jdhmnovel Chapter 151 Recruitment
Chapter 151 Recruitment
"Firstly, whether Yipin Guo continues to open branches to expand its business or switches to other catering businesses, it will need at least one chef to take charge. By recruiting the right person in advance, we won't have to worry about the selection of chefs during the store preparation period in the future."
"Secondly, our last conversation made me fully realize that the social environment, customs and folkways of the Great Zhou are very different from those of my place. If I blindly copy them, it will probably have the opposite effect in the end."
"Take beef for example. At least six out of ten hotpot restaurants in my area use beef as their signature dish. They also sell beef separately according to different parts and tastes, such as marbled beef, ox eye, fatty beef, and beef shank."
"In addition to beef itself, beef products such as beef balls and beef tendon balls, and beef offal such as beef tripe, tripe, and beef throat are also very popular. It can even be said that beef supports half of the hot pot industry."
"But here, cattle are an important labor force and cannot be slaughtered at will. This means that nothing related to cattle can appear on the menu of Yipin Guo."
"This is just one of the differences caused by different times. So after careful consideration, I decided to change Yipin Guo's market positioning from the beginning, from a hot pot brand specializing in hot pot to a hot pot brand that focuses on hot pot and supplements it with dishes. We use hot pot as an innovation and dishes to cater to the market, thus enhancing Yipin Guo's market competitiveness."
"If this is done, the chef will no longer be a tool for preparing dishes in the kitchen of Yipin Guo, but will become the real chef. However, a new problem will arise at this time. The cooking skills of the chefs are different. Even if they cook the same dish, the finished product will be different. If Yipin Guo is opened as a chain store, if the quality of the dishes is uneven, the brand effect will be greatly reduced."
"So, I thought of a compromise, which is to gather the selected chefs together first, and then make a few customized special dishes for each person based on their expertise. When the branch opens in the future, in addition to hot pot, the menu will only have the special dishes that the chefs can cook. This can be regarded as another degree of seeking common ground while reserving differences, which should be able to add a new selling point to our Yipin Hotpot."
Qian Lai also listened to Lin Chuyi's explanation and quickly understood the meaning of Lin Chuyi's words.
Dishes cannot be pre-prepared like hot pot base, and the same dish will produce different effects in the hands of different people.
Instead of serving the same dishes in every store but having customers complain about the taste, which would affect the reputation of the chain, it would be better to serve some signature dishes based on the level of the chef, as Lin Chuyi said.
In this way, when customers want to eat hot pot, they can choose the Yippin Pot nearest to them without worrying about the taste being wrong. If they want to eat other dishes, they can also choose other dishes on the menu. The dishes of each Yippin Pot are different, but they are all delicious. Not only will this not affect Yippin Pot's business, it may also bring new traffic to Yippin Pot through word of mouth from customers.
After Qian Lai figured it out, he swallowed back what he was going to say and carefully flipped through the marked pages in the booklet. He soon formed an optimal route map in his mind.
After confirming that the route was correct, Qian Laiye closed the booklet and looked up at Lin Chuyi, "I've memorized the route, let's set off now."
"Okay, when we get there, you can negotiate with the other party. I'll give you hints along the way. If it works, continue the negotiation. If it doesn't, find an excuse to leave."
"it is good."
After a few words, the two of them decided on the general plan of today's action, and then set out from the house together.
Lin Xiangxiang had just arrived and only had a vague understanding of many things. However, she was a very obedient person and knew that now was not a good time to ask questions, so she did not ask anything and just followed them quietly.
Qian Lai first took them to the home of Liu Chongyang, the former chef of Fuyun Restaurant, to visit Liu Chongyang.
Liu Chongyang is fifty-three years old this year. When he was a teenager, his family sent him to learn skills from an old chef. After that, he has been working in the kitchen. He is an old master with thirty years of cooking experience.
When Liu Chongyang was in the most difficult time, it was Lin Tiancheng, the owner of Fuyun Restaurant, who extended him an olive branch, which helped him overcome the difficulties at that time.
Liu Chongyang was a man who valued friendship and loyalty. He always remembered the help Lin Tiancheng had given him in the past. Even when someone later offered him a high salary to work as a chef in another restaurant, he did not waver in the slightest. He followed Lin Tiancheng wholeheartedly and worked in Fuyun Restaurant for fifteen years.
Later, the old owner Lin Tiancheng died in an accident, and the young owner Lin Feng became the new owner of Fuyun Restaurant.
Lin Feng is not as gentle and polite as Lin Tiancheng. Instead, he is an uneducated and dissolute second-generation rich man who acts based on his own likes and dislikes and is very self-righteous.
Ever since Lin Feng took over as the owner of Fuyun Restaurant, a large group of people working in the restaurant have been scolded and ridiculed by him, and their welfare benefits have also dropped more than a little bit compared to before. The old friends left or dispersed, and the remaining people also started to give up.
Liu Chongyang couldn't stand it anymore, so he took the initiative to find Lin Feng and reported the recent situation in the store, hoping that he could control his temper.
Unexpectedly, Lin Feng not only refused to listen to the advice, but also directed his criticism directly at Liu Chongyang. He accused Liu Chongyang of taking advantage of his seniority and meddling in other people's affairs in public several times.
Liu Chongyang endured it for the sake of his old boss, but Lin Feng went too far, selling inferior food as good ones and filling up the numbers without caring about the reputation of the restaurant or the safety of the diners.
Liu Chongyang knew that he could not change Lin Feng's mind, and he did not want to watch Fuyun Restaurant destroyed, so he took the initiative to resign and left Fuyun Restaurant, choosing to turn a blind eye to it.
Originally Liu Chongyang had made up his mind. He was not young anymore and had saved a lot of money over the years, so he did not want to continue working around the stove. He just wanted to stay at home and play with his grandchildren and enjoy the happiness of family.
So, during this period of time, Liu Chongyang rejected several shopkeepers who came to invite him to be the head chef and several managers who invited him to be the private chef in their houses.
At the beginning, Liu Chongyang was very satisfied with his retirement life. He didn't have to get up early and go to bed late, no need to swing pots and shovels, no need to race against time. He could sleep until he woke up naturally every day, and when he got up, he would have a hot meal. He also had a group of grandchildren surrounding him, and his heart melted when they called him grandpa. This was simply his ideal retirement life.
But after a long time, he felt a little bored. After the novelty wore off, his grandchildren, who used to be cute in everything they did, became naughty and mischievous kids, which made him very tired.
He always felt uncomfortable because he hadn't touched the old guy who had been with him for many years.