Zhang Li and Yanhua took Lao Tan's son to the beach for three days. After returning, they began to prepare for the Tiexi store.
So far, Aqiao has opened eight directly-operated stores and three cooperative stores in the provincial capital, plus three stores in other cities, for a total of 14 stores.
There are fourteen stores, nearly 500 employees, and an annual turnover of more than 100 million, which is quite a small enterprise.
Today, middle and high-level managers held a meeting at the headquarters. After the meeting, others left one after another. Yanhua, Zhang Li and Zhongqing were left in the conference room.
"None of these store managers are responsible. They wait for explanations and instructions on everything. They just make phone calls when they need something. They don't dare to do anything." Zhang Li complained first.
"It's normal, isn't it the case for everyone?" Yanhua smiled and said, "Nowadays, being dedicated is called a fool, being serious is called a fool, and once you are loyal, you are called a traitor."
Yanhua's words made the two of them laugh.
"The chef is like that, he looks very nice, he doesn't say anything, and he's the same as the store manager." Zhongqing said.
The three people were talking about the current situation of catering, especially chain stores. Store managers and chefs are all focused on salary increases and bonuses. Once they are dissatisfied and do not meet expectations, they will start to slack off or even leave.
The emergence of this situation is also affected by the climate. Nowadays, single-product stores are popular and hot. The most attractive thing is that the investment is small and the results are quick. Many store managers and chefs have begun to become their own bosses.
For example, at Ah Qiao, in the first half of the year, two store managers and a head chef took away the store's dumpling chefs and opened a small dumpling restaurant.
"It's hard to recruit people now, unlike in the past two years. The Tiexi store still has 20 days to complete the renovation, and we haven't recruited all the waiters yet," Zhang Li said.
"I have enough people in the kitchen, but it's hard to recruit." Zhongqing also had a bitter look on his face.
"The waiters are getting older and older. Thirty years old is considered young, and a forty-year-old needs to have a good image," Zhang Li said.
"This is true for everyone, not just our family." Zhongqing said: "Let's talk about dumpling work. Young girls don't like to do it, and they don't have it at all. The good ones who got married in their thirties can't do it as waiters, but the bad ones can't do it. Now in their forties
The main force is those who are over 50 years old, and those in their fifties must also be used."
"Our salary is not low anymore," Yanhua said.
"Salary is one thing, but the main reason is that it's difficult to recruit people." Zhang Li sat up straighter and continued: "Now, people born in the 1970s are managing, people born in the 1980s are working, and people born in the 1990s are taking over the world.
We are all born in the 1970s, occupying two extremes in the restaurant, that is, standing in the middle. Either the boss or the senior executive, or the last one, washing dishes, picking vegetables and doing odd jobs.
Those born in the 1980s are mainly those who work. After the 1980s, the family plan is to have one generation, one family, and the grandparents are used to it. If they can work, it is good. Those born in the 18th to 25th century are born in the 1990s, and we born in the 1970s
The next generation. Let me put it this way, if my children were my children, I would definitely not let them work in restaurants.
We all think the same thing about others. If a child has no job, his parents would rather raise it at home than work in a restaurant. It’s embarrassing. The little girls and boys from the countryside are fine, but the ones in the city don’t even think about it.”
Zhongqing continued: "Rural areas are no worse than cities now. Parents don't let their children come out. They would rather come out on their own."
"In addition, those born in the 1990s are not easy to manage. They are too individualistic and will quit the job if they feel the slightest mistake. Some of them will leave without even being paid," Zhang Li said.
What they said is true, and the current situation is indeed the case.
Those born in the 1970s set the rules, those born in the 1980s followed them, and those born in the 1990s broke them.
In the past, recruiting waiters was called recruiting waiters, but now it is called recruiting service ladies.
In the past, only young men were employed at the chopping block. Nowadays, housewives are employed, and there are many of them. The trend is on the rise.
Although the team of chefs is still relatively young, they are still relatively young, with most of them between thirty and forty-five. The average age of the pastry chefs is over thirty-five. If there is a girl in her twenties ordering noodles in any restaurant, it is definitely the best.
The darling of the whole kitchen.
