"Open the door for you?" Xilan's dark eyes stared at him doubtfully.
Fan Ning said "Yeah" and nodded seriously.
Your invisible power seems to be able to open the lock, if you forget to bring it with you. The little girl blinked and thought for a while.
"Caron, can I have it too?" Joan, who came out next, sounded a little pitiful when she found the key in Sheeran's hand.
"There are currently six VIP guest rooms." Fan Ning smiled, "They are all inside and outside rooms, which are enough for two people. If you are busy too late and don't want to bother, you can spend the night with Xilan. Of course, you have to be alone.
I don’t mind if I use one room.”
"Well, I mainly want the key to the kitchen that involves the coffee break preparation room."
While chatting, the three of them went up to the first floor and walked towards the rest area where the orchestra musicians and administrative staff were resting.
The air here carries a light fragrance similar to the lobby of those luxury hotels in the Imperial Capital, and it also has a spacious space close to it, but its exquisite decoration focuses on the home style, with colored oak floors, embossed wallpapers, and tasseled
Thick velvet curtains, crystal lamp grids in the ceiling, and landscape decorative oil paintings are standard features, and all angular places are appropriately wrapped in fabric to bring a relaxing and soft feeling.
Several wall cabinets containing books, green plants or small handicrafts divide the area into about ten large levels. There are a wide variety of entertainment and leisure facilities inside, but the common point is that they are all equipped with enough space for people to lean on and sink into.
Step in or lie down directly on the expensive brand sofa, and you can see the outside scenery through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
At this moment, in addition to the musicians who come here to rest and communicate between rehearsals, administrative staff from other departments also get up one after another and walk around here to relax.
The lunch break at Turner Art Hall and the Old Symphony Orchestra is from 12:00 to 14:00, and the afternoon tea time is from 15:30 to 16:30. After enjoying this comfortable time, it is just before the end of the day's work.
It’s only an hour and a half. Of course, this is just a normal situation. The entertainment industry is always special. Especially in the early stages of establishment and preparation, overtime is worked almost every day. Their high salary also includes overtime training, overtime or evening work.
Subsidies for performance matters.
But afternoon tea is an extremely important thing in Tiolean's current life and culture. Fan Ning attaches great importance to taking an hour out of the regular eight-hour working time every day to arrange exquisite tea break snacks for the musicians and staff.
The so-called "welfare", "team harmony" or "creating a sense of belonging" discussed solely from a management perspective are only one aspect.
The more reason is that Fan Ning believes that when working in the cultural and art industry, one must maintain creativity and avoid mechanical and mediocre working conditions.
In a comfortable and comfortable atmosphere, musicians and staff can enjoy some snacks and drinks, relax and socialize freely, or be alone to relax. Many good business ideas or artistic inspirations come from the exchanges.
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"Why doesn't Kaplan come up?" Fan Ning asked in confusion.
He sat on a six-person sofa set, with Sheeran and Joan on his left, and Olga, who had been hired as the administrative manager, and an empty seat on his right.
"Since he is about to return to your command method lesson, he said that he would take the opportunity to practice alone again." Qiong said.
"He was also interested in the feel of the new piano," Sheeran added.
"There's no one around, why are you practicing in front of the air?" Fan Ning shook his head helplessly, "Invite him up during the afternoon tea time to exchange feelings. Why is this guy so stubborn and doesn't know how to relax?"
"I'll talk to him when I get back," Olga said immediately.
Six sets of white lace hand-embroidered tablecloths, as well as dinner plates, teacups, teaspoons, tea dregs bowls, sugar bowls, and milk bottles have been placed on the table. Then the attendants adjusted the four flower pots to the appropriate positions and inserted them.
Add roses and platycodon, tie orange satin flowers on paper towels, and distribute them to everyone.
"Mr. Fan Ning, frankly speaking, your new venue feels much more maneuverable than the Woodpecker Restaurant when you put it to use."
Sitting opposite Fan Ning was a fat gentleman with dark skin, wearing a solid gold necklace, a white chef's hat and a monocle.
He skillfully opened the lock of the tea cabinet on the table, weighed the Earl Gray tea with a silver mini measuring spoon, put it and the sachet into the teapot with a strainer, poured in about 185 ml of boiling water, closed the pot lid, and poured the tea at hand.
The timing hourglass fell off its edge. After soaking for 2 minutes and 44 seconds, he quickly swept the sediment at the bottom of the pot into the tea residue cup with a cleaning brush, then added milk to the warmed porcelain cup and poured tea for six people.
