Chapter 168: The local tyrant comes to the door
The temperature was fine during the day today, and at noon, the sun was still out, but as the evening approached, the sun disappeared into the clouds early, and the temperature became lower and lower.
After getting dark, Xu Tongdao and the others obviously felt that tonight was colder than last night.
Affected by this weather, the business of their store tonight was also very weak, and as of 7 o'clock in the evening, only two groups of diners entered the store to consume.
And these two groups of guests still only ordered barbecue and cold dishes, one table, and later asked for two bowls of mutton soup, that's all, no one ordered liquor, and only a few bottles of beer were sold.
The two waiters in the store, Cao Min and Fang Fang, according to Xu Tongdao's instructions, recommended to them the whole sheep banquet officially launched by the store tonight when the guests at these two tables entered the store to order, and also said that the dishes of the whole sheep banquet can be ordered one or two dishes alone.
But after listening to the introduction, the guests at these two tables said that they were not interested, they only wanted cold dishes and barbecue.
On the first night of the launch of the whole sheep banquet, they received such a cold reception, which couldn't help but make Cao Min and Fang Fang look at Xu Tongdao's eyes, a little strange.
The look in his eyes seemed to say: Boss, you make this thing not sell!
Xu Tonglin, Ge Lianghua, and Xi Dongyang also subconsciously paid attention to Xu Tongdao's face.
They all thought that Xu Tongdao would be unhappy.
Is Xu Tongdao happy?
Of course he was not happy, he prepared a whole sheep banquet during the day today, and it was open for a few hours at night, and no one ordered a dish from the whole sheep banquet, what reason did he have to be happy?
Should he be happy?
But to say it's angry, that's not it.
As early as when he decided to launch the whole sheep banquet, he knew that it would not be easy to promote the whole sheep banquet.
Not only because the price of each dish in the whole sheep feast is not cheap.
It is also because this county does not seem to have sold whole sheep banquets at present, after all, they belong to the south of the Yangtze River here, and eating mutton is not as popular as some cities in the north.
Exploring a whole new market definitely takes a process.
He's waiting.
The price of the whole sheep banquet is destined to ordinary people not to be its target customers.
Those who can afford to eat and are willing to eat the whole sheep feast must be a minority.
He was still steady, made a cup of tea and sat in front of the oven outside the store, waiting for the guests while roasting the fire.
On such a cold day, there are no skewers that he needs to bake, and it is quite comfortable to bake himself.
The rooster Ge Lianghua was by his side, and he sat on a small maza, which looked a bit like two people asking for food if they didn't have the oven in front of them.
Tonight there were very few cars and pedestrians on this street, and it was only for half a day that a car could be seen passing by the street, and only occasionally one or two pedestrians could be seen passing in front of their shop.
And these pedestrians were all in a hurry, with their heads bowed and their necks shrunk, and they didn't look up at the big banner hanging under the sign of his shop.
It's not just Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant that has bad business.
The whole street is deserted tonight.
There were obviously a few fewer stalls across the road than before, and the stalls that were still setting up their stalls there didn't have much business tonight.
The bald Zhang was also sitting in front of the oven at this time, and his booth had not been attended by a single guest tonight.
But he seemed to be in a good mood tonight, smoking a cigarette while looking at Xu Tongdao across the road with a smile, and the barbecue restaurant behind Xu Tongdao.
At this moment, there is not a single diner in Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant.
This made the bald Zhang feel what it means to be fair.
Lao Tzu has no customers here, and you kid has no customers there, so let you open a shop! Lao Tzu is just a small stall, no cost, and your kid still has to bear rent, water, electricity, and staff salaries, which costs a lot a day, right?
It's full! You kid has the ability to fill your store again!
The more I think about it, the more refreshed my bald head is.
Very relieving.
Especially looking at Xu Tongdao holding a teacup, sitting in front of the oven, and doing nothing, the bald head and Zhang Zhang's mood is even more beautiful.
From time to time, he would glance at the big banner hanging under the sign of Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant.
When he came to set up his stall this evening, he saw the words on the banner.
"Whole Sheep Feast...... Hmph, it's so cold, there's no one on the street, even if you kid make your own food, no one will come to eat it......"
The bald Zhang gloated to himself, and was heard by the fat man Lu in the stall next to him.
Fat Lu smiled, and also glanced at Xu Tongdao across the road and the restaurant behind Xu Tongdao that had no diners.
At this time, there was a table of three guests eating at his stall.
This made the fat man feel very good.
Originally, he had a table of guests here to eat, and he was not at all to be happy.
But he could see that his competitors were worse than himself, and he was balanced in his heart, not only balanced, but also a little proud.
Lu Fatzi was still grilling mutton skewers in his hands, and while grilling, he looked up at Xu Tongdao, such a scene, he had never seen it once in recent months, and it was rare to see it today, of course he had to take a few more looks.
Can......
The smile on Fat Lu's face suddenly froze on his face, and his brows furrowed.
Because he saw two men and two women stop outside Xu Tongdao's store at this time.
That's not the point!
The focus is on Humpty Dumpty, the one of the two men...... He knows the fat man.
It turned out to be the big boss of the legend of the hungry wolf - Hou Jinbiao.
The legend of the hungry wolf is the largest and best-selling dance hall on this street, and the name of Hou Jinbiao is the name of the gold standard, which ordinary people may not have heard of.
But he had heard of it.
Very rich! It is said that he has a very good background.
As for how rich Hou Jinbiao is, he doesn't know, anyway, in the eyes of Lu Fatzi, Hou Jinbiao is definitely a big boss.
On this street, he couldn't think of any boss who was richer than Hou Jinbiao.
But at this time, Hou Jinbiao was standing at the door of Xu Tongdao's store with another man and two women, a young woman with a showy show, a pair of tight black bodybuilding pants on her lower body, a pair of sky-high heels on her feet, a mink coat on her upper body, and her long wavy hair draped behind her shoulders, like a fairy, Hou Jinbiao did not hug her waist, she took the initiative to carry the short and fat Hou Jinbiao's arm, which looked very intimate.
The other man was not as short as Hou Jinbiao, nor as fat as Hou Jinbiao, but he was also forty or fifty years old, and there was also a delicate little goblin carrying his arm.
Lu Fatzi saw that these four people were standing in front of Xu Tongdao's oven at this time, and the four of them looked up at the signboard on the door one after another...... I probably looked at the big print on the banner, too.
Then, Hou Jinbiao and the others seemed to ask Xu Tongdao a few words, and then Xu Tongdao's kid got up with a smile and stretched out his hand to invite Hou Jinbiao and others into the store.
The fat man Lu could see it, and his eyes were a little straight.
A big boss like Hou Jinbiao has never patronized any of the restaurants on this street, let alone the stalls on this side of the road.
And Xu Tongdao's kid's barbecue restaurant is not large, and it is just a small shop with two stores.
No one gave him an answer.
What brought him back to his senses was the burnt smell of the lamb skewers in his hands......
Suddenly smelling the smell of lamb skewers roasted, he was startled and came back to his senses.