Food starts with noodles

There is still a lot of work to do in the provincial capital, and the couple can't stay in Linping City all the time.

The old man originally wanted to stay. After all, his purpose of coming was to teach Xu Zhuo how to cook, but he came here in a hurry yesterday and didn't prepare much for a change of clothes.

He planned to go back and pack his luggage, and ask Xu Zhuo to drive to the provincial capital to pick him up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

In this way, Sifang Pavilion became the support of Boss Xu alone again.

Just after six o'clock in the afternoon, the store began to line up.

It stands to reason that the current business area of ​​the store is much larger than before, and there are hundreds more seats, but even so, there is still no vacant seat, and several customers even clamored to take it home to eat.

"It's amazing. I didn't expect the business to be so hot. I was worried that no one would come to the store before."

When it was getting dark, Ma Zhiqiang brought a few well-connected teachers to cheer for Xu Zhuo, but he couldn't get in at all, and the line was all outside the shop.

Li Hao bought a batch of plastic benches urgently in Jianguo's vegetable shopping car, so that the waiting customers had a place to sit. Seeing Ma Zhiqiang, Li Hao enthusiastically invited the teachers to sit in.

It turned out that, not to mention Ma Zhiqiang and the others, even Li Hao himself was blocked from the door.

Although Zhou Wen's pre-screening advertisement hadn't been released yet, the taxi company started advertising for Xu Zhuo a few days ago, and the college students from the medical school also helped the store to promote.

There are also those old customers who, when they learned that Sifang Restaurant is about to open, are more excited than each other, and they keep giving Amway to those around them.Now the store is bustling with people everywhere, all coming for the delicious food in the store.

"Before, I wanted to tell Boss Xu that the prices of the food in the store were on the high side, which might not be suitable for this area. But I didn't expect that the delicious food is really irresistible. The price is [-]% higher than that of the peers. It's not the peak period yet, those colleagues are probably going to be jealous again."

Zheng Jia sat at the front desk, feeling emotional while collecting money.

Obviously the price of the food is much higher than the average price of Linping City, but these customers still come in to eat regardless.It's not yet the peak time for dinner. After seven o'clock, there may be more people waiting for a seat.

"Xu Zhuo, the stewed noodles are almost used up..."

Jianguo's reminder made Xu Zhuo realize how good the business is today.

"Damn it, I was thinking that those stewed noodles would last until the Big Eater Competition. How about it, Jianguo, go and bring a bag of flour over here. I'll start kneading the noodles now, and make some hand-rolled noodles for emergency."

Chapter 289 Catering is about conscience

At 09:30 in the evening, Xu Zhuo dragged his exhausted body out of the kitchen. His clothes were soaked and his arms were sore.

He didn't even have the strength to take off his clothes now. From entering the kitchen at three o'clock in the afternoon to now, except for going to the toilet and coming out twice, he was busy in the back kitchen at other times.

I don't know what's wrong, there are so many customers today.

At nine o'clock, the waiter in the store had already said that it was closing, but there were still customers coming in to eat.

In desperation, Xu Zhuo extended the proofing time to 09:30.

"Zheng Jia, everyone will give a bonus of 200 yuan, and give it now. The business is so good on the first day of opening, it is worth celebrating."

He was no longer in the mood to check today's turnover and turnover. The only question he cared about now was how many ingredients were left in the store.

"There are more than 300 sheep's hooves left, all the rabbit heads are gone, the braised pork is almost consumed and will have to be remade tomorrow, the stewed noodles are all consumed, and the hand-rolled noodles you made later have also bottomed out. All the ingredients, no matter the meat Fresh vegetables or green vegetables will need to be replenished tomorrow, and some dried vegetables will have to be delivered to the provincial capital as soon as possible..."

Jianguo gave a brief report on the situation in the store. Everyone was exhausted, and they all sat on chairs to rest at the moment.

Xu Zhuo looked around, seeing everyone's tired faces, and sighed slightly.

Originally, he thought that these people would be enough to support Sifang Pavilion, but he didn't expect to give him a blow on the first day of opening.

