As soon as people in the capital have eaten rice dumplings made with glutinous rice and jujubes, they have almost immediately entered the season of eating fresh eggplants.
(Note: "醏" pronounces "Du". This dish is a home-cooked dish in Beijing. Because of the special method, it can only be eaten in summer. Cut the round eggplants with skin into hob cubes and put them in the summer sun to dry.
Wait for an hour until the eggplants are wilted, then add soy sauce and soybeans and simmer them together without any oil. When they are cooked, add sugar to reduce the juice. When the pot is cooked, pour hot pepper oil and sprinkle with coriander. Salty and sweet appetizers, fragrant and delicious)
During this time, Ning Weimin painted an exciting prospect for the entire project preparatory team.
And almost all procurement expenses that have nothing to do with arts and crafts are subcontracted on a per capita basis.
It can be said that his subordinates are highly motivated and almost all employees are fully motivated to work.
Everyone's working condition is extremely vigorous, and they can be called vigorous and vigorous.
In addition, Ning Weimin is not only good at "painting cakes" and "sharing benefits", he is also very skillful in management.
Not only are responsibilities and credits clearly divided, but logistics, reimbursements, and welfare benefits are all in place.
This unites people's hearts even more, and everyone's efforts are directed towards the same place.
So as long as there is a need for work, whether working overtime or running errands, the people in the group are not ambiguous at all, and it is completely voluntary.
As a result, throughout June, the progress of the joint venture restaurant was very smooth and rapid.
For example, at Beishen Kitchen, the restoration project of the ancient building team is being carried out in an orderly manner under the care of the deputy director.
Needless to say, the first step must be to repair the exterior of the building.
In addition to the most severely damaged glazed tiles and floor tiles being shipped one after another, workers have begun to replace the brick floors in the courtyard walls.
More importantly, the scaffolding for the sill walls of each hall has also been set up and construction has begun.
It is gradually returning to its original specification of 1.5 meters from a height of 1.2 meters.
Even the painted and unique stone viewing boards will be restored to look as old as they were in the future.
We will restore it meticulously in strict accordance with the original style, and no changes will be made to save trouble.
It’s just that the repair of ancient buildings is a special type of work after all.
It is estimated that it will take at least three or four months to complete all of this.
And only after these are completed can further construction and decoration be carried out to meet the business needs of the restaurant.
Therefore, in comparison, it is still a two-story building at No. 87 Tiantan North Road, and the construction progress is faster.
There, the basement excavation project has been completed, and the installation of civil cold storage equipment is currently underway.
The basic decoration work on the first and second floors has also been completed, and the elevator manufacturers are installing and debugging their equipment.
Manufacturers that provide kitchen equipment are also drawing up planning sketches based on on-site conditions.
In order to provide several plans for the relevant person in charge to discuss with the chefs who will be busy in this big kitchen in the future, so as to make a final decision.
As for the busiest place, it must be the second floor, because almost every day people come to measure the dimensions.
This is not surprising at all.
Don’t forget, the palace lantern factory Ning Weimin found needed to measure the dimensions in order to install the palace lanterns.
There is also the Jingcheng Hardwood Furniture Factory that helps him repair those wooden furniture.
You are also responsible for installing some repaired floor-to-ceiling flower covers, partitions, window decorations, and wall decorations here to facilitate the spatial differentiation of private rooms and seats.
In addition, many teachers and students from the two art academies in Beijing, whether in the sculpture department or the mural painting department, were invited by Ning Weimin.
The Sculpture Department will create some ingenious and beautiful works in some corners and turning points of the wall according to the specific layout of the restaurant to increase the local decorative effect.
The mural department has the most arduous task.
They will reprint the picture books of "Emperor Qianlong's Recreation in the Palace", "Hongli's Recreation in Ancient Costumes", "Emperor Qianlong's Recreation in Years" and "Emperor Qianlong's Recreation in the Lantern Festival" from the picture books, trying to follow the original appearance and proportions
Enlarged reproductions are on several of the main walls of the restaurant.
