From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Most people had a crazy night of fun, so naturally they couldn't get out of bed the next day.

So in the morning, only Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing got up early and took their daughter to the resort hotel for breakfast.

While having breakfast, the hotel's boss appeared again.

"Mr. Feng is here so early?"

Feng Zhengming smiled: "I'm used to going to bed early and getting up early. The environment of your resort hotel is really nice."

Big Boss: "It's OK. I spent a lot of money to build this place."

Feng Zhengming: "You are a big boss, isn't this a small amount of money for you?"

Big Boss: "Feng Zhuangyuan, I can't talk to you anymore because of what you said."

Feng Zhengming: "Hahaha, if you want to talk to me and invite me to be the chef here, it's better not to talk."

The big boss was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I understand, we can't afford you."

Feng Zhengming smiled and shook his head: "It's not that I can't afford it, but I already have quite a few stores now, and I'm too busy. I don't have time to come over to your place and be the head chef."

Big Boss: "Mr. Feng, if I give you 30% of the shares of this resort hotel?"

Feng Zhengming was immediately delighted when he heard this.

"Does it include the communities you are developing and constructing?"

These words immediately choked the boss.

"Forget it then. Feng Zhuangyuan is welcome to come and play again in the future."

As he spoke, the boss took out a black membership card and handed it to Feng Zhengming.

"This membership card is for Mr. Feng. You can use this card to pay for all your expenses when you come here for vacation."

Feng Zhengming: "You are too polite. You already gave me the money last night."

Big Boss: "This is to make friends with Feng Zhuangyuan. I hope Feng Zhuangyuan can come back for vacation when he is free, and give some pointers to our chefs."

Feng Zhengming thought for a moment and said, "How about this? If you give me 10% of the shares, I can let your chefs come to my restaurant for some training."

The big boss laughed when he heard this and extended his hand to Feng Zhengming.

"Hahaha, Mr. Feng is so open-minded. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation."

Feng Zhengming extended his hand and shook hands with the boss of the resort hotel.

"Pleasant to work with."

After the big boss left, Luo Qing was a little curious: "Why did you agree to help him train the chef?"

Feng Zhengming handed the membership card to his wife and said, "They are so sincere, we can't refuse them any benefits."

Luo Qing took the membership card and asked: "How many times can this card be used?"

Feng Zhengming: "I think this card means we won't have to pay for our vacation here in the future."

Luo Qing was a little surprised: "This, this is too exaggerated."

Feng Zhengming: "So they really paid too much. It's not a loss for us to help them train the chefs for the hotel."

Luo Qing: "In which store do you plan to help them train chefs?"

Feng Zhengming smiled slightly: "Old Western-style house restaurant."

Luo Qing was shocked to hear this.

Feng Zhengming saw the surprise on his wife's face, so he moved closer to her and whispered an explanation to her.

"The Old House Restaurant will be a standard high-end restaurant that I will build. It will also be the most suitable place for training chefs for some big hotels. Just watching them in the kitchen for a week will probably be enough for them to learn for a long time."

Luo Qing stared at her husband: "Are you so confident?"

Feng Zhengming: "You should believe in your husband's ability."

Luo Qing thought about it carefully and suddenly realized the real purpose of her husband's behavior.

"You want to train those chefs so that the kitchens of major hotels will accept your standards."

Feng Zhengming just smiled and did not directly answer his wife's question.

The wife saw the smile on her husband's face and was sure that she had guessed correctly without him having to answer.

Once a resort hotel sends people to Feng Zhengming's restaurant for training, a second one will follow suit.

It won’t be long before all major hotels will learn to ask Feng Zhengming for help in training chefs.

Feng Zhengming reviews street restaurants and street food stalls through recommendation guides, and provides some craft training to small restaurants and food stalls through his dry rice shop branches.

Now we have started to provide high-end intensive training for chefs in the kitchens of large hotels.

Luo Qing could imagine that within a few years, the domestic chef industry would gradually follow Feng Zhengming's set of standards.

Once everyone recognizes the standards set by Feng Zhengming, his position in the domestic culinary industry will probably be unshakable.

In addition, a group of young chefs including Xia Hui have grown up.

Luo Qing felt that her husband was truly an all-powerful figure in the culinary industry.

Of course, Luo Qing knew that her husband wouldn't care about anything like covering the sky with one hand.

The purpose of my husband's actions is to set a standard for cooking and catering.

With standards, it is easier to get things done.

Without standards, waiting for others to set them will only lead to chaos.

