Chapter 198: Opening (8)
At around 8:30 and nine o'clock in the evening, when the restaurants were starting to clean up one after another, Ye Lingtian's barbecue restaurant business began to get better, and customers came in one after another. Unlike the sporadic customers during the day, those who came at night were basically in groups, with seven or eight people, most of them men. So, the store suddenly became busy and everyone began to be busy. And the second floor, which had never been used before, began to take customers.
Fortunately, Ye Lingtian arranged four waiters to work overlap during the evening. Otherwise, if there were no four waiters, they would be too busy. You should know that this requires running upstairs and downstairs. Ye Shuang, who is in charge of cashiers, was busy, and in the end he could only ask the waiters to help with cashiers. In fact, the busiest thing is in the kitchen, and the two of them are too busy at all. The main reason for the amount in the kitchen is that there is too much quantity. The food that seven or eight people eat at a table is definitely not as simple as multiplying by two or three for three. It is often multiplied by five. If there are seven or eight men, the amount may have to be multiplied by seven or even ten. Because barbecue is afraid of encountering beer, once several men sit together to drink beer and eat barbecue, they will not leave within two hours, and there will be more food.
Because there were only two people in the kitchen, many customers left after waiting for a long time without seeing the food. One of them even made a big fire. This situation was something Ye Lingtian did not expect. He really didn't expect that the business would be so good on the first day of opening. In fact, he should have thought that Xu Xiaoqing had predicted that the traffic in this place was too large, and the snack street was closed, and a large group of people who wanted to eat barbecue had no place to go. Ye Lingtian made the sign so big that he always wanted to attract a group of people.
The hot business started at nine o'clock, and reached its peak at around 10 o'clock and was full. Finally, Ye Shuang arranged to move out two tables and chairs from the storage room on the street at the entrance of the store, and set up two more tables. The waiter on the morning shift should get off work at 10 o'clock, but in the end he didn't get off work. He was very busy and was busy until half past 11 o'clock in the evening. The business gradually lost the two girls in the morning shift to leave.
At twelve:30 in the evening, there was only the last table of guests left in the store. Ye Lingtian and Zhou Yulin were exhausted after they finished serving the last table of guests. With their physical strength, they could not bear it and they didn't even have the strength to stand. The two ran out of the kitchen, found a table to sit down, and kept breathing. You must know that from about 8 o'clock, they kept baking, standing there, and standing on the fire, constantly wandering around the kitchen for more than four hours. The intensity of this labor can be imagined. The two of them were wet and had reached the point where their underwear was running.
Ye Shuang came over with a few bottles of frozen mineral water and gave Ye Lingtian and Zhou Yulin a bottle each.
Ye Lingtian unscrewed the lid and started drinking. After drinking, he felt much more comfortable. After lit a cigarette, the fatigue dissipated slightly. Then he said to Ye Shuang: "Ye Shuang, if there are any customers coming to the door, tell them that our things have been sold out today and let them come again tomorrow. We will not receive guests tonight."
"Well, I think so too. I've been busy for several hours. I was dizzy when I checked in. In the end, I couldn't even settle the accounts. I just calculated it again and found that I had three orders that were wrong. I collected more than 100 yuan in total. I was so stupid. The main reason was that I was too busy during that time. Everyone was urging us to add the order one by one with a calculator. I got it wrong if I accidentally got it wrong. Alas, my hands are sore now, and my stomach is still starving to death." Ye Shuang said with a pout, collecting more than 100 yuan less, which made her very frustrated.
"It's okay, just be careful in the future. I didn't expect the business to be so good tonight. OK, take two bottles of water to deliver it to your two classmates. They are too tired tonight. I'll go cook a few dishes, let's have some midnight snacks." Ye Lingtian smiled, stood up and went into the kitchen again.
They had dinner, and all restaurants were the same. Before opening at night, employees would eat dinner around 6 o'clock, but now it was almost 12 o'clock. How can you not be hungry for six or seven hours of high-intensity homework?
Ye Lingtian went to the kitchen to fry five or six dishes with his tired body. The portion was very large, and they were all good dishes. Everyone was tired and hungry, so of course they had to eat better.
The two waiters left after eating some food. Ye Lingtian could feel that they were tired, and he felt a little sad.
After the last table of customers settled the bill and left, Ye Lingtian half-pulled the door in front of the store and stopped picking up the customers. The three of them sat in front of the table, Ye Lingtian and Zhou Yulin were drinking beer and eating the dishes. The two of them were the ones who were the most tired. They were so tired that they didn't want to talk anymore.
"Ye Shuang, go and ask for today's money to see how much water flows tonight." Ye Lingtian lit a cigarette, took two puffs and said to Ye Shuang.
Ye Shuang nodded, then went to the front desk to order money.
Ye Lingtian raised the wine bottle and ran into Zhou Yulin, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm tired today."
"I'm not afraid of being tired. The main reason is that I'm leaving a few tables of guests today is a pity. Especially the table has a lot of people, and I made a lot of money less," Zhou Yulin said with some remorse.
"That's not your reason. The mistake is made on me. There are only two people in the kitchen, which is far from the point of being wrong. I guess I have to add people in the kitchen. Even if you have to do business tonight, there will be at least four people in the kitchen." Ye Lingtian said with a smile.
"Well, yes, you should add people, otherwise it would be a pity for the guests to leave, and you made a lot of money less," Zhou Yulin nodded and said.
"The most regrettable thing is not that we make less money, but that it affects our reputation. This is the biggest impact. But this kitchen is not easy to recruit people. Where can I find people here to do things in a while? The most important thing is that we make barbecue, not stir-fry, not mainstream, and it is even more difficult to find people. I have to think of a solution tomorrow," Ye Lingtian sighed and said.
"Yes," Zhou Yulin also nodded.
Chapter completed!