The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 295 Thought-provoking

Lao Tan did train Zhou Xiaomei as his successor.

This is not because of their relationship, but because of Zhou Xiaomei's quality in this area.First of all, she has a good image, has her own aura, and has the energy of a strong woman all over her body.Dedicated to work, whole-hearted and upright, this is something that everyone in the group agrees with.

She is calm-headed, doesn't panic when things happen, and has the demeanor of a general.His character is good, he is warm-hearted, and he has a good reputation among employees, and he has a mass base based on the national standards for selecting cadres.

He is well-received for his precise handling of external affairs.

The most important thing is to have a heart and mind. After two years of training, you can provoke Aqiao.

Of course, what Lao Tan said about cultivating successors is not just his own, but the entire management team.In the words of management - when the leader has no successors, the development of the enterprise has no progress and nothing remains.

Today, you can be regarded as a manager by your boss because of your excellence and ability.When you become a manager, what you look at is no longer how good you are and how capable you are, but how good your employees are under your management, how much performance you have created, whether you have brought out successors like you, so that the company can develop successors .

Of course, many managers regard the teaching apprentices starving to death as the bottom line of experience and heart, and for the sake of official positions, they will not let their subordinates surpass themselves. Although this can keep their positions for a while, their development has stopped here.

Everyone likes to be a leader. Before you become a leader, you need to know what a leader is.

Leaders, leaders and mentors can not only lead the team forward, but also serve as a model for others and cultivate talents.

With the ringing of the New Year's Day bell in [-], people bid farewell to the busy and fruitful [-] and entered a new year.

On the fifth day of the first month, Thursday, the eighth day of the winter month in the lunar calendar, Xiaohan.

The small banquet hall on the second floor of the Central Kitchen Store on Yunxia Road, South of Suzhou City is decorated with lights and festoons, where the annual meeting of Aqiao Catering Group will be held this year.

Let's see who's there.

Needless to say, Yanhua and Lao Tan, Zhang Yu and Yanzi rushed back from Hainan yesterday, and arrived here early today.

In the provincial capital, under the leadership of Zhang Li and Zhang Xiangdong, there are store managers and chefs from various stores, the owners of three cooperative stores in Fushun, Jinzhou, and Anshan, as well as the financial director of the headquarters, Sister Xu, and the dumpling director Wang. Hong, service supervisor Xiaofeng and kitchen director Zhongqing.

In Inner Mongolia, there are Zhou Xiaomei and Wang Shulan, store managers and chefs, kitchen director Yang Zhijun, service supervisor Tu Yaqi Qige, and Jining store owner Huang Lijuan.

The annual meeting was held in Suzhou, and Gu Yi and Qiao Shan naturally became the hosts.

There are currently five stores open in Suzhou, and two are under preparation.In the next year, Qiao Shan will open another store and plan to stop, planning to take good care of her five stores and stop expanding.

Gu Yi's plan for next year is to open three stores and start to develop in Hangzhou at the same time.

At this rate, Ah Qiao will be able to spread all over Suzhou and Hangzhou in two years.Of course, this is an ideal plan, and no one can predict what will happen halfway, maybe it will be faster, or it may die.

As the cheerful music sounded, [-] waitresses selected from five stores in Suzhou opened the curtain of the annual meeting with a beautiful dance in the costumes of Jiangnan water town.

Then, Ms. Xu, the chief financial officer, reported the operation situation in 32.We will not describe them in detail here. Overall, the total turnover of the 80 stores is 51 million 14 million, the overall gross profit margin is [-]%, the net profit margin is [-]%, and the income is considerable.

Next is the reward for meritorious deeds.Regional managers, store managers, head chefs, kitchen directors, and service supervisors all received heavy red envelopes. The smiles on their faces showed the joy and excitement in their hearts.

There are rewards when you pay, Dadi has never been stingy with its generosity to workers, and the company will always give satisfactory feedback to those who are loyal, dedicated and capable.

