Chapter 81 Another Application (Long Chapter) (Ch 811565228)

Zhang Xinyi took two boxes and came to the dining table next to several colleagues from the online store department.
“manager.”
“Sister Yi.”
“Don’t be polite, let’s eat first.” Zhang Xinyi smiled and shook her head while opening the lunch box, putting the evaluation form aside, and then opening the lunch box.
“So it’s fish balls? Could it be eel fish balls?”
There are three kinds of fish balls in the storage box, namely fish tofu cubes, curry fish balls, and seaweed fish balls. She picked up a curry fish ball without curry sauce, took a bite, and chewed it in her mouth for a while.
‘There is no obvious earthy smell, but a slight fishy smell. It seems to be firmer than the usual curry fish balls, and the taste is more like pork balls. What kind of fish is this made of? Does eel fish balls taste like this?’
Then she picked up another piece of fish tofu, this time soaked in curry sauce and tomato sauce. After taking a bite, Zhang Xinyi felt that the fish tofu was softer than the fish balls, and she didn’t find any big problems.
The last one is the seaweed fish balls.
After trying all three test products, she took out a ballpoint pen from her pocket, ticked the boxes on the evaluation form, and finally wrote some suggestions.
“Sister Yi, can you lend me a pen?” The female employee next to her was also eating fish balls and was about to fill out an evaluation form.
A Bin, who was sitting opposite, asked curiously, “What kind of fish is this made of? Could it be fish balls made of eels?”
Another colleague picked up a piece of boiled chicken drumstick and shook his head. “It shouldn’t be. The company’s eels are all canned and tin canned. There’s no need to use such expensive fish to make fish balls. Usually, fish balls are made with cheap and abundant fish.”
“Never mind, it tastes good anyway. I just wonder how much the retail price is?” said a female colleague who was eating curry fish balls.
A Bin took a sip of the kelp and pork rib soup and said, “Why do you care about the retail price? Anyway, the company will give it out every holiday, and you’ll eat so much that you’ll vomit.”
Several other employees also responded.
When they thought of the canned eels that the company distributed during the Chinese New Year last year, they couldn’t help but smile helplessly.
The boss does like to give his company’s products to employees.
In fact, Jiang Miao has another hidden purpose for doing this, which is to encourage employees to consciously maintain good hygiene during the production process. After all, these products will be distributed to all employees.
In order to prevent employees from playing tricks and treating products differently based on time, the canned fish distributed by the company are randomly selected from products produced in the past two months.
The company cafeteria uses lunch or dinner time to let employees help evaluate fish balls. In fact, the company has carried out similar arrangements many times.
For example, the beggar’s chicken, barbecued pork, poached chicken, roast goose and so on were tested in the company cafeteria for more than a month.
And now the company’s cafeteria has not just a few people, but more than twenty people.
This matter was arranged by Jiang Haibo. He is a person who does things in a very meticulous and interconnected manner. He likes to make full use of the resources at hand. The reform of the canteen at the company headquarters was promoted by him.
After all, as the number of company employees increases, the company canteen will face a problem, that is, the number of people in the kitchen will continue to increase, but there is a problem of labor waste caused by improper resource allocation.
You should know that the company’s five chefs all have a starting salary of D3, plus ten kitchen helpers, five kitchen cleaners, a canteen supervisor and Jiang Miao’s mother, a total of twenty-two people.
With so many people only preparing three meals a day for more than 200 employees, it is obvious that some resources are wasted.
After all, the canteen at the company’s headquarters is equipped with a large number of equipment. Tasks such as cutting and washing vegetables are actually done by machines, or with the assistance of machines to reduce labor intensity.
After investigating the canteen’s operating model, Jiang Haibo found that the company’s canteen adopted a two-shift operation system. The chef’s morning shift is from six to eight in the morning and from ten to twelve in the morning, a total of four hours; the night shift is from four to seven in the evening, plus a midnight snack from nine to ten, a total of four hours.
In this case, there is a lot of fragmented time in between.
Therefore, Jiang Haibo promoted canteen reform to make full use of this fragmented time.
Currently, the roast goose, poached chicken, barbecued pork, grilled eel, braised pork trotters and curry fried rice of the Eel Restaurant are all prepared in the company cafeteria and then delivered to the Eel Restaurant by refrigerated trucks and tricycles.
In this way, the cafeteria at the company headquarters is equivalent to a central kitchen, and the eel restaurant can also reduce the size of the kitchen.
As for whether the chefs are willing to cook for two more hours.
The answer is 100% yes.
On the one hand, the chefs in company canteens are mostly individual chefs, unlike some restaurant kitchens, where a whole team of chefs work together. Some strong chef teams even ask the restaurant to share the profits.
On the other hand, Jiang Haibo is well aware that if you want a horse to run, you must give it grass to eat.
Although those two hours are within working hours, some incentives must be given to make these chefs work hard wholeheartedly.
Therefore, the dishes sold by the eel restaurant will give the cafeteria a 5% commission. These commissions will be collected at the end of the month and distributed to everyone in the kitchen according to the situation.
Through this reform, the headquarters canteen was transformed from an employee welfare department to a production department.
In the future, it is entirely possible to open branches of eel restaurants in areas with heavy passenger flow such as urban areas and Haifeng County, and then have the eel produced and delivered uniformly by the headquarters canteen.
