Chapter 224 Huang Xinran's Ambition
The man ran to inform the clerk, but Huang Xinran's target was the cafeteria.
She nodded to everyone and calmly led the child forward.
When we arrived at the cafeteria, we opened the door, took out the lunch boxes we had brought, and let the two children line up to get their meals.
She herself sat down and looked around.
Don’t say it!
Although this canteen was built not long ago, it looks quite decent. It is built in a standard factory style with red bricks, bright windows, and a part of the top wall left vacant for ventilation. The top is made of asbestos tiles.
This kind of asbestos tile had a market in those days, but as time went by, people gradually realized its toxicity and finally its production was banned.
Only now, it appeared on the roof of the cafeteria.
Just when Huang Xinran was thinking about whether to find an excuse to replace the asbestos tiles on the roof, Yaya and Maomao prepared the meal and brought it over.
"Mom, there's beef!"
Yaya and Maomao both like beef, but beef is not easy to buy. Even in their family, they eat beef relatively less often, and they eat more pork and chicken.
Huang Xinran looked at the dish in the bowl, the tender braised beef. The big chunks of beef looked very appetizing at first glance.
There is also Dongpo pork, which is a type of pork with more fat and less lean meat that people like very much nowadays. It is shiny and rosy, and looks delicious.
In addition, there are also rich dishes such as stir-fried seasonal vegetables, fried noodles, spicy soup, mutton soup, etc.
From the looks of it, these dishes not only look good, the portions are generous, but they also taste great.
Of course, for Huang Xinran, who had been eating light food for a month, it was a bit salty. But that was normal, after all, this was a canteen for workers in the plantation, so the taste should be stronger.
Both kids love to eat it.
Just when the three of them were halfway through their meal, the clerk came over in a hurry.
Huang Xinran had no intention of interfering in the work. He just chatted with the other party briefly and then sent him away.
Liu Zhaodi only appeared after they had eaten their fill.
"Why are you here? Come, let grandma hug you..."
Liu Zhaodi wanted to hug Maomao, but was rejected by him. She wanted to hug Yaya, but she ran away.
She was still yelling, "Grandma, my little belly is full, I don't want you to hold me!"
"Little brat, you are such a brat!"
Liu Zhaodi laughed and cursed.
He didn't force them, but glared at Huang Xinran, "Didn't I tell you to take care of it for a few more days? Why are you rushing out? Don't you see how cold the weather is now..."
"Mom, look at me..."
Huang Xinran showed her his thick cotton coat and trousers, and shook the cotton hat pressed low on his head and the cotton shoes on his feet, "How can I freeze with what I'm wearing?"
What's more, when she came here just now, she wore masks for herself and her child to keep warm.
"Why not? It's freezing here. It's not like our hometown where we rarely see snow in winter..."
Liu Zhaodi was somewhat unable to adapt to the cold climate here and missed the warmth of her hometown.
"Mom, how about I take you to the city some other day to buy you two warm coats?"
A down jacket is a down jacket. It was sold in department stores at that time, and everyone called it a down jacket.
"You are looking for trouble. Don't you know that I used to make clothes? I have everything to wear!"
"Yes, yes, yes, you have everything you need, except someone to argue with you!"
“You just found out!”
Liu Zhaodi was very proud. She took Huang Xinran to the kitchen and showed her the situation. "How is it? Has it reached the standard you mentioned?"
The chefs hired all followed Huang Xinran's requirements, wearing chef hats, custom-made clothes, trimming nails and shaving beards. In addition, they had to wear masks when entering the kitchen. They had to clean up after work and ensure that there were no foreign objects in the food... and so on!
The requirements seem to be more than those of many canteens in state-owned enterprises.
However, Huang Xinran specially arranged a reward for reaching the target. If there were no complaints, the employee would receive an incentive. If there was one complaint, the incentive would be lost. If there were two complaints, the employee would lose the incentive and be required to report the criticism. If there were three complaints, the employee would be fired unconditionally.
Of course, the fact that there are so many rules and regulations and they can hire three chefs means that the price Huang Xinran paid is sufficient!
Chefs outside usually work in state-owned hotels, and their salary is about 30 yuan. Of course, the salary of a chef is the same as other positions, and it will increase according to the length of service. After working for a long time, it is not a problem to earn 50 or 60 yuan.
However, the salary of a chef who works in the kitchen is actually a small part of the salary. The big part of the salary is usually extra income.
Even state-owned hotels cannot eliminate the custom and tradition of chefs eating and drinking for free. Including the chefs eating and drinking three meals a day in the hotel, it is also a not insignificant expense.
All in all, it is far from being measured by a salary of 30 yuan.
Huang Xinran knew all this, so when he made his offer, he directly quoted a "high price" of 100 yuan for the salary.
According to the account books brought back by Liu Zhaodi, the canteen has been profitable so far.
Huang Xinran was also happy to give the three chefs credit, so he gave them a round of praise. In the end, he also encouraged them to develop their own new dishes.
As long as the workers here can digest the food in the canteen and make more money, she doesn't mind giving them a certain degree of freedom.
The three chefs were all very happy. The most important thing was that Huang Xinran proposed that she would calculate the turnover based on the number of workers in the plantation. The part exceeding the fixed turnover could be given as commission...
This method was widely used by later generations.
Now that Huang Xinran has brought it up, he speaks very logically and applies it skillfully.
Naturally, the interest of the three chefs was aroused.
Everyone is eager to try it out.
After leaving the cafeteria, Liu Zhaodi talked about another thing.
"In fact, it's not just the workers from our plantation who come to our canteen to eat. Workers from other plantations come here to eat, too. And aren't there a few small factories and accommodation areas nearby? They're not big, and those workers heard about our canteen opening from somewhere, so a lot of them came to eat one after another. I think there will be more people coming here to eat in the future."
"Really?!"
"How can I still lie to you?"
Liu Zhaodi rolled her eyes as she pushed her bicycle, then called Yaya and Maomao to her side and gave them a ride. "Didn't you see how crowded it was when we were having lunch just now? Our workers finish work at 12 noon. It was only 11:30 when you came here, so weren't there a lot of people having lunch?"
Seeing her nod, Liu Zhaodi explained to her which factory had two shifts, 7:10-11:10 in the morning and 15:30-19:30 in the afternoon; which factory had three shifts, 7:20-15:30 in the morning, 15:25-23:25 in the afternoon, and 23:20-7:25 in the evening. And which factory had long day shifts, with the same work schedule as the plantation...
Huang Xinran listened quietly, not annoyed by her mother's nagging, but she was ambitious in her heart.
In that case, why doesn't she separate the canteen from the plantation, expand its scale, and include everyone nearby who is interested in eating?