The story of a cook

Chapter 562

Yan Li found out about Mr. Wang and called me to the office.

"Old Tan, do you think it's okay to transfer President Wang to the office to work as a human resource?" She asked.

"Okay, he's a good fit," I said.

"The main reason is to separate him from Manager Chen, so as to save his wife from going to the restaurant to make trouble."

"I support your decision, I think it's okay."

"There are already people with families and businesses, and they are still talking about this."

"The power of love is great, and no one can control it when the time comes." I said.

"It's very emotional, Old Tan." She said.

I said, "There's nothing to be emotional about. If a husband and wife exist in name only, extramarital affairs are inevitable. I haven't encountered it, and it will happen if I do."

"I understand from the side, your old Tan has a good reputation in the company, especially in the eyes of women, you are a popular lover." She teased.

"Wrong, I am the idol of middle-aged and elderly women." I said.

"If you say you're fat, you're still panting."

I smiled and said to her: "Mr. Yan, I will go to the new store starting today. It will take a month. Do you have any plans?"

"You can go to your shop first, when will my shop go?" she asked.

"Mr. Yan, we are a family now." I said.

"Then go to Fisherman's Wharf first," she said.

I said, "Hao Guangsheng manages Fisherman's Wharf very well. Today, he arranged for a chef to study at the old store."

"I know, the business is not doing well now, it costs more than 3 yuan a day." She said, and then said: "I want to change the front desk manager."

I said: "Mr. Yan, don't rush to change the manager. I have been to your house once and it feels good. The business model is similar to Gaode in the provincial capital. I suggest you go out and investigate, don't just stay at home. If you don’t go far, go to the provincial capital first, and I’ll recommend a few shops for you.”

She thought for a while and said, "Yes, I have to go for a walk."

So I contacted her with several better restaurants in the provincial capital, she went out to investigate, and I started to enter the new restaurant.

Li Shuangliang was told by the old man because he didn't do a good job in the preparation work last year, that he planned not to do it a year ago.After the year, the old man doesn't care about the restaurant affairs, and the communication effect in several weekly meetings is very good. Now he has given up the idea of ​​resigning and continues to work.

Everyone is communicating, and everything can be resolved after communication.

Zhou Xiaomei and Li Shuang were the happiest when I came. They had long been looking forward to my coming.It's a pity that I don't care about the front desk. They would be happier if I took care of the front desk.

Chatted with the two of them, and then came to the kitchen.

Everyone in the kitchen knows me. After all, I smoked pickles here for more than 20 days a year ago, and they are all familiar with each other.

The hot dish kitchen is designed like this.The first is Shangza and the seafood steaming cabinet. Shangza is two people, both old Guang, who specialize in high-end dishes such as abalone and shark's fin.The eldest is A Jun, in his 30s, not tall, and very handsome.

Next to Shangchu is the seafood steaming cabinet, which is in charge of a master.Next to the seafood steaming cabinet are six seafood woks, followed by eight Northeast cuisine woks.Now the boss of Northeast cuisine is Yang Zhijun.There are 50 people in the whole hot food kitchen, almost catching up with the number of people in one kitchen of the old store.

The pastry room is next to the hot food kitchen, divided into two parts, and the dumpling room dominates.There is a separate operating room for staple food, and there are six people in it.

Since the big stuffing is delivered in the old store, there is no stuffing room here, only the minced stuffing. Zhang Chunmei is in charge of mixing the stuffing and operating in the minced stuffing room.

Seeing me coming in, she was a little embarrassed, because Li Cheng had a very bad impression on her, and she didn't want to see her.But there is no way, and we can't drive her away because of this matter, we have to continue to cooperate.

"Master Tan is here." She greeted.

"Well, how are you, are you busy?" I asked.

"It's okay, I can't be idle all day." She said.

"What stuffed dumplings are selling well now?"

"Sanxian meat, sauerkraut, fennel, beef and celery, these four are selling well."

"Oh, how many minces?"

"Three."

Nodded, and then came to the dumpling room.

Most of the staff in the dumpling restaurant have been trained from the old store. They are familiar with me and come up to say hello.Ma Hua and Li Yan were very happy. Seeing me was like seeing my mother's family.

"Uncle, do you want to go this time?" Ma Hua asked.

"I'm not leaving, I'll stay with you here." I said.

"Great, there is a shop across the street that sells our Beipiao hand-rolled noodles. Take me to eat at noon. Last time my mother came, I asked her to take me. She didn't take it, saying I was greedy." The little girl said aggrievedly. .

I said, "Okay, let's eat at noon."

"I'll go too." Li Yan said.

"You are not allowed to go, if you want to eat, ask your family Pingping to take you there." Ma Hua said angrily to Li Yan.

Li Yan pinched Ma Hua with her hand, "I think your skin is tight again."

When I came to the staple food operation room, the boss of the staple food was a newcomer after the Chinese New Year, a woman in her 30s, she looked a little familiar, but I couldn't remember where I saw it.She looked at me as if she had seen me too.

"Are you Master Tan?" she asked.

"Yes, are you—" I asked.

"You may not remember me, let me mention, Laohan Villa, you have all withdrawn, the pastry I went to later." She reminded.

I thought about it for a moment, it’s not a big deal, when Laohan Villa was evacuated, she was the last one to go to the pastry, and she vacated after three days, and I still have an impression.It's true that we don't meet each other anywhere in life, how can we expect to meet old friends here.

"I remember." I said, and then asked her, "When did you come to Binhai?"

"I've been here for two years, and I'm the eldest in our family. My friend introduced me." She said.

"What's your last name?" I asked.

