Chapter 373: Mixed Blessings
In the next few days, the tourists who came before did not leave, and several groups of tourists came one after another, which can be said to keep everyone busy.
Ye Luo continued to be a salted fish, tying a hammock between two coconut trees during the day, blowing the sea breeze, sunbathing, going to the coral reef area to play with two little beluga whales in the afternoon, and barbecuing on the beach at night, really satisfied with his current life.
However, because the number of tourists has skyrocketed, the housing pressure on the island has become a little tense, and Ye Luo had to spend a lot of prestige to buy some houses in the area that originally belonged to tourists, so he reluctantly let these people live.
Originally, he planned to buy a big hotel directly, but because he didn't want the island to have too much modern atmosphere, he didn't choose the kind of twenty or thirty-story high-rise Daxia, but still chose the kind of one-story suite with three bedrooms and one living room.
The main reason is that the price is relatively cheap, and the style of each suite is different, which makes people feel a sense of brightness at first sight.
As for the business on the island, he really didn't think about whether to let those traders station, Lin Kai had also told him about this before, but Ye Luo didn't agree, but said to think about it.
In fact, Ye Luo is also worried about whether to develop in a small town, in his opinion, there are pros and cons to this matter.
The advantage is that he can experience what it is like to have a legendary 'charter man', but the disadvantage is that he is worried that these shops will pit tourists who come to play.
If it is a tourist from other countries, then Ye Luo will naturally not care, but for his own countrymen being pitted on his own territory, it is definitely not good.
Although he basically lives on Miracle Island now and hardly goes back to Huaxia, once there are really tourists who are cheated here, he doesn't need to think about it to know that there will definitely be many people in China who point at his backbone and scold him.
What's more, Ye Luo doesn't want to give up his own interests to outsiders!
He is very supportive of the stalls run by Daxter and his family, on the one hand, he can let them pass the time, on the other hand, the price is real, and he can make money while exposing himself to all kinds of people.
However, the sudden surge in tourists has directly exposed the shortcomings of the island all along, and many tourists have complained.
They came to the island not only to experience whether the food on the island was as delicious as those who went back said, but also to experience what it was like to travel on a beautiful island.
It's a pity that these tourists can feel new in the first two days, but then they slowly feel bored.
They came to the island for fun, not for walking.
There are very few facilities that can make people have fun on a tourist island, and anyone will feel uncomfortable.
In fact, Ye Luo also discovered this problem.
If he wants, he can easily make an amusement park, such as bumper cars, volcanic cars, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, pirate ships, and other amusement facilities can be easily made.
Isn't it prestige, and he's not without it!
However, Ye Luo did not choose to do so.
In his opinion, if he built an amusement park on the island, it would seem a bit nondescript.
After all, these things can basically be seen in various amusement parks in the city, and these tourists come here to experience some entertainment facilities that they rarely have access to.
Come to think of it, people must have come to the island because of the novelty, and if people see these facilities that can be seen in any amusement park, it will definitely make these tourists lose their impression of the island.
Obviously, Ye Luo is very reluctant to see this.
Although he didn't plan to make money through the tourism project, no, it was better to increase his influence than to make money.
To be honest, Ye Luo is really interested in domestic tourists.
When he heard that many tourists complained about the lack of recreational facilities, he contacted Rock Hudson directly and asked him to deliver him twenty ATVs (ATVs, fifty jet skis, surfboards, kayaks, diving goggles, and breathing apparatus) as soon as possible.
Even Ye Luo also considered letting tourists experience the fun of sea fishing, and bought more than a dozen small fishing boats that can seat seven or eight people from Poseidon Heavy Industries, as well as several medium-sized fishing boats that can seat more than ten or twenty people, which made Willy, the manager of Poseidon Heavy Industries, happy, and even did not forget to sell large fishing boats all the time.
It's just that Ye Luo refused, he already has a goldfish and a bluefish for large fishing boats, so there is no need to buy them again.
I have to say that Ye Luo is really interested in water amusement parks!
If you are in the city, it will definitely be very difficult and difficult to get a water amusement park!
But don't forget, this is an island!
Land cities do not lack land, but the sea is lacking, while islands, on the contrary, lack land, and the most important thing is the sea.
Perhaps it was because of Leaf's refreshment to the money that Willy and Rockhudson delivered all the things he needed to the island.
Because of the shortage of manpower, Ye Luo directly called Mayor Dannos and asked him to arrange a group of people who are good at water and can sail boats to come over and act as lifeguards, instructors and drivers, and he can provide jobs for these people.