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"Drop of gold." The fat black gentleman stood up slightly, and the last drop of the amber liquid with a strong tea aroma in the first round of teapot brewing fell into the Fanning cup at the end of the order with a "ding-dong" sound.
"Thank you." Fan Ning pinched the ear of the cup and picked it up gently, then looked around at the musicians in other areas through the cabinet wall, "I heard them admiring, and even a little moved. I can see that the implementation of this benefit has made people happy."
If people are satisfied, we can learn from this successful experience in terms of evening packages for the ten titled concerts."
"Hiring a few photographers will have a better publicity effect." The fat black gentleman said.
Kimberley Congreve, senior tea sommelier at Woodpecker Restaurant.
He is also a senior baker and former deputy store manager.
Viadlin's concerns proved to be unnecessary, and Fanning did not take action on the Woodpecker restaurant's operating funds.
Fan Ning chose to poach people directly.
For example, Congreve has been appointed as the manager of the comprehensive operations department, because during the conversation, Fan Ning learned that in addition to specializing in the pastry field, this guy also came up with various projects including fresh food, delivery service, and guest service during his time in the store.
Various tricks including points, full-process customization, and referral rewards.
He belongs to the type of tea master who knows how to make money the most.
Hmm. But it's not quite accurate to say "dig". Their establishment was originally composed of civilian staff of the Guidance School. He is both the music director of the old symphony orchestra and the president of the Uvranser branch. Perhaps this is an internal transfer of personnel. At the same time
Fanning is adding more new blood to Woodpecker Restaurant, because starting today its order volume will surge again.
As for senior tea master Congreve, Fan Ning believes that in addition to teaching tea art and baking skills to restaurant apprentices, he should focus more on market operations. As for the procurement and implementation of daily tea breaks, including special service personnel
The employment scheduling is left to the administrative department.
The waiters were still filing out of the preparation passage behind the bar, placing groups of three-layer dessert porcelain plates on the white tablecloths in front of the musicians' tables, and removing the thermal covers.
They follow the traditional order from salty to sweet, with handmade biscuits, meat floss rolls, salt and pepper squid rings and sandwiches with ham and butter on the first level, scones piled high with jam and cream dishes on the second level, and scones on the second level with jam and cream dishes.
The third layer contains Fan Ning's favorite varieties specially chosen on the first day: sliced lemon almond cake, shredded coconut pear pudding and crushed cherry red wine puffs. After they are eliminated from top to bottom, there will be some relief from the sweetness.
The greasy fruit tart was presented.
Sheeran and Joan got into an argument about "should you choose hot milk or cold cream for earl gray tea, and whether you should add milk or tea first?" Fanning leaned on the sofa, crunched the squid ring, and asked Olga
Asked: “What are the actual calculation results of the comprehensive management costs of the Music Aid Program?”
"1 to 9." Olga replied quickly, "In the morning, the choir members were given a 1 pound subsidy for the last week of October; they have already rented two houses in nearby streets and have moved in; the part-time job of the teaching teacher has been scheduled.
Until the end of November; in addition, there are some miscellaneous expenses for clothing, shoes, hats, and stationery, including depreciation of teaching equipment and venues. Overall, these costs are spread to each child, and one person costs about 9 pounds a week."
In the few sentences above, she reported on the progress of the four tasks.
Fan Ning nodded slightly: "So the subsidies given to them only account for 10% of the money spent on them. The overall cost of education is the bulk."
Regarding the personnel management issues of the affiliated choir and the future youth symphony orchestra, Fan Ning spent a large proportion of his energy thinking about it.
In addition to the professional issues of music teaching itself, for this group of children who have entered adolescence, he also has to consider their personal safety, mental health, character education, discipline management, as well as future incentives and punishments, and entry and exit mechanisms.
The current conditions cannot provide unified responsibility for food and lodging, so a closed boarding model cannot be implemented. In addition to living allowances, Fan Ning has also made three main efforts:
First, an additional deputy manager of the administrative department was recruited to serve as Olga's deputy, and he led several staff members to be responsible for the daily management of these teenagers and girls;
Secondly, we conducted an on-site inspection of all the relatively concentrated vacant rental houses near the Turner Art Hall, contacted the urban construction department, and matched with the Housing Improvement Association to conduct unified negotiations and arrange for centralized occupancy in male and female areas, with four people per apartment, so as to shorten the distance between living and attending classes as much as possible.
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Finally, in terms of teaching course arrangements, in addition to music professional courses, he also recruited senior students from other colleges to provide necessary cultural education such as language, mathematics, history, etc., and invited Ms. Hamilton’s team to teach adolescents or native families
Bring regular counseling for possible mental health issues.
