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On the eve of Christmas Eve, Lin Feng brought a large box of white truffles and started his first day of work in the restaurant.

Huo Zi'an breathed a sigh of relief.High-end restaurants in the capital have already launched a melee for ingredients. The suppliers’ phones and doors are blocked, and people are stationed at the airport. As long as the plane can take off, they will immediately fly to Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, or Southeast Asia to grab ingredients.Competent suppliers have re-planned their routes, allowing ingredients to enter major cities such as Shanghai and Hangzhou first, and then enter Beijing by train.In this way, the time will be much longer, and the preservation of ingredients is also a difficulty.

Huo Zian was extremely lucky to get the white truffle.

Then Huo Zian discovered that not only expensive ingredients, but even the most common fruits and vegetables had become scarce.After snowing for two days and two nights, the highway was closed.The roads in the city are diligently sprinkled with salt and shoveled snow, and most of them are still passable, but the roads connecting the suburbs are not treated like this, and some of them are covered with slippery ice. Even old drivers dare not take the risk.

According to the weather forecast, the snow may last until New Year's Day. Residents, sensing the possibility of rising vegetable prices, are hoarding vegetables and meat.As a result, soaring prices became a reality ahead of schedule.

Huo Zian tidied up the ingredients warehouse. Fortunately, he and Chen Langxin strictly managed the ingredients, and the storage was roughly enough for the past few days.After all, it is the capital city. Even if there is a weather disaster, the food supply will recover quickly, so they are not too worried.

The only thing that is imminent is the two dinners on Christmas Eve and Christmas.The menu has already been sent out, temporarily modifying the menu will damage the reputation, they must ensure that the food will be served as planned.As a result, after counting the ingredients, they still found a loophole: there was no ginger.

Ginger happens to be an important ingredient in these two dinners.Because ginger is not a rare and expensive ingredient, the chefs in charge of purchasing didn’t pay much attention to the inventory. They went all over the vegetable markets and supermarkets within ten kilometers until the day before starting to prepare ingredients, but they couldn’t even buy a piece of ginger!

On the morning of the 24th, the snow was still falling intermittently. The Meteorological Bureau issued a red warning. Looking around, the heavy snow covered the tall buildings and houses with white skin, and the green belt on the road seemed to be a snow river. , the media reported that this is a "true white Christmas" that has never happened in a century. Various analysis, popular science, rumors, and romantic imaginations about weather anomalies are flooding the public opinion.These discussions made this year's Christmas legendary, but the people inside didn't have the heart to think about it.

In the restaurant, what everyone was thinking about was: where the hell can I find ginger!

Wei Guoen said: "Why don't Xiao Shao and the others go to each big supermarket to look for it? Beijing is so big, I don't believe they can't buy ginger."

Huo Zian disagreed, this was time-consuming and labor-intensive and uncertain, and the preparation of the meal was about to start, so the manpower could not be reassigned.

Chen Lang held his chin in his heart: "If you don't need ginger powder!"

Huo Zian thought, as a last resort, this is also a solution. Although the flavor of ginger powder is completely different from ginger, a lot of extra processing is required, and it is difficult to raise such a large amount of ginger powder...

At this time, Lin Feng stepped forward: "It's not impossible. I'll try to go to the restaurants of a few hotels for secondment. The Chinese restaurant in the 'Youde Building' should have a lot of stock. I'll ask!"

Huo Zian stopped him, thinking that it would be a bit of a fuss to go to another restaurant to borrow money for Jiang.While hesitating, You Liangchen came in with a cane.He saw everyone gathered around the meeting and asked, "What's the matter?"

Chen Langxin told him.You Liangchen said with a smile: "Then what's the problem, it's better to go to the neighbor's house."

"Didn't we take two pieces of ginger stew and borrow it from the neighbors, can we borrow that much?" Wei Guoen questioned.

Yu Liangchen affirmed: "Yes, just ask a few more." He is familiar with the habits of the alleys. In the cold winter, the price of vegetables will be expensive. The old men and women began to buy large quantities of green onions, ginger, cabbage, etc. more than a month ago. Potatoes are stored at home, and together with dried eggplant and beans are the main vegetable food on the table.Although it is now easy to buy off-season vegetables grown in greenhouses, this kind of careful planning has become a living habit every year.

Liangchen sent someone to ask for ginger from the neighbor, and when the neighbor heard that Huo Zian wanted it, how could he refuse?In less than 10 minutes, the ginger pieces packed in plastic bags, express boxes, vegetable baskets, and newspapers were sent back to the restaurant one by one.

Huo Zian patted You Liangchen's head, and praised: "Liangchen has such a quick mind. Guoen, roasted the leg of lamb this afternoon and distributed it to the neighbors."

Seeing that the matter was resolved so easily, Lin Feng felt unhappy, as if his great contribution to the white truffle had also been diluted.

He looked at You Liangchen: Except for the working hours of eating, this man was loose most of the time, either listening to music with earphones alone, or smoking a cigarette with his good leg at the door.Lin Feng came to the restaurant for more than a day, chatted with almost all his colleagues, and got a general understanding of the restaurant's human relations.He knew that You Liangchen had been in charge of the outfield before, which overlapped with his responsibilities. He also knew that You Liangchen was the landlord of the small restaurant in the Hutong, so he thought that he entered the restaurant because of this relationship. He didn't have any education or experience. Huo Zian He flattered him, probably because they rented their house.

He didn't pay much attention to You Liangchen.

While You Liangchen was tidying up the wine cabinet, Lin Feng came over. "Is your foot better?"

You Liangchen turned to look at him: "I still have to raise it for a while."

