This meal was Sichuan cuisine. It was getting hot and stuffy in Shanghai in June, and it was so pleasant to eat Sichuan cuisine with the air conditioner on, just like eating hot pot in July and August.
We ordered a large table of classic dishes such as twice-cooked pork, spicy chicken, mapo tofu, and boiled pork slices.
After ordering and sitting down, Xia Yu discovered that the ingredients used in Sichuan cuisine were quite common. Except for the pork, which he could not supply due to his lack of pig farming, the rest could be found on his farm.
Tofu farms can also produce it, whether it is old tofu or tender tofu, fragrant tofu or stinky tofu, but because the quantity is too small, there is no channel to sell it.
"Dayu, what have you been busy with lately?"
Sanpang asked, he had met Xia Yu in the western restaurant that day, and the two chatted several times on WeChat afterwards, so they kept in touch.
"I'm busy opening a shop. My family gave me an apartment to practice on. It's less than 500 square meters, so I'm thinking about opening a restaurant. These days, I'm busy with these things!"
Xia Yu said it casually, but Sanpang took it to heart.
As a businessman, you can only make your business bigger and stronger if you can seize every opportunity.
Even though Kim Jong-un has supplied more than a dozen mid- to high-end restaurants, he has not cut off the small-scale individual customers' business, because these individual customers may bring in big business.
An apartment of 500 square meters and a restaurant were the key words he captured.
If Xia Yu's restaurant can be successful, maybe he can get more big customers.
"How's your work going? Mengmeng and I are going to attend the grand opening!"
"That's right, I must try the restaurant you opened, Brother Dayu. I'll recommend it to you on Xiaohongshu then."
As soon as Sanpang finished speaking, Mengmeng followed suit.
As a sharing software, Xiaohongshu can be said to have beautiful, rich and white people on average, just like a certain website where people are from 985 universities. Just take a look at it. If you want to buy their lipsticks and bags, you might as well go directly to a certain website.
But there are a lot of fake ones, and there are also some real ones mixed in. What Mengmeng shows about her life is real. She may use beauty filters, but she will definitely not steal pictures.
She has been playing since high school and now has over 10,000 fans. She is a moderately famous internet celebrity, a rising star.
Speaking of fans, Xia Yu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have hundreds of thousands of fans on a certain website. Should he place an advertisement there then?
Forget it. Most of his fans are students. If they rely on their living expenses to eat one meal, they will probably have to live on instant noodles for the rest of the day.
It would be fine if they don’t make any purchases, but what if they go to give him razor blades? Half of the month has passed, but he hasn’t updated a single video. If he keeps delaying, the month might be over.
"Thank you so much, but it's a bit difficult to find a chef. The restaurant is almost finished being renovated, but there's still no sign of a new one."
"Chef? I do have a good candidate, but he doesn't quite fit the bill."
Sanpang put down his chopsticks, exhaled and said, "This dish is really spicy!"
"Why doesn't it match?"
Xia Yu asked curiously, how come he didn't meet the requirements when he hadn't even mentioned anything?
“The price they ask is a bit high!”
Sanpang looked around and saw that only their table was the one that spoke in a low voice.
"I'm not afraid of the price, but it has to be worth it. Brother Sanpang, tell me the details."
Xia Yu is not short of money, and he has saved all the rent for the restaurant, so he can consider increasing the labor cost a little, especially the chef.
The location and decoration of a restaurant are important, but the chef is the soul of the restaurant. Without good and stable products, no matter how good the location is or how expensive the decoration is, the restaurant will fail.
"You know Tang Ge, right?"
"I know. I've eaten there before and it tastes very good."
Xia Yu told the truth, but why did Sanpang suddenly mention Tang Ge?
"I know their executive chef, Tan Shiye. He's been rejected several times when negotiating salary with his superiors. He's thinking about leaving."
If Tan Shiye wants to change jobs, isn’t that the end?
This was the first thought in Xia Yu's mind. The reason why Tangge was awarded three Michelin stars was not only due to Langham's investment in public relations, but also due to Tan Shiye's cooking skills. You know, Xia Yu had planned to recruit him to be his own personal chef.
If Tan Shiye really jumped ship, Tang Ge would inevitably suffer a severe blow. Apart from anything else, a star reduction is a foregone conclusion. I just don't know whether it will be one or two stars, or whether it will be directly kicked out of the rankings.
Xia Yu could think of these things, but the hotel executives couldn’t?
"Don't even mention it. The general manager of their hotel was recently transferred elsewhere by the group, and a new team was parachuted in. Now it's a mess. How could they have the time to care about the chef's salary increase?"
After listening to Sanpang's explanation, Xia Yu finally understood that a big earthquake happened after he hadn't been there for a few months.
The old German man who delivered wine to him was transferred away, and he really couldn't take care of a young chef in his restaurant.
However, given the usual nature of capitalists, even if the team remains unchanged, Tan Shiye will most likely not get a salary increase. So what if he's a three-star chef? He's just a lousy employee. If he wants a salary increase, he has no choice but to change jobs.
What a pity, he still had half a bottle of wine left in Tang Pavilion. Now that the chef had run away, it would be pointless for him to go there to eat!
Xia Yu felt a little regretful when he thought of this, but then a light bulb went off in his head and he realized that he had been stuck in a dead end.
He is changing jobs to be a chef, so why not just follow him to the new place?
If Xia Yu is brave enough, he can recruit people directly, and then he won’t have to pay for the food he cooks.
In the past, he only had tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in his hands, and these were just thoughts. But now his net worth has skyrocketed, and he has the ability to put his previous ideas into practice.
"Then, Fatty, what's Master Tan's target price?"
"No brother, you want to hire him?"
Sanpang was surprised. He didn't expect Xia Yu to play such a big game and even set his sights on Tan Shiye.
"Just tell me, if it's suitable, we can cooperate. Anyway, I don't have a good candidate right now."
Xia Yufeng said calmly, but in his heart he was thinking about how to maximize the benefits.
As a former Michelin three-star chef, his cooking skills are definitely excellent.
In addition, hype is also a good gimmick. There will definitely be people who buy it. As for those who don’t buy it, they are not his target customers.
"He's so valuable. His annual salary is only 600,000 or 700,000 now. If he were to come out and work, he'd have to make 800,000 or 900,000!"
I have to say it's a bit expensive. Xia Yu has to sign in for two or three weeks in a row to pay someone else's annual salary.
It may not seem like much compared to this, but this is compared to Xia Yubi, and the manager, finance, waiters and other people in the kitchen together probably only cost a little more than Tan Shiye, which shows how expensive it is.
Previously, Xia Yu’s budget for hiring a chef was about 500,000 or 600,000 yuan, but now he has to invest more to hire Tan Shiye.
Is it worth it?
Xia Yu thought for a moment and came up with the answer.
"Brother Sanpang, please help me contact them. I plan to go to Tang Pavilion again tonight!"
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