Chapter 191: The Art of Commerce at the Dinner Table

On Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, there is a restaurant that is famous in the United States and even the world, and that is Ramsay's Restaurant.

Maybe many people are unfamiliar with this restaurant, but if anyone has watched "Hell's Kitchen", "Master Chef" and "Kitchen Nightmare" on TV, these three food variety shows, then they must know the name Ramsay.

He currently has 21 top restaurants around the world, and he is an outstanding chef who has been awarded three Michelin stars for seven consecutive years.

Gordon. Ramsay, one of the top chefs in Britain and the world, has been dubbed "Chef Hell" by the media for his rudeness and rigor on the food TV show he has participated in since 1998, as well as his pursuit of perfection in food.

And the success of the three food reality show variety shows "Hell's Kitchen", "Master Chef" and "Kitchen Nightmare" is actually largely due to Ramsay's true colors!

The audience can see that in the world of the kitchen, an executive chef has strict requirements for the daily work of his chefs.

This qiē and qiē all made Qi Lei deeply fascinated by this world-famous chef (of course, this is just talking about the fascination with Ramsay's hard history, not the people themselves). Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong! )。

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In the afternoon, Qi Lei and his party arrived at the restaurant half an hour earlier than the reservation time.

The first to greet them was the head waiter of the restaurant, Jean. Philip, he is a standard blue-eyed, eagle-nosed, white-skinned, and an authentic British man who exudes a gentle gentleman's temperament everywhere on his body.

I saw him standing at the entrance of the restaurant, very gentlemanly and politely saluted Qi Lei and his party, and asked in English with a strong British accent: "Distinguished guests, good afternoon, everyone!" Welcome to Ramsay Restaurant, do you have a reservation? ”

"Yes, sir! Ramsay Boss and I have booked a spot at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The agent, Ah King, answered in English very familiarly.

"I'm sorry, please wait~~" Let. After Philip said sorry, he immediately opened the restaurant reservation book in his hand and looked at it for confirmation, and then said, "Oh~~ Are you Mr. King?" ”

“YES!” KING NODDED.

"Thank you very much for coming, please come with me! ~Boss Ramsay is already inside to concoct tonight's feast for you! With that, Philip made a gesture of please, and then led the group into the dining room.

As soon as they entered the restaurant, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them: "Wow~~~ good~good~~ so exquisite!" ~~”

A bouquet of flowers is carefully arranged on the dining tableware, the warm dark red tablecloth, and the vase on the table with the same warm color in strict accordance with Western food etiquette. The surrounding walls are chic with some urban decorations, and a few window sills are hung with warm curtains.

The kitchen is semi-open and separated by a row of serving tables, but diners can still observe the chefs preparing delicious dishes while they are seated.

Because there were nearly 20 people coming from Qi Lei this time, two ten-person tables were arranged in the restaurant at the semi-open seat on the far left to entertain Qi Lei and his party.

After sitting down, although Qi Lei and the others said that they had never been in and out of such a star-rated restaurant. But this scene in front of him still couldn't help but surprise and praise the big guy for a while.

After all, although they are all restaurants of the same star, there are still certain differences between the world-class and the local regional level (local region refers to such a region in a certain region, such as the entire Hong Kong and Taiwan), and there are still certain differences in all aspects! …,

After everyone sat down for about an hour and a half, Qi Lei's first guests tonight, two deacons of the Los Angeles branch of the Screen Actors Guild of America, together with the CEO of the famous film company MGM New York and his secretary, a total of four people stepped into the restaurant.

"Haha~ Dear Chinese Qi, good afternoon! ~"Jack, who is already the CEO of MGM's New York branch, walked two steps forward as soon as he entered the restaurant, and said with a laugh.

"Ahem, cough, cough~~ I said Jack, when can you change your hug of death! ~~ Fortunately, my body is quite strong, otherwise your wife would not have fainted by you!! ~~" Qi Lei teased Jack after he let go of his bear hug.

"Haha~~" Hearing Qi Lei's words, everyone was amused.

Then Qi Lei greeted the two deacons of the Actors Guild, Dawson and John, who came with Jack: "Good afternoon, I'm glad that you two can take time out of your busy schedules to come and have dinner with us!" I'm sure tonight will be a fantastic night for us. ”

"Thank you very much, Mr. Qi, and I also believe that tonight's time will be wonderful!" Dawson and the two smiled politely back.

