Novel Series: Liantang Fusheng - Legend of the Cheng Family of The Marquis of Fujian (169)
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169, why is the salary of the chef so high?
It is said that in 1913, after working in Fuzhou Juchun Garden for 10 years, the 26-year-old Lin Fangzheng climbed to the position of the second stove in the kitchen, which can be described as a teenager.
The chefs in the large restaurant, from highest to lowest, are: the head chef, one or two people on the first stove, several people in the second stove, several people in the three stoves, several people on the cutting board, several people in the steamer, several people in the lotus, several people in the roasted pork, several people in the dim sum, and several people in the water table...
The second stove is mainly responsible for the cooking of some home-cooked dishes, and the technical content is slightly lower than the first stove, and much higher than the three stove. Erzao is familiar with the selection of various home-cooked dishes, as well as the collocation, cooking methods, and has its own unique skills. Some two-cooker technology is not worse than the head stove, and is often dispatched by the head chef to the top stove. By the way, in large restaurants, the head chef usually does not stir-fry the dishes himself. The salary of the second stove is slightly lower than that of the first stove and much higher than that of the third stove.
More than a hundred years ago, how high was the salary of the two-stove chef in the Fuzhou restaurant?
Monthly salary of 35 oceans.
At that time, the average rough laborer in Fuzhou had a monthly salary of only 7 to 8 yuan.
Grassroots employees of colleges and universities have a monthly salary of 8 yuan.
At that time, there was a banquet at a table in juchun garden, and the benefit was 10 to 15 yuan.
How much does it cost for a Buddha to jump off an altar? 15 oceans.
Therefore, the 26-year-old Lin Fangzheng earns a monthly salary of 35 yuan, which is a high salary.
Chefs are skilled workers who have always enjoyed high salaries, while chefs with excellent skills are more valuable.
Nowadays, Fuzhou Juchun Garden recruits Fujian cuisine chefs, with an education level of junior high school or less, as long as there is 1 year of work experience, the monthly salary is 4.5-6 thousand yuan.
In 1920, someone wrote an article describing that at that time, a "Chen Tang Jinghua Restaurant" in Guangzhou searched for famous chefs at a high price, "Checking the restaurant, I recently hired a famous chef, and I heard that the contract was made, in addition to the monthly salary of more than 100 yuan, Another 1,000 yuan was sent to the salary of the salary worker, and the value was unprecedented." (Southern Metropolis Daily, January 2015, "Food in Guangzhou in 1920s Advertisements")
Why was Zheng Chunfa able to first enter the shares as a chef and then simply monopolize the entire Sanyou Zhai? Here's the thing.
The chef's craft is called cooking.
Artists, do it regularly and methodically, but there is no standard for evaluation, completely based on feelings. How do you make your work feel good for more people? In other words, how do you make your work conquer more users? No one can say it clearly, but it can only mean that it is ineffable. For example, those passages of traditional cross-talk, "Pickpocket" and "Anti-Seven Mouths", are all scripted, and cross-talk artists are generally performed according to the script passed down from generation to generation, why do you particularly like this pair of actors and do not like the pair of actors? And the cross-talk actors who are on a certain "dan position", this group and that group perform the same show, you will feel that they are all good-looking, and you will feel that each has its own wonderful points.
The same is true of cooking. Celebrity chefs, good chefs after the "Duan position", can turn the small stove into a delicious stage, interpreting the color and aroma drama that hooks people's souls; can transform the kitchen world into a food hall, so that foodies can bow down to the ground.
On the other hand, chefs are also very hard manual workers.
If nothing else, on a hot day, consumers enjoy food in the air-conditioned restaurant, and the chef's hot kitchen sweats in front of the hot stove to stir-fry hot dishes, which is called a deep water heat. There is a Western proverb: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." If you can't stand the heat, get out of this kitchen. This is the heat of the kitchen to describe the hard work.
