As for apprentices, they also participate in cooking and serving dishes during their studies...

Well, people do this voluntarily, and we can’t stop them.

As long as you are not paid, you are just an apprentice, not an employee!

You see, in this way, Cao Zhiqiang can circumvent the limit on the number of employees for self-employed businesses.

As for the franchise model, the franchisee contributes the money, and Cao Zhiqiang's hotel provides the people and technology. The two parties cooperate together, and can avoid investment scale restrictions.

If people really ask about this matter, you can put it this way: someone else opened a restaurant, and then he learned the skills from me, and I recommended him as a chef. It is a cooperative and mutual-help relationship between friends.

As long as there is no direct subordinate relationship or a business license, you can avoid the business scale restrictions of self-employed businesses.

As for during this period, other people opened a restaurant with the same name as mine and the same decoration. It can be said that they thought my sign was good and wanted to use it directly with my permission.

There is no patent law in this area in China at this time. Their restaurant has the same name as yours, and the decoration and dishes are almost the same, so there is no problem at all.

As for the franchise fee and management fee, you can say it this way, just say it is a personal thank you fee, or an earnest money fee. Anyway, as long as it is voluntary, it is easy to say.

In other words, the franchise chain established by Cao Zhiqiang can avoid various business scale problems of self-employed businesses, and can also build a brand and expand its influence.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang has mastered the secret recipes of special dishes and the loyalty of the chef apprentices, he has mastered the core technology of this franchise restaurant chain. In this way, there will naturally be no need to worry about franchise stores not cooperating.

This point can be seen from the original plot when Yu Li drives away He Yuzhu and makes He Yuzhu's apprentice Fatty the chef. As a result, the business plummets.

The key to the taste of many dishes is the recipe. As long as these recipes are not handed over and are only seasoned for the finished products of the franchise stores below, there is no need to worry about others stealing them.

Just like Coca-Cola, it only provides the original puree to various places, and the branches in various places only dilute the puree and sell it.

The same goes for franchised chain stores. As long as the seasonings for all franchised dishes are provided by the headquarters, then the lifeblood of the franchised store is controlled.

If the franchise store refuses to obey the management and does not provide secret seasonings and ingredients, you will not be able to make special dishes.

Without specialties, you are just an ordinary restaurant. If you have the same name, it will only be regarded as a poor imitation. Customers will never go back after eating once.

In addition, people in this era pay more attention to the inheritance of master and apprentice. If the apprentice secretly betrays the master for profit, everyone will look down on you, even the guests will look down on you. You will be a bad name in this circle, and no one will do it again. Use you.

In the original plot, after the fat man betrayed He Yuzhu, he was humiliated and ostracized by He Yuzhu and others, which was a typical portrayal of that time.

In other words, the chef training course project that Cao Zhiqiang is planning to launch is essentially to use the traditional master-apprentice relationship, and of course the benefit bundle of regular salary payments from the headquarters, to maintain a small and close group of chefs.

Use this method, plus a secret recipe that is not disclosed, to control other franchisees, thereby circumventing the country's self-employed policy.

But this kind of thing is just a side ball after all, and there is still a certain danger. After all, this model has no backend, and once you make money, it is easy to be targeted.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang had an alternative plan, which was to affiliate with Hongguang Machinery Factory and use Hongguang Machinery Factory to scare away ghosts and monsters if there was any trouble.

But now, since I met Lou Xiaoe so early, I have a new operating mode.

If Cao Zhiqiang can get Lou Xiaoe to agree to investment cooperation, he can go to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to negotiate with Lou Xiaoe's plan to open a catering company with him, plus the letter of introduction from Uncle Wang.

However, Cao Zhiqiang remembered that in his previous life, the first private company in China was founded because the boss of that company, Jiang, wanted to cooperate with a Hong Kong businessman. However, he was originally only a self-employed person, and self-employed people were not eligible to form a joint venture.

In the end, after many efforts, he finally obtained special approval and established the first private company.

It was also from that moment on that private enterprises began to relax, and various private companies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Therefore, that year was also called the first year of domestic enterprises.

Cao Zhiqiang decided to copy the story of Boss Jiang and write a cooperation plan with Lou Xiao'e. Then he took the plan of the joint venture catering company, plus Uncle Wang's letter of introduction, to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for negotiation.

At that time, the other party will most likely agree to let you set up a private catering company.

As long as he agrees to set up a private catering company, he can happily enter into a joint venture with Lou Xiao'e.

Once it becomes a joint venture catering company, there will be many benefits. It will be tax-free for at least three years, right?

Moreover, even if joint ventures pay taxes, they are much less than state-owned enterprises, which can be said to be quite cost-effective.

Furthermore, the joint venture can facilitate import and export trade. If the internal employees of the joint venture want to travel between the inland and Hong Kong, the review by the relevant departments will be looser and easier to pass.

This means that once Cao Zhiqiang and Lou Xiao'e really form a joint venture, if Cao Zhiqiang wants to go to Xiangjiang to do business, at least the approval will be more convenient inland.

It means that through this joint venture, Cao Zhiqiang has an identity and a platform that can easily travel to Hong Kong from the mainland.

Furthermore, if due to this incident, domestic private enterprises are opened up, the hidden benefits to themselves will be even greater.

For example, the title of the first person in a private enterprise must be worn by oneself.

At that time, you can register several companies by yourself.

For example, if I register a hot pot chain company or a Malatang chain company, I can do these things by myself.

All in all, the advantages of recruiting Lou Xiao'e to join the joint venture company outweigh the disadvantages.

These are the benefits that Cao Zhiqiang can think of. More benefits may only be known later.

"Oh, this is really not easy."

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang pinched the bridge of his nose.

"I can't help it. I'm just starting out now. I have to be carried in a sedan chair. There's no future for me to live alone!"

Just when I thought of this, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

Cao Zhiqiang looked up and saw that Shen Zhenhua was here.

"Boss, are you done with your work?" Shen Zhenhua asked with a bow and a smile.

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, no longer sitting, but stood up directly, "It's done for now, Hua Zi, you did a good job, I will give you a bonus later."

"Then can I go back?" Shen Zhenhua smiled, "I'm hungry and want to go back to eat."

As soon as he said this, his stomach suddenly growled.

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "What are you going to eat when you go back? Let's go, I'll take you to eat Western food, just from here!"

"Ah?" Shen Zhenhua was also stunned, and then quickly waved his hand, "I can't help it, the Western food here is expensive, but I can't afford it."

Cao Zhiqiang laughed and patted Shen Zhenhua on the shoulder: "Okay, stop pretending, I'm treating you and you don't have to spend money!"

"Really?" Shen Zhenhua's eyes lit up.

"Really!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded, "You have helped me so much, what's the point of treating you to a Western meal?

Besides, I’m hungry too, so why don’t we come together and treat it as if you’re eating with me?”

"Hey hey hey." Shen Zhenhua scratched his head, "The relationship is good and it's what you want, so I don't dare to ask for your ear."

"Hey, kid." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "You are much more cunning than Lao Yang."

Shen Zhenhua quickly smiled and said: "No, boss, I'm just a slippery talker, but I'm never slippery in my work!"
Chapter completed!