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Chapter 210 Reforming the Restaurant
Jingshan had no intention of nepotism, so as not to affect Lou Yan's work.

He just made an immature suggestion to Lou Yan - if Duanmulan can be qualified as the chef of the restaurant, Lou Yan can appropriately promote his old classmate.

Jingshan has watched Duanmulan's life movies and knows that Duanmulan's cooking skills are very good.

Duanmulan's work ability and ability to withstand stress are very strong. At the same time, she is born with well-developed motor cells, and her physical strength is no worse than that of male chefs.

After all, I worked on cruise ships for a long time.

The high-intensity working environment of the cruise ship's kitchen is not comparable to that of ordinary restaurants.

Duanmulan is even competent in the back kitchen of a cruise ship, let alone an ordinary restaurant.

Anyway, as far as Jingshan is concerned, Duanmulan is no worse than those male chefs.

Her weak point is that she is not that proficient in the Cantonese cuisine that their restaurant specializes in.

But through hard work and serious study in the past two years, Duanmulan has now grasped the context of cooking Cantonese cuisine.

And because she has Western food all year round, she has a better understanding of creative dishes that combine Chinese and Western cuisine than the average Chinese chef.

Due to emotions and reasons, Jingshan felt that Duanmulan should have a chance to be promoted.

Lou Yan is worried about recruiting a chef for the restaurant.

The chefs and assistant teams of the two Zhenxiang creative dishes have all returned to the new business department.

Without a chef in charge of the restaurant's back kitchen, the restaurant can't hope to resume operations smoothly.

If they can't recruit a good chef and can't master the restaurant's dishes, then no matter how they reform their restaurant, they won't have good results.

After all, food is the core value of a restaurant.

The restaurant provides catering services to guests.

If they can't serve good food, their restaurant's reputation will never be good.

Lou Yan's initial reorganization plan is for the two Zhenxiang creative dishes to still focus on the improved Cantonese dishes they have been making in the past few years. The restaurant's cuisine style will remain unchanged, otherwise there will be too many adjustments.

The chefs responsible for both creative dishes are no longer here, but other chefs are still there.

Most of these chefs have been working in their restaurants for more than two years and are already familiar with the dishes on the menu.

As long as we hire a new chef who can manage the place and continue to cook according to the original menu, there should be no problem.

The dishes they left behind have almost all passed the market test.

In terms of taste alone, all diners praised it.

Those dishes that were not well received by the market have been replaced long ago.

The biggest complaint diners have about their restaurant is that the portions are too small.

This was deliberately done by the original management team.

Just trying to capture the appetite of diners with small portions.

At the same time, they also caught up with the aggressive style of their restaurant.

After all, Zhenxiang must be built into a high-end Internet celebrity catering brand under Baishi Group.

In terms of tone, it is impossible for the two Zhenxiang creative dishes to take the route of cheapening the public.

However, Lou Yan feels that the location of these two restaurants is already very bad. Only by taking the popular internet celebrity route can the restaurants gain a chance of survival.

There is no way to survive if you take the route of a niche high-end restaurant without value for money.

It's a pity that she was so soft-spoken before that the brand operation team might not consider her suggestion at all.

It's different now.

Lou Yan has the power to operate all stores of the Zhenxiang series brands.

She can adjust the business direction however she wants without any constraints.

At the same time, she no longer has to consider the overall brand layout of Baishi Group.

There is no need to stick to the high-end route when the two Zhenxiang creative dishes are served.

Directly reducing the dimensionality to become an Internet celebrity gourmet restaurant that is close to the public is definitely the best opportunity to make a comeback.The menu does not need to be changed.

You don't even have to change the pricing.

Their previous pricing was actually not high at all, not even the high-end threshold.

They used to rely on ultra-low cost performance to travel to high-end products.

The only criticism of their restaurant by diners is that the price/performance ratio is too low, which is simply a "scam".

Lou Yan's reform of the two Zhenxiang creative dishes went straight to the point, which was to improve the price/performance ratio.

Regarding the cuisine style and menu categories, nothing needs to be touched.

As long as the amount of food is increased by three times, the price-performance ratio of their restaurant will rise from the bottom to the sky, becoming one of the most affordable mid-to-high-end restaurants in the Beijing catering market.

Increasing the amount of dishes by three times will not increase the material cost of their restaurant too much.

Although the ingredients in their restaurant are very sophisticated, the ingredients used are much more expensive than those in ordinary restaurants.

But even so, by tripling the amount of dishes, their restaurant still has plenty of profit margins.

The portions previously served in their restaurant were too small.

Triple the amount of dishes, which is just a little more than the normal amount.

At the same time, increasing the amount of dishes will not increase the workload of the chef father much.

Lou Yan has talked with the chefs in the kitchen before. Making single dishes in small and precise quantities consumes more energy from the chefs.

Increasing the portion of the dishes and making them less elaborate than before will actually reduce the pressure on the chefs.

When she was a lobby manager, Lou Yan always wanted to report to her superiors, not to cling to the so-called high-end line of "small but refined".

As long as they work hard, their restaurant will definitely turn a profit and have a chance to become a popular restaurant.

Even if the location is not good, diners will return to their restaurant repeatedly because of its delicious food, affordable prices, and great appearance, thus cultivating a large number of loyal customers.

Now she is in charge.

She can finally adjust the restaurant's business direction according to her own ideas.

The biggest problem facing Lou Yan at present is that all the middle and high-level cadres of the restaurant have resigned.

She needs to mobilize her personal connections, quickly recruit suitable replacements, and quickly fill all the absent positions.

In this way, the two Zhenxiang creative dishes can resume work quickly.

Lou Yan wants Jingshan to see the results of her reforms as soon as possible, so as to live up to Jingshan's expectations of her.

It will also create better conditions for her to face the more drastic reform and reorganization of the Seven Refreshment Houses in the future.

Other senior positions in the restaurant are easy to find. As long as there are candidates with suitable qualifications, they can be filled first.

But the chef teams of the two restaurants, Lou Yan does not dare to take it lightly.

In fact, Lou Yan had previously considered choosing a new chef from among the remaining old chefs.

In this way, the kitchen team will be more stable and it will be easier to get started with the dishes.

Recruiting a chef from outside is likely to break the balance of the original cuisine and menu that have been tested by the market.

Lou Yan has been working as the lobby manager of this creative restaurant in Xidan.

She is relatively familiar with the kitchen team of this restaurant in Xidan.

She already had a suitable candidate in mind to promote as head chef.

Although Lou Yan knew all the staff at the Joy City store in Chaoyang, he had relatively few interactions with them.

Especially the kitchen team, Lou Yan didn't know much about them.

Fortunately, Jingshan recommended Duanmulan to her.

Since it was the big boss who made the decision, Lou Yan would definitely consider promoting Duanmulan to the position of chef.

(End of this chapter)