The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 258 Busy
In the clinic, the drip bottle is hanging in the air, and the medicine in it enters the vein through the infusion tube drop by drop.

Old Tan half leaned on the bedside to listen to Li Shuang's report.

"The brochure is finished, and it started to be distributed yesterday. Boss Zhang helped to contact the ticket office of the garden, and anyone who enters the Humble Administrator's Garden will be given a copy. Not to mention, some people walked around the garden and took the brochure to find Our restaurant is ready to eat." Li Shuang said.

"Okay." Old Tan nodded.

"I think the decoration can be finished in half a month. The decoration company here is not good, and Mr. Xiang is far behind. If Mr. Xiang had finished it earlier." Li Shuang complained.

"Old Xiang knows how to pretend - I really have to love him, we are not opening a shop here." Lao Tan said with a smile.

"That's not right—there are all the staff. The training has been going on for the past few days. The two foremen were sent by Sister Li from the provincial capital to solve many things."

"Are there many local employees?" Old Tan asked.

"Not many, most of them are from Anhui, some from Hunan, and a few from Sichuan." Li Shuang replied.

"Is the dormitory enough?" Old Tan asked.

"Enough, there are still two rooms free."

"That's okay—what are Zhongqing Xiaogao and the others doing today?" Old Tan asked.

"Xiao Gao Pao Jiu, the two of them just chose loose baijiu yesterday. The alcohol content in this place is not high, and they are all made of tunes. The two of them went to northern Jiangsu to find sorghum wine, and there was only one family." Li Shuang said.

"Scattered wine is unlucky, and the cost is high - if it doesn't work, you have to be lucky, otherwise you won't be able to brew good wine." Old Tan said.

"Xiao Gao said that the wine is not bad -- try it when you are well. Zhongqing led the kitchen staff to install the equipment, and it can be finished today." Li Shuang said.

"Zhongqing has to go back, the Chinese medicine store in the provincial capital is finished—"

"I heard from him that I'll be back in two days. Are you still going back when the Chinese medicine shop opens?" Li Shuang asked.

"Go back, can you not go back after opening? Come back after opening." Old Tan said.

"Sister Li and Sister Hua of our business are here together, as are Xiaomei and Zhang Yu." Li Shuang said happily.

"Praise you, you should behave better."

The master and the apprentice chatted for a while, Yaru came back from the restaurant when the bottle was almost finished, she went to train dumpling workers, and rushed over at noon break, Zhongqing and Xiaogao came with her.

Zhongqing is going to go back to the provincial capital the day after tomorrow. After opening the Chinese medicine shop, he will go to the Hunnan branch for training, and then go to the Dadong branch. He is also very busy.

"I need an assistant for you," Old Tan said.

"No, I can come over here." Zhongqing said.

"If you can be busy now, you won't be able to keep busy if there are too many stores in the future. To train a successor, you can't be weak in succession." Old Tan said seriously.

"Hmm - what do you think of Master Feng at the Taishan shop? He has been here for three years, and he has no personality. The cooking is also good. The main reason is that the management is in place, and his eloquence is better than mine. He can speak and train." Zhongqing said.

Feng Zhigang, the head chef of the Taishan restaurant, is familiar with Lao Tan, and the fourth brother introduced him to him. He is the most capable among the eight head chefs in the provincial capital.

Old Tan thought for a while and said: "He can do it, take it with you." Then he asked: "How is your wife now?"

"It's good, I can eat and drink, and I'm getting fat." Zhongqing smiled honestly.

"That's good, don't you want another kid?" Old Tan joked.

"I think about it. My wife said that she will have one when she recovers."

"It's a good idea, you Shandong people pay attention to this-carrying on the family line."

After Xiao Gao and Zhong Qing left, Yaru went back with Lao Tan after the drip was finished.

The hotel's previous kitchen was closed, and the stove used gas pipes, so the overall electricity consumption of the kitchen was not large.Now it is an open kitchen. Except for the gas for the clay pot stove, the others are all induction cookers. As a result, the electricity is not enough and needs to be increased.

Gu Yi first approached the electrician who was in charge of the Humble Administrator's Garden. The electrician had to ask the leader for approval if the capacity was increased, and he couldn't make the decision.Gu Yi found a leader, but the leader was upright and didn't agree.

Gu Yi was very depressed. After Boss Zhang knew about it, he came forward to invite the leader to have a meal. He was a little relieved, but not clear.

Boss Zhang meant to give some gifts. When he talked about giving gifts, Gu Yi turned over and said that I pay for electricity, and his electricity bureau serves the people, so why give gifts?Besides, the cost of capacity expansion is not low, let alone 150,000, and you still need to give gifts?It's a bit hard to justify.

"Now the electricity is in short supply, and under normal circumstances, capacity increase is not granted, and approval is not easy." Boss Zhang said.

Gu Yi calmed down and thought for a while, although it was annoying, but just give it away for the hotel, as long as it is approved.

