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"Yes, boss." The subordinate replied: "Especially in several high-end restaurants, the decline is even more obvious."

"Is it related to the 'Jie Zhong Jie'?" Zhao Yilong asked.

"Yes." The subordinate replied without any hesitation.

Zhao Yilong has been in seclusion for some time, so he is not very clear about the development of the family business. It is only now that he knows that during his retreat, the family industry, especially the catering industry, has declined to varying degrees. .

The subordinate's words made Zhao Yilong frown slightly.

Zhao Yilong has already understood the status of "Jie Zhongjie" in Jiangzhou during this period. This new restaurant, which has only been open for a few months, has risen almost suddenly, without giving competitors a chance to react. It even annexed the old restaurant "Cailemen".

Zhao Yilong doesn't care if "Cailemen" is annexed, because there is a restaurant controlled by the Zhao family. It can even be said that they are competing with "Cailemen". He is very happy to see "Cailemen" collapse. of.

But now, their own family's industry has also been affected, which makes him unacceptable.

"'Jie Zhongjie' targets the mid-to-high-end crowd and has an impact on some of our mid-to-high-end restaurants. I can understand that, but why are our mid-to-low-end restaurants not developing well recently?" Zhao Yilong asked in a deep voice.

"Boss, our restaurant has almost reached a bottleneck. Whether it is ingredients, cooking skills, or business methods, it is very difficult to break through in a short time." The subordinate replied: "And several other families in Jiangzhou , our investment in the catering industry has gradually increased in the past few months, resulting in a decrease in our customer flow and income. Although the 'Jie Zhongjie' has an impact on us, the impact on several other families is greater!"

"How many other families? Wang family, Tang family, Liu family?" Zhao Yilong said.

The subordinate nodded.

Zhao Yilong's face became even more gloomy.

In the past few days, several other families in Jiangzhou have been causing trouble for him. He wanted to take action against the "Jie Zhongjie". Several other families opposed it openly and covertly. After that, they directly joined forces with the "Jie Zhongjie". What kind of food association should be formed? Just by hearing the name, Zhao Yilong knew that it was for his catering association.

Although the Catering Association is not an official organization, through this organization, the Zhao family is able to control the development of Jiangzhou's catering industry, allowing the Zhao family to profit greatly from it. Naturally, the Zhao family is unwilling to give up such an organization.

Now, the "Jie Zhongjie" directly wants to create a new organization to replace the Catering Association, which Zhao Yilong cannot accept.

However, people from several other families in Jiangzhou also clearly expressed their support for the "Jie Zhongjie" behavior, which made Zhao Yilong hate the other families in Jiangzhou even more.

Zhao Yilong himself is a cultivator, and the Zhao family also has many cultivators. But after all, the Zhao family started in the secular world, and they attach great importance to the industry in the secular world. Now seeing that the family's business in the secular world has been hit, Zhao Yilong's The mood was naturally very bad.

"Is there any way to break through the current bottleneck?" Zhao Yilong asked.

The subordinate looked a little embarrassed and said: "It's difficult, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless our restaurant can have better ingredients and higher cooking skills." The subordinate said.

"Better ingredients and higher cooking skills?" Zhao Yilong said: "With our family's influence in Jiangzhou, we can't get better ingredients and higher-level chefs?"

The core industry of the Zhao family is the catering industry. Their family has deep qualifications in this industry. They can get any kind of ingredients they want, and they can find any kind of chef they want.

But now listening to what this subordinate means, it seems that their Zhao family restaurant cannot do this at all.

"Our family can naturally get good ingredients and chefs." The subordinate said: "But the top ingredients and the best chefs can only be found in one place in Jiangzhou."

"where?"

"'Jie Zhongjie'!"

"'Jie Zhongjie'?" Zhao Yilong frowned.

"Yes, it's 'Jie Zhongjie'." The subordinate continued: "Now almost everyone in the catering industry in Jiangzhou knows that the ingredients of 'Jie Zhongjie' are the best, and their chefs are also the best. It’s not difficult to investigate the identity of that chef. He switched jobs from ‘Kyle Gate’ and somehow his skills suddenly improved and he is now at the top level in the industry.”

Zhao Yilong frowned slightly and said, "Is it higher than the chefs in our restaurant?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, I still have to say: yes." The subordinate replied.

"Where are the ingredients?" Zhao Yilong asked: "'Jie Zhongjie' has better food supply channels in Jiangzhou than our Zhao family? Is this possible?"

"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty!" The subordinate said: "If we can still know the origin of the chef in the 'Jie Zhongjie', then we know nothing about the ingredients in the 'Jie Zhongjie' , no one knows where the ingredients in their restaurant come from, at least they are definitely not from the Jiangzhou market. The source of their ingredients is very mysterious, but everyone admits that the quality of their ingredients is definitely the highest in Jiangzhou. , not even one.”

"So exaggerated?" Zhao Yilong asked in surprise.

The subordinate nodded and said, "Yes, this is almost a consensus in the industry. Therefore, if we want to solve the difficulties faced by our restaurants now, 'Jie Zhongjie' is definitely the best choice. If we can acquire 'Jie Zhongjie', obtain its food supply channels, and poach their chefs, then the difficulties faced by our restaurants will be solved."

The tone of this subordinate's speech was very affirmative. In the entire catering industry in Jiangzhou, everyone agreed on one thing: if they could obtain the food supply channels of "Jie Zhongjie", then they could make the taste of their restaurant's dishes one or two levels higher, or even higher.

Unfortunately, until now, no one has been able to find out the food supply channels of "Jie Zhongjie".

Zhao Yilong frowned and thought deeply.

To be honest, Zhao Yilong didn't take "Jie Zhong Jie" too seriously before. Although "Jie Zhong Jie" was developing quite well, the Zhao family also had several very good restaurants. When he went to Wu Fan to discuss cooperation, he felt that he was the party with the advantage and could provide help to Wu Fan and "Jie Zhong Jie". That's why he was so confident that Wu Fan would cooperate with him.

But now it seems that he was wrong, and very wrong.