After changing his career, Zhang Yu went to work in the Hohhot Water Supply Company, a public institution. His work was stable and his income was guaranteed despite droughts and floods. He worked for ten years, but then he felt that it was really boring, so he took a leave of absence without pay and started his own business.
First, I borrowed part of the money from my family to open a restaurant. I am from Heilongjiang, a typical Northeastern person. I am generous, cheerful and straightforward. I don’t care about things and I am easy to make friends with. Therefore, the restaurant opened and business has been very good. During the hottest period, every day
More than 10,000. In four years, I made a little over 3 million.
Opening a restaurant is hard work, but the good thing is that I get to know a lot of people, from all walks of life. In addition, he is easy to make friends with, so he has made many friends. Later he met Guo Xiaoying, and the two became good friends. Under Guo Xiaoying's guidance
, began to invest in the coal business.
Of course, it was more profitable to dump coal than to open a restaurant. Sometimes, one trip was equivalent to the restaurant's three months' earnings. So I gradually focused on dumping coal and began to neglect the management of the restaurant.
As the saying goes, management produces benefits, but without management, there is no benefit. If you don’t lose money, you are picking up money.
Having made my fortune in restaurants, I can’t let go of restaurants. However, people’s energy is limited and they don’t have the ability to split their time, so they can’t focus on small things and magnify them.
His idea is very simple. Find a responsible chef in the kitchen and a reliable manager at the front desk. Decentralize power and let these two people manage the restaurant. He will check it twice a month. It should be fine.
Because that's how it was done in the first place.
What he ignored was that in the beginning, he was in the hotel every day, and everyone had a restraint. Now that he is not in the hotel, the restraint is gone. Although the people he hires do not dare to act recklessly, after all, the boss is not here, and management will inevitably become lax.
Over time, this led to a decline in business.
There is nothing wrong with his attitude of employing people without suspicion and distrusting others, but it is very important to know people before hiring them. If you don't know people well, the worse the character of the person you hire, the faster the hotel will be ruined.
Obviously it's useless to people.
Yan Dahu came to the Northeast Restaurant a year ago. At that time, the business was around 6,500, which was better than it is now.
The first impression given by Yan Dahu is that he is honest and practical, doesn't talk much, and is the kind of person who does his work silently, making it easy for people to trust him. Because of this, Zhang Yu hired him.
When he first came here, he performed well, was proactive in his work, and was smart and methodical. He considered everything for the boss. In addition, he cooked well and was well received by the guests. Zhang Yu admired him very much, which led to him trusting him and completely handing over the kitchen to him.
He takes care of it.
People have bad natures. When rights are not effectively supervised and controlled, selfish desires will expand. This is a truth that has not changed since ancient times. Otherwise, there would not be so many corrupt officials.
Yan Dahu is smart and good at calculating.
I know that if you want to gain a foothold in the kitchen, it is not enough to have the trust of your boss, you also need to have your own people, and the more people the better. The more people you have, the more deterrent you have. The boss must consider it when he wants to use you.
So, he first dismissed a chef and arranged for his younger brother Erhu to cook on the stove. In this way, there was only one chef on the stove who was not his.
Then I arranged for my brother-in-law and cousin to come in.
As soon as he adjusted the staff, he sent a signal to the original kitchen employees that the new head chef was ready to replace him, so the old employees resigned one after another. Two more chopping boards and a load table were replaced through recruitment.
When Yan Dahu was adjusting the hot dish staff, he had a conflict with the original cold dish chef and had the idea of replacing him. Before he could replace him, the cold dish chef resigned along with the remaining chef. This was just what he wanted, so he fired
Call a friend to help introduce chefs and cold dishes.
In the field of chefs, if you have a bad character or a bad job, you will rarely have real friends. Yan Dahu worked in Hohhot for ten years and did not do well, so when he was looking for someone, there were not many people to help him.
When people heard that he was in charge of the kitchen, they didn't like to come.
After searching for a week without finding anyone, Liang Cai and the chef were in a hurry to leave, so they couldn't use the original method of recruiting Master Liu and Bao Jun by posting a recruitment advertisement at the door of the store.
Baojun, Master Liu and Yan Dahu didn't know each other, and if they did, they probably wouldn't be able to come.
The pastries were not changed. In Yan Dahu's opinion, the pastries were insignificant. Besides, he did not order any for his friends.
In this way, all the old employees in the kitchen were replaced, and we finally found a firm footing.
After gaining a firm footing, I felt that the kitchen was under my control, so I stopped pretending, and acted like one person was inferior to several others, showing off my authority.
Since Zhang Yu was absent from the hotel for a long time and trusted him, the kitchen staff gave the illusion that he was the boss's buddy, and they turned a blind eye to what he did. They all worked outside the home to support their families.
There is no need to make things disharmonious. If things go well for you, just work a few more days. If things don't go well for you, just quit. If you keep your head down and don't look up, it's not good to be too nervous.
This also fueled Yan Dahu's temper, making him even more arrogant and domineering.
The waiter cursed a few words that he didn't like, and the waiter opened his mouth to curse after taking away the dishes. The relationship between the front and back chefs was very tense. At the same time, this man was a child, thinking that no one would see him, so he went home secretly to get seasonings. Sometimes he even cooked and packaged the dishes privately and took them back.
Give it to my wife.