The employees in the store, whether it is the waiters in the front or the people in the back kitchen, all need to be supplemented, otherwise the employees will really not be able to bear such a high-intensity work.

Moreover, the takeaway at the medical school has not yet started. When there is takeaway, the store will probably be even busier. In addition, the staff meal at the bank next door is about to start cooking.

Although he hasn't negotiated the price with that manager Wu yet, Xu Zhuo is already planning to take over the job.It doesn't matter if you earn more or less, they are all neighbors in the neighborhood, so just help out.

So based on this calculation, the days to come should be busier, and there are simply not enough people in front of them.

Xu Zhuo asked Zheng Jia to find four more waiters and four aunts who wash dishes and vegetables, so that everyone can be less busy.

As for the back kitchen, Xu Zhuo directly asked Jianguo to find five more kitchen assistants.

After giving the order, Xu Zhuo waved his hand: "Clean up and get ready to get off work. I have to go back and have a good rest. I'm too tired today."

Li Hao and the others had already left separately, and even Yu Keke went back early. The medical school will officially start tomorrow, and they have to get up early to prepare.

Xu Zhuo drove the car and left the Sifang Pavilion together with Meng Liwei.

Meng Liwei had nothing to do in the afternoon, and rented an apartment next to the medical school. Although he may not live in Linping City permanently, he must have a nest anyway, and he cannot stay in a hotel all the time.

Xu Zhuo drove him to the apartment downstairs, Xu Zhuo looked up at the apartment building, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are many girls from medical schools living in this apartment, you have to take it easy and offend me." Nothing good happens to women who study medicine."

Meng Liwei was amused: "You should take care of yourself more? There are a few of us brothers, and you just found a medical student."

He pushed the door and got out of the car, Xu Zhuo drove home.

After taking a shower and lying on the bed, Xu Zhuo fell into a deep sleep without even checking Yu Keke's WeChat.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already 06:30.

This sleep was really comfortable, and the exhaustion all over my body was swept away.

After getting up and washing up, Xu Zhuo drove to the shop.

Cao Kun was burning pig hairs at the entrance of the store. When he saw Xu Zhuo approaching, he half-jokingly said to Xu Zhuo, "I'm really fooled. I thought it would be easier to come to work here than to open a store. I didn't expect it to be more tiring than opening a store. There were so many pigs yesterday. The goods are sold clean, and your business is very good."

Xu Zhuo didn't expect the business to be so good, it was beyond imagination.

When he came to the back kitchen, Xu Zhuo started making noodles, and during the interval of making noodles, he stuffed a pot of rice.

"Brother Kun, come in for dinner."

Xu Zhuo took a bowl of lard bibimbap, some kimchi and the leftover stewed pork from yesterday, and sat at the dining table with Jianguo to eat it.

It's a little greasy to eat this in the morning, but the lard bibimbap saves time, and I'm very hungry. In order not to delay the business in the morning, Xu Zhuo can only save time as much as possible.

I really miss the days when I used to cook my own breakfast!

After eating, Xu Zhuo asked Jianguo to rest for a while, while he went to the kitchen to start working on today's affairs.

First knead the stewed noodles, then marinate the sheep's feet, and then start to divide the pork bought by Jianguo.

During the meal, Jianguo reimbursed Xu Zhuo, and the price of pork went up again, almost four yuan higher than yesterday's wholesale price, which really drove people crazy.

In addition to flashing pork, Jianguo also specially bought dozens of catties of two-knife meat.

The price of the two-knife meat is more expensive. Yesterday, Jianguo felt that the price Xu Zhuo had set for Lizhuang Bairou was a bit high, but after buying these two-knife meat, he felt that the price of Lizhuang Bairou could still go up.

When Xu Zhuo was preparing to cook the two-knife meat, Jianguo, who had slept on the camp bed in the utility room for a while, came to the kitchen: "When I was buying meat today, I heard that some of the butchers are now buying zombie meat. , those zombie meats are much cheaper than fresh meat..."

