From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

After leaving Yancheng, Feng Zhengming and his companions went to some county-level cities including Qixia, Longkou, Zhaoyuan, Laiyang, Laixi, and Laizhou.

Although the city is smaller in size, Feng Zhengming and his team still conducted the review very seriously.

And we also explored some of the special foods in each city.

Feng Zhengming and several master chefs also gave some general advice to the restaurants and eateries in these cities.

Rather than being there to judge, it would be more accurate to say that they are there to provide guidance.

Feng Zhengming still gives more advice on small street restaurants and street food stalls.

Several master chefs will give some technical guidance to the kitchens of restaurants in several cities.

In these cities, Feng Zhengming and his colleagues were also warmly received.

The local chefs in particular had never thought that Feng Zhengming and several Shandong cuisine masters would come to their place.

The chefs were very excited to see them.

The enthusiasm for learning from Feng Zhengming and the masters is really high.

Since the chefs are willing to learn, Feng Zhengming and the masters will not be stingy and will carefully teach the various Shandong cuisine techniques and some classic Shandong dishes to chefs from all over the country.

Feng Zhengming conducted inspections in these cities and was also preparing to open branches in these cities.

Now, the number of Fengjia Ganfanpu branches of Zheng Luxing has been surpassed by Zhao Chaoxing's Chaoxingxing.

However, Feng Zhengming didn't care at all about being behind in numbers.

He cares more about the quality of the branches.

So when visiting these cities, Feng Zhengming first considered the local chefs.

In particular, Feng Zhengming attaches great importance to observing some local young chefs.

If it were someone else, even if a few old masters came forward.

It may not be easy to find suitable young chefs in a targeted manner.

But it was completely different when Feng Zhengming showed up.

Feng Zhengming, the national number one chef, can be said to be a collective idol for young chefs across the country, especially young Shandong cuisine chefs in Shandong Province.

As soon as he came forward, young chefs from all over the country would come to him for advice.

After Feng Zhengming came into contact with young chefs from all over the country, he conducted a series of assessments on their basic skills.

From them, young chefs who are suitable to be in charge of branches can be selected.

Of course, although they lack some skills, Feng Zhengming will give priority to recruiting young chefs who are willing to learn, practice and endure hardships into branches in various places.

Personnel can be trained slowly, the key is that the people being trained are willing to work hard.

On this point, several old masters also agreed with Feng Zhengming's judgment.

So Feng Zhengming took three groups of judges through these cities.

By the way, he also opened branches of his own Fengjia dry rice shop in Luxing in these cities.

After renting the store, Feng Zhengming handed over the decoration work to the construction team from Liujia Village.

The management of these city branches is also the responsibility of the branches that are in charge of their cities.

Feng Zhengming upgraded the city-level branch to a local head office.

Branches in county-level cities are uniformly managed by the local head office.

In this way, Feng Zhengming doesn't have to go to the branches in various places in person all the time.

And according to Feng Zhengming's plan, he was going to promote his third senior brother's position after he returned.

Let the third senior brother be the vice president of the Fengjia Ganfanpu brand under Zheng Luxing.

All the head offices in Qilu Province are directly responsible to the third senior brother.

From now on, let the third senior brother supervise the head offices in various places.

Then let the head office supervise the branches.

Feng Zhengming feels that this will better ensure quality control.

The management of personnel is also more direct, and Feng Zhengming does not have to manage each store personally.

Along the way, I provide guidance and recruit young chefs.

When they were about to arrive in Weifang, Master Cui finally couldn't help but speak on the bus.

"Zhengming got the biggest benefit from this trip. He immediately occupied the markets of those small cities on our peninsula and opened branches in several county-level cities.

Zhengming, your stores should be all over Jiaodong, right? "

Feng Zhengming laughed when he heard this and said, "Master Cui, the market is like this. If I don't occupy it, someone else will. My dry rice shop sells delicious pork stew at a low price, and everyone likes it. Of course I have to open a store there.

We can’t let the people of Jiaodong eat a handful of meat and have to take the train to our Quancheng every day, right?”

Master Su: "Zhengming's approach is correct. Rather than letting those who imitate him do it carelessly without guaranteeing the quality, it is better for him to do it himself so that everyone can have a good taste."

This statement was unanimously agreed by the old masters, the two grandfathers Feng Zhengming who were traveling on the bus, and the other two groups of judges also agreed.

