The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

chapter 98
The night breeze is blowing, with a hint of coolness.

The watery autumn night is always melancholy, and if there is a little more autumn rain, it will feel sad.

Autumn is beautiful and gentle in the poet's pen, which makes people linger; in the eyes of farmers, it is a joyous harvest, which is real.For catering people, Chinese food and barbecue, which have been popular all summer, have gradually cooled down, and hot pot has begun to rise.

Lao Tan and Zhang Li came to the hot pot restaurant after get off work at night, chose a corner seat, and ordered fat beef, lamb, green vegetables, hairy tripe, and a bottle of white wine.

"It's going to rain today." Zhang Li said.

"Well, almost." Lao Tan responded, glanced at the hall, and said, "Many people eat hot pot."

"It's getting cold, I want to eat hot pot, it's hot." Zhang Li said, and then asked: "What did you two talk about today, Mr. Xu?"

Lao Tan briefly told Zhang Li what he had talked with Mr. Xu, and Zhang Li said after listening, "Okay, Mr. Xu is bleeding heavily."

"He understands it." Old Tan said.

Zhang Li smiled and said, "I should understand, how good our business is now." After speaking, she raised her wine glass and touched Lao Tan, and the two took a sip each.

"I heard from Li Shuang that the dumpling restaurant is going to open a branch?" Zhang Li asked, putting a piece of fat beef into the bowl, feeling that it wasn't spicy enough, so she poured some chili oil into the bowl.

"Well, I'm looking for a store now." Old Tan said.

"You have to take care of the branch too?"

Zhang Li put the fat cow into her mouth, and put vegetables into the pot while eating.

"Ah."

"You're not busy enough."

"Why don't you be busy, just make more money."

"I see that you are very tired."

"Okay."

Lao Tan was really tired.

For four months, I have been in the kitchen every day, my nerves are tense, and I mainly focus on the quality of the dishes.So far, the dishes of the Kanto people are not the first in Santaizi, but they are almost the same.Especially for farm dishes, all the farm houses in the provincial capital come to learn.

There is also a phenomenon that every day there are two or three tables that come to study.Some knew Lao Tan, some knew Wang Gang, and some knew Zhang Li, and most of them came here just because of their fame.In addition to the provincial capital, farmers from Jilin, Harbin, Binhai, Fushun and other places also came to inspect, and the reputation of the Kanto family was greatly shaken for a while.

The amount of money sold increases month by month, one hundred 600,000, one hundred 700,000, one hundred 800,000——
Now it is easy to sell 50,000 yuan every Monday to Thursday, and the average is [-] yuan per day from Friday to Sunday. If there is a wedding package, it is more than [-] yuan.

Business is booming.

At the end of the meal, the huge parking lot was full of cars, and there was no place for those who came late, and a large row was lined up along the street outside the compound.

The surrounding residents and common people who passed by all said: look at their business, this is called a restaurant.

The 56 private rooms are not enough, and they have to be booked in advance, like the kang buns, which can only be booked three days in advance.

Regarding the problem of insufficient private rooms, Lao Tan discussed with Mr. Xu to move the office on the fourth floor to the warehouse, so that eight private rooms can be expanded.Then build two steel structures next to the carport as warehouses.The plan was very good, who knew that building a steel structure in his own courtyard would also require temporary construction approval, so he had no choice but to wait.

Lao Tan's training for the management every Monday is unshakable.

These years of management experience have taught him that work cannot be done by one person. No matter how capable a person is, he will not be able to crush a few nails if he is covered in iron. Only when the whole team moves can there be results and results.

All the management staff should be strong, everyone can be independent, and it would be great if they can all be chefs.That's how management works. Don't be afraid that the people under you are powerful, or that they will surpass you.The more powerful they are, the more they can prove that they are capable and a leader.

What is leadership?
Leader and Mentor.Not only must lead everyone to do it, but also guide everyone to make progress together like a teacher.

Through training and on-site management, the abilities of the management personnel have been improved to varying degrees, and the progress has been great. Everyone's work has begun to be organized and decent.

This is progress. Only when managers dare to manage, dare to do things, and can take responsibility and solve problems independently can management improve and business grow.

The rise of the Kanto family will naturally steal the business of others.Now the Chishan Restaurant has dropped at least 10,000 yuan a day, and the banquets are also decreasing, and they all subtly went to the Kanto people.

There is no way, peers are enemies and there is competition.They cook well, have special features, have a large amount of dishes, fair prices, and warm service, so customers will naturally go to them.The same money is spent, who doesn't find a good place.

In addition, Lao Tan did take away some of the main roads of Chishan Restaurant, among other things, like neighbors Li Ge and Wang Ming, both of them are very strong at the airport, and if they say something good, it will pull them away a lot guest.There are also section chiefs and workshop directors whom they met through the two of them, like Lao Tan's buddies, whether it's for their own banquets or company dinners, they go to the Kanto people's house, and there is a lot of business.

So far, Lao Tan has completed the first step - making the Kanto family famous in the provincial capital.

It's time to catch my breath.

During the first two days at the dumpling restaurant, Yanhua and Yanzi said that they were going to open a second restaurant and began to choose a location.This makes him both happy and troubled. He is happy that the dumpling restaurant has finally begun to expand, which is what he hopes.The trouble is that I just want to catch my breath, but I have to be busy again.

