The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 232 Goal
In this world, a new life is born every day, announcing their coming to this beautiful world with loud and clear cries.Some people grow old every day and walk into another world amidst the cries of relatives and friends.

Everyone living in the world is busy every day.The purpose of doing it is different, some are to get promoted and get rich, some are to prosper in business, some are to have a bright future, and some are just to eat and support their families.

Three meals a day, the difference is the quality, the same is the hunger.Although delicacies from mountains and seas are good, too much is not beneficial; although simple food is simple, it is more beneficial to health.

The clothes on the body can be bright and beautiful, or simple and generous, and the best fit and comfort.

Food can satisfy the hunger, clothing can cover the body, live practically, calmly and calmly, walk without fear of night, do things with a clear conscience, up to filial parents, down to raising children, it is enough.

What is difficult is that there are too many desires.

As the saying goes, contentment is always blissful, when do people stop at contentment?
How many people talk about mediocrity and want to be the old man who is so glamorous, but they are trapped in desire, or comparing, or scheming, or rushing to get entangled, and they live a good life like a feather, and their life is very tiring.

Men are afraid to enter the wrong line, women are afraid to marry the wrong man.

From ancient times to the present, the profession of cooking has never been looked down upon.Although it is said that the cook survived the three-year drought and hunger, it is only a side comment, not a compliment.

Throughout the dynasties, being an imperial chef is awesome. There are countless cooks in the world. How many cooks can cook for the emperor?It can be said that the entrance hall of Guangzong Yaozu is shining. In the words of ordinary people-the ancestral graves are all smoking.

However, a lot of people were beheaded due to carelessness or the emperor's unhappiness, without even a place to reason.

In the past, cooks belonged to the same class as hooligans and thieves.Take the object of dating as an example, if a girl married a cook, she would not dare to tell others, it would be embarrassing.

Although now in the 21st century, the status of cooks has been greatly improved and they earn more money, but they are still called the ones with big heads and thick necks.

In this business, except for a few state-owned units, the restaurants and restaurants in the society are all privately owned. There are no five social insurances and one housing fund, old-age insurance, and no provident fund. And the rest will be canceled when you are busy, and you can’t go home during the New Year and the holidays. Standing in front of the raging fire, the frying spoons are flying, turning your thoughts into tears and falling with sweat.

Cooks earn a lot of money, but few are willing to marry cooks.

Having said that, there are not many chefs who are single, and the reason is simple-there are too many waiters.

The beauty in the front hall and the man in the back kitchen eat in one pot.

Most of the final destiny of the cook is to open a shop by himself and support the whole family.It’s rare for old people to cook on the stove until they retire. After all, it’s a physical effort. After [-], few bosses like to use it. Few of them insist on cooking after [-], except in cafeterias.

Of course, there are also those like Lao Tan who have turned from cooks to managers and become managers or directors. There is no age limit, and the older they are, the more popular they are.

But this is a minority after all.Many cooks are between 35 and 45 and have to face a second choice in life, whether to continue to work on the stove or to start a business.

This is helplessness and reality, a reality that all catering people have to face.

What is the reality?
exist and are recognized.

What the reality needs is not to stick to it, but to break it, which is also the necessity of social development.

Let us analyze it in detail.

For example, ten cooks cook together until they are 45 years old, and they start to face the problem of being laid off.Among the ten people, only two are capable of starting a business and opening a restaurant, one can change careers perfectly, one will be promoted to a manager, one will become a famous technical teacher, and the remaining five will be eliminated.

What about the eliminated ones?
Most of the cooks are from the countryside.Back then, my family was poor, and there was no hope of farming. At home, I couldn't even be called a daughter-in-law, so I had to go out to work to make a living.

No one is born to be a cook, if not forced by life, who would want to leave home and parents?

At this time, it would be unrealistic for them to return to the countryside with their families.