In addition, children now don't take their jobs seriously. They work for two more days when they are happy, and leave when they are not happy.
Of course, there are still a lot of good ones, so don’t open any restaurants like this.
Yanhua said: "I talked with Lao Tan, and what he meant was that wages can be raised in time according to the general climate, but the main thing is to rely on the work-point system to retain people. I asked the Ministry of Manpower to make statistics. So far, our employees have worked more than
In four years, a total of 18 people have reached 5,000 points.
According to regulations, dividends will be paid when the score reaches 5,000. I asked the finance department to do the calculations. Take Xiaolong as an example. He is now the head of the department and will receive at least 30,000 bonuses by the end of the year, plus a salary of 100,000. The bonus for him and Xiaohui
Together we can earn 150,000 yuan, not counting bonuses, which is no less than what we earn from running a small restaurant by ourselves."
Zhang Li was a little surprised and asked: "Eighteen people have reached 5,000 points?"
Yanhua smiled and nodded.
"I know Wang Hong and Lao Fang, Hua Qing and his wife, Meng Meng and Li Shuang from Hohhot, and several aunties who clean and wash dishes," Zhongqing said.
"How much can the dishwashing lady share?" Zhang Li asked curiously.
"Eighteen thousand." Yanhua said.
"Okay, half a year's salary." Zhang Li said.
"It mainly depends on the profit of the store that year. If you make more money, you will get more, if you make less money, you will get less." Yanhua said.
Zhang Li asked: "What about the store manager and the head chef? Most of them can't reach 5,000 points. They are jealous when others get dividends. If they can't handle it, they will give up."
Yanhua smiled and said calmly: "Five thousand points is the standard and the rules cannot be changed. What Lao Tan means is to look at the effectiveness and increase the bonus based on the effectiveness."
Zhang Li and Zhongqing looked at each other and immediately raised a practical question.
Increasing the amount of bonuses is a good thing for managers, and no one is afraid of money biting their hand. But for bosses, it is bloodletting, as they have to take money out of pure profits. Needless to say, directly-operated stores, can the bosses of cooperative stores agree?
"Don't worry about this. The contract clearly states that if the unified management of the headquarters is not implemented, the headquarters has the right to change the share ratio. If it refuses to agree, the headquarters will directly take back the store. This is fair and has legal effect." Yanhua said
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"What you mean is that the current share between us and the cooperative stores is seven to them and three to us. If they don't cooperate with the management, we can make the main investment and become three to them and seven to us, right?" Zhang Li asked.
Yanhua nodded, "That's what it is."
"It's not easy for them anymore. They just sit on the kang and count money without caring about anything." Zhang Li said.
Yanhua smiles.
Zhongqing said: "Don't worry, these bosses are smarter than monkeys. No one disagrees. Even fools understand that they can make big money at the expense of small money."
After coming out of the conference room, Yanhua was going to Xiaohui's house to see the children and asked Zhang Li if she could go. Zhang Li was going to check out two newly opened stores in Hunnan and Dadong, but she didn't have time. Yanhua went to see Wang Hong.
The two men followed each other.
Zhongqing was going to the Tiexi store to arrange equipment for the kitchen, so he said hello to Zhang Li and drove away.
Zhang Li arrived at Hunnan Store first, and Xiaofeng happened to be there. After passing the lunch break, they went to Dadong Store together.
In the evening, Zhang Li's sister called and said that she had made dumplings at home and asked her to come over. She hadn't been to her sister's house for a long time, and she missed her nephew. So Zhang Li came out of the store and went to a sports goods store to buy a badminton racket.
, my nephew has wanted it for a long time and promised to buy it for his child, but he never found the time.
When I arrived at my sister's house, the dumplings were already cooked and placed on the table waiting for her.
Taking out the badminton racket, the little nephew happily started gesticulating in the room, causing his father to yell a few times before he stopped.
In addition to my sister, my brother-in-law also had a man at the dinner table. He was in his forties, with a simple and honest face, and was sitting a little reserved. My brother-in-law introduced him as an electrician from the same workshop, his surname was Huang, and invited him over to have a drink with him.
Zhang Li smiled politely and then sat down. (To be continued)