Moreover, Hailufeng Company’s canteen has another feature that is very different from ordinary restaurants, that is, it pays great attention to data recording and recipe management.
The company has signed contracts with all incoming chefs, requiring them to have detailed production process files for all dishes made in the cafeteria kitchen and not allowing chefs to keep any secrets.
This is a clause that has been clearly written in black and white in the employment contract. If you cannot accept this, you will not become a canteen chef at Hailufeng Company.
The company is also using machines as much as possible to replace some boring and repetitive work.
For example, when it comes to cutting and washing vegetables, machines are obviously more efficient, and an ultrasonic vegetable washing pool can beat manual washing.
Where manpower is really needed is actually to identify rotten leaves, insects and the like.
Jiang Haibo plans to transform the company’s canteen kitchen into a central kitchen that is more research-oriented. He does not pursue so-called high-end technology, but rather mechanization, intelligence, and simplification to ensure that the quality of the dishes is consistent, which is also the requirement of many central kitchens.
The research and development of the new fish balls at the cannery involved the full participation of the company’s canteen chefs.
However, the raw material of these fish balls is not eel as Zhang Xinyi and others guessed, but Egyptian catfish.
That’s right, these fish balls and fish tofu are made with Egyptian catfish as the core raw material.
The reason why we chose Egyptian catfish as raw material can be summed up in one word: cheap and large in quantity.
There is a huge difference in cost between Egyptian catfish, which costs four yuan per kilogram, and Spanish mackerel, which costs more than ten yuan per kilogram on average.
Then why don’t fish ball processing factories use Egyptian catfish as raw material?
The reason is that the Egyptian catfish raised in large-scale ponds have too strong an earthy smell, and even with heavy feed, it is difficult to completely cover it up.
Customers can easily taste the earthy smell of ordinary Egyptian catfish fish balls and naturally will not buy this kind of fish balls. If customers do not buy them, the fish ball processing factory will naturally not use Egyptian catfish as raw material.
The company’s canning factory chose Egyptian catfish as raw material because Jiang Miao has the technology to solve this problem.
By feeding with specific feed, combined with special plastic water tanks and continuous running water, it only takes about twenty-four days to remove 99% of the geosmin in the bodies of pond-raised Egyptian catfish.
Anyone who has eaten wild Egyptian catfish from reservoirs knows that the flavor of Egyptian catfish is not bad, and its taste is not inferior to eel. It can be used as a substitute for eel. Some small Japanese food restaurants actually use Egyptian catfish to replace eel.
Therefore, the company plans to develop Egyptian catfish as a feed raw material, while using technology to remove most of the geosmin from the Egyptian catfish, and then use it as a raw material for fish balls.
The cafeteria staff couldn’t taste any earthy smell, which meant the new fish balls were already half successful.
You should know that Li Xinhua has calculated the comprehensive cost of the new fish balls. If they are produced on a large scale, the average cost per kilogram of fish balls will be only 3.76 yuan.
The Guotai Food Factory, also a local aquatic product processing enterprise in Shanmei City, produces golden fish balls and fish tofu at a wholesale price of 53 yuan per kilogram.
Li Xinhua investigated the other party’s production costs. Although he didn’t know too detailed data, the cost of Cathay Food Factory would definitely not be too low, because they used sea fish as raw materials. Even if they purchased in large quantities at the port, the price of sea fish would not be lower than 10 yuan per kilogram.
Even if Hailufeng Company did not engage in a price war and sold at a price similar to that of the other party, the gross profit per kilogram would still reach 49.24 yuan.
That’s the benefit of mastering technology.
Li Xinhua also discovered an advantage of Hailufeng Company.
The raw material supply of Cathay Food Factory is extremely unstable. After all, there is a fishing ban every year. As a large factory, it needs to purchase in large quantities. During the fishing ban period, those small fishing boats that sneak out to sea cannot meet the raw material needs of Cathay Food Factory at all.
The reason why Li Xinhua knew about this was because the Cathay Food Factory would recruit a large number of rural women from various villages in the urban area to work as temporary workers during the fishing season every year. He found out by asking around locally.
This situation can only mean one thing, that is, the factory’s supply of raw materials is extremely unstable.
Hailufeng Company uses Egyptian catfish as raw material, which can effectively avoid the problem of unstable raw materials.
This leads to another question: why do many food factories have very poor profitability or very weak risk resistance?
This is because many food factories are unable to control a stable supply channel of raw materials. Once there is a problem with the supply of raw materials or the price skyrocketed, the factory’s profits may plummet.
Li Xinhua agreed very much with Jiang Miao’s idea. Raw materials are the lifeline of food processing companies. By mastering the production of raw materials and using this as a starting point, the industrial chain developed will become extremely solid.
For example, why are some large domestic feed factories able to develop so rapidly in pig breeding and meat processing? It is because they are already at the upstream of the industrial chain and are extending to the downstream of the industrial chain just like flowing downstream.
Of course, the industrial chains of these large feed factories are not yet upstream enough.
The real upstream is grain production, deep-sea fishing, edible oil processing, and then feed processing.
Jiang Miao’s Hailufeng Company is quietly extending to the upstream industrial chain.