Return to the 80s, from touching loaches to becoming the world's richest man

Chapter 153 Chef Assessment

Several people then followed Lu Hai into the store and began the interview.

However, it was called an interview, but Lu Hai just asked a few simple questions.

After all, to be a waiter, all you need is to do your job efficiently.

The reason why only women are welcome is because this store is now full of men.

And girls are sometimes a little more careful.

From among the several people, I picked out the one who was honest and worked most efficiently and kept him.

As for the others, no matter how much they begged, Lu Hai could only say that he was helpless.

After all, I'm not doing charity, and I can't keep so many people.

As for the chef, it is not so casual. You also need to look at the chef's cooking skills...

The questions Lu Hai asked today were not that difficult.

This dish is stir-fried mung bean sprouts, which can be said to be a very simple dish.

But don’t be fooled by its simple appearance. The difficulty of this dish lies in controlling the heat when stir-frying the bean sprouts.

If the temperature of the dish is not controlled properly, the bean sprouts will be easily fried to death, resulting in more water in the bean sprouts, and then the original color will also change, and finally the original crisp taste of the bean sprouts will be lost...

However, if they are fried too wilted and do not look good, or if they are not fried enough, they will have the original taste of raw beans, which will affect your appetite.

Therefore, if this dish is successful, it means that the chef has a pretty good grasp of the heat.

As for why this needs to be tested, the key lies in the fact that Lu Hai is going to open a chain of hot pot restaurants. Although hot pot is the main dish, stir-frying and the like must also follow.

Lu Hai plans to put very popular dishes like crispy pork and crayfish, which are often available in restaurants in later generations, on his own menu, so the requirements for chefs must not be low.

After all, if the impression given to customers is too bad, in today's era where publicity relies on word of mouth, if the reputation of one store collapses, it may bring about a very troublesome chain reaction.

Therefore, Lu Hai planned to set very strict standards right from the beginning of his first store.

As for the second dish, it is a very famous home-cooked dish and also a regular dish in the restaurant, shredded pork with fish flavor.

It seems that many people can make this dish, but knowing how to make it and doing it well are two different things.

This dish is also a compulsory question for many chefs when taking certification exams.

The difficulty of this dish lies in cutting the ingredients into shreds. Without several years of experience, it is generally impossible to cut these two ingredients into shreds.

This is also the reason why many people order shredded pork with fish flavor when they eat out, but do not see any shredded pork when the dish is served.

What's worse, some people may just cut it into pieces to save trouble and do it perfunctorily.

Another difficulty of this dish is the thickening of the sauce...

The essence of fish-flavored pork shreds lies in the sauce...

In addition to the knife skills required for this dish, it is also difficult to control the ingredients.

Many people may eat the same dish, but the taste is very different, all because of the sauce.

Therefore, if the fish-flavored pork shreds pass the test, it means that the chef is no longer a novice chef...

And the third dish is fried shredded potatoes.

Don’t underestimate this dish because it’s a home-cooked dish. You can tell how well it’s cooked and how good it is just by tasting it…

Of course, if the first two dishes can be done well, then the third dish, fried shredded potatoes, will be no problem at all.

Because this dish is equivalent to a combination of the first two dishes...

While shredding potatoes requires knife skills, frying them also requires a good grasp of the ingredients and the heat.

After all, if it is fried for too long, it loses its original taste and becomes very soft, and may not taste as good as the ones fried by humans. Compared with the two, the crispy potato shreds are definitely more popular with diners...

As for the last dish, it is a relatively common dessert, sweet potato with sugar.

After all, it is a restaurant, so this dessert must be there...

Compared with the previous dishes, this dessert is not so demanding. It all depends on whether the chef knows how to fry and boil sugar.

Stir-fry the sugar until the color is released and the sugar water is stir-fried until it can be pulled into strings, and this dessert is considered a success...

These dishes seem very difficult, but that is only for ordinary people. In fact, these are just testing a chef's basic skills.

After all, everyone can cook. If you can call yourself a chef just because you can cook, then this chef is too worthless...

What Lu Hai is looking for is naturally a real chef. Even future branches and franchise stores will need to recruit chefs according to these standards.

If you want to make a name for yourself, besides the service, the taste must also be outstanding...

After all, if a restaurant only has good service but the food is really bad, would you go there?

Definitely not...

If they can't even make a few home-cooked dishes, Lu Hai feels there's no need to interview these people.

Because of the tight time schedule, Lu Hai naturally didn't have time to wait for them to come one by one.

He would first interview the candidates individually, and only if he felt that the candidates had decent character would Lu Hai keep them and give them a chance to show themselves.

However, perhaps it is because people of this generation generally have very good character. After all, those who are not good have become second-rate people.

Those who come here to find work are generally ordinary people who really want to improve their lives.

Therefore, the six chefs who came for the interview all met Lu Hai’s first requirement.

Finally, Lu Hai asked the six people to prepare the four dishes together.

None of them had much experience, so Lu Hai’s assessment standards were a little loose at the beginning.

Six people were given half an hour to cook the dishes, but of course the time for preparing and cutting the vegetables was not included.

If it is the latter, the speed must be increased by land and sea.

After all, it is a restaurant business, so the speed must be fast. Otherwise, the customers will be left starving.

Fortunately, it seemed that the few people had not lied when they said they could cook, and everyone's movements were very skillful.

And the time for cutting vegetables is almost the same.

Lu Hai took a look and saw that it only took six or seven minutes to cut all the ingredients needed for these dishes into shreds.

As everyone's dishes were cut, the official timing began.

However, there are only two stoves in the kitchen. After all, people nowadays are not allowed to have too many employees. Even if you build a kitchen like that of a big hotel in later generations, there won’t be so many people to work, so it is really unnecessary.

Therefore, the land and sea forces were divided into three groups.

The whole kitchen suddenly became bustling with activity, and six people started to get busy.

After each group’s dishes come out, Jiang Wenbai and his team will be asked to try the taste and then give a score.

The person with the highest score among the last six people will stay...

About an hour and a half later, everyone's scores came out.

"Well, let's welcome our new members, Xiao Tao and Da Chun!"

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