Feng Zhengming: "Master Su is right. I also think that instead of letting everyone eat food without quality control, it would be better for me to open branches in various places and ensure quality control so that everyone can eat good food."

Master Yan still reminded his young apprentice seriously.

"Zhengming, you must remember the lesson from the Jining branch. You must do a good job of supervising these branches in the future."

Feng Zhengming agreed: "Master, don't worry, I have made arrangements to ensure the quality control of all branches."

Master Xia couldn't help but sigh: "After all, we are still a little behind the times."

Master Sun: "If it weren't for Zhengming, our Shandong cuisine might not be able to keep up with the times."

Master Sun's words were also generally agreed upon by the other masters.

"Yes, the times are changing so fast, and many things nowadays are different from what we used to do."

"In this regard, Cantonese cuisine is more in line with the times, and Sichuan cuisine is also becoming more and more popular."

"It's still different. Cantonese cuisine has spread from the south to the whole country, and it can be said that it is driven by many businessmen there. Sichuan cuisine is a popular dish that goes well with rice."

"Hahaha, now it's clearly combining the two methods together, it can be considered walking on two legs."

Feng Zhengming smiled and heard this.

“It can be considered as two legs, but actually for now I will stick to the popular route of Sichuan cuisine.”

Grandpa said: "If you open a restaurant in that old house in Shanghai, you can also go the high-end route."

Feng Zhengming: "The restaurant in the old house is an attempt of mine. I don't intend to just serve Shandong cuisine in the restaurant in the old house."

Grandpa Situ: "Your ambition is growing."

Feng Zhengming smiled: "Grandpa Situ, at my age, I should be out on the road. I just need to be ambitious."

After hearing what Feng Zhengming said, the old masters not only didn't say anything, but they were obviously looking forward to it.

As the Internet gradually began to rise, a lot of information was spread through the Internet, which made the old masters feel a sense of urgency.

Everyone can see that the domestic economic development is getting better and better.

This time, Feng Zhengming brought the master chefs to evaluate restaurants in various places in the province.

In fact, it is equivalent to taking the masters to inspect the different economic conditions in various places.

The old masters have seen it all along the way.

Nowadays, not only the island city, but all parts of the Jiaodong Peninsula are developing in an orderly manner.

It is obvious that many people everywhere are having higher and higher requirements for food.

In this case, it can be said to be the best period of development for chefs.

If you can't seize the opportunity at this time.

That only means that I am incompetent.

The biggest concern of the chefs was that other cuisines would enter Qilu and affect the development of Shandong cuisine itself. Fortunately, Feng Zhengming took the lead and opened his branches in various places.

In this way, at least Shandong cuisine can still take deep roots in various places.

Combined with some local specialties, it can preserve the local characteristics and better continue and develop Shandong cuisine.

Feng Zhengming's development strategy is considered very good by the old masters.

The bus enters Weifang.

Here, it is natural to be welcomed by the locals.

The head chef of Weifang Restaurant is Master Sun’s apprentice.

Master Sun is quite proud to see that his apprentice has now become the head chef.

After all, before, he was received by several other masters and their apprentices in various places.

This time, it was finally Master Sun’s apprentice who received everyone.

Master Sun became happier.

When holding a small meeting in the hotel, Master Su also asked Master Sun to come.

"Look at you, Old Sun. It's your apprentice who is welcoming us this time, and you've been smiling the whole way. You feel proud now, right? Are you going to ask your apprentice for help?"

Master Sun knew that Master Su was joking.

But he still looked serious: "Old Su, what are you talking about? Am I the kind of person who would favor my own apprentice?"

Feng Zhengming stood up to smooth things over: "Uncle Su, please don't make fun of Uncle Sun. Be careful if you go to another city next time and meet your apprentice, Uncle Sun will say the same thing to you."

As soon as these words came out, Master Su immediately shut up.

But Master Sun's eyes were shining.

"Okay, it was Zhengming who reminded me. Old Su, wait. When you meet your apprentice at the next stop, you'll see what I say to you."

Master Su didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Old Sun, why can't you take a joke?"

Master Sun laughed: "You make fun of me, so I can make fun of you, right?"

This made everyone present laugh.

Master Cui also tried to smooth things over: "Look at you two, the juniors are here, and you are just bickering here."

Master Xia: "That's good. The fact that they can argue shows that Lao Su and Lao Sun didn't take it seriously."