The Electric Power Bureau passed the test, and the power substation in the park got stuck again.

The shops on this street use the power line of the park. If the capacity is increased, the park leader said that the transformer needs to be replaced, otherwise it will not work.

Now Gu Yi became angry.

In fact, the matter is obvious, the electricity bureau collected the capacity expansion fee, and the park didn't get a penny, and I felt unbalanced.Although electricity matters are under the management of the Electricity Bureau and have nothing to do with the park, but the transformer belongs to the park, so it gets stuck.

There was no way, people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and they couldn't go to the court lady Wang because of this matter, so they invited the leaders of the park to eat and drink, and gave benefits, so the electricity problem was completely resolved.

"It was the same when the Jinqiao store was installed. The expansion fee was 160,000 yuan, and the service cost was 200,000 yuan, and the total cost was [-] yuan." Lao Tan said.

"Now I know that it's not easy to do anything, and it's hard to earn money." Gu Yi said with emotion.

"It's hard to earn, why don't you say that money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat."

"Brother, I just said the last sentence. When did you keep your voice low, now it's better to pretend to be a grandson."

Old Tan laughed.

"Not counting the rent, now I have put in a hundred—" Gu Yi said in a long voice.

"It's okay, I guarantee you to earn it back in one year."

Old Tan gave him reassurance.

Throughout the first half of the year, Wang Shulan was not idle. The Xilinhot store and the Jining store opened successively, and then the two stores in Baotou were renovated, followed by the Chifeng store.Now the decoration of the two stores in Baotou is coming to an end, and the Chifeng store will take another month.

The cooperation with Zhou Xiaomei has also become more and more tacit. She is in the front to expand the territory, and Zhou Xiaomei is behind the country. Every store opened is very successful and the business is booming.

I have to say that once a woman becomes powerful, she has nothing to do with a man.

When the fight happened in the Jinqiao store, Wang Shulan was in Xilinhot. Knowing that Lao Tan was coming back to deal with it, she didn't come back in a hurry.Now that the new store in Xilinhot has opened, and the Jining store is on the right track, it has become the local dumpling king, so it is time to return to Hohhot.

When I arrived in Hohhot, I first met Zhou Xiaomei. The two chatted about the Jinqiao store for a while, and then moved to the current store.

"I invested all the money I earned last year, and it depends on how this year will be." Wang Shulan said.

"This year should be good." Zhou Xiaomei said.

"Looking at the first half of the year, the old store in Xilinhot was [-] yuan a day, and the new store was [-] yuan a day, catching up with Xibei opposite. The Jining store is also OK, [-] yuan a day, the local boss." Wang Shulan smiled proudly after finishing speaking.

"The Ordos store is also stronger than last year." Zhou Xiaomei added.

Wang Shulan nodded and said, "Now other restaurants are interested in our restaurant, and they are planning to change it to a dumpling restaurant. I plan to open Baotou restaurant in this way. One will open in June, and the other will open in July. I won't give any chance to imitate."

"This move is cruel enough." Zhou Xiaomei said.

"Hehe, it's not about being cruel, it's about occupying the market." Wang Shulan said domineeringly.

"Now we have all the staff and training. The store manager has also returned from the headquarters. The two store managers are young and have a high level of education. They both graduated from colleges." Zhou Xiaomei said.

"I saw that from now on, all store managers must be college students."

"Almost, there are quite a lot of college students who can't find a job now, and they also work in restaurants. There are a lot of jobs during the winter and summer vacations every year, which also affects them. Besides, the salaries in restaurants are high now."

Wang Shulan said: "Salary is linked to ability. Having a diploma does not mean that you have a level, and having a degree does not mean that you have ability. In the past, when it came to working in a restaurant, no one from college students came and felt ashamed.

Now good catering companies are no worse than other industries, and the benefits have also increased.What about college students, we still have to choose, not bad ones. Then he continued: "Our family's work-point system is good and covers a wide range. If you have the ability, you can give full play to it. If you get the score, you will be given opportunities, and everyone will develop."I think Quanjude in Beijing has also started to implement the work point system, and Hainan Airlines in Hohhot also introduced it last year. "

Mentioning HNA, Zhou Xiaomei remembered something and said: "By the way, a marketing manager from HNA came to apply for the job. The guy is quite young and looks energetic. But he spoke too loudly and was a bit arrogant. I told him that it was impossible. Immediately become a manager, you have to start from scratch. Guess what he said?"

"Say what?" Wang Shulan asked.

"He said that he was the manager. Whoever is the waiter can't afford to lose that person. I'm not polite, so I sent him away."

"Yes, send him away, even if such a person comes."

"Yesterday, Chifeng called to say that the city management had gone and refused to install the knife plaque. Do you know about this?" Zhou Xiaomei asked.

"I know. I'll go over tomorrow. I didn't say hello to them during the renovation. I'm looking for trouble." Wang Shulan said.

"Let's go together. I have a relative over there who works in the city government. I think we can talk."

(End of this chapter)