He was interrupted by Xu Zhuo before he finished speaking: "No matter how cheap it is, you can't use it. It's not a matter of earning more or less. It's about the bottom line of a catering person. I'd rather we don't make money, and I don't want it to be broken." conscience."

The so-called zombie meat refers to frozen meat that has been frozen for many years. After these zombie meat is processed with some additives, the dishes made are no different from fresh pork.

But in terms of food safety, there are too many differences.

Some stores selling zombie meat on the market are easy to identify. Those cafeterias where you can eat big bones for about [-] yuan per person, mostly use zombie meat as ingredients.

Especially now that the price of meat has risen to an astonishing figure, how much meat can you buy for twenty yuan?Coupled with the rent, water, electricity, materials, labor and other costs, there is no profit margin at all.

But aren't those stores making money?

No, they still earn a lot, because the purchase price of those big bones is only two or three yuan or even lower.

Some things can't be explained clearly, and some acne can't be peeled off.

Xu Zhuo can't control what happens to others, he can only ask for himself, and he can't break his conscience just because he makes money.

People in the Xu family have always emphasized the safety and quality of the ingredients when they cook food. Originally, Jianguo thought it was just talking, but he didn't expect that Xu Zhuo had such a big reaction when he just mentioned zombie meat.

No wonder those diners praised Sifang Restaurant and Xu's Restaurant so much. With Xu Zhuo's attitude, they deserved to make a lot of money!

Chapter 290 Eight Treasure Stuffed Pears Are on Fire

The whole morning, Xu Zhuo and the others were busy making preparations.

None of the three members of the skipping class showed up. Although they were addicted to skipping classes, they still had to go to class on time on the first day of school, because they had to deal with the failure of the last semester.

Moreover, the substitute teacher for this semester has not yet figured out the temper. If you want to skip class, you have to do it step by step, and you can't act too hastily.

At ten o'clock, Xu Zhuo came to the bank next door, opened an account first, transferred the money paid by the customers through mobile phones yesterday to this account, and then withdrew another 1 yuan as the store's reserve funds.

With the rise of mobile payment, there is less and less cash in the store. When Jianguo wholesaled dishes, those merchants and hawkers were not used to paying with mobile phones, so they had to have cash in the store.

Then Xu Zhuo communicated with Manager Wu of the bank about the lunch issue, and finally finalized the meal fee of 25 yuan per person. The bank will transfer the funds to Xu Zhuo's personal account regularly every month. Xu Zhuo is in charge of the bank. The lunch of the employees, and the daily meals cannot be the same.

For example, if you ate fried noodles yesterday, you can make stewed noodles or braised pork rice today instead of eating fried noodles all the time.

In addition, in terms of dishes, Sifang Restaurant will also actively prepare and enrich the lunches of bank employees as much as possible. In principle, there are dishes and soups. While everyone is full, they will also pay attention to dietary health issues.

At eleven o'clock, employees from the bank next door came over for dinner.

They still eat in batches, but when they came in today, they were obviously much more comfortable, because from today onwards, they don't need to pay for meals in the store, which is really different from paying for meals by themselves.

Xu Zhuo had already arranged meals for them, each with a bowl of fried noodles, plus a few side dishes, boiled pork slices, and Lizhuang white meat.

In terms of soup, it is still Xu Zhuo's best and only seaweed egg drop soup that he knows how to make.

In this way, there are rice, vegetables and soup, which makes people move their index fingers.

Tang Xiaoying was still the first batch of employees who came to eat. Seeing the dishes on the table, she asked Xu Zhuo in surprise, "Isn't this too rich? Will you lose money?"

Xu Zhuo smiled and waved his hands: "No, you can eat at ease, if you don't have enough, there will be more."

Don't look at the several dishes on the table, but this is not the amount for one person, but the amount for six people. It's not a lot for six people to eat so much, but it looks like a lot, and it's very rich.

While eating, Tang Xiaoying flipped through the menus in the store. Manager Wu said that there were a lot of new dishes on the menu this time. She hadn't seen them yet, so she had to take a good look at them while eating.

