The story of a cook

Chapter 90 Adjusting the Dishes
The road of part-time work is not easy, but there is no turning back when you open the bow. People have to block all their back roads. A last-ditch battle can often lead to a way out.

Master Sui and Master Wang gradually stabilized.It was October at this time, and just after October [-]st, the restaurant began to enter a period of calm.

The weather is getting colder, and the summer menu needs to be adjusted. We have to add some new dishes, which are suitable for the autumn season.There is no need to adjust cold dishes, pasta, and barbecue, but hot dishes need to be adjusted.

The seafood in the fish tank in the front has been sold for several months. Some customers don’t like it and those with low click-through rate need to be cut off, and some seafood suitable for restaurant sales will be ordered.Generally speaking, seafood is profitable, and the money for the fish tank has been earned back a long time ago.Now it seems that customers prefer small seafood, such as flower clams, cockles, scallops, red shells, meretrix meretrix, etc. These small seafood sell quickly.The sea fish sells slowly, not as fast as the river fish. The main reason is that the size of the restaurant is so large. Those who want to eat high-end seafood will not come here, and the restaurant is not high enough.If you want to revitalize the fish tank, you have to work hard on the river fish.

After adjustment, all sea fishes were canceled and river fishes were mainly targeted.

When it opened, Master Huang and Master Guan designed very good recipes. Master Huang was in charge of making old dishes and home-cooked dishes, and Master Guan was in charge of seafood and Cantonese cuisine. Both of them did very well.Now Master Wang is taking over from Master Guan. Master Wang is good at cooking seafood, but he doesn’t know much about Cantonese cuisine. It is more difficult to prepare the Cantonese cuisine left by Master Guan. Not up to taste standard.Master Sui was replaced by Master Huang. He can cook the dishes left by Master Huang, but he is not as authentic as Master Huang.But he is better at making Sichuan dishes, such as dry-stir-fried pork shreds and boiled pork slices are delicious.

According to Master Sui and Master Wang's respective specialties, the recipes have been adjusted.Cancel all the Cantonese dishes left by Master Guan, and serve the Sichuan dishes that some customers love. At the same time, cancel some dishes with relatively high technical content left by Master Huang, because Master Zhan and Master Wang can’t make that level, it’s better not to .Some stews and claypot dishes have been added to the menu. As the weather gets colder, more guests eat stews and claypot dishes.

At that time, there was a stupid chicken pot in the provincial capital that sold well. I went there to eat it once, and it was really delicious. The only drawback was that it didn’t taste like home like the little stupid chicken stewed by my mother at home.But the form is very good, just like Lin Yangan’s Turtle City, Turtle City changed the "turtle stew" into "turtle hot pot". Not only can you eat soft-shelled turtle meat and drink soft-shelled turtle soup, but you can also cook meat and vegetables like hot pot. .The stupid chicken pot of that family is the same as the soft-shelled turtle pot. After eating the little stupid chicken, you can also cook mutton, fat beef, and vegetables.

When I came back, I told Huang Ping that I was going to serve the stupid chicken pot, and Huang Ping said yes.

I'm going to improve the stupid chicken pot.The stupid chicken pot of that family is made of a stainless steel hot pot, and a small gas tank is used to heat the bottom. I also use a small gas tank for heating, but instead of a stainless steel hot pot, I use a small iron pot. The little stupid chicken stewed in an iron pot is better than It is delicious stewed in a stainless steel hot pot.In addition, it is not like the stupid chicken pot with mutton and fat beef. The stupid chicken soup is thicker. Although the meat is delicious, it is a bit greasy, and it can withstand it after a few bites.I am going to serve potato cubes, hazel mushrooms, wide noodles, and sauerkraut, which are better than boiled lamb and beef.

I went northbound and bought a small iron pot and a big iron pot. At the same time, I bought a little stupid chicken and started experimenting.Master Sui and Master Wang also participated in the rectification together. There are many people and many ideas. As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.

Not to mention, the stewed little stupid chicken really has the taste of home, and the soup is delicious, mainly because the whole operation process is based on how mother stewed the chicken during the Chinese New Year at home, and we stewed it as we did, without adding any high-end The seasoning is salt, soy sauce, green onion, ginger, and pepper. When cooking, the chicken does not splash in water in advance. It is directly fried in the pan, and the aroma is released, and then it is directly simmered on a low heat. When it is cooked, the taste will be there.Of course, when stewing, it is stewed in a large iron pot, and there is no need to stir the pot. The main reason is to find the feeling of home.

Put the stewed little stupid chicken into a small iron pot, put it on the front desk, light the small stove, sit on the small iron pot, and the chicken will boil in a short while.At this time, the scent of the little stupid chicken wafted out and could be smelled three meters away.Serve up the sliced ​​potatoes, soaked hazel mushrooms, and wide noodles, and put them in whenever you want. Wide noodles, convenient and delicious, even drank the soup at the end of the meal.Everyone said that this is very good. It is mainly stewed in an iron pot. The original taste is very authentic and tastes like home. It is unanimously decided that it can be sold.

The rest is easy to handle, such as calculating the cost, setting the price, training the waiters how to introduce to customers, how to light the fire, and how to open the small gas tank. Safety must be put first.After everything was finished, the sales started. On the first day, the customers didn’t eat much, so they sold four portions. On the second day, they sold more, and sold ten portions. When the customers who arrived later saw the guests at other tables eating, they asked What is it? The waiter said it was a stupid chicken pot. The customer wanted to order it, but unfortunately he bought ten small iron pots.

