Chapter 97: Abalone
Next.
Meimei slept and woke up Ye Luo came to the beach after eating.
Before going to bed yesterday, Ye Luo received a call from Catherine, saying that the seafood she brought back before had not been sold out until now because it was too big, and that he should send some vegetables to the restaurant these days, and send it to her when the seafood was sold out.
This incident caught Ye Luo a little off guard for a while, and only after careful questioning did he learn the reason.
It turns out that a high-end restaurant like Catherine requires very strict ingredients, not that the bigger the ingredients, the better.
In the case of seafood, only a small part of the ingredients are actually used, and no matter what kind of ingredients are used, chefs in high-end restaurants will only choose the best parts of the ingredients to cook the food.
As for the remaining ingredients, they are either discarded or digested internally, and of course, some restaurants will make the remaining ingredients according to different parts of the dishes.
That's the case with Catherine's restaurant.
All the ingredients that Ye Luo sent over were under Catherine's instructions, and the chef of the restaurant did not waste a single bit, and almost used everything that could be used.
The consumption of meat and vegetables in the restaurant far exceeds that of seafood, not that the quality of the seafood is bad, but that it is too big.
Just imagine, when we go to a restaurant to eat, we all want the portion of the dish to be more, not so little that it will be gone after a few bites.
After all, the purpose of our restaurant is to fill our stomachs, and none of us want to spend a lot of money, so we end up barely half-full.
Catherine's restaurant is very conscientious in the amount of dishes, unlike other Western food, which is small, and all the dishes in her restaurant are about to catch up with Chinese food.
The problem arises with the portion size.
Many of the people who have eaten at Catherine's restaurant have rave reviews.
The only complaint is that there is too much of it!
Many times, after eating almost one dish, the stomach is almost full, and as for the dishes that follow, I basically can't eat them, and I can only pack them back in the end.
Anyone who has eaten at a high-end restaurant knows that there is usually no takeaway service at such a restaurant.
And people on Newfoundland Island do not have the habit of packing, except for some Chinese immigrants or Chinese who grew up on Newfoundland Island occasionally choose to pack, most of them are embarrassed to tell the waiter to pack even if they are reluctant to save face.
Since the introduction of these one-of-a-kind ingredients provided by Ye Luo, Catherine's Restaurant has gone from having few people at the beginning to being full today.
Because of the good relationship between the ingredients, the food made is delicious, so it has received bad praise, that is, the price is a little expensive.
Joke.
Not only is it a little more expensive, it is simply several times more expensive.
After all, only Catherine's restaurant can sell a vegetable for 3,000, compared to vegetables, the price of meat and various seafood such as steak is not cheap, and all the dishes in the restaurant are basically the cheapest not less than 2,000.
This price was not decided by Catherine, but by Ye Luo.
No matter what it is, the better the quality, the more expensive it is, not to mention that these ingredients are all purchased from Ye Luo's prestige [Super Mall].
Exchanging prestige for money is enough to scare anyone.
Anyway, the cost is there, even if Ye Luo wants to be cheap, he can't always let him recover the capital, right?
Although the prices of the restaurants are expensive, there is also an endless stream of people who come to eat.
This situation is entirely due to the fact that those old diners have mentioned the restaurant promotion, and most of them taste it out of curiosity or disbelief.
As a result, when they took a bite, they were instantly captured by the food, and they did not hesitate to recommend it to their relatives and friends.
Along with this, there are more and more people every day, and the business of the restaurant is getting better and better.
The funny thing is that people who have come to the restaurant a few times to eat have learned to be well-behaved, because they have suffered a large amount of losses, so they will not order too much next time they come, so as to avoid wasting and leaving a lot of money at the same time.
And those who came for the first time were completely unaware of what was going on, and did not hesitate to order a lot, but in the end, those people could only cry and look at the intact food on the table without tears.
The most painful thing in life is that there are so many delicacies in front of you, but your stomach can't eat anymore!
After all, they spend so much money to eat, and they end up eating a dish or two and are full, and it is a waste for them to not finish those dishes that come up later.
In the end, what made these people desperate was that the money was spent, but the food was not eaten.
Catherine also knew that many people couldn't finish the dishes they ordered, so after communicating with Ye Luo, she decided to serve an additional service, that is, packing.
It is precisely because the restaurant has a packaged service that it is undoubtedly a huge convenience for everyone.
Since the restaurant has a takeaway service, it has undoubtedly solved the problem of not being able to eat the dishes, and at the same time, it also makes those who come to eat feel what it is called, and it is worth the money!
However, Catherine has noticed that the restaurant has been packing fewer and fewer people lately, and ordering exactly as many dishes as they can eat.
In this way, it is undoubtedly a lot easier for the chefs in the restaurant to not have to be as busy as before.
Catherine found some hidden dangers, when the restaurant originally consumed a lot of ingredients every day to close, there were still a lot of vegetables left, such as beef, sheep, chicken and duck and other meats about one-third, and lobster, abalone, scallops and other seafood almost only used less than one-third.
In fact, Catherine knew that Newfoundland's geography meant that seafood of all kinds was almost everywhere.
