Lao Tan drank a lot and was a little drunk, so he was sent back to the apartment by Zhou Xiaomei.
After arriving at the apartment, Lao Tan sat on the sofa. Zhou Xiaomei made tea and poured him a cup.
"Uncle, you should drink less and pay attention to your health." Zhou Xiaomei sat down and said.
"I'm told to drink less. Is it okay if I don't drink?" Lao Tan said helplessly: "Like today, you have to drink when you are with me. In the future, you will have to deal with others and cultivate relationships."
"It's okay if you just say you're sick and can't drink," Zhou Xiaomei said.
"It's nothing, but the effect is different. Let me tell you Xiaomei, China's wine culture has a lot to say. Some wines have to be drunk even if you don't drink them, for the occasion; some wines are drunk even if you drink them, for the sake of face; some wines
I have to drink even if I risk my life, haha, for women------I have a reputation for being able to drink. Who will believe me if I suddenly say I don't drink? I've lost face and become the cold shoulder. Hey, there's nothing I can do." Lao Tan said.
"I will drink for you if this happens again in the future." Zhou Xiaomei said with a smile.
Lao Tan also laughed and said with infinite emotion: "There are some things that wine can't replace ------" and then turned around and said: "I would like to retire early and don't care about anything. I'll just ask Zhijun and you guys to do the hard work."
"Don't retire, pointing to your big tree."
"What's the point? If an enterprise wants to develop, it must constantly inject new blood. Do you know that the biggest disadvantage of enterprise development is the managers who never change. A healthy development enterprise must maintain a turnover rate of 30% of managers.
, so that you can be full of energy and have new things and ideas.
I founded Aqiao, and it is developing very well, but this is all temporary. People will get older, and when they get older, they will not be able to keep up. This is a fact that must be acknowledged. Even people can’t keep up, but management can still keep up.
Up? Then I will still be in charge, and then Ah Qiao will inevitably go downhill.
As a leader, the goal is to become a leader and mentor, but the biggest role is to create blood, support those younger than yourself, and ask them to manage and develop, so that the company can develop."
Zhou Xiaomei listened quietly.
"I, Zhang Li, Zhongqing, you, Li Shuang, Yanhua, we will have to withdraw from the management stage sooner or later. We can still communicate with young people now, but we will see in five years, we guarantee that we will not be able to communicate together. Once the communication is done
It will be difficult to manage the problem. Our employees see us as antiques, and we see our employees as exotics, so we can’t get into trouble together.
I have always felt that the process I designed is quite good. When I went to that nostalgic store that day, I saw that the kitchen did not have a counter, and the food was served at a slow speed. There was no panic at all, and I knew that I was behind the times.
I don’t agree with this. It will be a trend in the future to not have a counter in the kitchen. Whoever does it will win. I have been thinking about it these days. I can’t always be busy opening a store. What if the store does not make money? Now the labor cost is so high and it is still rising.
Our operating model was profitable three years ago, but now we can only avoid losing money. If the next wave of wage surge comes early, then our family will have to enter into negative operations."
"No way -" Zhou Xiaomei was a little surprised.
"What's impossible?" Lao Tan smiled warmly, and then used the actual situation to demonstrate.
"Compared to three years ago, the average salary of employees has increased by 300, right?" Lao Tan asked.
Zhou Xiaomei nodded.
"All raw materials, seasonings, low-value consumables, including office supplies, have increased by ten percent, right?" Lao Tan continued to ask.
Zhou Xiaomei nodded again to express her approval.
"Rents, water and electricity are also rising. In the past, a house of 400 square meters could cost 200,000 yuan, but now it's at least 300,000 yuan, right?"
"Um."
"Let me ask you, do you dare to raise vegetable prices?" Lao Tan asked the key point.
Zhou Xiaomei suddenly laughed and said: "I don't dare to go up."
"Isn't this the end? Everything has gone up, except vegetable prices. If it goes up, no one will eat. Three years ago, our family's net profit was 25%, but now it can't even reach 20%."
Yes, last month's report showed it was 18%."
"The situation is serious." Zhou Xiaomei felt.
"That's not the case." Lao Tan lit up a cigarette, took a puff and said, "Now we have two breakthroughs. The first is to improve the quality of service and dishes on the existing basis, and to develop online sales while retaining old customers.
, to increase turnover; the second is to develop cooperative stores in second-tier cities, use the costs in second-tier cities to sell in first-tier cities, and earn the price difference.
Although the cooperative store’s share is small, the advantage is that it is pure profit.”
"That's what it is." Zhou Xiaomei nodded.
"You are now the general manager here in Hohhot, so you have to take these things into consideration." Lao Tan said seriously.
"Isn't it you?" Zhou Xiaomei smiled.
Lao Tan said: "This is the advantage and disadvantage of my existence. The advantage is that I can think, but the disadvantage is that if I think about it, you don't think about it, so you have to wait and see. I am good at it, but what if I am not there? Or maybe one day we old people will
Now that they are all retired, will Ah Qiao become a prostitute?
As I said just now, we not only need to be leaders and mentors, but we must also create blood. We cannot have no successors, let alone stand in the way."
Zhou Xiaomei looked at Lao Tan and nodded seriously.