Danios received a call from Ye Luo, and without saying a word, he directly arranged for a hundred people to come over, and even told Ye Luo that if there were not enough people, he could tell him, and he would arrange for someone to come over as soon as possible.
You know, each of these people is a soldier who has recently retired from the Navy!
Acting as a driver and lifeguard can be said to be overkill, but for the sake of the safety of tourists, Ye Luo naturally does not dare to have any sloppiness.
Ye Luo has always disliked dragging, things are delivered in the morning, and tourists are directly allowed to choose their favorite facilities in the afternoon.
As for the charge, Ye Luo is very conscientious, one person can play casually for one hundred yuan, and there is no limit to the time!
Unlike water amusement parks, where you have to buy tickets for each facility, the time is short, and the price is expensive.
If you want to keep playing, buy a new ticket!
And the tourists have a great impression of Ye Luo's almost loss-making business, and some people even show off everywhere on the meager side, Moments, and Twitter, and invisibly promote Ye Luo!
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Since the various recreational facilities on the sea, tourists have basically stayed on the beach every day, except for eating and sleeping time.
In fact, Ye Luo also didn't understand what these tourists thought, there are only so many kinds of fun every day, how can they not get tired of playing?
Of course, these leaves are just thinking about it in my heart, and it was not easy to appease the tourists.
He didn't want any more moths.
He doesn't ask how tourists want to play or how long they want to play, as long as they are happy.
Originally, Ye Luo thought that he could continue to be a salted fish, but he didn't expect that after the publicity of tourists, a large number of tourists from China came.
It directly made the busy canteen even more busy, and there was almost no time to rest.
For this reason, Li Qingqing also complained to him several times, and even directly threatened Ye Luo later, if he didn't think of a way, she would leave the burden and quit!
It took Ye Luo a lot of effort to persuade Li Qingqing to go back.
In desperation, he had to find Lin Kai and Scarlett, and he had to discuss it.
He handed over this matter to the two of them, and in terms of the people on his side, these two people are relatively intelligent people, and basically they are almost responsible for the affairs on the island.
"Ye Luo, are you looking for me so urgently, is there something wrong?" Lin Kai asked with some curiosity after coming over.
After Ye Luo explained the general situation of the matter, he said to Lin Kai with an unkind face: "Look at the good things you have done, there are not enough people on our island, you are good, you don't even ask and let the tourists come over one after another, now it's okay, tell me, how to solve the problem of food?"
"I don't carry this pot!"
Lin Kai suddenly stopped: "Now it's not me who is in charge of tourists, but Scarlett, whoever is in charge of it, you can find whoever is responsible, don't just wronged people." ”
"Well, did I do something wrong?" Scarlett suddenly realized that she seemed to have caused trouble for Ye Luo, and said apologetically.
Ye Luo's expression was stunned, and he reacted instantly, and he smiled and said, "No, at most, it's just a small problem." ”
He thought it was Lin Kai who caused him these troubles, and he originally planned to clean him up, but as a result, he didn't expect it to be Scarlett, so he really didn't know what to say for a while.
If Lin Kai did this, then he would have no pressure to clean up Lin Kai, but if it was Scarlett, he wouldn't dare to have such a thought.
Packing up your own woman?
Joke.
In his opinion, women are used to hurt, not to clean up!
Lin Kai frowned and said, "This matter is really troublesome, do you think about how to solve it?"
"If you have an idea, you can do it. ”
Ye Luo nodded and said, "I'm thinking about whether to open a restaurant dedicated to receiving tourists, but this will definitely have a certain impact on the business of the canteen." ”
"Ye Luo, you don't have to worry about this at all. The purpose of the canteen was not to make money, but to give the employees of the company a place to eat. As for receiving tourists, it's a matter of necessity, after all, we can't let people come to play and make them hungry, right?"
After Lin Kai pondered for a while, he said with a smile: "Actually, I think it's good for you to open a restaurant dedicated to receiving tourists, which can not only reduce the burden on my sister's side, but also divert the flow of people, so as not to have to queue up every time you eat." ”
"Looks like you have a solution?" Ye Luo raised his eyebrows.