The most powerful thing is taking kickbacks from suppliers, which Lao Tan discovered accidentally.
The next day Lao Tan arrived at the hotel at 7:40.
Five minutes after arriving at the store, the vegetable and meat delivery guys arrived. They took the vegetables and meat to the kitchen, put the order on the cutting board, and then went downstairs to leave.
After the two of them left, Lao Tan picked up the meat list as a habit and started checking each item according to the number of pounds marked on it.
The list said that the outer spine weighed ten kilograms, and when it was weighed, it was eight kilograms and four taels. Old Tan was suspicious and thought that even if the weight was off, it could not be more than one kilogram. This was too outrageous.
So I took out the ribs and weighed them again.
The list said the ribs were eleven kilograms and six taels, but the actual price was ten kilograms and eight taels, which was a difference of eight taels.
Lao Tan felt there was something wrong, so he weighed the pork belly, pork belly, plum meat, pork liver, pork belly, fatty intestines, etc., and found that they all differed from eight taels to one and a half kilograms.
The total amount on the list is 715. If calculated based on the actual portion, it should be 605, which is a difference of 11.
There is an obvious lack of weight, and it is extremely serious.
There's something fishy here.
Who gets the one hundred yuan? The meat supplier or ------
Of course, one cannot jump to conclusions without firm evidence.
You have to wait for the kitchen staff to check the weight after they get to work. If they check the weight, they will find that the weight is missing, and they will ask the butcher to settle the account. If they do not check the weight, it means two problems, one is that the employees are lazy and careless; the other is
The kitchen and the butchers colluded with each other and received kickbacks.
After Lao Tan recorded the actual weight, he checked the weight of the vegetables. There was no shortage of vegetables, and some even had an excess of one or two.
At 9:30, after all the kitchen staff arrived, the chopping block boss, Yan Dahu’s brother-in-law, directly put away the order without checking the weight at all, and picked up the raw materials to use directly.
Needless to say, it was the kitchen that took the kickback, that is, Yan Dahu took the kickback, and others were not so bold.
This happened every day for three days in a row. The average meat cost 600 yuan a day, which was calculated as 500 yuan based on the actual weight.
And that’s just pork, the same goes for mutton and beef.
Lao Tan reported the situation to Zhang Yu without saying anything, and stated his point of view that the head chef must be replaced, including the people he led.
Zhang Yu never dreamed that such a thing would happen.
Later, I thought about blaming myself for trusting people too much and being too careless. Three months ago, Yan Dahu said that the pork was seriously water-injected, and he had to go to the market to choose a good one. At that time, he felt that Yan Dahu was being serious and responsible, and even praised him a few times.
Now it seems that Yan Dahu is looking for a supplier who can give him a rebate.
Pork, beef and mutton can't escape, and there must be rebates.
This is not a chef, he is a thief.
Zhang Yu was so angry that he quickly finished the things in Ordos and returned to the hotel on the third night.
Without saying anything, he called Lao Tan outside and the two discussed how to handle the matter.
Lao Tan said: "This matter is easy to handle, but first you have to decide whether to use Yan Dahu anymore."
"Then why use it? It must be replaced, and you won't even get paid." Zhang Yu said angrily.
"This has nothing to do with wages. Wages should be paid, and normal fines are enough." Lao Tan said.
"Damn it, I trust this kid, he didn't want to do this to me." Zhang Yu was extremely angry.
"Hey, it's normal. There are people who love children everywhere, and they can't escape being greedy. It's useless to be angry, let's talk about business." Lao Tan comforted Zhang Yu, and then said: "I called my friend in the provincial capital.
Call them and ask them to help find two chefs and two cutting boards, and when they come over, Yan Dahu and the others will replace them directly.
In addition, I have done some research in the past two days, and Baojun said that Yan Dahu sometimes steals seasonings from home, and Master Liu also said that this is the case. We will definitely not use such a person, because his character is too low."
"Fuck, raise a thief." Zhang Yu cursed.
"Does our family pay our suppliers once a month?" Lao Tan asked.
"Once a month," Zhang Yu said.
"That's easy. Let's check the weight together tomorrow morning." Lao Tan said.
Zhang Yu said: "Leave it to me from the supplier. I know how to deal with it. Huh, what you eat is what you spit out." Then he banged the table in frustration and said dejectedly: "Damn, it's embarrassing. I don't have much money.
The main reason is that it’s embarrassing, I don’t have any place to show my face when I say it, my head chef was fooled, and he still thinks he’s a good person.”
"There's nothing to be ashamed of. The main thing is that you meet someone unkindly." Lao Tan comforted him.
Zhang Yu was annoyed for a moment and returned to the business, and said to Lao Tan: "This is what we brothers have decided. You look for someone. If you find someone, ask them to come over and the travel expenses will be reimbursed. I will be at the store early tomorrow morning. You don't have to go. I will handle this."
Things. Your brother Zhang has not been fooling around in Hohhot all these years. He still has some strength and can figure things out.
Your task is to contact the chef. The sooner you come, the better. Yan Dahu doesn’t want to use it all day, and it’s uncomfortable to watch. Don’t worry, if the supplier wants to continue selling goods in the market, he has to spit out the money. And that
The same goes for the bastard. I will listen to you and I will keep my salary, but you can’t have the same experience as him. I know this."