Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

There are many successful chain hot pot restaurants on the earth plane, such as Little Sheep, Haidilao, Xiabuxiabu, etc., and their success is mainly due to accurate positioning and differentiated operations.Little Sheep mainly focuses on their cheap and high-quality meat from Inner Mongolia, so it has become the favorite hot pot restaurant of many carnivores; Haidilao has won the hearts of urban white-collar workers with its considerate service; Creative pot and other specialty hot pot restaurants.

And Li Wei’s suggestion to Zhou Xiao is actually a copy of Xiabuxiabu. After all, the success of Little Sheep and Haidilao has its own chance that is hard to replicate. For example, Little Sheep has a special farm to provide a sufficient amount of cheap and high-quality meat. ; while Haidilao is working hard on employee training. A large number of high-quality service-oriented talents cannot be cultivated in a day or two, and the expenses involved are even more terrifying.

So what Li Wei proposes is Xiabuxiabu personal shabu-shabu. There are two factors for the success of this kind of personal shabu-shabu: one is the decoration.Ordinary hot pot restaurants are actually too much like food stalls, but the decoration of Xiabuxiabu is in a Japanese style. The single seat is the bar, and the double and four-seater are booths around the bar.Moreover, Xiabu Xiabu does not accept large groups for meals, and usually dines for two or one person, so there is not too much requirement for the number of waiters.Another success point is the taste. In fact, simply speaking, the soup base and dipping sauce need to be special.

"There are two main soup bases for domestic hot pot, clear soup base and spicy hot pot base, and the mandarin duck base that has both." Zhou Xiao began to recall the main hot pot flavors he had eaten, "The clear soup base can follow the health-preserving route, The taste is sweeter; if the spicy soup base is spicy, it should be mainly hemp, not too spicy; maybe we can also introduce some hot soup bases in some provinces that are addicted to spicy food. The hot soup base can be mixed with other soups Matching the base, the spicy soup base itself is slightly spicy, adding one serving of hot spicy can upgrade it to medium spicy; adding two servings of hot spicy can make it very spicy. In addition, hot and sour flavors are also available in southwestern hot pot, especially sauerkraut pot in some regions In fact, it is quite delicious. Our hot and sour soup can be made with sauerkraut as the main base, but slightly spicy. If consumers have a demand for spicy food, just let them add a hot and spicy soup base.

In addition to these traditional pot bottoms, the popular satay pot bottoms in Nanyang; the curry pot bottoms that are popular from India to Japan and then sold all over the world; and the kimchi pot bottoms in Korea are also very popular. We will provide these in addition to the traditional pot bottoms pot bottom.In addition, we can also try the Western-style cheese pot bottom.Clear soup, hot and sour, spicy, and hot are the four traditional pot bases. There is no need to make too many tricks, as long as they are not worse than others.Sauerkraut, kimchi, cheese, curry and satay are our specialties. The recipes must be kept secret, and it is best to supply them uniformly in the central kitchen, and the supply is limited and priced for customers.Within the scope of reasonable application, our price can be reasonable; but if you want to take out, you must increase the price. "

Listening to Zhou Xiao's thoughts, Li Wei couldn't help giving a thumbs up.Xiabu Xiabu’s hot pot base is indeed very popular. Many people will take a few packs home and cook hot pot for themselves, which is equivalent to driving their own consumers out of the door.But if you increase the price of the soup base, it will inevitably make the current consumers feel dissatisfied.So Zhou Xiao simply put forward the idea of ​​reasonable consumption. If you really need soup base packs to eat with me, then I will sell them to you at a reasonable price or even a low price; but if you want to take them home for consumption, then I’m sorry. , I have to charge the normal market price.Li Wei decided that when Zhou Xiao designed the menu, he must include this content.After putting it in, no one can pick it up.

"In terms of dipping sauce, sesame oil dish and sesame sauce dish are the most common ones in hot pot restaurants, and fresh pepper dishes are used in spicy areas. This is basically a traditional dipping sauce dish, which can be seen in hot pot restaurants large and small. I On this basis, I decided to launch two more dipping sauces, one is Japanese miso dish and the other is Nanyang sand tea dish. I have searched on the Internet, Nanyang taste, Japanese taste and Korean taste are It is currently a popular overseas dish. However, doenjang, which is the most representative of Korean taste, is not so popular in China, so I temporarily canceled it. In the future, I may test it in some places to see if I want to put it back.” Zhou Xiao's status as a boss is quite impressive, "Now it's about the decoration style and store name, do you have any good suggestions?"

"First of all, we need to classify hot pot restaurants into different levels. One is a large store like a flagship store. One store in a first-tier city is enough, preferably an independent store; the other is a community store. It doesn't need to be too big. It’s ok. The style can be simplified in the traditional Chinese style, but the bar counter style must be preserved. This is the biggest feature of our future hotpot restaurant. As for the name, it’s shabu-shabu.” Li Wei knows The word shabu-shabu is still an original word in this plane, so it can be used for trademark registration.Shabu-shabu embodies how food is eaten, and at the same time implies the relationship with hot pot, but at the same time distinguishes the distance between itself and hot pot.Li Wei felt that this name should be very good, so he suggested it.