"You are hardworking enough. You come to work with a cane in heavy snow."

You Liangchen didn't know what he wanted to say, so he responded casually: "There is a lot of work today, someone must be watching at the bar."

"It's not easy. I'll assign two people to manage the bar. If it's convenient for you, you can hand it over now. Take out the inventory of the wine cabinet, the list of suppliers and the quotations, and I'll find someone to follow up."

After hearing this, You Liangchen looked at him for a while and thought, "So this grandson wants my wine cabinet." Wine is the main source of profit for the restaurant. He didn't know Lin Feng well and didn't trust him, so why would he hand over his own wine cabinet? authority?

Moreover, he knows that he is not the real "Second Boss", and he must have his own foundation in the restaurant.He has just started to enter the field of wine serving, and after taking some courses for a while, his eyes are wide open, and he realizes that there is a big gap between his level and Haimo's; now the restaurant's wine list is basically ordered according to Haimo's thinking , There are a lot of praise from the outside world.You Liangchen inherited this solid foundation, and imagined that one day he would be able to make a wine cabinet that fits Huo Zian's style and has his own style, just like Haimo.He has a heart in this matter, Lin Feng has just been here for a day and a half, and he wants him to disarm, treating him as a fool? !

So, he smiled at Lin Feng and said, "Okay, I'm just too busy here, so you can find two people to help me. It's not complicated, and I'll figure it out after a year or two."

Hearing this, he was insincere, and he wanted to blackmail the two of them.Lin Feng is also an old Jianghu, so he changed his head and said now: "The matter of manpower is easy to talk about. I am in charge of the restaurant's business. If it loses money, it is my responsibility. Your purchase and delivery of drinks is related to whether the restaurant makes money. I have to take control here."

"Of course, I will report to you from time to time." He handed the wine list to Lin Feng, "Our former sommelier liked independent brands of wine, and the country and year he chose were not easy to follow. , give me some advice?"

Lin Feng had read the wine list, but he didn't pay much attention to it, so now he had to check it carefully from beginning to end.

Seeing Lin Feng's bewildered expression, You Liangchen secretly laughed.The big hotel where Lin Feng worked before, Yu Liangchen went to its western restaurant, the wine list was full of a bunch of hot wines from local tyrants, it can be seen that there is no qualified sommelier.Lin Feng probably has never even heard of these independent labels.Lin Feng bit the bullet and said perfunctorily: "Too many niche wines are not good, and the price is not high, so the sales will not increase. Like this one..." Lin Feng pointed to a name that was relatively easy to pronounce.

You Liangchen immediately answered, "One box of this model went away last night."

Lin Feng was extremely embarrassed.

At this time, Huo Zian happened to come to see You Liangchen, and heard the following conversation.He gave You Liangchen a look of "Don't bully the newcomers", and then smiled at Lin Feng: "Manager, are you here to inspect the work?"

Lin Feng communicated a few words with the words of the scene.You Liangchen stopped being polite to him, "There are so many things going on in the restaurant, just save yourself the trouble, I can handle it here. If there is something I don't understand, I can't ask you, the layman guides the expert, the more you work, the more chaotic you will be." .”

Huo Zian was a little surprised, You Liangchen didn't break up with people very much, why did Lin Feng provoke him?Seeing the embarrassing situation, Huo Zian's management EQ went online immediately, and calmed down the atmosphere, saying: "Lin Feng, he said don't worry about it, so you can be lazy. Wine is very professional, even I am a layman, how to order wine list, wine Let Liangchen decide how to sell it, and we will discuss it later if there is any problem with the turnover. But I don’t think there will be a problem, the sales of the wine for more than a month have been very good.”

In the last sentence, Huo Zian tactfully praised You Liangchen.How could Lin Feng not be able to tell that Huo Zian's words were both inside and outside, after all, he was biased towards You Liangchen.He is an old fritter, regretting that he was too hasty, he thought that You Liangchen did not take the position of restaurant manager, there must be something that did not suit Huo Zi'an's wishes, since he was a "defeated underling", it would be fine to bully him a few times.Unexpectedly, Huo Zian seemed to have a preference for him, and this idle waiter had a tough temper, not the kind of person who could be trampled on at will.

This time he accepted it. Anyway, the position of restaurant manager is his, and Qin Youde is behind him as a big backer. Given time, he will definitely be able to control the restaurant.

The author has something to say:

Tell me about the amazing profession of a sommelier.

Sommelier can be graded.[-], [-], [-], [-] pass the exam, and the most powerful can get the title of top sommelier (mastersommelier).At present, there are only about a hundred top sommeliers in North America, while in China...according to possibly outdated data, there are only three or four people who have passed the exam to the third level, and there are no more.So, Chinese sommeliers are much rarer than giant pandas!

Although there are many high-end restaurants, it is difficult to find sommeliers in Beijing. Most of them are waiters with a little knowledge of wine, or foreign aid.But wine serving is actually critical to a restaurant’s business.Food doesn't make a lot of money, and restaurants have to make money on drinks.The work of a sommelier is to order wine, store wine, manage wine warehouses, formulate wine lists, wine prices, recommend wine pairings for guests, etc. The work is quite complicated, including countless emails back and forth, negotiations, physical labor, service, sales , and always pay attention to the winery's trends and climate changes...

So, a sommelier is not just a well-dressed waiter pouring wine at a table.With the improvement of Chinese diners’ literacy and knowledge, the demand for wine is no longer the kind of popular wine and local luxury wine, so the demand for wine serving will definitely increase in the future. Girls who love wine can consider this direction.