Return To 1998

Eight days later, a passenger plane landed at Wudu Airport. Tongdao Xu and Zheng Qing dragged their suitcases and came out of the airport with the crowd.

It was already very hot in the fog in July, and they both wore cool clothes. Xu Tongdao wore black jeans with a short-sleeved shirt, and Zheng Qing wore loose camouflage pants and a black T-shirt.

Walking out of the airport, the two got into a taxi, reported the name of a hotel, and the taxi took them out of the airport.

In the past eight days, Xu Tongdao has determined the next catering direction that will be operated in the urban area of ​​Water Bird City - hot pot.

Compared with hot pot, he must have more experience in barbecue.

After all, he has been very successful at Daolin BBQ in Shazhou County, and his business has always been good.

And the hot pot?

He hasn't done it since his rebirth, and he hasn't done it before his rebirth, so he is seriously lacking in technology and experience.

But after careful consideration recently, he still chose the direction of hot pot.

The main reason is barbecue... The skill requirements of barbecue masters are too high, which is not conducive to rapid expansion and opening of chain branches.

Moreover, barbecue is smoky, giving many people the impression that it is not high-end, and people who like to eat barbecue are generally used to going to roadside stalls or some small shops on the streets and alleys.

In his impression, there are too few people who are interested in finding a big restaurant for barbecue.

In comparison, hot pot is much better.

First of all, there are many chain hot pot restaurants he has seen before his rebirth. What does this mean?

At least it can show that the hot pot is suitable for opening a chain store. Technically, it is easy to copy, and the technical requirements for chefs are not as harsh as barbecue.

Moreover, although hot pot cannot be made into top-notch food, and the grade is not too high, its customer base is much larger.

Ordinary people like to eat and can afford it, rich people... There are also many people who like to eat, and as long as the quality of the store is okay, it can indeed attract many rich people to patronize.

That's enough!

technically easy to replicate,

The customer base is large enough.

With these two points, Xu Tongdao felt that he could do it.

Moreover, in addition, the hot pot restaurant, in terms of service, also has a unified standard.

There are many other benefits as well.

For example, a successful hot pot restaurant does not need first-class chefs. It is enough to have one or two technical chefs. Other kitchen staff can find some women who do things carefully.

These women can be responsible for washing vegetables, selecting vegetables, chopping vegetables, setting dishes, and so on.

Such women are very easy to recruit, and their salary is much lower than that of formal chefs.

The price is very high.

The biggest problem facing Xu Tongdao...is the technique of making hot pot.

He worked as a chef for several years in his previous life, so he still somewhat understands the core technology of hot pot.

- Hot pot base!

This should be the core technology of whether a hot pot is delicious.

Of course, the hot pot base mentioned here is not the packaged finished hot pot base sold in dry goods stores.

That kind of small package of hot pot base... Although the resulting hot pot tastes good, there are two major problems.

The first is the taste of hot pot made from the small package of finished hot pot base, which cannot give the public a new idea.

Because usually everyone may buy that kind of hot pot base, and go home and make their own hot pot to eat.

So here comes the question, if the hot pot that everyone pays to eat at your hot pot restaurant is no different from the one they make at home, why would they come to you to eat it?

Secondly, the finished hot pot bases sold in dry goods stores have a small amount of each package, and the price is not cheap. If you open a hot pot restaurant, you will use the small packages of finished hot pot bases for hot pot all year round. Soup base, then the cost of your hot pot soup base will go up.

Yes!

You can adhere to the principle of wool comes from raising your body and pass on the cost of this soup base to the diners.

But... in this way, you will lose competitiveness when compared with other hot pot restaurants in terms of price.

hot pot……

It is not a high-end food, taste and price are all factors considered by the public.

If your hot pot restaurant disappoints everyone in terms of taste and price, then why do you attract the public to come to you for consumption? Is your face big?

Xu Tongdao considered other options.

For example: spend time and energy on your own to develop a hot pot base with your own cooking skills and experience.

Faith, he has it.

He believes that he should be able to develop a hot pot base that tastes good.

But at best it's not bad.

He is not confident about how good a hot pot base he can make.

First of all, he has never specialized in hot pot before, nor has he specialized in research.

Second, the habit of eating spicy food in his hometown can only be said to be average.

There are those who like spicy food, and those who do not like spicy food. There is no hot pot in their local traditional diet.

It's like a chef in an inland city. You can count on him to make a good seafood meal. It's really hard for a strongman.

It's also like domestic students learning English... They want to learn better than children in English-speaking countries. What level of difficulty is, you can think for yourself.

So, Tongdao Xu thought of Wudu.

This is the birthplace of hot pot.

To say that the hot pot technology is the best in all parts of the country, the first thing that everyone thinks of is Wudu.

People here can eat spicy food and can eat spicy food.

Hot pot has been turned into a flower by the people here.

Before Xu Tongdao's rebirth, he went to some well-known hot pot restaurants to eat.

Almost every one of them claims to be authentic Wudu hot pot.

But every technology is different.

Some are outstanding in the taste of the soup base; some are very rich in hot pot dipping ingredients, there are dozens of dipping ingredients, such as peanut butter, sesame sauce, beef sauce, etc.; Among them, there is a hot pot featuring live fish, mutton, chicken and other ingredients.

All kinds of colors, each with its own characteristics.

Xu Tongdao, who has memories of his previous life, is very clear that with the development of the times, those chain hot pot restaurants with different characteristics and characteristics will definitely appear again.

If the hot pot restaurant Xu Tongdao created was far worse than those chain hot pot restaurants in terms of technology and characteristics, then when those chain hot pot restaurants opened in Shuiziao City, his hot pot restaurant was quickly squeezed to the point of no survival. space time.

Of course this was unacceptable to him.

Since he has decided to get involved in the hot pot business, not to mention dominating the hot pot market in the country, at least he wants to have a place in it.

Otherwise, why would he make hot pot?

There are so many industries that can make money, is it not good to continue to expand Internet cafes?

He and Zheng Qing came to Wudu today for one purpose - to get the best hot pot skills!

As for how to get it?

——In this world, there are very few problems that money cannot solve. If there are, it is likely that the money is not enough.

And he, Xu, has some money now, and there are really many hot pot restaurants in Wudu.