A few years ago, some netizens posted the salaries of Hong Kong construction workers: 1300 yuan for painters, 1400 yuan for excavators, 2370 yuan for iron workers, 2500 yuan for formwork workers, and 2600 yuan for concrete.
Daily salary. The salaries of Hong Kong construction workers are closed on a daily basis.
If the median (the median is not the average, it is the number standing in the C position) of the iron worker working 20 days a month, the monthly salary is 47400 yuan (2370 yuan X 20 days).
Undoubtedly a high salary. In Hong Kong, a monthly salary of more than 30,000 is "honorable" to join the ranks of the "middle class", with a monthly salary of 47,000 and only 20 days of work, which is the wealthy layer in the middle class.
However, the salary of construction workers is really hard-earned money.
Chefs are also like this to some extent.
So, it's normal for chefs to be paid well.
Lin Fangzheng became a second stove at the age of 26, and he was still single, and matchmakers poured in.
It is said that with such good conditions, Lin Fangzheng should be able to marry his daughter-in-law smoothly and smoothly.
It's actually not that smooth.
Why?
Because his foundation is still thin.
Now when people marry their daughters-in-law, the woman asks if she has a house or a car. At that time, it was "simple" than now, not asking whether there was a car or not, only asking the same: is there a house?
Lin Fangzheng actually has a house, in the village of Mizube Lotus House, an ancestral mansion.
However, the mansion was too old, and the buildings in the middle of the Qing Dynasty were in ruins. If it is today, then the ancient wooden structure house is a cultural relic, repair it, to "repair the old as old", the value is not cheap.
However, repairing the old and dilapidated wooden house was impossible for the Lin Fangzheng family, because there was no money. Moreover, they only own two rooms in the mansion, one where Lin Fangzheng's parents live and one where Lin Fangzheng's brother-in-law lives. Lin Fangzheng's brother and sister-in-law work as farmers in Lianzhai Village, they have 3 sons, the second and third elders live with their parents, and the eldest lives next door with grandparents.
This house, for Lin Fangzheng, has equal to nothing.
Since Lin Fangzheng entered the Fuzhou City Restaurant at the age of 7 to study art (part-time work), there is no bed in the house of the old house of the Lotus House. I worked as an apprentice in a small restaurant for 9 years, and the master managed to eat and live. After coming to Juchun Garden, I rented a cottage outside the West Gate. It is about 5 kilometers away from Juchun Garden, and it takes about an hour or so to walk.
Why live so far? This is the same reason why talk show actor Ho Kwong Chi said that he lives in a suburb surrounded by wild animals in the wilderness, and he can't afford to rent a house in the city.
In addition to the house, there is also the bride price. Fuzhou people marry a daughter-in-law, the amount of the bride price pays attention to "3", 130, 330, and the unit behind the number is "block ocean".
Now people think of the bride price and find it incredible: Isn't this the same as buying and selling marriage?
But the ancients felt that it was righteous. The Book of Rites stipulates that men marry women, and the bride price given by the man to the woman is the fourth of the "six gifts" of marriage. The six rituals are, in order: Na Cai, Qing Ming, Na Ji, Na Zheng, Please Period, and Greeting. The fourth of these, the sign of the bride price, is the bride price. Etiquette. The Shi Di Li clearly states: "Those who recruit, those who recruit, those who hire caiye." Signs, into also. First get paid and then get married. "Ming tells you, first take the money and then get married."
Although he earns a high salary of 35 yuan a month, he has only just begun to earn after all. Previously, Lin Fangzheng went from drying lotus to steaming pot, then drying to cutting board, and then three stoves, and the salary was not high. The salary of the three stoves is less than 20 yuan per month.
At least 130 pieces of ocean dowry, Lin Fangzheng can afford it, but not now, have to wait a few more years.
Therefore, the matchmakers rushed up and retreated one after another.
Well, Lin Fangzheng, you continue to work hard.