After the decoration is completed and the menu is decided, the next step is to recruit people: a kitchen assistant and a waiter.
Originally, Zhou Yan planned to hire only one generalist, but Wang Han scolded him: "Boss, our store has a lot of customers, and one person is not enough!"
Although he hired one more person, Zhou Yan's salary budget is still sufficient.
The waiter recruited was a female student from nearby Binhai College. She worked part-time and only worked six hours a day. The basic salary was 800, plus bonuses.
The kitchen workers were even more miserable, with a basic salary of 600. Originally, it was impossible to recruit people with such a salary, but Wang Han could not resist Wang Han's deception and let Zhou Yan show his brilliant knife skills that could blind people. After graduating from the technical school, he suffered
The young man who went to society and was beaten up would just walk up to Zhou Yan and call him master.
The entire Xihai Development Zone is vast and sparsely populated, and the only relatively densely populated community is the community where Zhou Yan’s shop is located. Therefore, before the restaurant even opened, the news had already spread throughout the entire area with people who used to eat fast food.
Development Zone.
In the era when Marshal Tianpeng had not yet ascended to heaven and real estate could not yet make a living, prices could be said to be low, and the abolition of the agricultural tax at the beginning of the year brought the consumption power of ordinary people to a new level.
The supporting facilities in the Xihai Development Zone are not perfect, and there are very few catering businesses. Otherwise, Zhou Yan would not be able to rent a house at a low price.
On the first day of opening, the store was full.
In order to extinguish the anger of the customers, Zhou Yan had to take out the parasols, folding tables and chairs that he had prepared long ago, and turned the restaurant into a street stall. In order to attract customers, Zhou Yan also gave each table of customers a pot of homemade
Served with sour plum soup.
It stands to reason that the boss and the waiters in the store that has opened so well should be happy, but Liu Chuang, the little worker who helps the kitchen, is not so happy.
Before twelve o'clock, Liu Chuang was still pleased: the owner and chef Zhou Yan had prepared sufficient ingredients before eleven o'clock: chicken cut into cubes, potatoes shredded, pork leg cut into cubes, and tenderloin shredded.
Cut the five flowers into pieces.
Moreover, the ingredients that had been prepared were all in pots and pots, especially shredded potatoes. Liu Chuang saw that his master cut more than 20 kilograms of them.
But there was just such a big pot of shredded potatoes, and after half past twelve o'clock, it bottomed out!
Bottomed out!
Liu Chuang wants to cry but has no tears!
Although we are trained as chefs and have also learned how to cut dough, our main business is Western-style pastries, mainly bread.
Liu Chuang shed tears while peeling potatoes: He was so confused at first, but when he saw Master Bao’s superb knife skills, he was fascinated and agreed!
I finally got to see Master Xi’s cooking skills today, but if I continue to be so busy, when will I be able to learn the skills and change my career?
Perhaps it was because Liu Chuang’s complaints moved the heavens. Around one o’clock in the afternoon, the number of customers in the store began to decrease...
Just when Liu Chuang thought the nightmare was about to end, a certain cheap master who was taking a rest suddenly said: "Looking at the situation at noon, there should be a lot of customers in the evening..."
Liu Chuang burst into tears: Are you still here?!
After all, Zhou Yan is an old man who has been tested by society for a long time, and he has two top cooking masters with hundreds of years of experience. Naturally, he knew that Liu Chuang was frightened.
"Chuang'er, didn't you learn Chinese food in technical school?"
Have you seen this?
Liu Chuang was a little surprised. He wanted to hide it, but it had already been seen. He was too embarrassed to keep hiding it, so he nodded reluctantly.
"Oh," Zhou Yan sighed, glanced at Liu Chuang's hand holding the knife, and shook his head with a smile, "Don't use too much force when holding the knife. It's too tight to control the speed, and it's also difficult to control the speed.
Easy to cut..."