For now, 60.00% of these people are still working in restaurants, and they can no longer cook. They put down their big spoons to use as chopping boards, or make loads, or do rough processing. Although they earn less, they can still maintain their lives.

The remaining 40.00% some did odd jobs, some entered the construction site, and some——
back home--
Although helpless and sad, it is also the necessity of life.

The society is developing, but it has not yet developed to the stage where it can solve the follow-up pension for migrant workers.

Our society is already perfect.After experiencing the exciting initial stage of reform, we have strided into a stage of development that is changing with each passing day, which is delightful and exciting.

We firmly believe that the whole country will go full throttle, brave the wind and waves, and move forward vigorously!
Where do people think about what things, what heights they think about what issues.

Lao Tan, from apprentice to executive director, has passed more than [-] years, and the road he has traveled is very bumpy, full of hardships and bitterness.

I have experienced it myself, so I know the difficulties of catering people and understand the difficulties.Now, in addition to thinking about how to make Aqiao bigger and stronger, he also started to think about future issues for employees.

Any superstructure is built on an economic basis.If you want to arrange the future life of employees well, you must first have money. If you don’t have money, it’s useless. This is a reality.

He wondered how those big companies did it, such as Haier, Gree, and Lao Ganma, which is closely related to catering—these companies can provide employees with a guarantee, and employees have no worries and are willing to work.

If Aqiao wants to develop, build a long-lasting business, and become a century-old enterprise, she has to do the same.It should not just be regarded as a hotel, but should take a long-term view and think and plan from the height of an enterprise.

Enterprise, enterprise.

A business has a vision and a mission.

What is Aqiao's vision?Is it the slogan shouted at the daily meeting?
Create our own future with our own hands.

what is the future?Open dumpling restaurants all over the country?Turnover over [-] million?Or are they all millionaires?
The future of an enterprise should not only be to realize the ideals of the boss, or fulfill the wishes of the boss, but also to enable employees to live a good and happy life.

This is also the mission of the enterprise.

When thinking of this, the old cook couldn't help being a little excited. He remembered how he felt when he was the head chef for the first time. good job.

At that time, I thought, if one day I am good enough to open a store, I will definitely give the best benefits to the employees, including insurance, old-age insurance, and weekly rest.Live in the best dormitory, have holidays, annual leave for Chinese New Year, marriage leave for marriage, maternity leave for childbirth, etc.

I have never been a boss, and my ideas have never been realized.

Although he is not the boss now, he is almost the same as the boss, so he can work hard in this area.

He thought, this is the mission of the company, and it is also his own mission, so let's strive for this goal in this life.

In fact, he should have thought of this earlier.

Our China's catering industry is very developed, and it is even known as the country of gourmet food.But a fact is also before our eyes. Although there are many restaurants, there are only a handful of old shops with more than one hundred years old.

Is it our food that is not good?Or is the management not in place, do not know how to operate?

No, because the opening of any restaurant is not to close the door, but to do well, to do well in the long run, and to pass it down from generation to generation.

There is a problem of concept and structure.

Needless to say, take Aqiao as an example. At the beginning of the establishment, Yanhua wanted to make a living so that she could stay at home. Of course, it would be better to make money.And what Lao Tan wanted was to create a unique dumpling tavern, which would be the best if it could be a chain, so that the brothers who followed him would have jobs and earn money.As for opening dumpling restaurants across the country, it was an idea that arose later with development.

That is to say, when I was doing it, I didn’t think about whether it was a company or not. Just make the dumplings, the food, the service, and the business.This is also the normal thinking of most catering people.

However, Konosuke Matsushita set his sights 50 years later when he founded Panasonic Electric. He said that Panasonic is a place to cultivate sages, and the production of electrical appliances is just a follow-up.

Think of a restaurant only as a place to make food and sell money. It is just a business, and it can be opened at any time, or it can be yellow at any time.If it is done as an enterprise, with vision, mission, management and inheritance, then it will be a century-old enterprise with an everlasting foundation.

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