On New Year's Day, which is half a month away, the cooking competition will be held.
After Lao Tan recovered from his illness, he went to the store to inspect the preparations. Mulan reported to him in detail all the matters and the flow of the day's activities, and showed him the printed flow chart.
Lao Tan was very satisfied with Mulan's work and praised her for doing a good job.
"Have you contacted Kang Min from the TV station?" Lao Tan asked.
"I contacted her. She came the day before yesterday. We talked and decided on the shooting location." Mulan replied.
"Has Elder Langhui been here?" Lao Tan asked again.
"Here you go, give me the list of judges. The display cards will be ready tomorrow."
"Where are the certificates and prizes?"
"They're all bought. Except for the first and second place, every contestant has a commemorative award. I bought a thermos cup for the judges. Okay, it's more than a hundred each." Mulan said with some distress.
Lao Tan laughed and said: "The money you should spend must be spent. Don't treat it as a competition, treat it as a chance to show off. Remember, as a store manager, any display opportunity is the best marketing. Only by treating it as a competition
Only when you show yourself can you be recognized.”
"I didn't think of this at first, and thought it was a waste. Later I realized that it was Manager Zhang who reminded me," Mulan said.
"Work well with Zhijun to make this event a success. What matters is not winning or losing, but asking people to remember our Ah Qiao Dumpling House and give them a shock!" Lao Tan said.
"Don't worry, boss, I promise to complete the mission!"
The slogans shouted at the daily meetings soon became familiar to everyone.
Empty slogans cannot be remembered even if shouted every day. Practical slogans are not only willing to shout, but can also form a habit.
The last sentence to ensure that the task is completed is never to make excuses. When the employees first shouted, they felt that it was useless. It was purely an example to create an atmosphere and save face. But when you think about it, it makes sense.
Make sure to complete the task and never make excuses.
Isn’t that how we have to do things?
This is the way you work at work and the same way at home. This is your work style and your living habits. If you develop good habits, you will be recognized and admired by others wherever you work.
Let’s talk about it at home. If your parents or loved ones tell you to do something, do it right away. Don’t procrastinate and stand at attention when doing it. Everyone will be satisfied and the family will be harmonious. On the other hand, when adults do this, children will follow suit and unknowingly develop the habit of doing things.
His good habits will stay with him for a lifetime.
Lao Tan's son is like this now. When his parents ask him to do something, he will imitate his father's tone and say: "Make sure to complete the task!" Then he will do the things well, including doing homework, without his parents having to worry about it.
When Lao Tan came to the kitchen, Yang Zhijun was marinating meat. He smiled at him and said hello: "The third brother is here."
Lao Tan nodded and came closer. Seeing that he was marinating beef tenderloin, he asked, "How is the beef tenderloin selling now?"
"Very good, about ten portions a day." Yang Zhijun replied.
"Who does it?"
"Master Liu, I did it before."
"How is Master Liu doing?"
"Very good, everything is normal."
"The central store has to finish decorating the kitchen before the end of the year. After the competition is over, you can go over there and direct the installation of equipment," Lao Tan said.
"Okay." Yang Zhijun nodded in agreement.
"What dishes are you going to cook for the competition?" Lao Tan asked.
"Braised Pork and Braised Cabbage." Yang Zhijun said.
"This dish is not easy to make. Even experienced chefs can't make it well. It has to pay attention to the heat and spoon skills. The Chinese cabbage must be handled well, otherwise it will not taste good. The cabbage must be more fragrant than the meat, and it must have its original taste, which is a bit risky.
." Lao Tan said with some worry.
"It's okay. I'm sure I can do it well." Yang Zhijun said with great confidence.
"That's good, practice hard these two days." Lao Tan said.
"Um."
Master Liu got off the stove, walked over, and said to Lao Tan: "Hello, boss!"
"Okay, so are you." Old Tan smiled.
"Boss, I changed the stewed chicken with mushrooms for mushrooms. I sent it from my hometown. How do you like it?" Master Liu said.
"Really? Let me try it."
The three of them came to the clay pot stove, where six pots of chicken and mushroom stew were simmering. Master Liu opened one pot, and the heat immediately dispersed, and the aroma wafted out.
Lao Tan picked up a mushroom with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. Master Liu watched eagerly - this was the first thing he did after becoming the head chef, and he was eager to be recognized and praised.
"Well, that's right. Pure red mushrooms from the Greater Khingan Mountains, meaty ones, shouldn't be cheap, about 180 to 200," Lao Tan said.
After receiving the affirmation, Master Liu was very excited and replied: "One hundred and eighty-one pounds."
"Has the cost been calculated?" Lao Tan asked.
Yang Zhijun replied: "Forget it, a pound of red mushrooms has increased to two and a half pounds, which makes it seventy-two and a pound. A chicken stewed with mushrooms weighs two ounces, and fourteen is almost four. A pound of hazel mushrooms has increased to ninety, and it has increased to two pounds. Jin, a total of forty-five pounds, a portion of three liang is 13.5 yuan. Hazel mushrooms consume a lot of money, and the taste is not as good as red mushrooms. Red mushrooms are more expensive, but delicious. I think it is worse than hazel mushrooms. "
Lao Tan nodded with satisfaction.