As he spoke, Zhou Yan reached out and pulled out his slicer knife from the shelf, picked up a potato, brushed it, and cut it into slices in just over three seconds. He pressed it with his finger, then cut it again with the knife.
Got silk...
"You try it..."
"Yes, that's it!"
"Loose your hands a little more..."
Seeing Liu Chuang gleefully using shredded potatoes as a punching bag, Zhou Yan showed a trace of nostalgia on his face.
Although "The Little Master of China" is a specialized world where cooking is the way to go, not everyone in this world has the talent for cooking, and not everyone with talent can become an excellent chef. The first threshold for many people to become a chef is an enlightening master: many people, after learning from a master, discovered that the master who practiced the six rituals, offered tea and kowtowed, did not take themselves seriously.<
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Faced with such a situation, many people's hearts are cold, and many people's blood is hot...
For apprentices, the master is their guide to the world of chefs and a window into the world of chefs. But for most masters, in many cases, disciples, especially apprentices, are just free labor.
When the young master was studying, he was still an ignorant boy. He didn’t know that the flowing stream of teachers had buried many of his peers’ dreams of becoming chefs...
The young master didn't know it, but the adult Zhou Yan who was one with him knew the heartache, blood and tears involved.
Therefore, when he saw Liu Chuang discouraged, Zhou Yan would put a "carrot" in front of Liu Chuang. With Liu Chuang's qualifications, he might not be able to become a master chef in the kitchen in a few decades, but at the moment, at least he can
Learn some skills to make a living here...
At night, the store is still full of customers, and the temporary tables outside the store even occupy the space in front of the neighbor's door.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, the customers finally dispersed.
Zhou Yan stopped the waiter Liu Ning who was about to go back to school and had a light meal together.
After sending away the two employees, Zhou Yan and Wang Han closed the door and counted the first day's income together.
"A total of sixty-three tables were served today. After considering the cost..." Wang Han hit the calculator, "The gross profit is about one thousand nineteen!"
After saying that, Wang Han raised his head and looked at Zhou Yan, who was still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai: "Classmate Zhou Yan, can you give me a little expression?"
"After a while after opening, it will be great if the daily turnover can be like today!"
Only then did Wang Han remember that the university would be on vacation soon, and there would definitely be fewer customers by then.
"However," Wang Han frowned, "there is another issue that needs attention. All hotels will have a phase of declining customer base not long after they open..."
How could Zhou Yan not know: customers are tired of eating, chefs are tired...
"This is not a problem," Zhou Yan smiled confidently, "Except for the main and affordable dishes on the menu, which are fixed, I change the rest every week..."
"Zhou Yan, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that you..."
Zhou Yan is confident in himself: "Sister Han, just watch!"
Within three days of opening, Zhouji Restaurant was overcrowded.
It wasn't until the fourth day that the store's "full discount" offer expired that the customer flow stabilized.
However, even so, the store’s daily lunch and dinner turnover can still reach around 2,000 yuan.
Just after a week, the store ushered in the so-called "falling off fans" stage. To this, Zhou Yan's solution was simple and crude, adding some hard dishes from other cuisines to the menu, such as braised goose, white-chopped chicken, and sweet and sour pork.
Class.
These days, those who go out to restaurants are not only greedy ones, but also those who have money and like to enjoy themselves. Zhou Yan is so "interesting" that many customers simply order.
In less than half a month, Zhou Yan had a VIP in his store. In order to allow the VIPs in the store to enjoy the so-called noble experience, Zhou Yan also provided "private customization" services to these distinguished guests: what do you want to eat?
, let me tell you in advance, as long as we have the ingredients, we can cook it for you...
As soon as Zhou Yan showed his sign, a customer came to the door with a piece of chilled large yellow croaker.
"Xiao Zhou," customer Lao Hu opened the incubator, revealing large yellow croakers that had frozen into lumps of ice inside. "What can you think of when you see this?"
"Yellow croaker in soup," Zhou Yan rolled his eyes at this person, "Old Ning, I have to tell you, the processing fee is not cheap!"