"Boss Xu, what kind of dish is this eight-treasure stuffed pear? 45 per serving, the price is so high."

Xu Zhuo smiled: "This is a new dessert in the store. It's a bit expensive, but it tastes delicious. It's definitely worth the money."

When Tang Xiaoying heard it, her heart was moved immediately: "Really? Then give me some, I like desserts the most, and I have no resistance when I see desserts."

Xu Zhuo was going to have pears stuffed with eight treasures, but the quantity was not very large, because although this stuff was delicious, it was also a gimmick. If the price was low, he would suffer, and if the price was high, customers would not be interested, just like coir raincoat cucumbers.

He came to the kitchen, boiled a pot of sugar water first, then brought out a portion of eight-treasure stuffed pears from the steamer, poured a spoonful of sugar juice on it, and asked the waiter to bring it out to Tang Xiaoying.

At this moment, a new customer came and asked for oil-splashed noodles by name. Xu Zhuo called a few helpers over and started making oil-splashed noodles in front of them.

From cooking the noodles to putting the ingredients to the final pouring of oil, Xu Zhuo explained to them while making the noodles.

If you want to save yourself, you have to teach the people in the store. Although reading it once or twice is not very effective, but after a long time, plus their private practice, it is absolutely no problem to catch up with Xu Zhuo in making oily noodles.

Just as Xu Zhuo was about to come out after making the oily noodles, a waiter hurried in to make an order: "Boss, those bank employees all want eight-treasure stuffed pears."

Xu Zhuo took the list and handed it to Jianguo, put the pot of sugar water that had just been boiled on the stove to heat up again, and then brought out a dozen portions of eight-treasure stuffed pears from the steamer one by one, poured the sugar water and asked the passer to Take it out.

"Wow, it's really delicious. It's the first time I've eaten such a delicious dessert. What should I do if it's so delicious that I want to cry..."

Tang Xiaoying expressed all kinds of emotions while eating, and the bank employees next to her were so greedy that they kept complaining to her: "What's so good, so good, we ordered it too, and it will be served right away."

After she was finished, Tang Xiaoying took another short video and posted it on Moments, racking her brains to greet her friends.

When Xu Zhuo wandered to the front desk, Tang Xiaoying held up her mobile phone and shouted to Xu Zhuo, "Boss Xu, my best friend has ordered ten copies. She will come to pick them up at twelve o'clock after get off work. Don't forget."

Well, Boss Xu originally wanted to take advantage of the lack of people to take a breather, but he didn't expect the business to come.

Now there are only five or six servings of stuffed pears made with eight treasures in the official market. Xu Zhuo prepared them for Yu Keke and the others. The boss doesn't even prepare a serving of eight-treasure stuffed pears.

Unexpectedly, Tang Xiaoying posted a Moments to sell ten copies of Eight Treasure Stuffed Pears for herself.

It was a pleasant surprise.

There was no time to thank him, Xu Zhuo went back to the kitchen and started making eight-treasure stuffed pears.

"Let's put aside the unimportant work first, and prepare [-] servings of eight-treasure stuffed pear ingredients. Today, this dessert finally has a business, and everyone cheers up."

Xu Zhuo clapped his hands and began to peel the pears. Under the leadership of Jianguo, the others were busy with their duties.

Although it is freshly made, due to the large number of people, some necessary preparations have been done in advance, and it is busy at the moment. At twelve o'clock, there are about forty more servings in the steamer. Good eight-treasure stuffed pears.

But if you do more, you will sell more. The eight-treasure stuffed pears here have not been steamed yet, and they have already sold for seven or eight.

The second batch of bank employees who came to eat all ordered the Babao Stuffed Pears. Just now after Tang Xiaoying and the others went back, they were having fun at the bank, which made these employees very interested in the Babao Stuffed Pears.

Just like that, at noon when the dish was supposed to be a big seller, many people clamored for eight-treasure stuffed pears, which caught the underprepared Mr. Xu by surprise.