Zhou Xiao thought for a while, and then made a decision: "It really is a good proposal! Are you interested in investing with me?"

"I may not have much time management, so you take the lead, and I will follow you to make a fortune." Li Wei's mind is not on traditional industries, so he can only provide money.After the two of them finished their meal and packed up the tableware, they changed their clothes and went downstairs to play basketball.But this time the two went down a bit early, so there were quite a few people playing basketball.Fortunately, although everyone recognized Li Wei and Zhou Xiao, after all, the main fans of the two are students, especially girls, so this group of boys just watched Li Wei and Zhou Xiao curiously and then went to fight each other. The respective balls went.Li Wei and Zhou Xiao were sweating on the court. They were so tired that they sat on the ground and took out energy drinks from the refrigerator they carried with them to replenish the lost electrolytes.After a full rest, continue to exercise on the court.The two played basketball on the court for a full four hours, until the muscles in their legs were cramped and their arms could not be raised before they supported each other and left the court.

On Sunday, Li Wei secretly brought Zhou Xiao to the VMUSICSTUDIOLTD.Since there are not many people who record songs in Kylin Jing, VMUSIC does not need a separate floor. Now two recording studios are enough.The general instrument recording can be done in the No. [-] recording studio, and the No. [-] recording studio is relatively small, but it is spacious enough for four or five people to record in it.If it is necessary to record a symphony orchestra, then Li Wei will rent the exclusive recording studio of the Donghai Philharmonic Orchestra, where a complete symphony orchestra is enough.Since the East China Sea Center Building has designated a special parking area for the Kirin Entertainment Group, the Kirin Entertainment Group has also remodeled it, and the security personnel are also hired by themselves, so as long as you enter here, you don't have to worry about being followed by the paparazzi.Li Wei took Zhou Xiao from the exclusive elevator to his office floor, and then the two of them entered the No. [-] recording studio to prepare for recording.Normally, only Li Wei and his sound engineer work here, so there are a lot of Li Wei's manuscripts scattered in the listening room outside, and many important points are written on the whiteboard in the room.There are two ornamental green shrubs in the listening room, and a bottle of flowers and two fruit plates on the small coffee table in front of the sofa, followed by a water dispenser.In front of the coffee table are the monitoring seats and recording equipment. "Are you still working on it? I just didn't bother to ask Ah Chong to come over and record for me today. You should still be familiar with these devices, right?"

"Don't look down on people, okay!" Zhou Xiaobai glanced at Li Wei, "Although the equipment here is a bit more advanced, it remains the same, isn't it just to help you record a sound? - By the way, I heard that you are in I've recorded your second solo album, is this time recording the songs in the album? Are you afraid that I will reveal the secrets in your album?"

"I'm afraid I won't look for you." Li Wei opened the soundproof door and walked into the recording room.After he put on the earphones, he turned on the communicator and said, "Help me listen, I'm not that confident. After all, the prototypes of these songs were written when I was studying in the United States, and they are more American-style. And now Although I have modified it, the style in my bones still cannot be changed." After speaking, Li Wei turned off the communicator and signaled Zhou Xiao to prepare for recording.What Li Wei recorded this time is the title song of the same name of his second album "In the Mood for Love", "In the Mood for Love".The lyrics of this song actually have no depth of thought. It is about the feeling of a boy who is in love at the beginning of his love when he meets a girl he likes and starts to fall in love.It's just that Li Wei deliberately used a lot of teenage slang when composing the lyrics, on the one hand for rhyming, and on the other hand to get closer to the teenagers.And these slang lyrics more or less carry sexual hints and ridicule among teenagers, so they are not so clean.

After recording once, Zhou Xiao turned on the communicator and chatted with Li Wei. "Sure enough, you boy and Zhu Wangbin are good friends, and I'm just a lost flower that was discarded after being played by you. You both are rock lovers, but he is now on the route of underground rock, and you are from rock and roll. Going to punk, then to commercial rock, and finally back to the road of pop. Your song "In the Mood for Love" just sounded like an electronic pop song, but the core is completely power pop! If you go to the extreme , It’s just punk music. Looking at your lyrics, can’t you play pop music well? A love song has to be ridiculed and ridiculed. Fortunately, you are the boss of your own company, if you If you are still in Smart now, the old man will definitely scold you. You are simply a copy of the predecessors of GangStar, except that your lyrics are not so foul-mouthed."

After hearing Zhou Xiao's half-complaint and half-comment, Li Wei didn't know how to respond. "What do you think of this song? Does it have the potential to become popular? After all, the current Chinese music scene is either you Smart or DNH36's Sanlu culture. I don't have that much confidence in my songs, and I need your professionalism right now. Reviews."

"Your song will definitely become popular among young people. The style of the song is already pleasing, and the lyrics are something they often encounter." Zhou Xiao said, "But the music critics probably don't have much good things to say, especially those few A very serious music critic, he must criticize."

"It doesn't matter, the people they can influence are limited." Li Wei has long been dissatisfied with those old-fashioned people.Music is a kind of art, you should evaluate it from the perspective of art, not from the ideological value and educational significance, that is completely crooked.More importantly, apart from being art, music is more important than entertainment.Since it is a means of entertainment, it is completely boring to put on airs.

To be continued...