While eating, Master Niu told Yue Feng about how to layout and arrange the business premises according to his own ideas.

Yue Feng did not make any statement on professional issues such as how the kitchen should be arranged and constructed.

Leave professional matters to professionals. Yue Feng doesn’t understand and won’t give blind orders.

The only thing that Yue Feng raised was different opinions on the planning of the business area.

At that time, there was no concept of private rooms in the Northeast State-owned Hotel.

Tables, chairs and benches were placed in the living room, about one or two meters apart.

When guests come to dine, they order on the spot and give their general requirements. The kitchen will then prepare the food according to the guests’ orders and dietary restrictions.

In today’s state-owned restaurants, most of the older chefs have real skills, but the skills of the middle-aged and young chefs have become a bit distorted.

Why? Because this is an absolute seller’s market.

If you want to treat your friends to a meal but don’t want to cook at home, you can only come to a state-owned restaurant.

After a long time, everyone from the waiters to the chefs and managers of the restaurant are arrogant.

In more exaggerated areas, even some state-owned restaurants would post slogans that prohibit beating or scolding customers, which seem quite shocking to people in later generations.

Under such objective circumstances, it would be strange if the food could be cooked well. It doesn’t matter whether you cook more or less, and it won’t affect your salary income whether you cook well or poorly.

It is common for chefs in the kitchen to steal skills where possible and save time where possible.

Let’s get back to the issue of dining table placement. There are a bunch of tables in the lobby of the state-owned hotel, and it’s first come, first served. There are all kinds of people in the room, and there is no privacy at all when eating and talking.

Yue Feng has experienced the era of material prosperity and the Internet explosion in later generations, and he knows what the restaurant should do to gain more advantages.

A separate room for individual dining is a great way to add class to your meal.

If you want to entertain important guests and want some privacy, you can arrange for them to go to a single room and close the door. They can talk and do whatever they want inside, which is much better than whispering in the hall.

At Yue Feng’s suggestion, the original plan for dining in the hall was adjusted to leave the area of ​​two rooms as the hall and set up six tables for dining.

The remaining four rooms were made into single rooms by building new partition walls.

Then, along the base of the wall, we laid ground heating in the house. By burning some firewood, the temperature in the house can be kept above 25 degrees. Even in the coldest days of winter, you don’t have to wear a thick cotton-padded jacket to eat.

The six rooms along the street were planned as the dining area of ​​the restaurant. The kitchen, warehouse and dormitories were moved to the east and west wing rooms, which were arranged according to Master Niu’s requirements.

In addition, the rotten wooden doors and windows had to be replaced by new carpenters.

Yue Feng found a pen and paper and wrote down the parts that needed to be executed one by one. He would then find professionals to execute them according to his ideas.

During the discussion with Master Niu, the young men in the room were a bit noisy at first, but as the topic became more and more in-depth, even Master Niu became silent.

Everyone listened to Yue Feng’s overall ideas and various situations that needed follow-up, and then they organized and recorded them and waited for subsequent execution.

After Yue Feng finished speaking, the room fell silent, and everyone looked at him as if he were a freak.

Yue Feng wiped his face and said, “What’s wrong? Is there dust on my face? Why are you all looking at me like that?”

Niu Fusheng gave Yue Feng a thumbs up: “Great! How did you come up with such a good plan? It’s awesome!”

“Hehe, it’s just wishful thinking! It has to be combined with the actual situation before it can be implemented!

I have already arranged the license and venue, and you guys will have to worry about the rest of the odds and ends!”

Master Niu patted his belly and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll ask the carpenter to come and measure the dimensions tomorrow!
Tables, chairs, benches, doors, windows, counters, all new!! If we want to do it, we must do it to the best of our ability!”

“Okay, you take care of these! I won’t be in charge of the preliminary planning of the hotel anymore!
Next, let’s talk about the investment and shareholding of the partners! ”

When it comes to shares, several young apprentices look at Master Niu.

Strictly speaking, this kind of thing shouldn’t be discussed in front of the young apprentice.

But now this group of people are all brothers in distress, and they are all Niu Fusheng’s own people brought up by himself, so there is no need to be too cautious.

Master Niu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: “Originally, I had planned that I would be responsible for the house personnel, and you would provide the self-employed business license, plus take some of the initial investment money.

Then we’ll add 20% and 10% to make it 50% and each of us will share half!
Xiao Mao and his colleagues usually receive a monthly salary, and at the end of the year they receive additional dividends based on the profits from the counter business.

But now you have solved the housing problem and you also paid for the license!

I and my men are only responsible for the work in the kitchen. It would be unfair of me to ask you for half of the shares!

In this way, after our restaurant is operating normally, our kitchen staff will receive a basic salary based on their current income from working in the second canteen. I will personally take 30% of the restaurant’s total profits, and I will pay the year-end dividends for my apprentices!

One person does it for private purposes, two people do it for public purposes. No matter how good the personal relationship is, when doing business together, many things need to be discussed in advance to avoid ruining the friendship!
I am responsible for core business issues such as the taste of dishes and the procurement of ingredients.