The overall principles of the above ideas are: to ensure that music learning can be focused on without distractions, that the diet is nutritious and not extravagant, that the residence is comfortable but not luxurious, and that you cultivate simple and self-disciplined living habits.
Fanning's long-term plan will not be limited to this city. He will build Turner Art Hall into a model similar to the "theater chain" in the previous life. After some of the good experiences are fixed, he can expand the territory in other counties in the future.
Apply directly.
"When all the people recruited by the two groups are available, the monthly expenditure will rise to 5,600 pounds, accounting for approximately 16.7% of the current monthly operating fixed expenses of Turner Art Hall." Olga emphasized the final conclusion.
Fan Ning is very satisfied with the administrative efficiency and financial data control of the chief steward: "The actual situation is basically in line with my expectations. In order to encourage outstanding people or relieve the worries caused by major family difficulties, I will consider awards and bursaries."
setting plan."
Olga hesitated for a moment, then tried her best to speak as if mentioning it in passing: "Speaking of which, today also happens to be the salary payment day of the fourth week, and the musicians and employees have enjoyed the benefits for the first month."
"Carone, I have to mention this." Joan took a tea knife and spread jam on the opened scones. Her tone was very excited, "The chief treatment you provide makes me doubt Bologna every time."
The school's weekly salary of 7.5 pounds is bullying me for being young. I put today's banknote in the outer pocket of my flute case, which is a full eight times the school's salary."
She looked left and forward, and found that both Sheeran and Olga seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?" Fan Ning smiled and blew a sip of black tea from the cup.
"Mr. Fanning." Olga gritted her teeth, "The current accounting situation of Turner Art Hall is this."
"Miss Roy's sponsorship allows us to start with 80,000 pounds in the preparatory stage. We will deduct 18,000 pounds for your super luxurious decoration upstairs and downstairs, leaving a balance of 62,000 pounds."
"Miss Sheeran's estimate of monthly fixed expenses was 28,456 pounds. I thought it would exceed 30,000 at the time. In fact, there were many unexpected expenses. For example, we purchased 20 sets of 400 pounds for the music classroom and piano room.
For the baby grand piano, small aspects such as cleaning the exterior windows of the building are far more expensive than I thought. There are more cleaning staff than I thought. The choice of carpet grade and the expanded area have quadrupled the price. Of course.
, and this daily coffee break service, which is as elegant as the Louis royal family.”
"The actual expenditure is 41,496 pounds! In other words, the account balance is now only 20,504 pounds. Although we will not purchase 20 baby grand pianos next month, the fixed expenditure will need at least 33,496 pounds according to this trend!"
"Such a big gap!?" Sheeran only felt that the situation was worse than he expected.
"Oh my god, Carol, I suddenly feel that the lemon almond cake doesn't taste good anymore." Joan was shocked after realizing it. "What should I do? Do you need to go to the bank for a loan? My dad knows some people who lend money quickly.
That's right, you can stop paying my salary first, and I'll go downstairs and return the banknotes to you."
The performance season has just started on the 25th of next month, right?
Although the tickets are sold in advance and the funds will flow back in advance, it is extremely easy for the flow to be cut off due to lack of reserves in this situation, let alone how the tickets will be sold.
"Oh, I forgot something." Fan Ning smiled softly and started looking for something in his briefcase.
He took out two remittance receipts and handed them to Olga.
"They were originally transferred to my personal account. I just went to remit the money to Turner Art Hall in the name of payment in the morning. Well, the financial efficiency in the city is still good now. You should receive the telegram voucher within two days."
Olga's eyes gradually widened as she took it: "21,000 pounds? 53,025 pounds? That much? Or two amounts?"
"The additional sales of more than 700 copies of the Summer Arts Festival record after tax, and the 8115 after-tax returns from the first sale of the album "Keyboard Etude for a Fixed Bass Theme", well, the latter has already reached a four-star rating, that gang
The guy acted very quickly. Seeing the overwhelming number of buyers, he rushed to produce the first batch of 5,000 copies before they were sold out, ensuring that the nominal first sale data was not interrupted... It was priced at 20 pounds, and I could only get 35% of it.
, in terms of cost-effectiveness, it is far inferior to the first one where all the profits went to me. It’s a pity that the record company will never give me random money again.”
The scene was a little quiet for a while.
"Twenty thousand, forty thousand, ninety thousand, ninety-four thousand." Sheeran came back to his senses and began to make signs on the dinner plate with a tea knife. "Caron, our financial situation seems to be the same as when you took the tax payment."
The state after making huge sums of money.”
"Well." Qiong smiled, "The lemon almond cake is quite fragrant..."