Chapter 733 Adjusting Mentality
"Brother Feng, added six more portions of Babao Tofu!"
"Brother Feng, two portions of braised prawns."
"Brother Feng, four portions of roasted sea cucumber with green onion!"
"Brother Feng, here comes another piece of garlic scallops!"
On August 8th, which was a particularly auspicious day just from the date, Jiang Feng was almost busy in the kitchen.
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
"Is there a bug in the ordering system? Didn't I ask you to add half an hour to the queue time? It should be more than two hours now, right?" Jiang Feng shouted in a broken voice as he looked at the single face that was not decreasing but increasing. road.
He knows that after all, he is also a person who has been on the hot search, and he is still the first hot search. Although he may not have been in the first position for a particularly long time, he has reached the top of the hot search.
He can accept the celebrity effect, and diners will follow suit and blindly follow the crowd. It's normal. Tai Feng Building has been full since the 7th, with long queues forming at the door. It has never been more popular, and it has become the most popular Internet celebrity restaurant in Peiping. Even for the top-floor restaurant, the queue pattern at its peak is probably not so exaggerated.
Jiang Feng knew that it was him who was trending on the search. Many new diners came to Tai Feng Restaurant specifically for him. It was normal to order his food, and he understood the reason, but he was really tired.
I was already very tired on the 7th, but I didn’t expect that I would be even more tired on the 8th.
Jiang Feng felt that it was very difficult to take an extra breath now.
"Brother Feng has already added it. Now if I order your food in the front ordering system, it will show that the queue should be more than two and a half hours, but the customers still want to order and there is nothing we can do." Sang Ming shouted helplessly. go back.
"Then stop my backend first. If you don't accept orders, I will take it off the shelves. I will take it off the shelves directly!" Jiang Feng was also inexperienced in this situation for the first time.
It used to be that when the store was busy, everyone was busy together, but now the store is busy because he is busy alone.
"Take Jiang Feng's backstage off the shelves, Zhang Weiyu, come here and help Jiang Feng find matches. Dong Shi, you don't have much work at hand right now. Please work hard and go with Zhang Weiyu to help Jiang Feng. There are many things that he can't handle alone." Seeing that Jiang Feng has been busy all day. Sun Maocai, who had been silent for most of the time, spoke at this time, "That's it for now at noon today. We will discuss Jiang Feng's menu again in the afternoon. Some dishes should be removed from the shelves."
Sun Maocai mobilized two people to help Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng was now a little more relaxed. He didn't have to be as busy as before, like a spinning top that was constantly being whipped by a whip, spinning at high speed without stopping for a moment.
So much so that during lunch, Jiang Feng ate a few more mouthfuls of food than usual.
According to the normal pattern of the past few days, the three head chefs would go to the restaurant to drink tea after dinner. Since Sun Maocai had already said during the lunch business that he would discuss changing the menu with Jiang Feng in the afternoon, the three of them did not go to the teahouse. After finishing the meal, the three of them sat on the chairs for a while, chatting and laughing, and then asked Jiang Feng to go upstairs with them to talk in the small box upstairs.
It was quite formal, which made Jiang Feng a little nervous.
Sun Maocai, Jiang Weiming, and Jiang Weiguo sat in a row, looking like interviewers, which gave Jiang Feng the illusion that he was not in a meeting, but that he was being interviewed by three head chefs to see if he was qualified for the probation period.
"You must have been very busy these two days." Sun Maocai said with a smile.
"Fortunately, I'm a little too busy and it's acceptable." Jiang Feng looked very reserved, not showing the aura of the boss behind the scenes at all, just like a humble wage earner.
"Are you okay?" Sun Maocai raised his tone, "I saw that you were a little busy at noon today and almost lost control of your emotions. How do you say you are okay?"
Jiang Feng:?
I'll just be polite.
"Okay, don't talk in so many roundabout ways. Just say what you want to say." The old man spoke with some displeasure. He didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with Sun Maocai actually teaching his grandson a lesson for him, or he was dissatisfied with Jiang Feng's answer just now.
"Xiao Feng, it's like this." Jiang Weiming said, "We didn't expect that the number of orders for your dishes suddenly increased so much at noon yesterday, but in fact we had already discussed a solution in the teahouse in the afternoon. Originally, the menu should have been revised yesterday, but your Uncle Sun thought this was a good opportunity and wanted you to...how should I say, suffer more and learn some lessons, so I postponed telling you today. "
"Opportunity?" Jiang Feng didn't quite understand.
