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Before Jiang Zhou could figure out the best solution, something happened suddenly.

Suddenly a new hot pot restaurant opened in the town, with the same chicken, the same river prawns, and even the same ingredients in the broth.

But perhaps the impact of the previous oden business was too great. The scale of this hot pot restaurant is not large. It seems that it is just testing the water. It is a small shop without a second floor.

Lu Dalang had already asked someone to inquire about it, and said that this shop used to sell alcohol, but someone bought it some time ago, and only recently opened a hot pot restaurant.

At this moment, he checked carefully with the accounting book in the private room: "I think it's very strange."

Jiang Zhou was thinking about the time traveler, but he came back to his senses after hearing this: "What's the problem?"

Lu Dalang frowned: "The cost of the hot pot restaurant is there. The price of a whole chicken is controlled between [-] and [-] yuan. Our chicken is still provided from me, and the price is the lowest. The price given for the labor cost and the rest of the expenses is already the lowest, how can the price of this store be lower than ours?"

Jiang Zhou froze for a moment, took a look at the ledger.

He and Wen Yan calculated the account book themselves, so they naturally knew that many of the prices here had already been suppressed as much as possible, and there was not that much room for profit left for them.

Jiang Zhou looked at it in Lu Heng's memory and found a problem. The restaurants of later generations are very profitable, not to mention tea shops such as milk tea and afternoon tea, which are almost several times the huge profits. Those ordinary restaurants are actually profitable. The space is also very large, around [-]%.

When Jiang Zhou opened this hot pot restaurant, he considered the issue of price, deducted the cost and labor, and tried to control the net profit at [-]%.

However, this new hot pot restaurant, if calculated according to their pricing and normal costs, this hot pot restaurant is almost a loss-making business.

Then the timing and significance of its release are very subtle.

Jiang Zhou analyzed it carefully, or, it is initiating a price war, deliberately robbing customers at extremely low prices, adding up to more, and at the same time dragging down the Lujianglou Hot Pot Restaurant.

Or, it just has a lower cost, so the price is set extremely low.

Jiang Zhou pondered for a moment and asked, "Are there any other farms besides yours?"

Lu Dalang is not a fool. When Jiang Zhou said this, he immediately understood the key point: "Except for us, there are no big farms nearby, but a little farther away, there is a large farm in Nanshan Village. The farm opened a little later than ours, and the business is okay."

"Except for the business, what about the price?" Jiang Zhou asked.

Nanshan Village and Yanghe Village already had a competitive relationship. Originally, Yanghe Village had no choice but to start raising chickens and ducks because the fields were flooded. Unexpectedly, the response was not bad, so they kept doing it.Nanshan Village saw that it was profitable, and Lu Dalang himself could not afford such a large market, so they stepped in to get a share of the pie.

Although there were occasional frictions, the conflicts were not serious, but out of the psychology of investigation, Lu Dalang also went to understand.

"Their external price is indeed lower than ours. I don't know if it's a feed problem or what. The overall size of the chicken is larger than ours, but the price is lower. Because I haven't tasted it specifically, I don't know how the meat quality is."

Jiang Zhou suddenly had an idea: "Since that hot pot restaurant didn't buy from you, and it can meet such a large daily demand, it probably belongs to Nanshan Village."

Seeing Lu Dalang nodding, he said: "It's useless for us to guess out of thin air. Why don't we just go eat and see what's different from us."

As soon as he said he would leave, he changed into an inconspicuous dress, put a little black disguise on his face, and wandered towards the hot pot restaurant.

The name of this store is also very interesting. Jiang Zhou's is called Lu Jiang Lou, and theirs is called Fen Jiang Lou. It looks like Jiang Zhou's branch.

Jiang Zhou and Lu Dalang booked a small private room in a low-key manner.

After entering the private room, Jiang Zhou took off his hat and took a look at the decoration first.

Lu Dalang asked: "How is it?"

Jiang Zhou shook his head: "It's just similar in shape."

Lu Jianglou requires the waiters to sweep and mop the floor after entering the store every day. The counters and table corners are required to be tidy and clean, and even the placement of chairs must be checked.

However, after entering the Fenjiang Building, Jiang Zhou couldn't help frowning. The furnishings in this building had been specially learned from Lu Jianglou, and they were similar to each other, but the sanitation was not very good.

Jiang Zhou even saw a puddle of wine stains around the corner, which looked like rice wine, and it was probably not treated after it was dumped on the ground, and it is still obvious now.

And although the waiters were enthusiastic, they all felt a little clumsy. Jiang Zhou asked them about the side dishes in the chicken pot, but the waiter hesitated for a long time without saying anything.

When the bottom of the pot came up, Jiang Zhou was relieved.

As soon as the waiter left, Lu Dalang frowned: "This smell is not strong enough."

Jiang Zhou nodded: "He didn't add enough ingredients."

