Sitting on the bus back to Shazhou County, Xu Tongdao closed his eyes and rested his mind all the way. At the same time, he was also thinking about whether to give eye drops to Luo Zongping and Luo Zongshan.
After all, regardless of whether it was Zhang Fafa and Jiang Meili's instruction this time, the fact was that the two brothers Luo Zongping and Luo Zongshan were plotting against Comrade Xu.
If it weren't for the whole sheep feast that Luo Zongshan cooked last night, which failed to satisfy Zhang Fafa and Jiang Meili, Zhang Fafa might have talked to Comrade Xu today so that he wouldn't have to go to Zhiweixuan to work in the future.
Although he, Comrade Xu, was not interested in staying at Zhiweixuan to work.
But the agreement he signed with Zhang Fa... stipulates that as long as he can work at Zhiweixuan, his barbecue and whole sheep feast can be sold at Legend of the Hungry Wolf.
These two things are related.
In other words, if he can no longer work at Zhiweixuan, his barbecue and whole sheep feast will no longer be sold in Legend of the Hungry Wolf.
All in all, in short, what Luo Zongping and Luo Zongshan did behind Comrade Xu's back violated Comrade Xu's interests.
What he wants to do in Zhiweixuan is his choice.
This is different from him being fired by Zhiweixuan.
However, it was not easy for him to give Luo Zongping and Luo Zongshan eye drops.
Luo Zongping is the head chef and Luo Zongshan is the master chef of the first stove. In name, these two people have a higher status than Comrade Xu. In the kitchen, they also have more say than Comrade Xu.
Everyone else will listen to them.
Even including Jiang Jinsong and Wei Xiaokun, who were under his command, Comrade Xu. Otherwise, why would Jiang Jinsong and Wei Xiaokun help Luo Zongping and Luo Zongshan hide it today?
Therefore, if they were to fight head-on, he, Comrade Xu, would have no chance of winning, so he could only use his own methods to deal with others, and also play dirty tricks with them.
Find someone to give them a beating?
Or find someone to break their hands and feet?
Tongdao Xu didn't want to do this kind of illegal thing, and he didn't dare to do it.
He doesn't think it's worth it to play such a big role for such a trivial matter.
Then, Tongdao Xu thought of his cousin-Ge Liangcai.
In the original time and space, he learned his cooking skills from Ge Liangcai, so he knew that Ge Liangcai had some skills, and they were very good. He had a few specialty dishes that could control the scene.
Moreover, a few years after the original time and space, Ge Liangcai also began to contract the kitchens of hotels, and he contracted more and more kitchens, and he did a good job.
I just don’t know if Ge Liangcai has the ability to contract kitchens now.
This strength refers to both Ge Liangcai's current cooking skills and Ge Liangcai's connections in the catering industry.
If you want to contract a hotel kitchen of a quality like Zhiweixuan, the above two points are indispensable.
Especially the second point!
Ge Liangcai must be able to recruit a team of high-quality chefs at any time to be qualified to contract the kitchen of Zhiweixuan.
Otherwise, if you rely on him alone, no matter how good his cooking skills are, it will be useless.
A restaurant kitchen like Zhiweixuan requires at least three spoon chefs, three side dish chefs, and even if three apprentices are not available, two are still needed.
In addition, there are also cold dish chefs, pastry chefs...etc.
Just a casual calculation, it would take more than a dozen people.
Does Ge Liangcai have such connections now? With so many suitable people, are you willing to go to a new store with him?
Comrade Xu had questions in his mind about these things.
He didn't even think about contracting Zhiweixuan's kitchen.
He also knows that his current age is a major weakness.
He is so young, even if his cooking skills are good, Zhang Fafa and Jiang Meili should not dare to contract the kitchen to him.
Moreover, he currently does not have the connections to recruit so many suitable chefs.
Along the way, Tongdao Xu kept thinking about this matter.
He felt there was hope.
A few days ago, he asked Jiang Jinsong-Luo Zongping how long they had been working at Zhiweixuan?
He remembered Jiang Jinsong’s answer at that time: It’s been more than two years!
For most industries, old employees are the talents that companies most want to retain, and they are reluctant to let go of any of them.
But Tongdao Xu knows that in the catering industry, once a team of chefs has worked in a kitchen for two or three consecutive years, the risk of being dismissed will increase day by day.
Why?
Because the old customers of this store will gradually get tired of the dishes cooked by this group of chefs as time goes by, unless this team of chefs can continuously introduce high-quality new dishes.
And often...most of the chef team does not have this ability.
Developing high-quality new dishes is inherently difficult.
Not to mention the need to continuously introduce high-quality new dishes, which makes it even more difficult.
The longer it goes, the fewer high-quality new dishes they can come up with.
Their technical reserves will gradually be emptied.
It is precisely because of this that most restaurants and hotels often change their chefs. It may be one group of chefs this year and another group of chefs next year.
It is very rare to be able to work in the same kitchen for two or three consecutive years.
This was the opportunity Xu Tongdao saw.
As long as he can find a good team of chefs, he can hope to replace Luo Zongping, Luo Zongshan and others.
Now it depends on whether his cousin Ge Liangcai has this intention...and his strength.
For this reason, when the bus drove to Shazhou County, Xu Tongdao deliberately chose to get off at the stop closest to the Red Star Hotel.
Then he walked to the dormitory building of the Red Star Hotel. When he went upstairs, he asked two people and found Ge Liangcai's dormitory.
But Ge Liangcai was not in the dormitory at this time.
Several men who lived in the same dormitory with him were playing cards. When they saw him, they all recognized him. Comrade Xu also felt that these people looked familiar. It was probably Ge Liangcai who had taken them to take care of his barbecue stall business before.
After a warm greeting, Comrade Xu asked them where Ge Liangcai was.
One of them pointed to the left side of the corridor outside and said, "Over there! There is a bathroom over there. Your brother is washing clothes there!"
"Oh, okay! Thank you!"
Saying goodbye to these people, Comrade Xu walked along the corridor. After walking a few meters, he saw a bathroom with a washroom.
The inside is the bathroom, and the outside half is the washroom.
One on the left and one on the right, there are pools on both sides.
At this time, his cousin Ge Liangcai was washing a plastic basin of dirty clothes in the pool on the left.
"cousin!"
Comrade Xu shouted with a smile, and Ge Liangcai turned around in shock. When he saw it was him, Ge Liangcai smiled.
Shaking off the water stains on his hands, he said, "Why are you here? I heard that you have been going to the city during the day and working in the store at night. You have been very busy recently! Why aren't you busy today?"
"Fortunately, I just came back from the city and happened to come over to see you. What's wrong? Sister Wenxiu didn't help you wash your clothes?"
Sister Wenxiu refers to the little nurse from the county hospital who had a blind date with Ge Liangcai.
She is also Xu Tonglin's cousin.
When Comrade Xu asked this question at this time, it was obviously more of a joke.