Laid-Off Female Teachers To Millionaires

From a young teacher's unemployment to a dishwasher for making a living, starting from debt 200 thousand to struggling for millions of assets, she relied on her own mind and hands to start a "successful feast" step by step.

Lose the kindergarten teacher's job and start the dishwasher.

Sun Qiuping was born in the 60s of last century, and most people in that period were ordinary and ordinary.

After graduating from high school, she went to an enterprise kindergarten to work as a kindergarten teacher. But at the end of 1996, the company suddenly told her that the kindergarten was disbanded because of the poor management of the company.

At that time, she was "unprepared" and her life became empty. Shortly after she lost her job, her husband was laid off. The family had no financial resources at all, and the child was still at school. In order to live, he could only find another job.

At that time, she said, she felt that she had had a nightmare. But now she remembers that she was grateful for that part of her life. She was washing dishes and laid the foundation for her future development.

From 1997 to 2001, Sun Qiuping started her career as a dishwasher under the help of other people in a Japanese restaurant in a hotel in Changchun, earning only less than 500 yuan a month.

I will be the front office manager in a year.

So far, she can still remember the first Japanese sentence she learned on the first day of the dishes shop.

"Bring all the dishes that you have washed." On the morning of the first day of work, the chef, Japanese Kimda Miro, assigned her work in Japanese.

At that time, she had never touched Japanese, and after hearing it, she did not understand what it meant. Kimda Miro continued speaking in Japanese several times, but she still had no response. It made Kimda Miro very angry. She threw a stir fried spoon into the sink, and went away very angry.

Afterwards, her colleagues in the kitchen told her that the chef just asked her to bring the dishes.

Through this, she fully realized that in such an environment, she could not work without knowing Japanese, and on the afternoon of that day, she learned a simple Japanese: "after work, you go slowly."

At the end of the day, when she said goodbye to the chef in this blunt Japanese language, the chef was very surprised. Then she was very happy to tell her in the same stiff Chinese, "you are a very hard Chinese person, and there will be development."

Later, she studied Japanese very hard, and most of the time after work, she used to learn Japanese. When the chef knew it, she began to promote her and impart some Japanese cooking techniques to her.

After a short month, she was transferred to the kitchen by virtue of her diligence and sensitivity to Japanese cuisine. After nearly a year's work in the kitchen, she basically mastered Japanese cooking practices, and her diligence was also seen by Japanese bosses. In 1998, she promoted her to be the front desk manager of a restaurant.

By 2001, the restaurant had become a famous restaurant in Changchun, and Sun Qiuping's hard work and management experience had been recognized by his colleagues.

So there were other stores that asked her to work in the past. Some of the shops actually made a 5% Commission of the gross annual profit and a salary of 2000 yuan a month. At that time, there were several times the difference between her salary and the favorable conditions they had set up, but she had only one idea at that time.

When you open a shop, you suffer SARS.

By the end of 2001, the owner of this restaurant began to switch to work abroad, ending the business in the Chinese cooking shop, so Sun Qiuping had to lose his job again.

But at this time, she is different from the unemployed preschool teacher 5 years ago, but an experienced expert in the management of Japanese cooking shops.

So she went to another Japanese restaurant in Changchun as manager, but her management method was difficult to blend with the family management enterprise. After more than a month, she resigned and left, and then she tried several more, but all of them encountered the same problem.

In this case, why not open a shop by yourself and become a boss? She is cruel and cruel.

After doing the short-term preparation, she borrowed 200 thousand yuan from the bank and borrowed some money from her relatives and friends. Finally, in October 5, 2002, she opened a Japanese restaurant with a size of about 160 square meters.

With her own management experience and familiarity with the industry, she managed to turn the store into a more famous Japanese restaurant in Changchun only after a month. According to her plan, bank loans can be paid off in less than a year.

But maybe it was fate that tried to test her. Just a few months after her opening, she met her biggest career crisis, SARS.

"At that time, there were very few customers every day, even if there were few customers in the shop at the weekend, at least 30 thousand yuan a month." Now she remembers the situation of SARS, still feeling deeply. At that time, many hotels were basically in a state of gloomy business, and some even disappeared.

In order to quickly reverse this situation, she began planning to send Japanese box lunch for schools and hospitals. Her hard work helped her again. In the first half of 2003, a professor ordered a box lunch in her shop. In order to enable the professor to eat hot lunch, she specially drove a taxi to the professor's home from Comrade Street.

At that time, the professor was very moved and publicize her lunch box to her colleagues in school, and the story of her sending a box lunch to a taxi became a well-known story among the industry.

Up to now, many college teachers and professors have become friends with her through box lunch and become frequent customers in her shop.

At the same time, "taxi to send lunch" also won her credibility. During that special period, some people still went to her restaurant for dinner, and she finally survived the difficult period.

One answer, a group of guests.

In June of 2003, Sun Qiuping began to develop her Japanese cooking shop at the same time of a long breath. And one of the Japanese guests is a great inspiration to her.

