"The food at home is still the best. The food in the factory cafeteria is getting worse and worse."

"Isn't it the new chef who just got hired this year?"

Pei Wenping glanced at her and said, "I feel like I'm complaining when I tell you this, but the taste and quality of the cafeteria now are not even a little bit worse than when you were in charge."

"The previous collective meals have been changed to the current meal subsidies. Not to mention breakfast, lunch and dinner, each person gets an average of 60 cents per meal, which is barely enough to get one meat and one vegetable at the regular window. It sounds good, but if you go and see it, you will know that the vegetarian dishes are not even oily, and the meat in the meat dishes is not good meat."

"If you want to eat well, you have to pay for the meals at the private kitchen. You have to pay at least 1.8 yuan for a meal. We managers can afford it, but ordinary workers only earn 5 or 6 yuan a day. If we ask them to pay for a meal, wouldn't that cost them their lives?"

"To be honest, the canteen reform did reduce costs and increase efficiency for the factory, but it also caused a lot of resentment among the employees. There are always pros and cons."

After listening to Pei Wenping's complaints, Shen Mingzhu made an objective analysis: "This is not entirely due to the canteen restructuring. The canteen contractor should bear a large part of the responsibility."

Pei Wenping said: "We shouldn't have outsourced the canteen to someone else in the first place."

Shen Mingzhu said realistically: "Outsourcing the canteen also has its benefits. The outsourcing company has its advantages in purchasing and management, and the factory can also reduce the pressure of management. It is a win-win situation for both parties."

"The current situation is caused by the fact that we did not formulate complete and strict food standards and systems from the beginning. You can talk to Du Juan about this when you have time."

Pei Wenping swallowed the food in her mouth and sneered, "She can't care about such trivial matters now."

Speaking of this, Shen Mingzhu remembered the main business, "Is the factory very busy recently? Why do you have to work overtime every day?"

Pei Wenping looked at her in confusion, "Don't you know? Why didn't Du Juan tell you?"

Shen Mingzhu shook her head. "We haven't seen each other for a while. She is now managing the factory, and I don't want to ask too much."

Pei Wenping put down her chopsticks and talked about Du Juan's efforts to attract investment.

"I thought she had discussed this with you. I've been busy sorting out business information and accounts these days. Someone from Rosen wanted to see it."

Seeing Shen Mingzhu was silent, Pei Wenping continued, "Du Juan is quite capable. She single-handedly managed to get in touch with Rosen's investment group. A few days ago, Rosen's people visited the factory and seemed quite satisfied."

"If we can really get the investment from Lawson, our factory might be able to soar to the sky."

With the opening up of the economy, governments at all levels have responded to the call and vigorously promoted investment attraction.

Many old state-owned factories on the verge of bankruptcy have been revived and moved to a higher level with the injection of foreign capital.

Therefore, Pei Wenping was very supportive and agreed with Du Juan's efforts to attract investment for the food factory.

But Shen Mingzhu's attitude towards this matter is completely opposite.

As a person who traveled through time from the future, she knew very well that the entry of external capital into the country was essentially a conspiracy and invasion.

How many national brands and the glory of domestic products have been harvested and dismembered by the so-called foreign capital today, and finally disappeared in the torrent of history.

"Sister, I have something to tell you."

Seeing Shen Mingzhu's expression suddenly become serious, Pei Wenping also became serious, "What's the matter? Tell me."

“The operating data and financial information of the food factory and several subsidiaries should not be handed over to any external organization or individual without my authorization.”

Pei Wenping was not a stupid person either, and she could keenly sense something from Shen Mingzhu's attitude.

"I'm not pessimistic about Lawson. I'm rejecting all external organizations from investing in the food factory. Sister, this is my attitude and bottom line."

"Why?"

"I'll explain the reasons in detail later. Please keep an eye on the finance department for me."

Pei Wenping nodded. "It's not difficult. It's just that Du Juan is very concerned about the investment in Rosen and has put a lot of effort into it. I'm afraid..."

"I'll talk to her myself."

Seeing that Shen Mingzhu was unhappy, Pei Wenping tactfully stopped talking.

Shen Mingzhu was indeed not very happy. Although she had handed over full management of the food factory to Du Juan and granted her the highest authority, the introduction of external funds was a major matter that was directly related to the vital interests of her as the founder and major shareholder. Du Juan should at least inform her first.

Call her biased, she really doesn't have the slightest favorable impression of the foreign capital that is madly pouring into the country.

The next morning, after sending her daughter to school, Shen Mingzhu went to the food factory.

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When she arrived, Du Juan was in a meeting, so she walked around the factory by herself, paying special attention to the employee cafeteria that Pei Wenping had complained about so much.

The staff canteen is located in the northeast corner of the factory. It has four floors and an indoor usable area of ​​over 3,000 square meters. It was completed at the end of last year.

The number of employees has continued to increase in the past two years, and the old canteen has been expanded again and again, but it still cannot meet the needs, so it was simply registered under the name of Shen's and a public canteen was set up.

In addition to providing meals for food factory employees, the canteen is also open to the public, and employees from other nearby factories and even residents can dine there.

The first to third floors of the cafeteria have ordinary windows that provide big pot meals, while the fourth floor sells single-stove stir-fried dishes.

It was still early for lunch, but the canteen's kitchen was already bustling with activity.

The chef in charge of cooking stood with one foot on a one-meter-high stool and the other foot on the edge of the stove, waving a large spatula to stir the pot constantly.

Shen Mingzhu walked to the pot, stood on tiptoe and took a look inside. The pot contained sauerkraut and pork stewed with vermicelli.

I don’t know if it’s because of the cooking method or the ingredients themselves, but the food in the pot didn’t smell fragrant at all. Instead, it had a sour stench that was suffocating and nauseating.

If you don’t know, you would think that there is pig food in the pot.

When the food in the pot is cooked, the chef starts to add various seasonings, and finally pours three to five spoons of cooking oil, stirs it and serves it out of the pot.

Shen Mingzhu finally understood why Pei Wenping disliked the food in the cafeteria. It was simply that the ingredients were stewed in water and then a little oil was added.

In the 1960s and 1970s, rural areas with severe material shortages used this method to cook in order to save oil.

But now it is the mid-1990s, and the period of oil and food shortage has passed. It is unethical to still use this method.

When Shen Mingzhu returned to the office after inspecting the cafeteria, Du Juan had just finished a meeting.

Du Juan was very surprised to see her. "Why didn't you call me in advance before coming to the factory? I can arrange the meeting in the afternoon so you don't have to wait." (End of this chapter)