Even if the seafood in her restaurant is cheaper than vegetables and meat, not many people will order it.
Newfoundland's men, women and children are not unfamiliar with seafood, after all, most people in Newfoundland rely on farming or fishing for a living, who won't piggyback some when they come back from fishing?
For such a situation, Ye Luo is also helpless.
Although there is a lot of seafood in Newfoundland, the price has not decreased due to the large quantity, but has remained stable.
Since seafood is not selling well in restaurants, Ye Luo can only find other sales outlets.
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At this time, Ye Luo is planning to catch a few abalone or lobster and other seafood to explore the situation in the market, maybe he can find other sales outlets, no matter what, can't he keep the seafood in the sea all the time?
The things produced in the [Super Mall] do not have the function of breeding the next generation, if they can be reproduced, Ye Luo will not be anxious in his eyes.
And those that are able to reproduce are almost exclusively wild.
For example, the abalone, lobster and other seafood he put in the past are not like vegetables and fruits that can ripen in a few days, on the contrary, those seafood seedlings are only growing up a little, and they are not yet able to sell.
The seafood he sends to Catherine these days is pure wild, not systematic.
Even if he could sell it, he would only get money.
Want to prestige?
That's impossible.
Only when the seedlings purchased from the [Super Mall] are mature and sold can he earn a certain percentage of reputation while earning money.
At the moment, Ye Luo is not as urgent about prestige as before, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't need it.
There is a good saying, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat!
Ye Luo didn't say a word and went into the sea, after some selection and selection, and several times back and forth, he really caught more than a dozen big abalones.
Ye Luo, who returned to the shore, looked at the big abalone that he turned over and threw on the beach, and he was inevitably a little excited.
You know, the price of abalone is very confusing, and the price of different varieties of abalone can vary by dozens or even thousands of times.
Although the variety is very important, the size of the abalone is the size that directly affects the price of abalone.
When ordinary people mention abalone, they say that there are two abalones, three abalones, eight abalones and so on, referring to the size of the abalone.
A few pounds are called a few abalones, and the bigger the size, the more valuable they are.
Of course, the bigger the rarest.
As the so-called hard to buy two abalones, it refers to the scarcity of two abalones, and the price of two abalone and the price of small abalone, the gap is more than 100 times.
And these big abalone caught by Ye Luogang in his own sea area, each weighing nearly a catty, after drying, it is the rarest two-headed abalone.
Yeluo has already done research when he farmed seafood, and abalone like this size needs to grow for at least ten years before it can grow so big.
After understanding, what made him excited was that he didn't expect that the abalone in his sea area was not an ordinary species, but Jipin abalone, which was recognized as the king of abalone.
Jipin abalone, also known as Jibin abalone, originated in the island country of Aomori County, and is known as the best of abalone.
The Jipin abalone on the market needs to be dried and baked for more than a year. The most important thing is that due to the pollution of the offshore waters of the island countries, the quality of the offshore Jipin abalone has decreased a lot, so the price of Jipin abalone is rising day by day.
Although Ye Luo doesn't know why the abalone growing in the island country grows and breeds in his own waters, as long as it appears on his territory, it is his!
Speaking of which, Ye Luo also knew in his heart that the abalone seedlings in the [Super Mall] were better than these wild abalones.
In any case, these wild abalone can be sold for money, and the important thing is that the price is still quite expensive.
He won't be unable to keep up with the money!
Subsequently, Ye Luo went back to the yard to find a fresh-keeping box, loaded a dozen abalones into it, and then boarded the yacht and sold the abalone.
It is also easy for people on Newfoundland to sell seafood, and the Newfoundland Island Pier, in addition to ferries, also has a place where nearby fishermen dock.
As a result, it has become a famous seafood market.
Nearby fishermen sell seafood here, and because of the cheap prices here, the seafood is fresh and varied.
So whether it's people nearby, hotels or restaurants, etc., they all buy here.
Two hours later.
Ye Luo's yacht did not stop where he had been parked, but came to the other end to dock, and then boarded the dock with the safe.
It's just that Ye Luo has no experience in setting up stalls, so when he saw a few people selling abalone, he sat next to them, put the fresh-keeping box there, and as soon as the lid was opened, he looked at the surrounding environment quietly without shouting.
"Hey, man, you're a good abalone. ”
At this time, a middle-aged black fat man selling abalone next to him looked at Ye Luo's abalone and took the initiative to talk to Ye Luo.
Ordinary fishermen are black and thin, and black fat people like this are relatively rare.
"It's okay. ”
Ye Luo was polite at the same time, and he was also secretly observing the abalone of several people next to him.
He found that most of them were selling variegated abalone, and a few were selling wrinkled abalone, but they were a minority after all.
Variegated abalone can be said to be the cheapest abalone, and wrinkled abalone is much better than the former.
Of course, no matter whether the variegated abalone or the wrinkled abalone here, the size is not big, almost twenty pounds.
The size of the abalone is small, and the price is not expensive, the variegated abalone is more than 100 pounds, and the wrinkled abalone has a high price, that is, more than 200 yuan.