According to her introduction, in June of 2003, an old Japanese man came to the store. Before that, the Japanese old man had visited several cooking shops in Changchun, but they did not feel very satisfied. And when someone introduced Sun Qiuping's Japanese restaurant to the old Japanese man, the old man didn't put the shop in his eyes at the beginning. He came to the shop and gave Sun Qiuping a "big horse".

"I will give you a question. If you can answer, I will eat here. How much is the temperature of sake in Japan?" in Japan, the sake of cooking is used to measure whether the restaurant is authentic.

"The body temperature is most suitable for 37 degrees Celsius." When the Japanese old man heard the answer, he was very excited because no one in the other Japanese restaurants in Changchun had ever answered the question correctly, and after the taste of her cooking, the old man gave her the highest and most cordial comment. "This is the taste of our hometown (Japan)."

After that, the old man came to Changchun every time to come to her store to taste, and constantly introduced her cooking shop to her friends. With this experience, Sun Qiuping has seen the benefits brought about by the details of the service, and even improved the level of the entire catering store from the service details.

Details are everywhere in her cooking shop. Open the toothpick box, 16 toothpicks are placed in neat squares, and the wooden window lattice on the walls is almost without dust. Sun Qiuping said that every day she had to wear white gloves to check every window lattice to ensure cleanliness. "The Japanese pay great attention to the cleanliness of the dining environment, which can not be underestimated." It is through this service that her restaurant has ushered in more customers.

Now, when Sun Qiuping started his business, 200 thousand of the loans owed to the bank had been completely repaid, and nearly 1 million yuan of personal assets had been made.

And she also has a bigger goal, to expand the scale of her shop on the existing basis, and try to open her shop to Japan.

"Big things start over"

Reporter: why do you want to cook your own restaurant business?

Sun Qiuping (hereinafter referred to as "sun"): in the shop I worked in, there are many service staff who have kinship with the CEOs. And in my work, I am very demanding on the quality of the staff, and many people will not be able to adapt. So it is very difficult to cooperate with these people. The only way is to choose to leave and set up shop.

Reporter: since you have chosen to open your own shop, can you accept the training and management of the staff who are close to harsh?

Sun: they simply can not accept that people are lazy. If they do not hurry, they will be lazy. In order to express their opposition to my management style, they once joined in a strike to protest. (laughter) but I tell them that the strict demands are not for my own sake. You are now a migrant worker. If you do not have strict training and study, you will be a migrant worker wherever you go. If you can pass my training, you will have the chance to change your destiny no matter where you go. As a result, the ordinary employees are excellent now.

Reporter: during the SARS period, your restaurant business has problems. Have you ever thought about giving up the industry?

Sun: at that time, SARS did bring a heavy blow to me. I also wondered if I could only be a part-time worker instead of being a boss. But on the other hand, my Japanese teacher could still be admitted as a Chinese graduate student at the age of more than 70, and a more than 70 year old person can still work hard and get the final success after several failures. I am much younger and more time than she is. As long as I work hard, I should be able to succeed, so I bite my teeth and hold on to it.

Reporter: in the business operation, the location of the shop is very important, but your shop has no choice in the busy street, but in a small alley, why did you choose to open a shop in such a place?

Sun: I choose to open a Japanese restaurant in such a small alley, not to save costs, but to save 6000 yuan a month for all the raw materials of Japanese cuisine, so as to ensure the original flavor of Japanese cuisine. Authentic cuisine is made from authentic ingredients, which is one of the reasons why my shop is so prosperous.

Reporter: your shop assistants are excellent. Do you have any unique experience in the management of the shop assistants?

Sun: in my management, there is a very important point, that is, "working hours are working hours". Employees and employees can only have a relationship between the staff and the boss, and the system of rewards and punishments is also very strict. At the end of the work, employees can put forward what they think is unreasonable in this day. If it is reasonable, listen to his advice in the next work, so that the contradiction between the boss and the shop assistant will be resolved, and the staff's opinions will be respected. They can work harder.

Character files

Before 1997, he was a kindergarten teacher, and from 1997 to 2001 he worked as a front desk manager from a dishwasher at a Japanese restaurant in a hotel in Changchun. In October 2002, liabilities 200 thousand opened a Japanese restaurant. Now personal assets reach nearly one million.

Wealth and sentiment

"There are always some people in the world who complained about not having seized the fortune opportunity ten years ago when they were five years ago. After five years, they began to complain that they did not grasp the best opportunity five years ago. I believe that in another five years, they will still complain that they have not seized today's opportunity. In fact, the world is not short of opportunities. There are good opportunities at all times. The key is whether you can perceive its existence, and then go all out to do it well. As long as you work hard, you will never be late. "

Click business opportunities

I am very optimistic about the development of the catering industry, especially the food with national characteristics.

Now there are many foreigners working, studying and living in Changchun. There will be more foreigners coming to Changchun in the future. At this time, they will have good prospects by catching their eating habits and setting up characteristic restaurants.