"Here, please!" As the host of this banquet, Qi Lei, of course, used his full social state, and invited a few people to sit down in a hospitable and gentlemanly manner.

During the banquet, a few people had a few pleasantries, and two more people walked in at the entrance of the restaurant. They are the second set of guests that Qi Lei has scheduled tonight, the CEO of NBC Broadcasting and Television in the United States, Bob Brown. Wright and his personal secretary and legal counsel.

For the arrival of the two, Qi Lei also got up and politely greeted him, and led him to the seat and sat down! …… At this point, the people who participated in this dinner have finally arrived.

After opening the bottle of champagne, Qi Lei, as the host, raised his glass and said: "Come, everyone, let's have a toast, so that we can have a wonderful night tonight, cheers~"

“cheers!”

Then the old acquaintance Jack poured another glass of wine, tapped the glass with the heel of the spoon a few times, and then stood up and said in a loud congratulatory voice: "Come, dear friends! What we want to toast with this cup is the wonder boy from China who brought us a good time tonight...... Because not long ago, he once again created a big feat in the history of film, with a film with a cost of more than 30 million US dollars, it actually achieved a total box office result of 300 million! Congratulations, my good friend! ~ Come, a toast, toast. ”

"! ~”

Then the agent Ah KING got up and toasted: "Finally, of course, we have to have a toast for us to negotiate a good result tonight!" I wish you all good luck and good health, and come ~~ Cheers! ”

"! ~~" Everyone drank again.

After three rounds of drinking, NBC's Bob finally couldn't help but ask Qi Lei, "Mr. Qi, although I thank you for inviting us to dinner tonight." But you also know that each other's work is quite busy, so let's stop with those kind words, let's talk about the important business, what do you think!? ”

After listening to Bob. WRIGHT'S SLIGHTLY REPROACHFUL WORDS, QI LEI WAS FINE, BUT KING NEXT TO HIM WAS A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE. After all, no matter what, they are the Lord at today's dinner. The host was beaten by the guest and was talked about, and no one was comfortable! …… It just depends on how many uncomfortable Cheng dù there are.

But Reviver is good, because he knows that although he is with this NBC Bob. Wright was in contact for the first time, but Qi Lei knew very well that Americans have always been very efficient in business, but they are not at all like talking about work in China.

In particular, NBC, one of the three major television broadcasters in the United States, enjoys a statement in the world. As the leader of such a giant boss, it is normal for the concept of time and values to be stronger than others! …,

For Bob. For Wright, time is money, and that's a wise saying.

In business! ……

Instead of wasting time on unnecessary entertainment, it is better to seize the time to come up with more good ideas and plan one or two more wonderful TV shows!

From this point of view, the difference between the domestic business community and foreign countries is the most obvious!

If you want to talk about the country, all large and small companies in all walks of life, even small and self-employed, are the same. In their opinion, that business was not negotiated between red wine and beautiful women?

After eating, massage, sauna, singing and dancing, and singing every night, I immediately got down to business.

Isn't this the enjoyment of life?

For the country, work, life, life and work. If you don't have a job, you can live without a job, and if you don't have a life, you can work, these two things are one.

But in the American business world, businessmen are more about treating work as work and life as life!

They can work continuously for a long time, but when it comes to rest, Americans will also adjust themselves appropriately to take a vacation, go on a wild outing, go fishing, swimming, running and fitness, clubbing girls or something, and play more crazy than our people!

That's because Americans believe that work is after work, and when you have fun, you should have fun, and the two are inseparable, but there are clear traces.

So at this time, Qi Lei also responded directly and honestly: "Of course, Mr. Bob, I agree with you on this point!" …… I wonder what you think of the TV show plan I passed to you the other day!? ”

Just listen to Bob. Wright replied with a businesslike expression: "After the past few days of discussion in our company, I have to say that Mr. Qi is indeed a genius!" The show you've planned is really good, but there's a problem...... There is no shortage of celebrity chefs in the United States, but if we want to find a chef who is so personal to host this show, we will not be able to do it for a while! ~”

Bob's meaning by this is actually because of the plan given by Qi Lei before he came to the United States. On their side, they only provide solutions to the problems encountered in the production and editing process of the follow-up works, and the funding and programming are handled by NBC in the United States.

So although Bob was very interested in this novel variety show, he did not lose his mind because of it. Naturally, the criticism of Zài in the Revival plan is also clear.

But will Genie find it difficult to deal with these problems? …… Of course it's impossible!