Chapter 48 Changes in the Catering Industry in Baizhou County
With the arrival of Pang Sheng and his wife, they had to make adjustments in terms of accommodation.
Now Yanagishita's catering business is still in its infancy, although he spends more than three or two hundred yuan a month to rent a house, which is nothing for his current income.
But it is clear that there is no need to spend this money, and it is not necessary now!
Yanagishita Megumi gave up the room he lived with Guan Chunzhi to Pang Sheng and his wife, and the two of them moved to the hall to be with their cousins, which solved the accommodation problem!
The hall connected to the kitchen is really big, and it's easy to put four beds.
Yanagishita Megumi and Guan Chunzhi and the cousins of the eldest uncle's family are still one person in one bed, while the two cousins of the eldest aunt's family and the second aunt's family can only temporarily squeeze one bed.
It's no problem to live, the only thing that is a little inconvenient is that so many people live here, and there is only one bathroom!
This one is indeed a bit of a pitfall, and the best thing to do is to build an extra bathroom.
For this reason, Yanagishita Megumi specially asked the landlord for his opinion, and after obtaining his consent, he paid someone to build an extra bathroom next to the chicken coop.
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Since the opening of the spicy chicken pot on Xinglong Road, it has caused a huge sensation in the catering industry in Baizhou County.
Many owners of the catering industry never expected that in Baizhou County, which is recognized as not spicy, there would be a market for spicy flavors.
Moreover, this market is not small, haven't you seen people's spicy chicken pot open since its opening, has the business been so hot?
As a result, many restaurant owners began to think about whether to launch some spicy dishes in their own restaurants?
Those who think about this are generally the owners of large hotels, and even if those small hotel owners have this heart, they don't have the ability.
After all, there is basically only one chef in a small restaurant, and that volume can't support two chefs.
If you want to introduce spicy dishes, it is useless to think about it unless you change the original chef and completely make it a spicy flavor restaurant!
And those big hotels are different, like the largest and most luxurious Hyde Hotel in Baizhou County, the chef alone invited several, and it was not a big deal to invite an additional Sichuan chef back.
Therefore, after observing for a few days in a row, I found that the business of spicy chicken pot is becoming more and more popular day by day, and the audience of spicy flavor is indeed ten times more than expected, and the owner of Hyde Hotel made up his mind to immediately invite a Sichuan chef to come back and try it!
So, a week after the opening of the spicy chicken pot, the owner of the Hyde Hotel personally went out to the provincial capital to find a suitable Sichuan chef.
It wasn't until the end of the month that Hyde's boss took a lot of effort to successfully invite a Sichuan chef back!
Compared with the decisiveness of the Hyde Hotel, other hotels seem to be a little hesitant, they still have scruples after all.
On the one hand, spicy chicken pot is popular, and other Sichuan dishes are not necessarily so popular.
On the other hand, there are no Sichuan chefs in the entire Baizhou County, or there are but they all work in hotels in other places. So if you want to invite a Sichuan chef back, then at least you have to find it in the provincial capital, which is not a simple matter.
Besides, the cost of hiring a non-local chef will definitely be much higher than that of a local chef, so you really need to think about whether it is cost-effective!
After all, not all hotel owners have the capital of Hyde Hotel!
Unless it is proved that Sichuan cuisine does have a large market in Baizhou County, then these restaurant owners may follow suit, but if they want to be the pioneer, these restaurant owners will have to think about it.
These restaurants don't just think about the dish of spicy chicken pot, but the entire cuisine, which is the pattern of the hotel.
However, in Baizhou County, there are still many fly restaurants, and the owners of these restaurants are not so big.
After seeing that spicy chicken clay pot is so popular, many owners and chefs of fly restaurants began to learn to make spicy chicken claypot.
Huang Shidong, the owner of Chengxiang Restaurant, is one of them.
Huang Shidong's Chengxiang restaurant is about the same grade as a food stall, but the name does not have the word "food stall".
It has been more than a year since the restaurant opened, and the business is not good.
In general, the profit is enough for the whole family, but there is not much money left.
Huang Shidong is definitely not satisfied with this result, but there are many restaurants like him in the entire county, and the competition pressure is very high, and it is indeed difficult to make a lot of money.
Huang Shidong has always wanted to change this situation, but he doesn't know where to start.
After all, he doesn't have superior cooking skills, nor does he have any specialties that he can get his hands on, and it is difficult to stand out from many competitors.
It wasn't until the spicy chicken pot on Xinglong Road came out that Huang Shidong finally saw hope.
So, after the spicy chicken pot business continued to be hot for a few days, Huang Shidong began to study the practice of spicy chicken pot, ready to replicate the success of the other party.
Anyway, his restaurant is mainly engaged in lunch and dinner, and does not get involved in supper, if he studies the method of spicy chicken pot, he can also operate supper!
The idea is good, but the imitation of the dish is not so easy.
In particular, although Huang Shidong's skills in cooking local dishes are still passable, he has never set foot in the field of Sichuan cuisine, and in this era, there are not as many short videos of teaching cooking as in later generations.
How easy is it to succeed in researching a dish from scratch?
Of course, it's not that Huang Shidong can't make such a dish, it's just that he can't make the kind of taste that other people have.
In the past week, he has tried to make spicy chicken pot seven or eight times in a row.
It's a pity that you can't make that spicy and fragrant taste, and you may feel good if you don't compare, but if you have eaten Xinglong Road spicy chicken pot, you will know the gap between the two as long as you taste it.
For this reason, Huang Shidong is very distressed!
In fact, this is not only the case with Huang Shidong, but also with several small restaurants!
After seeing the booming business of spicy chicken pot, the owners and chefs of these fly restaurants are secretly researching the dish of spicy chicken pot, hoping to take advantage of this trend to enter the night snack market and then make a good profit.
Even if they don't target the big market of late-night snacks, introducing this spicy dish for lunch and dinner may increase the turnover of their restaurant.
However, after all, the span of cuisine is too large, and although the owners of several restaurants are researching, they have not been able to replicate the spicy and fragrant taste of other people's spicy chicken pot.
This is also normal, take the famous Ah Cheng duck feet in the county night food stalls as an example, there are so many people selling duck feet in the whole county, but why can Ah Cheng duck feet stand out from many competitors?
What people rely on is the smell that other duck foot stalls can't replicate.
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Yanagishita Hui naturally didn't know that there were many owners of fly restaurants secretly studying his signature dish, spicy chicken pot, and he didn't know that the big boss of the Hyde Hotel was influenced by him and personally went to the provincial capital to invite back a Sichuan chef.
At this time, he was signing a long-term contract with Pang Sheng, signing a long-term employment contract of 30 years.
This contract period was proposed by Pang Sheng, he is twenty-eight years old this year, and if he works for another thirty years, he will be nearly sixty years old, and he can retire and go back to retire.
Yes, he is mentally prepared to be a roast duck master for Megumi Yanagishita for the rest of his life!
For Pang Sheng's request, of course, Yanagishita Hui couldn't ask for it.
The two hit it off, and on October 31, 2000, under the witness of Megumi Yanagishita and other relatives and friends, they jointly signed this 30-year employment contract.