"I'm thinking of informing Li Yanjing and Chef Zhang (the head chef of the Jinqiao store) tomorrow to prepare to go to the provincial capital to study for a month, and wait until they come back to prepare for the opening." Lao Tan arranged.
Zhou Xiaomei hummed and said, "I find that uncle, you are really good. You can see clearly from a distance and think about everything in front of you. But you are also tired and worried, and your hair is all white."
Lao Tan laughed, touched his head and said, "I've been gray for a long time, otherwise why would I shave my head?"
Yaru didn't go back to the dormitory directly after get off work. She wanted to see Lao Tan.
After Lao Tan arrived in Hohhot, the two of them met, but they didn't exchange a few words. She was worried about the wound on Lao Tan's chest, and she also heard that he had a bronchiectasis again, so she was a little worried.
How to put it, Lao Tan is someone she is close to now. She has no intention of renewing her relationship with Lao Tan, nor does she think about it in that direction. Caring and thinking about Lao Tan is a very natural behavior and comes from the heart.
To be honest, we can understand all this.
Before Yaru came, she called first, wanting to know if Lao Tan was in the apartment, and was afraid that she would run away in vain. Lao Tan said she was, and said she was a little hungry, and asked her to bring some food.
Yaru knew that Lao Tan loved spicy fried haggis, so she bought one and packed a portion of pickled cabbage dumplings.
When Lao Tan saw the haggis and dumplings, he couldn't help scratching them and poured himself a glass of wine. Yaru just stared helplessly.
"Mulan and Yang Zhijun may come over in a while. I met them when I came and they were talking about it," Yaru said.
"Oh, what happened?" Lao Tan asked.
"Does something have to happen? I can't come to see you unless I have nothing to do." Yaru rolled her eyes and then smiled.
Lao Tan said nothing and filled his mouth with a dumpling.
Yaru went into the bathroom and threw a mop. As she mopped the floor, she said in a reproachful tone: "You are so serious. You went to save people just when the knife was cut." Apparently she saw someone else's post on WeChat Moments.
"Just in time." Lao Tan took a sip of wine.
"There are so many people catching up - your wife didn't say anything about you?" Yaru lowered her head and asked.
"What did she say? We hardly see each other. She fell asleep when I got off work. When I got up, she was gone and we weren't even in the same room."
"Who believes it? I don't believe it."
"You can't help it if you don't believe it - I don't believe it either, but it's true. You don't know, my life is hard." Lao Tan joked.
"Haha, you asked for it. Your wife must have thought you had someone outside, otherwise what could happen?"
"It would be nice to have someone ------"
Lao Tan took another sip of wine.
Yaru dragged the floor to the door of the bathroom, stood on the inside and outside the door and asked: "How long have you two been like this?"
"For more than ten years, she was like this when she was pregnant." Lao Tan said.
"You must have done something sorry for your wife." Yaru said.
"Maybe------" Lao Tan replied with an ambiguous word and continued drinking.
Yaru went into the bathroom, put the mop away, washed her hands and came out.
Someone knocked on the door, Yaru turned around and opened the door. It was Mulan and Yang Zhijun.
The two of them were very nice, one was carrying four boxes of packaged vegetables, and the other was carrying two dozen beers.
"It's been a long time since I had a drink with Third Brother. Let's have some today." Yang Zhijun put the food and drinks on the table and said in a loud voice.
"Do you two drink some every day?" Lao Tan asked.
"That's necessary, but I can't drink her. She can drink me back and forth." Yang Zhijun said with a smile.
"Only Xiaomei in our family can compete with Mulan, and I can't even do it." Old Tan said sincerely.
Since someone brought leeks, it was not easy to lose face, so the four of them sat down and prepared to drink some. Lao Tan didn't pour that much because he drank a lot at noon, and Yaru poured a glass of beer.
While drinking, Yang Zhijun chatted with Lao Tan about something casual.
"Third brother, cousin Tong Xin is not that good, he is a bit perverted."
"What's going on?" Lao Tan asked.
"It's not that bad, I just feel uncomfortable. The last time I went to the Jining store, he happened to be visiting Tong Xin, as if he didn't want to spare his cousin," Yang Zhijun said.
"No way------" Lao Tan said.
"Take a look at it, third brother, I'm sure. Tong Xin is beautiful and plump, which attracts men. Her husband is almost like Wu Dalang, and they are not a good match at all. This is a family of three doing it at our house, no
What's the matter? I'll leave it here until Tong Xin goes to her cousin's house to do it. We'll get divorced in less than half a year." Yang Zhijun said predictably.
Lao Tan said nothing and took a sip of wine.
Yaru said: "No, I think Tong Xin is quite good, not that kind of person."
Lao Tan said: "If you keep doing it at our house, it's almost the same. Go to her cousin's place ------- I'm not sure, once you come into contact with that circle ------women are easy to be vain ------
-"
"Third brother, if you want me to tell you that she has to go to her cousin's house sooner or later, it's better to ask her to go now. It won't be good if it takes a long time. Now her cousin always goes there, and as soon as he goes, he will ask her to go out to eat." Yang Zhijun worriedly
explain.
Lao Tan thought for a moment and said, "Yeah, I understand, I'll handle it. But don't talk about it. It's all gossip."
"We can't say that we are just chatting with you. The main reason is that we don't want to see a family tragedy happen." Yang Zhijun said with a smile.