Although the cooking competition at Fujinglou has ended, people’s after-dinner conversations have not ended.
In particular, the dish "Chicken Marrow Bamboo Shoots" that Feng Yifan made in the cooking competition at Fujing Tower is, in most people's impression, a dish that only exists in the book Dream of the Red Chamber.
It really surprised everyone and was also talked about by many people.
Even after the cooking competition ended, the searches and attention for the dish "Chicken Marrow Bamboo Shoots" on the Internet once surpassed that of the competition itself.
Feng Yifan's name also appeared on the hot search list along with the dish "Chicken Marrow Bamboo Shoots".
Of course, the popularity brought by this also made Fujinglou famous, and Zhang Fenglin and Qi Deqiang, who became the head chefs of Fujinglou, also attracted a lot of attention.
There have been some discussions and heated debates on the Internet. Everyone is very curious that the dishes in the book "Dream of Red Mansions" can actually be made.
"Wow, you really don't know until you see it, it turns out that the dishes in Dream of the Red Chamber can really be made."
"Well, I heard from a friend at the scene that the dish tasted very good."
"Yes, I watched the video. Zhuang Daozhong in the video is a well-known state banquet chef. He also said in person that the chicken marrow bamboo shoots made by Chef Feng are exactly in line with the description in the book: 'salty, fresh, and crispy'."
"As expected of a five-star chef, he can even recreate the dishes from Dream of the Red Chamber."
"Why else wouldn't people participate in the competition?"
"Hahahaha, the judges forbid the competition."
"That's right, it's indeed too much for the judges to come out in person."
"Have you heard? It seems that Chef Feng has agreed to teach some Red Mansion dishes to the two chefs of Fujinglou, and let them be in charge of cooking Red Mansion dishes in Fujinglou."
"Wow, the Fujing Building is really going to be prosperous."
"Fujinglou used to be a well-known restaurant in Huaicheng. Now that they have Honglou cuisine, I'm afraid Fujinglou's reputation will become the best in the country, right?"
"It's not certain yet. It depends on how the operator of Fujing Building will operate the business in the future."
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There have been some heated discussions on the Internet, and the topic has gradually evolved from the chicken marrow bamboo shoots dish to a discussion about Feng Yifan and the future operations of Fujinglou.
As the operators of Fujinglou, Su Liancheng and Mei Ru quickly convened the company's top executives to discuss the future business direction of Fujinglou after Feng Yifan agreed to put some of the Honglou dishes in Fujinglou, in an attempt to determine a suitable direction.
At the meeting, the senior management of the catering group did not take Fujinglou very seriously at first.
In the eyes of many group executives, Fujinglou is just a restaurant in Huaicheng, which is not a very famous city in the country, let alone in the province.
Therefore, in the view of many senior executives of catering groups, there is no need to spend too much energy on Fujinglou.
A vice president of a group said bluntly: "President Xiao Su, Vice President Mei, you have stayed in China for too long. Most of our group's business is overseas, so I think you should not stay in China any longer, but come back as soon as possible and focus more on overseas markets."
This vice president is a foreigner and his ideas are not wrong from his perspective.
After all, Su Lanxin built up her current large catering group by relying on the overseas market.
This year, Su Lanxin decided to return to China, but her efforts to enter the domestic market were not successful and encountered considerable resistance.
In the eyes of the company's top management, all this is completely unnecessary waste.
So after such a vice president raised objections during the video conference.
Soon other senior executives in the company followed suit.
Everyone had basically the same idea, believing that Su Liancheng and Mei Ru should temporarily give up the domestic market and instead return to foreign countries to run the company's overseas chain restaurants well.
Judging from the current situation, what the company's senior executives said is not a problem.
It is true that the company has encountered obstacles in expanding its domestic market and has not been able to gain a strong presence and attract high levels of attention as it has in many places abroad.
Even many senior executives of the company believed that Su Lanxin was wasting her time fighting for an old plaque.
However, when Su Lanxin was around, the company's senior executives didn't dare to say anything.
No one dared to directly oppose the decision made by Su Lanxin.
