The story of a cook

Chapter 470 Managers

Yes, businesses need to grow.

The premise of development is how to develop.

Development is not something that can be accomplished by just talking about it, it needs to be done in real ways.

The old man made a plan for the future development of the group.It is planned to have five stores with an area of ​​more than [-] square meters and a turnover of [-] million within five years.At the same time, standardized management will enable the group to embark on the road of enterprise management.To be a well-known private catering enterprise in Binhai.

Now the group has begun to recruit talents and recruit a group of management elites.Including general manager, operation director, service director, human resources, planning and training specialists, but also to improve employee benefits, create corporate culture and so on.

What I said made everyone look forward to and look forward to.In short, everyone is full of enthusiasm and hopes that they can work here for a long time, develop together with the company, and achieve their life goals.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was warm and exciting.

The three managers and the three chefs all expressed their feelings.At the beginning, they all spoke very well, and it was exciting to listen to. After a few glasses of wine, they all said words of determination, as if they were swearing allegiance, and they couldn't help but smile after hearing it.

I don't like this kind of atmosphere, it's not practical at all, the excitement gradually calmed down, and I started to feel a little uncomfortable sitting there.

"Master Tan, let's have a drink, and we will have a happy cooperation in the future." Li Xingtang raised his glass and said to me.

He raised the wine glass and said, "It must be a pleasant cooperation. Master Li will give me some pointers."

"Master Tan has always been so polite," he said.

"I'm not being polite, mainly because I don't know much about our Binhai catering industry." I said with a smile.

"It's all the same, almost as small as the provincial capital." He said.

We touched each other and drained the wine in the glass.

I drank with Li Xingtang. Chef Wei didn't know who my master was, nor did he know the conversation I had with Li Xingtang before. Seeing that I was a bit on an equal footing with his master, he felt very uncomfortable. He raised his glass and said to me: "Master Tan, Let's drink one, and we will be brothers in the future. If you have time to watch your cooking, everyone says you are the boss of Northeast cuisine in our family."

I said, "You're welcome, I can't cook."

At this time Li Xingtang said: "Xiao Wei, you can't talk about brothers with Master Tan, you have to call him uncle, his master and your master are of the same generation, Mr. Huang, an old man in the provincial chef circle, don't be too old or young."

Chef Wei was taken aback when he heard this, a little in disbelief.

I said: "Master Li, we don't talk about it, shoulders and heads are brothers, and everyone talks about it."

"Is that okay?" Master Li said: "Our chef is the most particular, so we should talk about it, seniority can't be bad." Then he said to Wei Chef: "You have to be called uncle, you know? "

Chef Wei was a little embarrassed. He originally came here with a contemptuous intention, but now he couldn't accept calling me uncle suddenly.Neither is it called, nor is it not called.

I smiled, clinked glasses with him, and said, "Don't listen to your master, we met first, let's be buddies."

Finished talking and drank the wine.

He didn't call me Shishu after all, which made Master Li lose face.

That is the matter of their master and apprentice, and has nothing to do with us.

The old man was very happy, and said to Lao Chen: "Old Chen, you have to respect Lao Tan. You were introduced by Lao Tan. It is reasonable to say that Lao Tan is Bole. I know that Lao Tan has done a lot for you since you were transferred to the old shop. Work, now the old restaurant’s dishes are very well received by customers, these are all thanks to Lao Tan, it can be said that Lao Tan is your right-hand man, you should give a toast.”

The old man said, Lao Chen stood up and said to me with a wine glass: "Come on, let's have a drink."

His tone of voice was very rude, as if drinking this glass of wine was to save face for the old man.I'm not angry about this, I know what kind of person he is, so there's no need to worry about it with him.

After drinking with Lao Chen, Manager Meng, who was serving coarse grains, began to drink with me. Her reason was simple. I am the famous "Dionysus" of the group, so I must have a drink.I have always had a good impression of Manager Meng, she is a working woman.

After drinking with Manager Meng, I had a drink with the chef and manager of the bakery, and finally with Manager Chen.

The old man joked, "Old Tan, you are quite famous now, everyone knows that you can drink."

I said: "It means that you are famous for drinking, and you have a bag of wine and rice."

"What kind of vegetables are you studying now? How is your research on dried vegetables?" the old man asked.

"Old Tan's dried vegetables are very popular. Customers say they are delicious, and they are sold out every day." Manager Chen said.

"Really, try it someday." The old man said.

"Welcome to taste." I said.

It is an indisputable fact that fried dried vegetables are indeed selling well, and I am proud of it.

"Old Tan, although you are not a manager, you should know why you were called here?" The old man smiled.

I said, "Thank you, old man, for cultivating it."

"What do you think about the future development of our family? Let's talk freely today, and you can talk about it too." The old man said.

"Grandpa, don't make things difficult for me. In front of the leaders, I'm just like a boss. Let me drink the bar. Drinking is my specialty." I said.

"You can't drink all the time, and you can also express your opinions. When everyone has spoken, you can't justify it." The old man said.

I don't want to say anything, it's all from the leadership, it's not good to talk too much, it's better to drink.I know what I am like, and now I drink a lot. If I talk, I may not be able to say anything. It is when alcohol stimulates the excitement, and I may dare to say anything.

"If the old man has said everything, just say a few words." Manager Chen said to me.

"Don't even give the old man face?" Old Chen said.

Knowing what Manager Chen and Lao Chen meant, they felt that I was the only one in the three stores who was not a manager to attend this party, which meant that there were people in the old store, and it was a credit to them.