What he meant by asking was that he wanted to know whether the two of them had calculated the costs, and at the same time, to see how detailed their work was, and whether they could speak for themselves with data.
This is the work report that managers are required to make every day. Everything should be based on data and results, and no adjectives are allowed. It must be serious and rigorous. The work of the day must be completed on the same day and must not be postponed until the next day.
In college, it is said that as a newcomer, you must be innovative every day, every day, and new every day. When it comes to business management, it means completing every day and getting better every day.
"The mushrooms have been changed. How have the customers reacted?" Lao Tan asked again.
"It's all agreed." Yang Zhijun replied with a smile.
"Did you listen to your wife's report or what the waiter said?" Lao Tanban asked jokingly.
"Haha, third brother, none of them. I followed your example and put on casual clothes and went to the front to ask the customers in person. I asked: How do you like eating mushrooms? The customer said: OK, it tastes better than before. It has to be like this. The more you do, the better.
Good people love to come." Yang Zhijun imitated the words of his guests.
"Okay." Lao Tan nodded affirmatively, and then said to Master Liu: "Call the supplier to Li Zhongqing and ask him to replace the mushrooms in the provincial capital."
Coming out of the hot dish kitchen, Lao Tan went into the cold dish room.
There are three people in the cold dish room. The master is Xiao Zhou who was transferred from the provincial capital. His name is Zhou Hongwei. He is a 26-year-old very handsome young man. When Old Tan came in, he stopped what he was doing and greeted him enthusiastically.
Lao Tan chatted with him for a while and told him to bring his younger brother out as soon as possible. After New Year's Day, he and Yang Zhijun went to the central store to install the kitchen and make handmade products there to familiarize themselves with the distribution process.
The young man was very happy after hearing this, and he began to be responsible for the cold dishes in the central kitchen. The pride in his heart could not be suppressed and was written on his face.
Looking at the pride on the young man's face, Old Tan couldn't help but sigh.
In four years, which is neither long nor short, I have unknowingly trained five cold dish chefs, five dumpling chefs, five head chefs, and five store managers.
The sixth one also appeared immediately, which made me a little proud.
Come out of the cold dish room and enter the dumpling room.
Wang Yanli looked at it first and shouted: "The boss is here."
Several dumpling workers turned their heads and looked over. Lao Tan smiled and nodded at them. As he nodded, he suddenly remembered that Ya Ru said that he was the idol of middle-aged and elderly women, and many people liked him.
Maybe it's a psychological effect, but it feels a bit unnatural - the dumpling workers are all middle-aged women, and their eyes are unreservedly fiery.
Yaru was making celery stuffing, she didn't say anything and smiled.
Wang Yanli asked Lao Tan: "Boss, when will the dumpling chef from the main store come?"
"After the New Year." Lao Tan said.
When the Central Store was being renovated, Meng Meng told Wang Hong that she would be transferred there. Wang Hong told Lao Tan about it, and Lao Tan agreed. It was originally planned to transfer Meng Meng to the Central Store, but Meng Meng said that she was young and was afraid of doing it.
No. Lao Tan transferred Yaru to the central store, and Meng Meng came over to replace Yaru.
"Oh, two girls will come in the next two days, from Xigou Family Courtyard." Wang Yanli said.
"Okay, I'll find two of them at once," Lao Tan said.
"I guess you know the two sisters from the old Wang family. I have to call them aunt. We were classmates in the last class, and his father was a wellhead accountant." Wang Yanli said.
Lao Tan thought for a while, but had no impression, and said: "I can remember the students in our class, but not the students in the previous class. Maybe I can remember them when I meet people when I come here."
"Our family doesn't move around very much. Both sisters are divorced. I heard they don't have children," Wang Yanli said.
"Oh, are they all laid off?"
"Well, they are all laid off. There is no work at home and no money. I called home two days ago and said that we were recruiting people. They didn't know who they heard from and asked my dad for my phone number.
, they called me and said they were coming over. I’m not familiar with them, so I don’t know what kind of work they do. Come and see, and if it doesn’t work, send them away." Wang Yanli said.
Lao Tan said: "If it doesn't work, we can't let it go. We've come all the way here - as long as you're willing to do it, we can arrange it no matter what, but I'm afraid I won't do it."
Wang Yanli said: "I guess I can do it, but if I can't do it, I can't make phone calls. It's such a long distance, and the round trip fare is nearly one thousand."
Yaru interjected: "Everyone in our family can do whatever they want. Once they come, they can't leave. We are still sisters. We have to take care of each other, and we can't leave."
Lao Tan didn't think about this and just asked curiously: "The Chinese New Year will be in just over a month. Are they not celebrating the Chinese New Year at home?"
Wang Yanli said: "The two sisters have no place to stay. After the death of my parents, my brother and sister-in-law can't do it. The two sisters have been working in Beipiao hotels and renting houses for a long time. You know what Beipiao is like, the streets are full of laid-off workers."
, it’s not easy to work in a hotel, I heard that I haven’t been paid for several months.”
"Oh——" Old Tan smacked his lips and said, "Ask them to come."