Lin Kai shrugged his shoulders and said: "The key now is to see what style your restaurant wants to build, it is definitely not appropriate to make it a canteen, tourists are not employees after all, plus most of these people are rich people, everyone has their own habit of eating, basically I don't like to sit at the same table with strangers to eat." ”
"Well, I've thought about this too, and I'm going to get a restaurant on the second floor. ”
Ye Luo organized the language and said: "The first floor can be set up as a couple's double table and a standard family table of four, and on the second floor, it can be set up as a single room with two tables and twenty people for ten people, which can be used to receive a large number of guests such as tour groups." ”
"It's a good idea, but then the restaurant has to be built big, and once the restaurant is too big, it gives people a feeling of emptiness. ”
Lin Kai thought for a while and asked: "If the area of the restaurant is too large, although it can receive more guests, but at the same time, the shortage of manpower will also become a great burden, for example, there are not enough more than a dozen waiters in the canteen, once the new restaurant is built, then where will you recruit chefs and waiters? Have you ever thought about these problems?"
"What Lin Kai said makes a lot of sense. ”
Scarlett, who had been silent on the side, also nodded at this time and said: "The restaurant can be built, but where should we recruit manpower after it is built? You must know that there has always been a shortage of manpower in all aspects of our island, especially the chef, is it possible that you will personally go into battle to become a chef who cooks for tourists?"
"How is it possible, you are thinking too much. Ye Luo shook his head decisively.
It's impossible to be a chef, it's impossible in this life!
Not to mention whether he has the time or not, even if he does, why does he want to be a chef?
Lin Kai glanced at Ye Luo: "If you don't want to be a chef and can't recruit a chef, then I advise you to dismiss the idea of building a new restaurant." ”
"Don't build a restaurant?"
Ye Luo was slightly stunned and said, "What about the problem of tourists eating?"
"Chilled, otherwise?"
Lin Kai spread his hands and gave his own advice: "Before you find a chef, don't think about the restaurant, let my sister work harder during this time, you take advantage of this time to see if you can recruit a chef, as long as you have a chef, maybe the restaurant can't be built, just let them go to the canteen to help, we don't want to make trouble for ourselves, building a restaurant not only costs money, but also takes time." ”
"To be honest, in my opinion, our canteen is big enough, it is not a problem to sit down a few hundred people, what is lacking at present is not the restaurant, but the chef, we have no need to build a new restaurant, with this time, it is better to think about where to recruit chefs. ”
"Alright, then do as you say. Ye Luo could only nod helplessly and agreed.
Then, a few more people chatted, and Lin Kai left.
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In the next few days, Ye Luo can be said to have really felt what it means to be 'mixed'.
The good news is that more and more domestic tourists no longer choose to wait and see, but choose to come to the island to play, and the worry is that the workload of the canteen has skyrocketed again, the standard working time of the canteen is eight hours, and it has slowly become ten hours, twelve hours, and now it is fourteen hours.
In order to reduce the burden on Li Qingqing's side, Ye Luo had to take the time to cook a few dishes for the tourists, and the boiled fish made the tourists praise constantly, but then he tried to change to other dishes, although everyone ate it, but it felt that there was no specialty, and it was not like boiled fish to bring everyone an amazing feeling.
This incident made Ye Luo realize that things are delicious and delicious, but no one can stand eating them every day
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At the same time, it is understood that it is time to introduce food with a special character.
After thinking about it for several days, Ye Luo suddenly thought that in his previous life, the Northeast people often blackened themselves, with big gold chains and small gold watches, and three small barbecues a day.
Although it is self-blackening, it also reflects a problem from the side, such a great cause of stringing together occupies a large proportion in the daily life of Northeast people.
It's better to say barbecue than skewers.
For the barbecue work, Ye Luo really hasn't done it in his previous life, he just eats it, let alone do it in this life, he doesn't even eat it, but he thinks he can still try it.
If you want to make a skewer, you have to have a grill first.
You can say that charcoal-grilled things are not good to eat, there are a lot of harmful substances in them, carcinogenic or something, but the meat grilled by charcoal is much more fragrant in taste than electric grilling.
Grill Ye Luo has seen a lot, but he can't do it, although Dast has it, but his grill is too small, there is no way Ye Luo had to ask Dast to go to Rock Hudson to buy two large grills of about three or three meters.
Why choose a three-meter one?
It's not that he's afraid that he won't be able to bake it too short, although the distance of three meters is a bit long, he can take care of it if he is a little tired.
He wants to roast lamb, but I'm sorry, this has to be booked, so he can only use chicken and beef to experiment first, as for why he didn't choose pork, the main thing is that pork roasted is not as fragrant as chicken, beef and mutton!
The chisel is very easy to get, although the Newfoundland side is not as good as the domestic masturbation, but there are still similar chisels.
Originally, Ye Luo planned to let Dast buy it back, but after thinking about it, he was okay now, so he just went to buy it himself.