Lu Jiangzhu’s signature chicken pot is spicy. Although there are also non-spicy ones, they are not as spicy as the spicy ones. It is only fun to eat when you are sweating profusely.

However, this one in Fenjiang Tower is not.

Ever since Jiang Zhou used spicy peppers, the merchants in the town have heard the news, collected pepper seedlings everywhere, and sold peppers.

Fenjiang Tower uses peppers sold by merchants.

Jiang Zhou put down his chopsticks after taking a sip.

Lu Dalang was appetized by Xu Changyang. He tasted a piece of meat and stopped for a while. To explore, he ate another chopstick and finally stopped: "It feels weird."

He is not a professional chef. Although he felt that there was something wrong with the food, he couldn't tell the difference. He just thought it was not delicious.

Jiang Zhou shook his head: "The flavor of the seasoning is too bland, and the chili is not spicy enough. He put too much chili in order to make the taste stronger. One-third of this dish is full of chili, covering up other flavors. Chicken It was boiled directly, the heat was a bit overcooked, and the meat was too old."

He took his chopsticks and turned it over in the pot: "The meat in this pot is too finely chopped, so it's hard to see if there is any missing catty. You can look for it. It seems that there are chicken hearts and gizzards missing."

Lu Dalang also checked and found that it was missing.

Jiang Zhou said the same thing again: "The meat of his chicken is too loose and not firm enough, and it doesn't feel like a grass chicken." The taste is similar to the meat chickens of later generations. Although there is more meat, the taste is average.

"It's not a grass chicken? How else can I raise it?"

Jiang Zhou summed up the knowledge in his memory and gave a rough idea: "That is, most of our ordinary chickens are fed with vegetables and bugs, and most of the time they are released to let them run by themselves, so the meat is firm. "

"But broiler chickens are not. Most of the broiler chickens are kept together. They are fed with the rationed chicken feed, and they don't exercise often. The meat quality is loose, the taste is poor, and the nutrition is average."

Lu Dalang was thoughtful: "So the cost of raising chickens is lower?"

"Of course." Jiang Zhou sighed, "No wonder their price is cheaper than ours."

Lu Dalang sat for a while, hesitated and said, "Then shall we adjust the price?"

"No need." Jiang Zhou reassured him, "Our price is reasonable, if it is lower, there will be no profit. If this family is determined to fight us on price, we can't fight it."

Lu Dalang was a little anxious: "Then what should we do?"

"It's nothing to do. We are focusing on word-of-mouth and reputation. Maybe they can win some business based on the price at the beginning, but with this pot of meat, do you think they can retain diners?"

Jiang Zhou expressed his confidence in this.

Don't restaurants rely on word of mouth and reputation?He has never heard of a store that tastes bad and can still stand firm.

Lu Dalang: "From now on, we only need to know who owns this store."

"There are not many people in the town who can spend so much money to open a store. Just pay attention to it." Jiang Zhou thought for a while, "Although this store looks like a half-way monk, the food and beverage related business is actually okay. Should be experienced."

Lu Dalang nodded: "There are only a few on the left and right, I'll just turn around and pay attention."

Jiang Zhou had nothing to do, took another bite of the chicken, and suddenly showed a strange expression.

Seeing that his expression was not right, Lu Dalang raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Zhou spit out the chicken with a "bah", wiped his mouth, and his face darkened: "This meat is not right."

"how?"

Jiang Zhou tried his best to ignore the weird taste between his lips and teeth: "This meat seems to have been stored for a long time, but it has not expired. It should have been stored in the ice cellar for a long time."

After hearing this, Lu Dalang went straight to the black line: "How can there be stale meat for catering!"

"Probably because the chili taste is strong enough to overwhelm it." They probably didn't expect Jiang Zhou's sense of taste to be so sensitive.

Jiang Zhou couldn't sit still: "Let's go, this store probably won't be open for long."

When the two of them went out, the waiter came in. It was a little strange to see the pot of meat that hadn't been moved much, so he took it back intact. It happened that the shopkeeper was inspecting the back kitchen, and he was so surprised that he came back with a big pot: " what happened?"

The waiter bowed his head and bowed his head: "I don't know, the guests at that table left without moving much."

It happened that someone was urging the order outside, and the shopkeeper rolled his eyes and waved his hand: "If you don't move, just take out the original pot, saving a pot of chicken, and be smarter later."

Waiter's hesitation: "This is not good..."

"Is there anything good, take it out quickly!" The shopkeeper glared at him, then turned to everyone and said, "I'm rotten about these things, and anyone who dares to speak out will not even think about next month's wages." wanted!"

……

Jiang Zhou didn't know what happened in the back kitchen, so he just left the Fenjiang Tower, walked only a hundred meters away, and saw "Zhuo Yan" and Liu Buping and a group of familiar rich children mixed together, walking in the middle surrounded by stars The appearance is quite smug.

"Isn't it just such a small matter, I must ask my father to settle it."

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