But now it's different. Su Lanxin has left the company. The ones who took over the company are Su Liancheng and Mei Ru. In the eyes of the company's top management, these two are simply two newcomers who are not worth mentioning. Naturally, these top management of the company will no longer continue to be at the mercy of the two.
Some senior executives have even contacted the store managers of the chain stores in private, intending to directly win over the store managers and chefs, thereby completely sidelining Su Liancheng and Mei Ru.
Mei Ru had already guessed this, so she also used some means.
The first step is to control the chefs of the restaurant chains.
After all, those chefs were trained by Su Lanxin and Chen Wei.
They have deep feelings for Su Lanxin and Chen Wei, and in the culinary industry, chefs still admire capable people and cannot be won over simply by relying on interests.
Because a good chef doesn't lack a little bit of profit.
Mei Ru borrowed Feng Yifan's name and directly tied Feng Yifan to her and Su Liancheng's management. In this way, after the chefs of the chain stores learned about Feng Yifan's reputation, they stopped making any moves. Mei Ru also stabilized the chain restaurant.
For the company's top executives, without the support of the chef, it would be difficult for them to sideline Su Liancheng and Mei Ru.
So now the company's top management has come up with another strategy, which is to force Su Liancheng and Mei Ru to return abroad.
In other words, they wanted to make Su Liancheng and Mei Ru make policy mistakes so that they could have the opportunity to use the power of the board of directors to remove the two from their positions.
But how could Meiru allow herself to be manipulated
As a secretary who has followed Su Lanxin for many years, she can be said to have inherited Su Lanxin's true teachings.
So in the face of the aggressive pressure from the senior executives, Mei Ru responded very easily: "Everyone, maybe in your opinion, the current stability of the overseas market has made you complacent, but don't forget that if we don't take over the largest market, then we will always be losers.
Therefore, Lian Cheng and I will not leave. We are going to complete the things that General Manager Su did not complete before he left. "
Hearing this, the senior executives on the other side of the video looked at each other.
Another vice president asked, "So, you two insist on expanding your domestic market? Even if it means paying a huge price, you are willing to do it?"
Mei Ru said seriously: "I don't think it will cost a lot. Even now, Fujinglou is still profitable. Next, we just need to further develop Fujinglou into a boutique restaurant. By utilizing its unique characteristics, we will naturally be able to make a name for ourselves in China."
Su Liancheng continued Mei Ru's words and said, "As long as Fujinglou is successful, we can rely on Fujinglou's kitchen as a domestic training base and start trying to open domestic chain restaurants. I believe that by then we will have conquered the domestic market."
Mei Ru did not give the senior executives on the other side of the video a chance to speak, and she continued speaking.
“I know that you have already become content with the status quo and think that the company only needs to hold on to the overseas market, and then it can operate smoothly in the future.
However, this idea is completely contrary to what President Su originally thought. President Su hoped that we could become the world's top catering group, so she planned for many years and chose to return to China for development. This is the only way for us to become the world's top group.
We may have to pay a price in the early stages, but as long as we can carve out a path, our road ahead will be very broad.”
Mei Ru's words left the senior executives of the company far away abroad speechless.
Although Su Lanxin has left now, her influence still remains within the company.
The senior executives in the company still dared not go against some of Su Lanxin's original ideas.
What's more, some of the previous small moves by the senior executives were resolved by Su Liancheng and Mei Ru, so now when facing Su Liancheng and Mei Ru, many senior executives are still a little afraid.
Under the double deterrence, naturally when facing Mei Ru's seriousness, the senior executives still did not dare to contradict her.
Of course, there are still some shareholders who will express different opinions.
"Boss Mei, since you and Boss Su have made the decision, then can you also give us a plan? And how long will it take you to implement this strategy? You can't just keep asking us shareholders to waste time with you if you don't succeed, right?"
If one shareholder speaks up, naturally other shareholders will follow suit.
"Yes, you must give us a clear time. You cannot let us shareholders waste time with you, and you must be responsible for all the losses."
"If you can't finish it within the specified time, then you have to give up and can't keep wasting time."
“Yes, so please give me the time.”