It just so happens that barbecue also needs to use a lot of meat, and there are some necessary barbecue seasonings, and Daxter definitely doesn't understand it, so it's better to go out on his own than to let him buy it randomly!
As for vegetables, you don't need to buy them at all, there are many in the vegetable field, and you can pick some when the time comes.
Compared to these meat skewers, Ye Luo prefers vegetable skewers, such as cucumbers, cabbage, eggplant, beans, corn, and so on.
It took most of the day for Ye Luo to get everything he needed.
As for cutting meat, soaking meat, and skewering, this is a big project.
Especially for strings, you can't do it by Ye Luo alone.
There was no way, he had to pull Dust, Thomas, Renison and a few other idle people who had nothing to do, which means that Scarlett and Sister Hong still need to be guides now, playing with the new tourists, otherwise they won't be able to run away.
Seeing that it was almost done here, he went to get the spices again.
Chili, cumin, and sesame pepper were all ground and put into a sprinkler bottle, and then the other barbecue seasonings were also made separately, and even two large bowls were taken with oil poured into one bowl and the other bowl was soy sauce, and a brush was placed in each of the two bowls.
It was already past six o'clock, and the sun had not yet set so early.
After all, it's June now, which belongs to summer, and the sun rises early and sets late in this season, unlike winter, which gets up late and sets early!
At this time, the tourists had already received the news and gathered over, intending to see what Ye Luo wanted to toss again.
At this time, Ye Luo, who was at the dock, asked Dast and others to help set up the grill, and the charcoal fire was burned, and pots of meat skewers were also placed aside, Ye Luo clapped his hands: "Thank you for coming to my side to play, so tonight I will launch a new main dish, barbecue." ”
"Maybe you are curious and think that I am a little confused, after all, kebabs are very common in China, but I want to tell you that this is Newfoundland, and the main purpose of my skewers this time is to let people eat the taste of their hometown in a foreign country. ”
At first, the tourists thought it was something, but when they heard that it was the kind of barbecue that is very common in China, most of them immediately lost interest.
For these rich people, basically no one wants to let them eat this kind of barbecue from roadside stalls, mainly because they have heard that there are a lot of harmful substances in it, and if they don't eat it well, it may cause cancer.
As the saying goes, the richer a person is, the more he cherishes his life.
At this time, most of these tourists have a feeling of leaving, and a few want to feel the fact that the leaves are not authentic.
Maybe it was out of curiosity, or maybe it was because of the food that Ye Luo cooked, so that the tourists who originally wanted to leave did not leave immediately, but chose to wait and see before deciding whether to leave or not.
Ye Luo didn't care about everyone's discussions, and he didn't know what everyone was thinking.
At this point, he used a small spatula to get the charcoal fire on the side into the grill, and then arranged the meat skewers in a row on the grill.
He didn't dare to fill the grill all at once, after all, he had no training and was not very proficient.
Otherwise, no matter how delicious the ingredients are, you will burn them, and the taste will not be good.
With a small brush, I brushed some oil on the chicken and beef skewers, and some on the chicken wings on the side.
Now he didn't have time to care about other people's reactions, and all his attention was on the skewers in front of him.
Soon.
Drops of grease dripped down and fell onto the charcoal, splashing a puff of oil smoke, mixed with the various seasonings that the leaves were constantly falling on the skewers, and the flavor gradually wafted out.
In fact, this taste is mainly more cumin powder, if there is some mutton at this time, mixed with the fat dripping from the mutton fat, the taste will be more attractive.
When it is almost baked, the speed of the leaves falling is also more frequent, and there is no time to stop, turning over the skewers with one hand and sprinkling the seasoning with the other.
Alice was standing beside her, her big eyes moving with the skewers.
"Daddy, are you alright?" the little one couldn't wait.
Ye Luo took a plate from the side: "It's still a little bit, okay, Dad will give you something to eat first." ”
Don't look at the roasting at the same time, but the roasting time is also in order.
The chicken skewers are better grilled, and he also sprinkled a little pepper powder on them, which makes it taste better to eat spicy and spicy.
You don't need beef skewers, just cumin and refined salt, and a little chili noodles.
On the chicken wings, there is no chili noodles.
In fact, chicken wings are the most difficult to bake, and the technique of leaf fall is not very good, resulting in a little mushy on the tip of the wings.
However, for him to bake for the first time, it is also very good to have such results.
Waited a few more minutes.
The meat skewers are also getting better one after another, Ye fell on the grill and knocked twice, and then put it in the tray on the side, as for the girl, of course he will put it alone, even if this matter is useless even if the guest picks it, he doesn't have the heart to care about it!