After breakfast, Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing took their daughter for a walk around the resort hotel.

The construction of the hotel has not been completed yet, and some landscaping work is still underway, but it does not affect the overall environment of the hotel.

While walking around the hotel, Feng Zhengming and his friends met the young man from last night again.

Today the young man was dressed very neatly and formally, and followed a middle-aged couple very obediently.

When he saw Feng Zhengming, Luo Qing and others, the young man quickly whispered something to the middle-aged man.

Then the middle-aged man smiled and took the initiative to greet Feng Zhengming and Luo Qing.

"Hello, Mr. Feng. Hello, last night I heard my useless son say that they met you at the beach. I thought he was lying to me. I didn't expect you were really here on vacation."

Feng Zhengming shook hands with the middle-aged man and said, "Hello, I am just an ordinary chef. I am not worthy of your flattery, young master."

The middle-aged man introduced himself first: "Mr. Feng is too modest. My name is Bao Guofeng, and this is my business card."

Feng Zhengming took the business card Bao Guofeng handed to him and looked at it with some surprise.

Feng Zhengming had heard of Bao Guofeng's company.

It is a large company that has become very famous in China in recent years.

This made Feng Zhengming look at the young man with a new respect.

I didn't realize that the young man's family is quite wealthy.

Feng Zhengming: "I didn't expect Mr. Bao to be so talented. I wonder if Mr. Bao would be willing to honor me. I would like to invite Mr. Bao to come to the opening of my new restaurant and let him taste my cooking skills."

Bao Guofeng immediately agreed with a smile: "Okay, it's my honor to be invited by Feng Zhuangyuan."

Then Bao Guofeng pulled his son to his side and said, "Xiaoheng, be polite when you see your uncle Feng next time."

Bao Ruiheng was stunned when he heard his father's words.

Then he looked at Feng Zhengming and called out, "Hello, Uncle Feng."

Feng Zhengming was also a little amused and confused. Last night he had been drinking with Bao Ruiheng and dancing around the campfire together.

I didn't expect that after meeting his parents today, I would become his uncle.

"We are about the same age, so there is no need to call him uncle." Bao Guofeng insisted: "Children should be polite. Feng Zhuangyuan, you are qualified to be his uncle."

Feng Zhengming understood that Bao Guofeng asked his son to call him uncle as a recognition of his abilities.

Bao Guofeng did not regard Feng Zhengming as a top chef, but as a big boss in the catering industry.

In the end, Feng Zhengming also gladly accepted the title of "Uncle".

Bao Guofeng's wife also quickly started chatting with Luo Qing nearby.

He also recommended some women's physiotherapy services and some postpartum care stores to Luo Qing.

Finally, she exchanged phone numbers with Luo Qing in private and asked Luo Qing to go for beauty treatments together when she was free.

After saying goodbye to Bao Guofeng and his family of three, Luo Qing suddenly couldn't help laughing on the way back.

Feng Zhengming turned his head and looked at his smiling wife: "Why? Do you think it's a bit funny that you've suddenly been dragged into the ranks of noble ladies?"

Luo Qing smiled and nodded: "It's quite interesting. Mrs. Bao just talked to me about beauty treatments and stuff like that. I didn't understand anything. I didn't expect that they go for beauty treatments every day."

Feng Zhengming: "It's normal. Those ladies started their careers with their husbands. Now their family companies have grown bigger and they don't have so many things to do on weekdays, so going for beauty treatments together is a way of leisure."

Luo Qing: "Appointment to go for beauty treatments together? Will they invite many people?"

Feng Zhengming: "It should be that wives of similar status get together. Beauty is secondary. They do beauty treatments, go shopping, drink afternoon tea together, and mainly exchange information."

Luo Qing: "That's really high-class. If I go there, will I look like a country bumpkin entering the city?"

Feng Zhengming laughed immediately: "Hahaha, don't you think they weren't country people before? Counting a few generations ago, everyone is from the country."

Luo Qing thought about it and felt that what her husband said was right.

"If she asks me out, should I go?"

Feng Zhengming: "Go, why not? Get to know them and introduce them to our restaurant."

Luo Qing: "That makes sense. Then when Mrs. Bao invites me, I will also go for a beauty treatment."

Bao Guofeng and his wife were also talking about Feng Zhengming.

Mrs. Bao couldn't help but praise: "Chef Feng's daughter is so cute."

Then Mrs. Bao looked at her son and said, "Xiao Heng, why don't you get married soon so that mom can have a cute grandson."

