Immediately afterwards, I arranged for the purchasing department to purchase five tables and chairs at once, and at the same time, I asked the culinary director of the food and beverage department to immediately set the menu for the banquet and then hand it over to the administration department for advertising.

The purchasing manager immediately called the supplier, and the kitchen director also set the three standards for the college banquet as quickly as possible, and when I took the standard from his hand, I saw that he was speechless for a long time.

The kitchen director looked at me and asked, "Mr. Zhang, is there any problem?" ”

I shook my head and said: "As far as I know, the wedding banquets we have here are generally five hundred and eighty-eight, six hundred and eighty-eight, seven hundred and eighty-eight and eight hundred and eighty-eight, and the entrance banquet should not be much different from this standard, and the standard you give me now is one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand one hundred and eighty-eight, do you think we are here in the north, the upper part and the wideth?" Do you think anyone would book a college dinner with us? ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, our hotel has always taken the high-end route, under normal circumstances, a table of dishes in the box, the minimum is more than two thousand six, I just heard that you want to have a banquet, I have lowered the standard to the maximum, if it is lower, I am afraid that the current master can not do it."

Paralyzed, I have only heard of those who can't cook good dishes, but I haven't heard of those who can't cook business trips, and the kitchen master can cook two or three thousand dishes per table, but he can't cook dishes for a table of several hundred yuan?

I felt like he was sucking me.

"I said director, just now I have fired a professional manager, and it is no problem to fire another director." I said coldly: "Do you think that in Crystal Palace, you, the director of cooking, are more important than me, the general manager?" ”

The kitchen director hurriedly explained: "Mr. Zhang, you misunderstood, when the Crystal Palace was still in the hands of Murakami Ichiro, I worked here, until the chairman was in charge here, and now she runs it alone." I also know that Mr. Zhang, your relationship with the chairman of the board of directors will never be deliberately dismantled because you have just arrived. ”

"Then you can explain to me why the master who can cook a table of 3,000 yuan dishes can't cook a table of 800 yuan a table?"

"Let me tell you this, the chefs we invited will only cook high-end dishes, such as flying spotted rabbits, bear's paw snakes and scorpions, all kinds of seafood, such as abalone, treasure fish, lobster with more than one catty, etc., we can make them, and the taste is good. But when it comes to home-cooked food, for example, we have a famous dish called Jiangnan fish nuggets, which only sells for 28 yuan a plate at the night market stall by the lake, and we can make that kind of dish, but it is not as good as their taste, and those lobsters in a pound and a big pot, we can also cook them, but the taste is not as good as those on the night market stalls. The culinary director continued: "If you ask these current chefs to do what is standard for a few hundred dollars per table in a small shop, it may not look bad, but the taste is not the same, and it will smash our brand." ”

What he said sounds reasonable, but I still don't understand, isn't the so-called one-size-fits-all just a stir-fry? How can a master who can make dishes that others can't cook, how can he not even be able to cook home-cooked food?

When I was about to continue to say something, Lu Yuming said at this time: "Mr. Zhang, what the kitchen director said is so, although I have never been in charge of catering, many of my friends have opened restaurants, and they told me that generally a group of chefs will have their own specialty dishes, except for a few of their own specialty dishes, other dishes are not good." Just like a person who drives a tractor, he can't drive a Mercedes-Benz car, and a person who drives a Mercedes-Benz car can't drive a tractor well. ”

When Lu Yuming said this, I understood it, that is to say, if I want Crystal Palace to follow the path of mass catering, I must recruit new chefs.

I turned to the director of the kitchen and said, "You can't do this recipe, you can set me a recipe with a minimum of 666 and a maximum of 988, and you must bring me the chef in the afternoon." ”

The kitchen director said with a sad face: "Mr. Zhang, I am definitely not prevaricating, at this time, it is okay to find a little to make up the line, if all the line owners are re-recruited, it is almost impossible." ”

"Why?"

"If you want to be a chef, you will sign a full-year contract with each hotel, that is to say, a slightly better chef will sign a contract with your favorite hotel at the beginning or end of each year, and at this time, you can either find a good master, and those who can find it are those who can't find a job.

I think there may be some truth in what he said, but the problem is that in front of so many people, and when I changed my business strategy, he explained a lot of reasons and reasons, but did not give a solution, which made me feel that he was deliberately making things difficult for me.