You can also hire a general manager and waiters to greet guests and settle bills at the front desk.

I report daily purchasing expenses, normal food loss in the kitchen, etc. to the general manager at the front desk, record the accounts, and regularly check the store inventory!
That’s probably all I can think of right away. If you think there’s any problem, we can discuss it later!”

Hearing that Master Niu only wanted a basic salary plus 30% of the store’s profit, this result was less than Yue Feng expected.

After all, it is hard to find a good chef with skills on the market nowadays, and Master Niu also has apprentices such as Xiao Mao.

After working in the Second Canteen for at least a few years, these people have become a mature kitchen team. Yue Feng can accept 30% of the money he asks for.

Yue Feng nodded: “Okay! 30% is 30%!

These 30% shares are counted as technology investment and enjoy proportional dividends at the end of each year.

In addition, I want to say it out loud, we need to additionally state an exit mechanism!
There is no problem in distributing 30% of the store’s net profit as dividends, but if midway through the partnership, you and your kitchen team unexpectedly leave the partnership, you can no longer claim 30% of the restaurant’s shares.

And you have to let me know two months in advance so that it will be easier for me to find a successor.

In addition, I will bring my hunting team into the mountains to hunt for various game for the hotel. The value will be calculated based on the normal market price, recorded and deducted from the hotel’s purchase account!”

No matter how close the relationship is, matters involving money must be made clear in advance.

Yue Feng and his hunting team mates divide the money in this way. His mother Meng Yulan, as the Minister of Finance, keeps a clear record of every deposit, distribution ratio, etc.

After listening to Yue Feng’s supplement, Master Niu nodded and said, “Business is business. There is no order without rules. What you said is not excessive!”

“Then it’s settled!

Tomorrow I will bring another thousand yuan as the initial expenses for purchasing furniture, repairing doors and windows, and preparing food before the restaurant opens.

By the way, draft a cooperation agreement as well!”

“it is good!”

……

After some discussion, Yue Feng and Master Niu had laid down the preliminary framework for their restaurant business.

Yue Feng is in charge of the general direction, while Master Niu will be in charge of the details of the subsequent restaurant operations.

The next morning, Yue Feng met with Master Niu again with the prepared start-up capital and contract. Then he turned the motorcycle and went to his elder brother Yue Shan’s house.

Yue Shan is working the second shift this week (4pm to 12am), so he will definitely be at home if he has nothing to do in the morning.

Before the restaurant opens, Yue Feng still needs to confirm his elder brother and sister-in-law’s final choice.

The motorcycle stopped at the doorstep, and Yue Feng walked steadily to the door and knocked.

Soon, sister-in-law Chen Hong heard the noise and came out.

“Who?”

“Sister-in-law, it’s me, Xiaofeng!”

“Xiao Feng is here, come in quickly, it’s cold outside!” Chen Hong enthusiastically invited Yue Feng into the house.

After entering the north room, Yue Feng took a quick look at the furnishings inside.

There was a short canning jar on the table, and in the jar were small yellow flowers grown hydroponically from cabbage cores.

The cups and kettles on the table that were broken during the last fight have been replaced with new ones. It seems that my brother and his wife haven’t had any more fights in the past two days.

“Where’s my brother? He’s not home?”

“Your elder brother went out on his bike to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things.

The two of us are planning to go back to our hometown tomorrow to visit our parents, and by the way, we’ll discuss with you about helping out at the hotel!

I didn’t expect you to come here first!”

Yue Feng was a little surprised to hear this answer.

“Have you convinced my brother?”

Chen Hong said calmly, “It makes sense! You brought your childhood friends from the village and even rode a sidecar tricycle with a military license plate. How can you still cheat your own brother?
Your brother just can’t understand it, he is not really stupid. How can he not know that you are doing this for the good of both of us!

How is the preparation for the hotel going? Have you obtained the license for the self-employed business? Have you found a suitable house or something?”

“I still have to wait a few days for the self-employed business license. I have already filled out the forms and submitted them, and I have also found a place to open a restaurant.

Master Niu and his apprentices have also agreed to join the business. Now they are just waiting to find a carpenter and a bricklayer to repair the house. Once everything is ready, they will pick a good day to open the business!”

“So quickly, both the house and the kitchen are ready?”

Chen Hong’s heart skipped a beat when she heard this.

Yue Feng was so efficient that he barely gave Yue Shan and his wife much time to hesitate.

Fortunately, Chen Hong was a person with some foresight and great courage, and she used the threat of divorce to force her husband to do the ideological work.

If the two of them haven’t reached a consensus yet, Yue Feng will come over to inquire about the situation and then immediately turn around and look for someone else.

Once the new candidate is found, the proposal to ask my eldest brother and his wife to be in charge of the hotel’s front desk operations will probably come to an end.

By then, the couple could only go back to their respective positions at the mine, with no further options. (End of this chapter)