Manager Liu told me to buy a few more small iron pots, but I said no, just sell ten small stupid chickens for one meal.At the same time, we can’t spend too much money for the sake of making money. If there are too many kitchens, the kitchen should be out of shape, and the taste cannot be guaranteed, and it will be ruined after eating.It’s like this with everything, you can’t chew too much. When you’re a restaurant, remember that the quality of the dishes will always come first.

Seeing that the stupid chicken pot is selling well every day, I am very happy, but after thinking about it, this stupid chicken pot is actually "little stupid chicken stewed with mushrooms". Before, chicken, potatoes, mushrooms, and wide noodles were stewed together. It's ready to be served in soup bowls. Now that the serving mode has been changed, it's sold very well. There's really no reason to justify it.In addition, I understand a truth, that is, the innovation of any dish is inseparable from the shadow of the original old dish. The so-called innovation is to disrupt and recombine the raw materials of the old dish in the past, change the serving mode and dining method, and make the old dish Rejuvenated, more sophisticated, and more acceptable to customers.

In terms of dishes, the old dishes are the foundation, and the new dishes are the development, which is always the same. Without the foundation of the old dishes and strong basic skills, new dishes cannot be developed.

At that time, I had no business acumen, so I focused all my energy on the research and development of dishes. I felt that the little stupid chicken pot was very good. It changed the traditional way of serving the little stupid chicken stewed mushrooms, so that the guests had a sense of participation, and they all liked it. The way of eating and stewing is very novel and delicious.I remember that there was no popular "stove stew" at that time. The stupid chicken pot of Rose Hotel was very popular at that time, and some restaurant chefs came to learn it. Dining mode, that will lead a trend.

The popular food and beverage forms such as "Zaotai Fish" and "Zaotai Chicken" evolved from "Stupid Chicken Pot" and are deeply loved by the common people.The famous ones made in the provincial capital include "Fuji Iron Pot Stew" and "One Chai One Stove" are very good, especially "One Chai One Stove", which has formed a chain operation model. Last year, his family planned to build a central kitchen Carrying out centralized quantitative management of products, I found me. When chatting with the boss, the boss said that his home was a small shop at the beginning. He learned the stupid chicken pot from a restaurant on Taishan Road. Chai One Stove".After hearing what the boss said, I couldn’t help but sigh in my heart. The stupid chicken pot learned in the Rose Hotel 20 years ago has been improved into a chain group through continuous research, and the Rose Hotel has now disappeared in the long river of history——
Lin Yan came to me after get off work and said, "Can you lend me 1000 yuan? My mother wants to buy piglets, and I have no money."

I asked, "When will it be used?"

She said, "Just these two days."

I said, "Don't worry, just wait, I'll get it for you."

I asked Huang Ping to ask for 1000 yuan. Huang Ping gave me 1000 yuan. I gave it to Lin Yan and asked her, "Is it enough? If it's not enough, I'll get some more."

Lin Yan said: "That's enough, I've already paid my wages, and the sum is enough for my mother to buy piglets."

I said, "Don't be short. After buying the lambs, you have to buy feed. Do you have money to buy feed?"

She said: "Yes, my mother said she still has some money for selling pigs, that's enough."

I looked at her and said seriously: "Tell me when you use money in the future, I don't spend much money, and my family doesn't use much money now."

She said, "Okay, remember this time, and I will pay you back later."

I laughed and said, "Just give you back to me."

"Then you have to wait," she said.

In fact, at that time, I never understood what kind of relationship I had with Lin Yan.Unlike Yaru, who likes and loves her, she should have a feeling of sympathy for Lin Yan. She feels that she, like me, was born in a poor family.We don't have any love, and we don't have the romance we should have. I remember just sending her home. She told her things, I accepted, and I also said mine, and she accepted. The two of us walked together. Together.

Maybe two people have the same suffering experience, so they don't have too much desire for love, just feel that the other party is suitable for them.At that time, my thought was, this girl is very good, and the family is very difficult. If we form a family with her, she promises to live a life, as long as I can live a life, this is the wife I am looking for.

Most of Lin Yan rides her bicycle home after get off work. The main reason is that sometimes I am still busy when she gets off work, and when I get off work, she leaves.It was around [-] o'clock when I got off work early. If she didn't come, I went to Turtle City to pick her up. When she saw me, she ran out like a little girl, and told me to wait for me for a while, and I'll be done right away. up.I just waited for her outside, walked with her after she got off work, sent her to her residence and came back.

Every time I wanted to send her upstairs, she would say: "No, we three women live here, it's not good for you to come up, it's so late, everyone has taken off their clothes and gone to bed."

I just smiled and said, "Okay, you go upstairs."

Watching her disappear into the corridor, then light a cigarette, and walk back happily while smoking.

At that time, Sister Zhang always asked me: "Tan Zi, did you send Lin Yan off again yesterday?"

I said, "Yes, I sent it."

She would say, "Seeing how happy you are, I know you sent it."

I laugh while saying nothing.

Master Wang Wang Xiaodong asked me: "Send it every day, when will you two get married, we are all waiting for the wedding wine."

I said, "That will have to wait."

Master Zhan said: "It's okay to wait, there will be a day."

I said, "I'll let you know when the time comes."

In fact, I didn't know what to do at that time, after all, Lin Yan's mother hadn't agreed yet.At that time, I thought, when I have time, I will go to Lin Yan's house and talk to her mother.

(End of this chapter)