you want to know?"

I said, "It depends on whether you want to say it or not. If you say it, I'll know it. If you don't, I won't know it."

She pinched me hard and said, "You are so genious."

I said, "Really? Gen's is still to come."

Then neither of them spoke, she took her hand away from my waist, and took it again after a while.

Soon came to Taishan Road and arrived at the door of Yangchun store.

Put the car in place, and said to Zhang Li: "You wait for me outside for a while, and I will come out in a while."

Zhang Li said, "Go in, I'll go over there and wait for you in the shopping mall in front."

I glanced at her and found that she was a little upset, so I said, "If you don't come in with me."

She said: "If you don't go in, you go in." Then said: "If you invite me to dinner, I will go in."

I said, "I haven't eaten enough barbecue, so I don't want to eat this."

She said, "Then you go in, and I'll wait for you outside."

After speaking, she started to walk towards the mall.

I shook my head and went into the store.

It was past eight o'clock, and there were still three or four tables of customers in the store, and the waiters were cleaning the tables.Look, no one knows, the old waiters have all left.

Seeing me come in, a little boy walked over and asked me, "Brother, how many are there?"

I said: "If you don't eat, come find someone."

As I said this, I walked towards the kitchen. The little boy looked at me, didn't stop me, and went back to clear the table.

Entering the kitchen, the first thing I saw was Sister Jin.

Sister Jin also saw me, she was taken aback for a moment, and immediately said with surprise, "Oh, Master Tan!"

I smiled at Sister Jin, and when Sister Jin called out to mix vegetables, Sister Ma of the house ran out. Seeing that it was me, she said happily, "It's really Master Tan."

Then come over.

When I entered the cooking room, I saw a chef in his 30s. It turned out that the older chef was gone.

I asked Sister Jin: "The older chef quit?"

Sister Jin said: "Give it up, this is the fourth one."

I was a little puzzled and asked, "Why do you change so frequently?"

Sister Ma said disapprovingly: "It's still frequent, you didn't come to my house, and my house changes more frequently."

I was taken aback and asked, "What's wrong with your house? Miss Wang is gone?"

Sister Ma said: "I left a long time ago, and I will quit after 20 days after the Chinese New Year."

I asked, "Why don't you do a good job?"

Sister Ma said: "Why don't you do it? I don't want to do it anymore. I can't help it. I can't leave."

"What's the matter?" I asked a little puzzled: "Isn't the business very good? Why are you still unwilling to do it?"

Sister Ma shook her head and said: "I can't say why, it's just a mess all day, looking at it and making trouble, and I don't want to do it."

I went to see Sister Jin, and Sister Jin said: "Now it's different from when you were here. When you were here, everyone was lively all day long, and they were happy to work and willing to do it. You left, and Sister Wang also left. The kitchen No one cares, everyone does their own work, it’s tiring, it’s not going well, and it’s quite noisy.”

Sister Ma said: "Come back quickly, I won't leave when you come back, and I will leave after two days if you don't come back."

I said, "Don't make trouble, why are you going? Sister Wang pointed at you to serve food when she left. Where are you going?"

Talking about it, a woman came out of the vegetable mixing room and said something to Sister Ma in Xian nationality. Sister Ma said to me: "You chat with Jin Jin first, I have food over there, go back and mix it."

I said, "Go ahead and leave me alone."

Sister Ma went back to mix vegetables and chatted with Sister Jin for a while.

Sister Jin said that after the new year, many people have changed. The old waiters at the front desk have left and quit, and a new batch has been recruited.Sister Wang quit the job, and didn't say why, but said that she was not in good health and needed to take good care of her.After Sister Wang left, the chef also resigned and quit. After finding several chefs, they couldn't do it, so they changed several.The same goes for the side of the side dish. I have changed a few side dishes, but it still doesn’t work. Now the newly recruited side dish has been here for ten days, and I don’t want to do it anymore.It’s just that Sister Cui and her side are still stable. Sister Cui is in charge of cold noodles. When the dog meat hot pot stops on her side, the pickles are still okay, and they will continue to sell them.

I asked Sister Jin why she couldn't keep people?Sister Jin said that she didn't know why she couldn't keep people, unlike when I was here, it was lively and lively every day, and the more I worked, the more energetic I was.

I stood in the kitchen and thought about it. I feel that the reason for this situation is that there is no one in charge in the kitchen. The whole kitchen is not united and has no centripetal force. At the beginning, I didn't want to work anymore.This is how people work, what is it like to work in a lively environment?What's it like to work in a dead environment?
I didn't think much about it before, but now I feel a little bit, as if I'm holding on to something, and it seems like I'm holding on to nothing.

Sister Jin and Sister Ma wanted to keep me for dinner, but I said I had something to eat and would come back another day.Sister Ma asked if there was an appointment, and I said no, it was really something.Sister Jin was a bit reluctant to let me go, but she didn't say anything.

After leaving Yangchun to go to the shopping mall, Zhang Li was still waiting there.

(End of this chapter)