Bao Ruiheng was helpless: "Mom, I'm only 19 years old and haven't graduated from college yet. Isn't it too early to get married?"

Bao Guofeng looked at his son and said, "You know you are still in school, so study hard. How are you preparing to go abroad?"

Mrs. Bao: "Oh, I always feel that it is too hard for my son to go abroad."

Bao Guofeng: "Times have changed. In the past, we did business by hard work. In the future, if we want to do business well, we need more brains.

Moreover, domestic industries will certainly face some upgrades in the future. If we want to keep up with the times, we need to understand more technologies.

Let my son go abroad to learn more advanced technology, so that he can come back and continue to expand the family company."

Bao Ruiheng felt a little dejected after hearing what his father said.

Like most second-generation children, Bao Ruiheng is not very interested in learning.

The difference is that Bao Ruiheng was strictly controlled by his father since he was a child.

Especially in terms of studying, his father urged him to get good test scores since he was young.

Even before college, many of his elementary and middle school classmates didn't know about his family situation and thought that he was a child from an ordinary family because he studied so hard.

Bao Ruiheng originally thought that he had suffered so much from elementary school to high school.

Finally, I was admitted to Shanghai University as my father requested.

How much better is he than those second generation players he plays with?

When I go to college, my father should change and let myself be free and happy.

In fact, after going to college, his father no longer restricted Bao Ruiheng's living expenses, and even gave him a car.

However, his father was still very strict with him in his studies.

Now he is forced to learn foreign languages ​​well in preparation for studying abroad.

All this made Bao Ruiheng very hard.

However, his father also made it clear that if he could not meet the requirements, the company would be handed over to someone else to manage, and Bao Ruiheng would only get a share of the money.

This made Bao Ruiheng, who had been trained since childhood not to give in easily, feel unconvinced.

Why is it that with such a huge business, you can only allocate a portion of the money to start your own business?

So Bao Ruiheng gritted his teeth and continued to study.

Now he is working hard to make all preparations for going abroad.

When Bao Ruiheng heard his father asking him, he refused to admit defeat: "Don't worry, Dad. I'm almost ready."

Bao Guofeng nodded: "Okay, as long as you are ready."

Then Bao Guofeng started talking about Feng Zhengming.

"I used to think Feng Zhengming was different from other chefs. After meeting him in person today and chatting with him for a while, I am even more certain that he is completely different from those chefs."

Mrs. Bao asked, "What's the difference? Younger than those chefs?"

Bao Ruiheng was also very curious and sat aside listening carefully to his father's words.

Bao Guofeng: "He is young, for sure. But what makes him different is that he doesn't look like a chef at all."

Mrs. Bao and Bao Ruiheng were both stunned.

But soon both mother and son felt that Bao Guofeng was right.

The impression Feng Zhengming gave them now was indeed that he didn't look like a chef.

Bao Guofeng continued to analyze: "Perhaps in the eyes of his peers, he is just a top national culinary champion and a state banquet chef. In fact, these titles are very good at covering up his other identity."

After all, Mrs. Bao had once started a business with her husband, so she quickly understood what her husband meant.

"He used the label of the top chef to hide the fact that he actually controlled the catering industry in the entire province of Shandong and was gradually gaining control of the discourse power in the catering industry in Shanghai."

Bao Ruiheng looked at his mother with a little surprise.

This was the first time he heard his mother make such an analysis.

In Bao Ruiheng's past impression, his mother was a rich lady who would go out with others to get beauty treatments, go shopping, and buy things when she had nothing to do.

But now, the mother suddenly pointed out that Feng Zhengming deliberately labeled himself and hid his other identity.

Bao Ruiheng thought about it carefully, and suddenly he felt that he was like a stupid son of a landlord in the past.

I thought my mother was just a rich lady who enjoyed herself at home.

I thought Feng Zhengming was really a skilled chef.

Bao Guofeng looked at his wife: "Hahaha, you've been exposed in front of our son."

Mrs. Bao immediately pretended to be confused: "Ah? What did you reveal? Oh, I was just talking nonsense, I don't understand that, you two can chat, I'll go get you breakfast."

Mrs. Bao stood up and walked over to choose breakfast for the father and son.

Seeing his mother leaving pretending to be stupid, Bao Ruiheng was even more confused.

Bao Guofeng warned his son: "Never underestimate anyone, especially someone who can make a difference."

When Bao Ruiheng heard his father say this, he realized that his parents were giving him a lesson this morning.

"Dad, I understand. Don't worry, I will prepare well for going abroad." (End of this chapter)