After thinking about it, let me say a few words.

"We are here today. To be honest, we are very happy. The old man has made a good plan for the development of our group. I believe everyone will be very excited after hearing it. It is an exaggeration to say that the blood is boiling. I am also passionate and full of hope for our group. I hope the group will get better and better."

"As the old man said, if an enterprise wants to develop, it needs management, and management can produce benefits. A company will collapse if it does not have the best economic support, just like how big the family business is. It will also be ruined. That's how prodigal sons and prodigal sons come."

"If our family wants to develop, we need to strengthen management. The old man is right. We are still in the rough management mode. We can't be meticulous in management, and we haven't achieved specialization, standardization, and process. A company with healthy development, its Management must be specialized and standardized, which we lack and need to learn more.”

"You are all managers, so you should be more aware of this than me. Just now, everyone has expressed their views and suggestions for future development. To be honest, I was very moved. I think our family will get better and better in the future. I'm a straightforward person, I like to tell the truth, I don't have much ability except drinking, I drank a lot of wine today, if there is something wrong, please bear with me."

"What you said is not very good, continue." The old man smiled.

In fact, when I mentioned this, I was not going to say anything further. If the old man said to continue, then I would say a few more words.

"Speaking of management, before we have a new management model, we introduce good management talents as the old man said. After the talents are introduced, we learn from others. Only when we are with people who are better than us can we learn and be able to Let us also become stronger. Playing chess with the stinky chess basket can only make yourself more and more stinky, and everyone understands this truth. But before the powerful people come, I think we need to understand one thing, that is, what is a manager. "

Speaking of which, look at everyone, everyone is looking at me.

"Everyone here is a manager, the supreme commander of each store, does everyone agree with this?" I asked.

No one answered, but they all nodded.

"We have now established a management company, which is an enterprise, so we have to manage it as an enterprise in the future, so we must know what a manager is, that is to say, know what we do. I have been in catering for more than ten years, to be exact It’s been 13 years, but I haven’t done anything famous, I’m just a cook. Sometimes I feel like I’ve failed.”

"It's a bit off topic. I have more than ten years of work and I have three definitions of what a manager is. First, a manager is the maker and executor of the company's rules and regulations; second, a manager is the creator of the company's interests. and maintainers; thirdly, managers are the creators and disseminators of corporate culture.”

"I personally think that to achieve the above three points is a manager that an enterprise needs, and it is also a qualified manager."

Look at everyone after speaking.

The entire private room was silent.

After 1 minute, the old man said: "Everyone give Lao Tan a round of applause."

To be honest, I felt pretty happy after receiving the applause. At this time, I found that everyone looked at me differently. They were surprised that a cook who always drank could still say such words—they looked at me with admiration.

"Master Tan, can you repeat what you said just now, I will remember it." Manager Meng said, looking for a pen and paper at the same time.

"Old Tan said it again, and I will remember it too." Manager Chen said.

"You should all remember that Old Tan summed it up very well and brilliantly." The old man said.

"Don't praise me, it's embarrassing to praise me again." I laughed.

After repeating the three definitions of managers just now, I found that the old man also took notes, so proud.

Of course, there are also those who don’t care about it, and feel that they have robbed them of the limelight and compared them, such as Lao Chen and Wei Chef.I don't care about them, I don't care about them, they are their chief chefs, and I am mine, well water does not interfere with river water, the two have nothing to do with each other.If Lao Chen understands things, I am helping him by being great, and it is good for him. He has to understand.

The old man looked at the definition written on the paper and said: "Old Tan summed it up very well. Let's take the first one as an example. The makers and executors of the company's rules and regulations are everyone's product. Isn't that the case?"

Everyone nods.

"But have we done it now?" the old man said, his eyes swept over everyone, and every time he glanced at a person, one person bowed his head.

"We are now formulating rules and regulations. It seems that these rules and regulations are formulated for employees. Employees are required to abide by them. The executor is also the executor, what is the executor? Does the executor do it first? How can he execute it if he can’t do it himself?”

"Old Tan, do you think this is the case?" The old man saw that everyone else lowered their heads and asked me directly.

I nodded.

"You explain this to everyone," said the old man.

Suddenly there was a feeling of offending everyone.

Offend if you want to offend, anyway, I have said it, as long as I don’t lose my head, nothing will happen, the word regret has nothing to do with me.

"Our managers are the makers and executors of the enterprise system. It is very simple. It involves rules and regulations. Regarding this point, I would say that the more sound and strict rules and regulations are the best, only the one that suits your company is the best. Okay. From my personal point of view, I think the simpler and fewer the rules and regulations, the easier it is for employees to manage. This is the same as the thinner the menu, the higher the profit. The employees in our restaurant are not college students, and their education level is not high. Most of them are from rural areas The children who come out are good enough to have graduated from junior high school, and few have attended high school. Therefore, the rules and regulations do not need to be organized like a code. Have you ever noticed that no matter how complete and perfect the rules and regulations are, they are effective when they are posted on the wall. How many people read it? To be honest, we will forget some regulations after we formulate them, and we don’t know which one it is. Instead, we ask employees to abide by it. Is it realistic?”

"All the rules and regulations are not for the convenience of us to make employees obedient. They should protect employees. Such rules and regulations are the best. That is to say, the rules and regulations should be formulated from the perspective of employees, not from the perspective of our managers. To put it bluntly, don’t start from the perspective of controlling people and making them obey you.”

"From the first point, we should know what is the best management method. To put it directly, it is four words-lead by example."

(End of this chapter)