Chapter 103: "Professional Chef"
After arranging the corresponding preparations for the canteen, Wei Minsheng downloaded a large number of recipes and related videos on the Internet, purchased the corresponding seasonings and cooking facilities, and then returned to Huaxia Villa.
After returning to the villa, Wei Minsheng summoned Shopkeeper Li back from Zigui City, and he was temporarily in charge of the professional training course for chefs.
Although Shopkeeper Li's cooking level is not good, he has also been exposed to some new recipes, but Wei Minsheng did not consider improving his cooking level at that time, and he was a little negative in his support for him, and a little bit of a natural idea.
At present, because other industries are not able to obtain large cash income in the short term, for the rapid development of Shanzhuang and Minsheng Company, it has become a top priority to train a group of chefs.
Of course, it is impossible to cultivate an all-round excellent chef by one's own exploration in the short term, but Huaxia Villa currently has a certain population size, and we can not fight for quantity if there is no all-round chef, and we can also train "professional chefs" who only make one dish, and some of us have time to do it step by step.
Wei Minsheng asked Xiaobao to post a series of professional positions in auxiliary cooking, and work such as washing, chopping, and garnish does not require much knowledge, and can be selected from the general population.
The requirements for the professional position of chef are higher, and it is not something that can be done by a casual person, but Wei Minsheng does not need those all-round chefs who can cook any dish, and can only use some special methods to achieve his goals.
Wei Minsheng fully announced the electronic recipes and production methods of some dishes on the villa's network, and provided corresponding cooking tools, venues and various seasonings.
Since the real world Minsheng Canteen mainly chooses Sichuan cuisine in the daily diet, Wei Minsheng's first batch of recipes are all common Sichuan-style home-cooked dishes, and 30 dishes are temporarily selected for trying.
Each official member of the lodge can participate in two free cooking sessions to compete for the right to cook a dish, giving all members the opportunity to compete for a chef position.
In addition, the official members of the lodge can also purchase their own ingredients, choose their own dishes, and practice their cooking skills according to electronic recipes and production methods to improve their cooking skills.
Due to the time difference between the two worlds, there are only six days at most in each month in the other world to provide various dishes for the real world, and the demand within the villa has not yet been cultivated, so the position of chef is not suitable for the monthly salary system for the time being, so Wei Minsheng decided to add a special salary system.
For a special job such as a chef, there is no monthly salary, and the main source of salary is a commission on the quantity of dishes produced by oneself, just like a piece-rate wage.
Any official member of the lodge can work part-time as a chef, but the monthly salary will be deducted from the salary for the days of part-time work.
Although the salary in the past few days is not much, Wei Minsheng still decided to deduct it, otherwise it would be unfair to other members of the villa who could not work part-time.
In Wei Minsheng's view, fairness is a very important distribution principle in a social group, which must be reflected in all places in order to achieve subtle effects, so that every member of the group can consciously apply the principle of fairness to daily life, and such a society is the ideal society.
After a dish is made, the five dishes with the best taste are selected through everyone's tasting, and then it is determined that the maker has obtained the right to make and sell the dish.
After calculating the cost, Wei Minsheng set a basic sales price for each dish, and on the basis of this basic sales price, the five chefs can decide the sales price on their own, and the part that exceeds the basic sales price can be half of the chef's salary.
For example, a plate of "back to the pot", the five chefs selected can make this dish, but due to the difference in taste, the selling price in the real world is different.
If Wei Minsheng's basic sales price for "Hui Pot Meat" is 5 Huaxia Yuan, the five chefs who have obtained the cooking right of "Hui Pot Meat" can appropriately increase the sales price according to the sales of their own dishes.
For example, if a chef thinks that his "back to the pot meat" tastes good and can sell it for 7 yuan Huaxia yuan, and this sales price is converted into RMB and is recognized by the end user, and 50 orders are obtained, then the chef can get 50 yuan Huaxia yuan income from it.
Since each chef on the website has a unique number, the information about the dishes produced is transparent, and the price of the same dish is also competitive among multiple chefs, and the sales price set by themselves is high, and the sales volume may decrease, and the decline in sales will eventually affect their overall income.
Therefore, under this competition mechanism, each chef will take the initiative to adjust his sales price according to his previous sales, forming a dynamic price adjustment.
In the future, if someone thinks that a particular dish they have prepared tastes better than the one of the five chefs who are currently making it, and they have the support of some of the members of the lodge, they can apply for a challenge.
In the other world of half a year, if the challenger's dish is recognized by the end user, and the profit level above the basic sales price enters the top 5, then the challenge is successful, and the chef with the least profit will lose the cooking rights of the dish.
Chefs who have lost the right to cook either choose to learn other dishes or apply for a competition after six months to regain their cooking rights to that dish.
The establishment of this mechanism avoids malicious price competition among chefs and is conducive to the healthy development of people's livelihood canteens.
If the selling price of a certain dish is so competitive that it is impossible to guarantee their minimum income, some chefs may switch to other dishes with higher profit margins, which will guide chefs to learn more dishes, gradually improve the overall cooking level of chefs in the villa, inject greater vitality into the people's livelihood canteen in the real world, and let end users have more choices.
Since the income from cooking a few days a month is much higher than that of a normal job, a large number of members of the lodge will join the team to learn to cook.
With the benign guidance of this competition mechanism and the sharing of various recipes, the members of the villa can take the initiative to choose dishes that are not too competitive, so as to cultivate a group of "professional chefs" who can only cook one or two dishes in a short period of time.
The information that the official members of the villa could work as part-time chefs was quickly disseminated through the bulletin board and computer network of the villa auction house, which could not only ensure the basic monthly salary, but also get more additional income, which immediately aroused the interest of the majority of the villa members, who used their break time to check the relevant information through the Internet, and discussed with each other what dishes they chose to learn to cook, which set off a wave of national cooking in the villa.