Ning Weimin even negotiated with the famous painter Huang Zhou through the Artists Association, and invited him to create a six-meter-long and three-meter-wide "Picture of Fortune, Luxury, Longevity, Happiness," with a designated theme for a price of 8,800 yuan.
It is planned to be placed upstairs, facing the elevator and stairwell, as the main welcome wall.
Think about it, can this reduce the number of people coming and going?
These are some of the main special needs worth mentioning.
Such as installing ordinary lamps, curtains, boilers, ceiling fans, toilet sanitary ware, and other odds and ends, these are not included.
Anyway, let's put it this way, Ning Weimin's joint venture restaurant has essentially become a combination of a small art museum and a restaurant.
The affairs involved are far more complicated than opening a pure restaurant.
But it’s precisely because of this that the final effect is even more exciting, isn’t it?
Of course, when running a restaurant, you definitely can’t just focus on the hardware.
Therefore, simultaneously with the decoration and decoration work, there is also recruitment work.
Needless to say, with the service bureau here, there is no shortage of employees for the joint venture restaurant.
Whether it is a young chef who already has some work experience, a young employee, or a recent high school graduate.
As long as the service bureau gives an order, the catering companies and schools in the district will not cooperate even if they want.
Even Beihai Fangshan and Tingli Restaurant cannot help but sell the face of the district leaders.
They also have to follow the instructions of the Municipal Service Bureau and send several senior chefs and receptionists to "help and guide" and support the construction of joint venture restaurants with practical actions.
But to be honest, even so, Ning Weimin still couldn't feel at ease in these two aspects.
Because the reason is very simple. Although it is easy to enjoy the shade under a big tree, another big tree cannot grow.
As the old saying goes, "To convince people in a restaurant, it all depends on the chef."
Think about it, a restaurant's core technology and foundation depend entirely on the "teaching and guidance" of others.
It is impossible for people not to keep a few tricks, and it is certainly impossible to achieve transcendence by just copying cats and imitating tigers.
So I just wanted to compete with these two senior seniors in the future and be on an equal footing.
Ning Weimin must find another way and try his best to gain some technical advantages that these two companies cannot match.
But what should we do?
The first, of course, is to select the best of the best.
Whether it is fresh graduates or people transferred from catering companies in other areas.
They all have to be carefully selected, and their appearance, figure, and temperament all have to meet a high standard.
Correspondingly, the wages and benefits of joint venture hotels are significantly higher than those of other counterparts.
The second is to give benefits to win over people in Fangshan and Tingli Hall.
In order to enable him to teach without hesitation, he gave everything he had to teach him.
Although Ning Weimin couldn't openly raise the wages of those who "help and guide" people.
But use the summer subsidy, something like meal subsidy, transportation expenses and the like.
But it can benefit those people who are transferred from Fangshan and Tingli Restaurant to help.
The third is to recruit our own foreign aid to compete with the people from Fangshan and Tingliguan.
For example, in terms of reception services, Ning Weimin specially hired three teachers.
One was the flight attendant team leader from Civil Aviation, an old acquaintance who was responsible for providing regular training to the Zhai Palace girls.
The other two are service staff of the Great Hall of the People.
One is the receptionist responsible for welcoming guests, and the other is the team leader responsible for meeting receptions.
Ning Weimin did this for two main reasons.
One is to prevent those who support joint venture restaurants from thinking that they themselves are the authority.
I thought that if I left them, the restaurant would be unable to move.
Secondly, it is also to replicate the most standard state guest-level service to his restaurant.
It would be best if every guest who comes to the restaurant can feel that the specifications here are extraordinary just from the service.
As for the final aspect of cooking, it is also the most important core part of restaurant management.
Who else could Ning Weimin turn to for help?
Of all the people he knew, he was the only one who could really be called a good cook.