Yanhua asked him to draft a partnership agreement.When he heard the three words in the agreement, he couldn't help but looked at Yanhua and Yanzi curiously. The serious expressions on the two women's faces shocked him for a moment, and a voice sounded in his heart-the two women are amazing.

In the past two days, he was working on the agreement, and Yanhua and Yanzi were looking for a store.Once you find the storefront, you have to decorate it. Once you do the decoration, Lao Tan has to be busy. You have to take a look at the scene every day and give instructions.At the same time, we have to recruit and train personnel in the old store, and prepare for the opening——
Old Tan thought to himself, Zhang Li put a piece of fat beef into his bowl, and yelled, "Hey, what are you thinking, I'm distracted."

"Oh, I didn't think about anything." Old Tan smiled at Zhang Li, and then asked, "Have you been to Wang Gang's house to look after the children these days?"

"No, how can I have time? Besides, you don't know that I see the child making troubles." Zhang Li gave Old Tan a very polite look.

Lao Tan also felt that he shouldn't bring up the matter of the child in front of Zhang Li, so he smiled shyly and changed the subject: "Hu Jing has made great progress now."

When mentioning Hu Jing, Zhang Li seemed to think of something, and said: "Hu Jing and Wang Gang seem to be a bit unusual, I think they are very tough."

Old Tan was startled, and hurriedly asked: "Really? Did you read it or listen to it?"

"What am I looking at? Feeling. A waiter told me that they were eating together." Zhang Li said.

"It's normal to work together and eat together, and we even eat hot pot together."

Hearing that they were just having dinner together, Old Tan felt relieved. He and Zhou Xiaomei are relatives, so naturally he should be more concerned.

"How about cuddling together after dinner?" Zhang Li asked.

Old Tan's heart sank again, and he said, "Impossible, Wang Gang is not that kind of person, and neither is Hu Jing."

"You, you know how to work every day, and you don't care about anything except work. Some time ago, I found that there was something wrong with the two of them, and they were flirting with each other."

"Hehe, you can describe it quite well, and return the concubine's love, why didn't I find out."

"What can you find out? You can find out which dish is unqualified and bring it back for redoing. If you don't want to drink, I think you are drunk every day, and so are those people. When they come, they will come to you. If they come, they will come to you. No way." Zhang Li muttered, the concern in her words was beyond words.

Old Tan chuckled, feeling warm in his heart.

Zhang Li said: "Hu Jing and her husband are at odds. They got divorced in the first half of the year. They chatted with me. They cried a lot, and they still don't want to divorce. People are together, but I'm not sure, I just heard what the waiter said, I didn't see it with my own eyes."

Old Tan thought for a while, and said, "I hope it doesn't happen, if it's true——"

"What's the matter? Are you going to hit someone? Even if it's true, you can't say it. If it gets to Xiaomei's ears, you can't get a divorce?" Zhang Li said.

That's true, if the parties involved in this kind of messy matter don't admit it, they can't talk to others. Besides, the family members of both parties who have settled this matter don't know well. The lightest fights and monsters, the most serious ones are divorces.

It's a normal phenomenon in Tiezi, and no one takes it seriously.

The reason why Lao Tan cares is because he cares, and people tend to be confused when they care, and do irrational things on impulse, which is self-defeating.

"If you know it, don't talk about it. Come on, drink." Old Tan raised his glass and said.

"Just tell you, come on, drink."

The two drank slowly and chatted.

Zhang Li said with concern: "Old Tan, you, don't drink so hard, be careful of high blood pressure."

"It's been a long time since I measured it, so it's probably quite high," Old Tan said.

"You're still fat, and you can still drink alcohol to ensure high blood pressure. After listening to my advice, drink less and relieve your cravings. If someone asks you again, they will tell you to take medicine for high blood pressure."

"It doesn't matter if you drink less, you know I can drink, and there is still time to drink?" Lao Tan looked at Zhang Li, and joked: "Besides, there is only one meal between a man and a woman, so it's okay not to drink."

"It's not normal to talk about it, so you just have to talk about it. If you really want to drink me down today, what do you want?" Zhang Li gave Old Tan a hard look.

She wasn't afraid, Old Tan really wanted to drink her down, that's what he wished for.

She likes this man, but this man does not belong to her.

The fate in the world is so wonderful, sometimes by accident, it looks like a happy couple, but they can't be together, and they suffer.

Sometimes fate is always playing a big joke. In the most beautiful life, you meet your loved one, and then love carefully and heartily.Putting a hot feeling into reality is very hard work, but also very happy.

This hard-won love, sneaked in the secular world, is still devoted with true love and guarded with life. It is as precious as life, but it is always shattered by reality, like a crack in life.

The love in our life can be sad and tragic, let the dark pain tear the soul, hold it with both hands, like a treasure, but slowly become nothingness in the eyes.

Playing games with life and time, when the love is gone, it is a sad scene.

We are nostalgic for the bright red in our life, we are nostalgic for our lover, and we don't want to mention it more, and watch the person in front of us grow old slowly.

People, life after life, life after life, drunk for thousands of years and dreaming for thousands of years.

A Yaoqin can't tell the misery of the millennium, and weeping blood at the desk can't finish the love and sorrow of this life.

Many things are difficult for the ancients, and they can only let the time flow without leaving traces——
(End of this chapter)