After some laughter and joy, the evaluation criteria for restaurants in Weifang began to be determined.

The standard that Feng Zhengming gave to Weifang is relatively low.

But because of the joke made by Master Su, Master Sun insisted on using the standards of Quancheng.

"No, Zhengming, if you lower your standards and make it seem like I'm really partial to my own apprentice, then just follow the standards of Quancheng. If Weifang Restaurant can only get three stars, I'll accept it."

Master Su had no choice but to persuade him: "Old Sun, why are you doing this?"

Master Sun insisted: "We must be strict."

The atmosphere suddenly became a little tense.

Grandpa Situ, as the oldest one, spoke at this time.

"According to what Brother Sun said, if a large restaurant in the core area of ​​a city cannot meet the same standards as the Quancheng Restaurant, wouldn't that make it seem a little too weak?"

These words touched Master Sun’s heart.

"Yes, we must be strict with them so that they know their problems and can improve better afterwards."

In this way, restaurants in Weifang are also required to meet the standards of the Spring City.

After the meeting, Feng Zhengming and his wife took their daughter out to play again.

Although it is not spring, Weifang, as a city famous for kites, still has many kite shops.

Feng Zhengming and his wife were strolling on the street with their daughter.

I went into quite a few kite shops, and many of them claimed to have traditional craftsmanship.

However, it can still be seen that most of them are industrialized products.

But some kites in kite shops are indeed made with traditional craftsmanship.

Both the making of the kite and the painting on the kite are very exquisite.

When Feng Nuanyou saw the beautiful kite, she couldn't help but stretch out her little hand to catch it.

Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing naturally held their daughter's hands to prevent her from grabbing.

This made Feng Nuanyu very dissatisfied.

"Dad, Dad, Mom, yes, yes."

When Feng Zhengming saw that his daughter wanted a kite, he simply bought her a kite.

However, after getting it, I didn't let my daughter grab it casually.

Instead, she taught her daughter earnestly: "You can't grab this thing. It's made of paper. If you grab it like this, it will tear."

I explained it carefully to my daughter, but the little girl didn't quite understand. However, her father kept stopping her from grabbing it.

Feng Nuanyu knew that she couldn't grab it, so she didn't reach out to grab it.

After shopping for a while, Feng Zhengming, Luo Qing and their daughter came to the Fengjia Dry Rice Shop branch in Weifang.

The chef in this branch in Weifang is a young local chef from Weifang.

This was a young chef that Feng Zhengming spotted when he passed through Weifang during his travels across the province.

Later, he went to Quancheng to participate in training. With his own efforts, he passed the selection process and got the position of chef and manager of the Weifang branch.

For the chef manager in Weifang, Feng Zhengming is his real mentor.

Even in his heart, he regarded Feng Zhengming as his master.

He also wanted to become Feng Zhengming's disciple one day.

I saw Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing coming in with their daughter.

The young woman guarding the cash register in the store quickly shouted to the kitchen.

"Liu Yupeng, look who's here."

Liu Yupeng heard the shouting in the kitchen and poked his head out to take a look.

Seeing Feng Zhengming coming in with his daughter in his arms, he immediately greeted him excitedly, "Uncle Feng, why are you here?"

Feng Zhengming saw Liu Yupeng sticking his head out from the kitchen and responded with a smile.

"I came to see you. Weifang was welcoming us today. Why didn't you go?"

Liu Yupeng smiled and said, "The store was quite busy, and I don't like that kind of occasion, so I didn't go. Uncle Feng, please don't be angry."

Feng Zhengming: "I'm not angry."

Then Feng Zhengming didn't let Liu Yupeng come out to greet him immediately.

"Prepare the dishes first, and we'll talk slowly after you're done."

Liu Yupeng agreed: "Understood, then please sit for a while."

Feng Zhengming, Luo Qing and their daughter found a table in a corner and sat down.

As soon as she sat down, Luo Qing looked at her husband and couldn't help but speak first.

"This Xiao Liu is a bit unsociable?"

Feng Zhengming smiled: "He has good skills and is willing to learn and practice. He can endure the hardship of working in the kitchen. But he is a little bit withdrawn and doesn't like to communicate with others."

Luo Qing: "Isn't this a bit bad? Even if we don't communicate with the Chefs Association, we still have to know how to communicate with other people in the kitchen, right?"

Feng Zhengming: "So I came here today to have a heart-to-heart talk with him." (End of this chapter)