"Okay, I'll admit that what you said makes sense, the problem is that you're the director of cooking, and now there is a shortage of chefs in the kitchen that we need, do you think I should go for it, or should you go for it?" In other words, should the kitchen problems be solved by me, the general manager, or by you, the kitchen director? ”

I said this quite seriously, the director of the kitchen looked to be in his forties, and he was the old father of the Crystal Palace, and he was scolded by me in front of so many people, and his cheeks suddenly turned red, and he stood there unable to say a word.

At this time, the people from the engineering department came, and they called some workers, some of them were handymen who were preparing to tear down the walls, some were masons who were preparing to repair them, and there were also carpenters and people sent by the decoration company.

The manager of the engineering department was a loud voice, he shouted for the leaders of various departments to get out of the way, and the handyman who demolished the wall looked at it and said that it was three walls of a three-story building, and they only had to demolish it, regardless of garbage removal, because they only had two husbands and wives, and they couldn't do it.

The manager of the engineering department was quite straightforward, and promised them to dismantle the two of them, and as for the garbage, he asked the personnel of the engineering department to help clean it up.

The couple watched for a long time, the man was about to start, but the woman motioned for the man to go to the side, and after a while the man came over and asked the engineering manager for a price, saying that it would cost two hundred yuan per wall.

The manager of the engineering department was angry at that time: "You calculate the money by the square, and including the transportation of garbage, and now I let my people help you transport it, and you still have to add money?" ”

The man was quite honest, and said bluntly: "If it's another unit, forget it, you are the Crystal Palace, Jiangnan City, a few hundred yuan more, for you is a drop in the bucket, but for us it is a few days' wages." ”

Faint to death, I used to think that these rural couples waiting for work on the side of the road are very pitiful, not to mention that I am also from the countryside, if they don't say anything, finish the work first, see that they are too hard, I will think of asking the engineering manager to add money to them.

But seeing them sitting on the ground and raising prices, especially the woman, who seemed to be pitiful, but she was good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and it was obvious that she was instigating her honest husband to pay too much.

In addition to the reason her husband said, I am afraid that seeing so many of us standing here, I think this matter is very important, and it is also the reason why she temporarily thought of raising the price.

The engineering manager's eyes widened, and when he was about to get angry, I waved my hand: "Forget it, let them go." ”

The engineering manager looked at me a little embarrassed, because he didn't do it well, and immediately waved his hand at them: "Go, go, go, go as far as you want." ”

The couple had just gone out and started arguing, and it seemed that they regretted it again.

Then there are the masons, carpenters and decoration companies sent by the people, they look at the workload, one by one crying faces, and are bargaining with the engineering manager, their general meaning is that there are too many processes, the amount of work is too small, there is no way to settle the account, they can't say less, we are not happy to say more.

The manager of the engineering department became angry and scolded: "Malegobi, today is the first day of work for our new boss, arrange such a job for me, you are still bargaining with me, what if you don't want a penny for these jobs today, do you want to take over the work in my hands in the future?" ”

When they heard this, they were a little embarrassed, and one of them said, "Or else? Even if we help this time, we don't need a penny. ”

The engineering manager nodded and said, "It's pretty much the same, then you guys hurry up, I'll go out to find a handyman again." ”

"No need."

I walked to the wall and touched it, knowing that it would not work to push it at once, and if I didn't get it right, I would have to smash the floor slab, so I shot out seven or eight palms in a row according to a distance of fifty centimeters, and only listened to the sound of "click" After thinking about it, the whole wall cracked, and the people present let out an exclamation.

I said to Lingling: "Vice President Lingling, today the matter of the walls of the three-story building will be handed over to you, all the male employees are responsible for demolishing the walls and carrying garbage, and all the female employees are responsible for cleaning." Assistant Lu, let's go to the second floor. ”

After speaking, I took Lu Yuming to the second and third floors, cracked all the two walls, and then took out the phone, ready to contact them with dysentery, hoping that they would put the college banquet here for us.

When the dysentery received a call from me, he asked him to move the entrance banquet to the Crystal Palace, and immediately shouted: "Zhang Guodong, why don't you just tell me to rob the bank, is the Crystal Palace a place where we can go?" ”