Lao Tan did not participate in the whole award presentation process, he just sat quietly and watched under the stage, with a smile on his face and moist eyes.

His mood is excited and gratified.How should I put it, watching a small dumpling restaurant grow from scratch, and after five years of ups and downs, it has grown to an annual turnover of more than [-] million today. One can imagine the hardships involved.

As a founder and executor, can you not be excited?

Ten years ago, 20 years ago, he was just a poor boy from the countryside. He went to a strange city to beg for a living. He wanted to get rid of poverty and no longer be poor.

Although I was full of ambition, I didn't expect to have today's achievements, or I didn't dare to think about it at all.

20 years, how many 20 years are there in life?To be honest, if you do what you do, although you are not successful, you can still be considered successful in your career.

Although the current Aqiao cannot be compared with those well-known catering companies, it is young, just started, and has a promising future with broad prospects.

Yanhua, who was sitting next to Lao Tan, was in the same mood as Lao Tan at the moment—excited and gratified.

In terms of enterprise value, she has now entered the ranks of entrepreneurs with modest achievements, and she is an existence that people envy.If Ah Qiao's 32 stores are sold now, plus its brand value, she is already a real multi-millionaire.

Millionaire rich woman, is this what she thought about?

To be honest, she never thought about it at all, never even dreamed about it.

Things in the world are often like this, don't think too much, keep a normal and kind heart, do it seriously and persistently, and the harvest is often unexpected.

It seems accidental, but it is inevitable.

When you understand the gains and losses of life, you will lose sight of money, and the beauty and value of living are more important.

Lao Tan and Yanhua may not really understand these truths, but they are walking on this road, doing things under the guidance of their hearts, and they feel very happy.

Usually is also very normal.

We might as well recall Yanhua's original idea of ​​opening a restaurant. At that time, she and Yanzi only wanted to open a small restaurant, and they didn't even think about earning much money, just enough to spend.

At that time, the enough money was [-], and I didn't even dare to think about [-]. I even thought that as long as there is something I can do without losing money, I will use it as a learning experience.

Under Lao Tan's suggestion, he opened a dumpling restaurant and raised the investment from tens of thousands to more than [-].To be honest, I was also terrified at the time, thinking that it would be fine to recover the cost.

People are free from greed and self-sufficiency, and know how to be content and self-sufficient.

Do ordinary things with a normal heart, and keep your original heart and happiness.

To be honest, it is not easy for people to keep their original aspirations in front of money, but if they keep it, they will be rewarded with great blessings.

Aqiao succeeded and made money.What is commendable is that the two women are not deceived by money, and they are still the same as before. At most, they feel that their hard work is not in vain.

In Yanhua's words, a yearly net income of 200,000 is enough, which is much older than originally expected.

Of course, the actual income is more than this, but I just don't care.

It is because you don’t care that you dare to invest, and you dare to give up most of the profits, so that your partners and employees who follow along can benefit, so that there is a win-win development and more profits.

To give a simple example, Yanzi said this when Yanzi and Zhang Yu quit management.

She said that our pickled cabbage stuffed dumplings cost 16 yuan a plate, and customers won’t say anything if they try hard to sell them for 17 yuan, but it’s better if we sell them for [-] yuan less.The one dollar that is given up is the cost, and what is recovered is the doubled profit and word of mouth.

When she finished talking about Yanhua and Lao Tan, she was very shocked. She didn't expect that she would have such a powerful opinion in a careless matter.

"Don't look at me with admiration. When you start to open a restaurant, just think about earning pocket money. I didn't want to earn so much. If you earn more, you should understand the truth—not all profits are directly proportional to the price of vegetables. The profit is not all in the vegetable price.

How did we make money all these years?

To sum it up, let's mention it.

Give up the cost to the guests, and give the employees the treatment.I didn't accept it at first, but now I accept it.

If you don't compete with customers, you will get profits; if you don't compete with employees, you will get profits. "

Swallow's words not only illustrate the problem, but also make people think deeply.

(End of this chapter)