Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 316 Too bad, I became a stand-in
For Miaomiaowu, delaying updates has become commonplace. Of course, updates still need to be updated, but sometimes the cycle will be slightly longer.

However, the number of customers in the shop gradually increased while eating and eating. Although Miao Miaowu's lunch has come to an end, some customers still recognized her. After all, many people know that this shop is also from the video of Miao Miaowu. above.

So she took a group photo with those enthusiastic fans.

And felt the horror of being urged face to face.

In comparison, Xiao Jing's popularity was slightly lower, and no one recognized him until he finished eating, paid and left.

This made his departure a bit sad.

Looking at Xiao Lonely's back, Chen Nian immediately decided in his heart to give his video three times (recommendation ticket, monthly ticket, comment) when he had the staff meal at noon.

After the new opening, the number of people who come here to eat is indeed less than before, and most of the people who can come to eat here are neighbors and people who work nearby, but even they just pass by by chance to find the red The red restaurant opened its doors.

So I came in for a meal.

There are also a small number of pure passers-by who are curious when they see the hot business in the store.

It was like this until about one o'clock, but the number of customers did not decrease. After Feng Honghong asked, she found out that they were all working nearby. At lunch time, the boss suddenly said that there was a meeting, and they had no choice but to be hungry. Go to the meeting on an empty stomach.

After the meeting, I opened WeChat and found out that the colleague who came out to eat said that the Honghong Restaurant had reopened, so I hurried over for lunch.

And most of the others who came later did so for similar reasons.

Fortunately, the ingredients prepared before Chen Nian were not too short, otherwise all the ingredients would be sold out before closing time at noon.

"These guests are too enthusiastic. I didn't expect that everyone would be so supportive when they come back after closing for a month." Chen Nian couldn't help sighing when he was eating the staff meal at noon.

After experiencing the busyness at noon, Chen Nian had predicted that there would only be more and more people in the future until it reached a peak.

And then everyone will be even busier.

Chen Nian had been thinking about this question in the morning, so Chen Nian directly announced the news during lunch.

"rise salary!"

Wen Hongxia increased by 1000 on the original basis, He Hai increased by 1500 on the original basis, and Xie Yu increased by 2000 on the original basis.

Because everyone's workload has increased, the wages and benefits will naturally increase accordingly.

As a waiter, Wen Hongxia naturally wouldn't get too much salary increase, but now Wen Hongxia's monthly salary has reached 5500, so even if the workload has increased a lot, she feels that she can accept it.

Moreover, Chen Nian has always prepared enough bowls and chopsticks in the restaurant, so it doesn't matter how fast Wen Hongxia is, as long as the lunch plates can be taken out when needed at night.

In addition to keeping a lot of gloves in the back kitchen for replacement, Chen Nian also specially asked his mother to buy some hand cream and put it in the store, so that Wen Hongxia could wipe it after work every time.

And He Hai and Xie Yu increased their wages by 1500 and 2000 yuan respectively, mainly because He Hai can only cook pasta now, and Xie Yu can already cook many dishes for himself. Chen Nian asked Xie Yu to take care of the two vegetarian dishes.

There is also braised pork, and braised pork with potatoes is also in charge of Xie Yu.

This allows Chen Nian to have enough time to prepare dishes that are slightly more difficult to make.

The business at noon was slightly worse than before, but in the evening, the news of the reopening of the Honghong Restaurant spread quickly. Many people came here after hearing the news, and they also heard that three new dishes were served here.

The two vegetarian dishes were relatively homely, they could eat them or not, the main reason was that the pickled pork with pickled vegetables made them a bit greedy.

It was only after [-] o'clock in the evening that Chen Nian found that the pickled meat with pickled vegetables seemed to be a bit popular, so he made a decisive decision and steamed another batch of pork with pickled vegetables, which met the needs of later customers. More meat is sold, and correspondingly less other vegetables are sold.

However, as a signature mapo tofu, sales are still as usual.

As long as there are more than one guest, they will basically order a mapo tofu, and then order two dishes.

In many cases, mapo tofu is just a match for them, just like when ordering takeaway, they will add some snacks that cost a few cents in the store.

Although the current price of Mapo Tofu is still at a loss of seven or eight yuan, Chen Nian has also earned enough attention from the money. This mapo tofu is at a loss of eight yuan, but as long as customers order an extra dish Food, the money can be earned back.

Some regular customers often come here to eat, and they can't order mapo tofu every day. No matter how delicious it is, they can't stand eating like this all day long.

And Chen Nian has never regretted the decision to sell mapo tofu for [-] yuan. If he doesn't do this, no matter how delicious the restaurant is, it will be nothing more than a well-known Sichuan restaurant on this street. .

It is absolutely impossible to achieve such a scale. It is true that the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, but that is also for sharing wine.

Your wine can make a taste that is different from others, and it can also make your colleagues unable to learn from it.

But opening a restaurant is different, so what if you make delicious food?
At most, it can attract some nearby people.

But other people’s publicity is soaring, and group buying sales are soaring. In this information age, other people’s exposure rate is higher, that is, they have more traffic than your restaurant, and their business is better than your restaurant.

Chen Nian doesn't want to do this, so his one-yuan mapo tofu is just a disguised marketing.

Mapo tofu sold for one yuan can cause controversy among people. Although some people will definitely find it unappetizing, but after all, most of them are ordinary people. If there are more people who find it delicious, they will naturally promote it to the outside world. Such a good gimmick, Even if you don't need to spend money, you don't have to worry about someone spreading it for you.

As for someone who once suggested to myself that you make a special dish every week, or sell the first [-] or [-] copies of each new product for only one dollar, to impress and attract customers.

Chen Nian just shook his head when he heard this.

If the first method is followed, the Honghong Hotel will still only lose all its stores.