What opportunity? Want to experience the opportunity of 007 social animals?
"I found out you had a problem at noon yesterday." Sun Maocai said.
"Question?" Jiang Feng began to reread.
"Your cooking skills are already very good now. It can be said that in any restaurant across the country and even the world, as long as you are willing to compete, you can take the position of head chef. But you have a problem, you have I have the cooking skills to be a chef, but I don’t have the ability to be a chef, and I don’t have the mentality to be a chef.”
"Yesterday at noon, when the order volume clearly exceeded your tolerance, your first reaction was not to stop taking orders in the background, but to ask Sang Ming to increase the waiting time in an attempt to make customers stop ordering. When you are too busy and even start to make some small mistakes that you shouldn't make, your first reaction is not to ask other helpers to help you, but to make yourself more efficient. "
Sun Maocai calmed down: "Of course your reactions are not wrong, but they are strange."
"Strange?" Jiang Feng felt that this was a normal reaction. It had always been like this.
"Let me ask you, when I, your grandfather, and your third grandfather put the menus on the shelves, what will happen if the customer orders too much?" Sun Maocai asked.
"Of course we'll stop taking orders," Jiang Feng said. The two old men couldn't afford to be tired. This had always been the case.
"We stopped taking orders, why didn't you?"
"Because I'm not the head chef..." Jiang Feng suddenly felt that something was wrong with what he said, but he didn't know what was wrong.
"Are we any different? Excluding the fact that the three of us are the head chefs, is there any big difference in our cooking skills?" Sun Maocai then asked.
"Of course, we..." Jiang Feng thought for a while and found that the prerequisite for removing the identity of the chef did not seem to be any different.
In terms of cooking skills alone, his rating is a little higher than the old man's.
"Your mentality is wrong." Sun Maocai smiled, "I also thought about why you were like this after I went back yesterday. After thinking about it for a whole night, I figured it out. Your cooking skills have improved so fast that you have not adapted to you at all. The progress of cooking skills. You are no longer an ordinary chef, nor an ordinary outstanding young chef.”
"You are a genius."
"Everyone has a process of becoming a celebrity chef. It may be 5 years to 10 years, or it may be 10 years to 20 years. We will use this long process to adapt to our identity as a celebrity chef, so as to adapt to what we should do after becoming a celebrity chef. Changes. But your process is too short, so short that you don’t have time to adapt. Do you know why you are so tired, even so tired that you lost your temper at noon today? Because you can’t use ordinary stove cooks? Ask to ask for yourself.”
"You don't need to put so many dishes on the menu, or even every dish must be on the menu every day. Your cooking skills are high enough, and it's high enough that you can choose and set the rules. You now If you have cooking skills and a reputation, if you continue to cook according to your original habits, believe me, you will be so tired that you want to give up this career within a week.”
Jiang Feng actually understood, but no matter what, he felt that Sun Maocai was not talking about him.
Even though he knew very well that in terms of so-called cooking skills, he was already superior to the old man, but he did not think that his status in the kitchen would be higher than the old man, nor did he think that he had surpassed the old man.
He felt that he should continue to cut vegetables, stuffing, make soup, and read his memory after work and get off work every day as he did before.
As a result, Sun Maocai told him that you no longer need to live such a life, because your personality is different, and you can leisurely choose how many dishes to cook every day like a head chef.
Otherwise you will be exhausted by the huge workload.
"I should now..." Jiang Feng was a little in disbelief.
"The first thing you have to do now is to adjust your mentality." Sun Maocai said.
"I have heard from your grandpa that you have been learning cooking from Master Peng some time ago and did not go to work normally. Because of the restaurant on the top floor, the business of Tai Feng Building was not very good before, so you have been doing this since you came back during this period. Working at full capacity. I can understand that you want to do more because you are worried about the store's business. If you do more, you can sell more. This feeling is normal for everyone, but it is different now. It’s no longer the same.”
"It can be seen from the feedback from the Summer Banquet that you are more popular than me."
"The current signboard of Tai Feng Tower is not me, your grandfather, or your third grandfather, it is you."
"As long as you are here, business will not be bad."
"You are the chef."
"Have you ever seen a chef in any restaurant who works like you from morning to night every day and is so exhausted? Even Chef Arnold wouldn't be like this, right?" (End of Chapter)