Su Liancheng and Mei Ru looked at each other, and Mei Ru said, "As for the time, let's say two years. Within two years, we will let all shareholders see the results and give everyone a satisfactory result."
The shareholders looked at each other in bewilderment, and soon one shareholder asked, “Isn’t two years a bit too long?”
Su Liancheng said, "It seems that my mother's plan was for five years, right? None of you objected at that time. Now we're moving it forward to two years. Are you going to object?"
There were also shareholders who supported Su Liancheng and his team. Someone immediately spoke up: "Yes, the plan set by President Su before was five years, so should we continue to implement the five-year plan?"
In this case, the shareholders who have proposed the issue for a long time will have no choice but to compromise.
"Okay, then it will be two years. I hope President Su and President Mei can keep their word."
Mei Ru added another point: "Also, in the next two years, please do not interfere in domestic affairs. President Su will be in charge of the domestic affairs, and no one else may interfere for any reason."
Shareholders and company executives generally agree with this point.
In fact, they didn't want to intervene, as they were always worried about getting into trouble.
The high-level meeting of Su Lanxin Catering Group ended here, and the final result was that Su Liancheng and Mei Ru temporarily gained the upper hand.
But Su Liancheng and Mei Ru both knew very well that this advantage was only temporary. They would face tremendous pressure in the future. The first thing they had to do was to run Fujinglou well and make it a nationally renowned restaurant.
Only in this way can we use Fujinglou as a training base to train enough excellent chefs and truly run the chain restaurant.
After the video conference, Mei Ru assigned some tasks to the senior domestic executives.
After that, Su Liancheng and Mei Ru were the only ones left in the meeting room.
Mei Ru looked at Su Liancheng and said, "We have now burned our boats. We must ask Feng Yifan to help us. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to raise the reputation of Fujinglou in China."
Su Liancheng said helplessly, "I'm not worried about whether Feng Yifan will help us. What I'm worried about is whether he is willing to let us take the chefs trained by Fujinglou out to open a chain restaurant? That would be equivalent to poaching from Fujinglou."
Mei Ru nodded and said, "Well, this matter needs to be clarified with Feng Yifan."
Su Liancheng smiled bitterly and asked, "Who will tell it?"
Meiru rolled her eyes at him and said, "Of course you go."
Su Liancheng had expected this. After all, it seemed that he was the only one who had a say in front of Feng Yifan.
But when it came to facing Feng Yifan, Su Liancheng was really a little scared.
In the past, Su Liancheng would not be too timid even when facing his mother.
But every time when facing Feng Yifan, Su Liancheng always felt that he was inferior to him, as if the other party could see through his thoughts at a glance.
This feeling made Su Liancheng a little afraid to face Feng Yifan.
Mei Ru understood Su Liancheng's difficulties. She sat in Su Liancheng's arms, hugged Su Liancheng's neck, and said very intimately: "You have to think about our promise to shareholders, and we promised mom that we would run Fujing Building well and help her expand the domestic market."
After hearing what Mei Ru said, Su Liancheng became serious: "Well, I know, I will ask Feng Yifan for help."
Mei Ru thought for a moment and said, "In fact, if possible, we can give half of the future profits of the domestic chain restaurants to Feng Yifan."
Su Liancheng smiled bitterly and said, "Do you really think Feng Yifan would want those?"
Mei Ru asked curiously, "Didn't he also accept the previous equity transfer?"
Su Liancheng said helplessly: "He didn't want those. First of all, the equity transfer is for Su Ruoxi, and secondly, those things in the future are obviously going to be given to Feng Ruoruo."
Mei Ru exclaimed when she heard this: "You mean, those things are the dowry that Feng Yifan is going to give to his daughter?"
Su Liancheng nodded: "You can say that, or should I say that, those things are what Feng Yifan prepared for his daughter in the future, and they will ensure that his daughter has no worries."
Mei Ru couldn't help but be shocked when she heard this, and sighed for a long time: "It seems that Feng Yifan really loves his daughter."
Then Mei Ru asked again: "If that's the case, then can we give the profits from our chain restaurants directly to Feng Ruoruo? Then Feng Yifan should be willing to help, right?"
Su Liancheng was not completely sure, so he just said, "You can try."