"Then, my surname is Na." She said.

"Yes, I completely remembered it this time. I remember that when I saw you, I said that your surname is very domineering, and your surname is Huang." I said.

"It's not a big deal." She said, "Here, everyone said that the director's surname is Tan. I wondered if it was you. I didn't expect it to be you."

Chatted with her for a while.She came to Binhai two years ago, and her husband came earlier than me. She has worked in Binhai for five years, and now she is cooking in Wang Haitao's Binhai Bay.After the New Year's Eve, the staple food boss of the new restaurant resigned. Li Shuangliang asked Wang Haitao to help find one, and Wang Haitao introduced her.

"Are you used to it?" I asked.

"It's okay," she said.

"busy or not?"

She shook her head and said, "It's not busy. There are a lot of people eating dumplings. I'm not too busy here." Then she said, "The store is quite big and the grade is good enough, but no matter how big it is, anyone who calls it Qinghua Pavilion will know it's a dumpling restaurant. Come here. This is eating dumplings."

I nodded and said, "That's it." Then I asked, "Why are you selling so fast?"

"There is nothing fast, they are all about the same. In comparison, the sales of 'Osmanthus Crisp' and 'Brown Sugar Guokui' are not bad. Others are not very popular. You can sell one or two a day." She said.

"Oh, I see. I'll watch it for two days. If it doesn't work, let's adjust it." I said.

At noon, I watched the chefs stir-fry dishes in the hot food kitchen. Generally speaking, it was okay.Cooking in such a big restaurant, I dare not apply for a job if my level is too low. Those who can come have to be good at it, otherwise it is not enough to be ashamed.Because the store is large and high-grade, the chefs always pay attention to the high-grade raw materials when serving dishes, fearing that the low-grade ingredients will be looked down upon by others, so the dishes are all high-grade. Good-looking, beautiful, pleasing to the eye.

Is this dish good?Of course it is good, but the price is also expensive. It costs more than 200 to [-] yuan to take out a plate of dishes, and the higher ones are between [-] and [-] yuan.Rich people go, it’s nothing to eat a meal, who can afford it?One dish is enough for a table, which is too extravagant.

After all, rich people are a minority, and there are plenty of high-end restaurants, but not all of them come to your house to eat.It is not enough to rely solely on the rich, but also to rely on the common people. The common people can go a long way if they come to consume restaurants.

There are not many customers at noon, and the occupancy rate is 50.00%.I asked Zhou Xiaomei how much she could sell it for, and she said it was just over 2 yuan.

"During the Chinese New Year, I was busy for more than ten days, and I spent 10 yuan a day. After the fifteenth day, it started to get worse, and it was about [-] yuan a day." She said.

I said, "The gap is too big."

"It was like this a few years ago. When I came here, it averaged [-] a day. It had only been open for two months, and there were still some people cheering for it." She said.

"Why didn't you study it?" I asked.

"Vegetables are expensive and not affordable, and most people can't afford them," she said.

"Are there many high-end customers?"

"It's okay. If you come today, he will come tomorrow. They are all friends of the old man, or they were introduced by friends."

"Don't the people nearby come in?"

"I also come, but there are few. The main reason is that I can't afford it. Unless it's the day when I eat dumplings, there are many nearby. I come here to pick out cheap dishes. If I can't do it, I can order two more plates of dumplings. Our dumplings are delicious."

I nodded and asked her, "Have you told President Yan about these things?"

"I told her about it when she came back, and she didn't care much about it," she said.

"At that time, I will talk to her and see what she thinks. She has gone to the provincial capital for inspection now. I will ask her to visit Hongji. I think there will be changes after she comes back."

Seeing that it was time for lunch, I asked her if she wanted to eat noodles. She said yes, so she, Ma Hua, and Yang Zhijun went to the noodle restaurant opposite.

The small noodle restaurant is not big, with a total of four tables. There are many people eating noodles. It is already two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still queues.

"His family makes authentic hand-rolled noodles, which are the same as those eaten at home." Ma Hua said.

"Really? It smells like Beipiao?" I asked.

"You'll know after a while," she said.

"His noodles are delicious. I always come here, and they are almost the same as ours." Zhou Xiaomei said.

"Did someone from Beipiao open it?" I asked.

"We from Beipiao opened it." Zhou Xiaomei said.

After waiting for 10 minutes, the noodles came up, pure hand-rolled noodles, hand-cut, sauerkraut and tofu stew, it really tastes like Beipiao after a bite.

Ma Hua said: "My mother's noodles are delicious, even better than his family's. No way, tell my mother to open a noodle restaurant."

"It's really good." Zhou Xiaomei said: "Look at how popular the business is, and make money."

"The last time my mother came, I wanted to bring her to have a taste. She didn't come, and she was in a hurry. She threw away the clothes she bought for me and left." My mother made one like this."

I asked: "Where is it open?"

"Not here, go back to the provincial capital, or go back to Beipiao." She said.

I said, "Go back to the provincial capital. People in the provincial capital love to eat noodles."

Zhou Xiaomei said: "Where to drive depends on where Ma Hua is looking for her husband's family. If you are looking for Sichuan, you have to drive in Sichuan."

Ma Hua said: "I can't find it that far, I have to find someone from Beipiao, and I have to raise her in front of my mother."

I looked at her and said: "Your mother didn't drag you so much when she said this to you, she is filial enough."

"I still want to find a wife for my mother, but there is no suitable one." She said.

"Your mother won't care about you if she has a wife." I joked.

"I don't need her to care, as long as she is fine."

She is a filial girl.

(End of this chapter)