Perhaps in a few years, no one will remember that they often ate at a restaurant that had discounted dishes every week, but they will definitely remember that they have been to a restaurant that sells mapo tofu for only [-] yuan at any time.

This is the popularity effect.

It is even more unworkable to follow the second method. Customers will feel that they are losing money if they eat expensive ones after eating cheap ones.

I spent one yuan to eat this dish before, why should I spend more than ten yuan this time?
And for some people, they have never encountered a stage where they can eat new dishes for only one dollar, and they think why I have to spend more than ten yuan to eat when others can eat for one dollar?
Although these ten yuan is not expensive for this dish, the scary thing is the comparison. People don't worry about the number of people, but the inequality.

And doing so will only make you lose more.

In the evening, Chen Nian roughly calculated that today's profit is three to four thousand.

And it's only the first day of opening.

Of course, it is also because most of you come here today to order preserved vegetables and braised pork.

Afterwards, Chen Nian thought it would be enough to earn 5000 yuan a day.

Of course, in that case, it must be fully staffed.

However, Chen Nian felt that this should not be a problem, so it was nothing to pay the employees more wages every month.

In the evening, as the number of guests became less and less, everyone went home one after another after finishing the get off work within their responsibilities. Feng Honghong wanted to go home with his son, but Chen Nian waved his hand: "Mom, You go back first, I still want to research new dishes in the store."

"Okay, then stay here alone and pay attention to safety, and don't go back too late." Feng Honghong warned.

"Okay Mom, I see."

When Feng Honghong came home, Chen Nian began to think about what kind of dish he would cook when he went to the competition.

According to the competition schedule, the ingredients used in the competition must be available on-site, and the cuisine must be Huaiyang cuisine, so Chen Nian must work hard on it.

Although they are all young chefs, it can be predicted that no one will make a dish of Wensi tofu or an ordinary lion head on that occasion.

They will definitely show their housekeeping skills, and what they will bring out will definitely not be ordinary Huaiyang dishes, but definitely innovative ones.

It's like watching a game on TV.

Stir-frying, steaming, frying, roasting, stewing, and stewing used in cooking will all be involved.

And Chen Nian must also think of such an awesome dish, which not only conforms to the characteristics of Huaiyang cuisine, but also has a good color, fragrance, and has a profound meaning, so that people can be curious about it. There must be innovation, at least it must be something that others have never seen, or even that they have never heard of.

Chen Nianluo listed a lot of ingredients, and he planned to work on them first, and then think about how to make them after he selected them.

However, it is not so easy to come up with innovative dishes. It is like magic. There are so many magicians who are thinking about innovation all the time, so that others can look fresh and new, and can shock others and colleagues.

But how easy is it to create new tricks among the thousands of existing magic tricks?

So now the predicament that Chen Nian is facing is the same, and who can win in every chef competition is not a person with a unique skill in his hand, and to be able to win a place in such a large-scale competition, at least it must be from a hotel Executive Chef.

Moreover, with Chen Nian's current qualifications and level, he couldn't even enter such a competition.

Therefore, Chen Nian can also participate in such young chef competitions.

But he listed all the ingredients he could think of, and after a rough review, he had many plans in his mind, but those were just preliminary ideas. He kept researching in the store for half an hour like this. No results were found.

I had to go home first.

After returning home and washing up, he didn't feel sleepy. He wanted to go online to watch food videos, but none of the food bloggers he followed had been updated.

When he was bored, Chen Nian searched his name online.

According to statistics, at least 14 billion of the 10 billion people in China have searched for their own names.

Old age is naturally not exempt.

But the search did lead him to something.

Chen Nian searched on a video site, and the first thing that came up was "Chen Nian scolded Jay Chou as rubbish."

This made him startled, thinking that he had never said such a thing, Jay Chou is also his personal favorite singer, who accompanied him throughout his childhood.

Then he took a closer look at a middle-aged man with buck teeth on the cover.

And then there are some titles about the literal meaning of the word vintage.

So Chen Nian changed his search method again, adding Honghong Restaurant after his name.

What I searched in this way finally became relevant to me.

"Recently, there is such a fairy shop hidden in Chengdu!"

"Today I finally ate one yuan mapo tofu!"

"Gourmet punch card, one yuan mapo tofu is so delicious!"

"Explore the shop｜Let's see how delicious the small shop in Chengdu recommended by Miaomiaowu is."

Waiting for a variety of shop-exploring videos like this, clicked to watch, Chen Nian found that these people are basically customers who have eaten in his shop, and some have come several times, Chen Nian Nian looked at them and felt a little familiar.

But these people have never come up to say that they want to exempt themselves from the bill, which is not much better than the messy guy who claimed to be an Internet celebrity last time.

Therefore, Chen Nian decided that if they came early in the future, they would be free of charge.

Looking at it like this, Chen Nian suddenly saw a video below.

This video doesn't get a lot of views.

"Oops, am I a stand-in?"

That's how the title came about.

The title is good, but the focus of Chen Nian is not the title but the cover used by the other party. It was he who pretended to be kidnapped by morality and worked for the store for half an hour in order to complete the task ahead of time when he was on Dongguan Street. It was taken during the time of Wensi Tofu.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian immediately became nervous, because An Hongdou was standing below at that time!
So Chen Nian opened the video, watched it from the beginning to the end, and found that this person was just filming below, and An Hongdou was not captured by the camera.

And what is even more reassuring is that the video has only more than 900 views, only two likes, and no barrage or comments.

Chen Nian estimated that these two praises were also ordered by himself.

Just after he turned off the video with peace of mind, his WeChat suddenly rang, and Miao Miaowu forwarded a video link, followed by a line of words: "Boss, is this you?"

(End of this chapter)