The day before the Lantern Festival, the citizens of Qiantang felt a strange atmosphere everywhere.

Because the airport road is closed.

Locals who have lived in Qiantang for more than ten years think of "what big names like foreign heads of state want to visit".

However, the news was soon clarified.

Because first of all, the city did not organize citizens to hold bouquets of flowers to welcome them, but simply closed the airport road for two hours and even extended to the urban line, river bridge.

Secondly, there is the news that a big American Western restaurant will open on Lakeside Road, and many citizens have heard of it, especially those who live in nearby areas. It's just that in order to make a surprise, the brand did not publicly advertise what brand it was called in advance.

When the airport road was closed, the citizens were more curious than when they were normally notified of the welcome of the mezzanine road, and then saw several new super-long luxury cars that they had never seen before speeding by.

In the fleet of lengthened luxury cars, there are also cars that I know, which is Gu Biao's Mercedes-Benz 770 classic car dedicated to Qiantang, so everyone instantly knows that this is a foreign bigwig invited by Gu Biao.

"There are foreign bigwigs who want to close the airport road, and they want to cut the ribbon for Boss Gu's business!"

"I heard that it's not just the American high-end Western restaurant on Lakeside Road, but even the Red Bull factory, mainly to cut the ribbon of the Gatorade production plant that Red Bull began to expand last year - you always know Gatorade? It's the high-end fruit juice drink brand that the Americans drank at the beginning of the movies "Terminator" and "First Blood".

I heard that American athletes drink it, not only does it taste good, but it can also be as energetic as when using Red Bull, the key is that people are the secret recipe of juice, there are no hormones, and rich Americans who like to play high-end sports should drink it like water!"

"It turns out that this is the case, I have always known that Boss Gu's business is big, but I didn't expect it to be so big that I can invite a big man to close the airport road when the business cuts the ribbon...... There is a sky outside the sky, and you can't imagine it. ”

The people who eat melons have begun to have adrenaline rushing, just chatting about the glorious deeds of others.

As for whether Kentucky is a "foreign fast food" or a "high-end Western food with a big American brand", ordinary citizens don't care, and they don't have this string in their heads. In their opinion, it is "high-end Western food".

Of course, there are also a few people who are not interested in always questioning: "However, I heard that the high-end Western restaurant on Hubin Road, as well as the Red Bull Group and Gatorade, these businesses are all a beautiful capitalist named Minaya, how can he use Boss Gu's relationship to invite so many bigwigs?"

However, this kind of doubt has no trust at all in the eyes of the melon-eating masses who are willing to believe and worship. Even if they rely on their brains, they can help Gu Biao refute:

"Needless to say, I heard that the beautiful white girl named Minaya is a classmate of Boss Gu. I've heard that it may be an American classmate who studied with Professor Kissinger, but I don't know the specifics.

Besides, I remember clearly, when the Red Bull brand first came out in 82, it seemed to have the background of Boss Gu's money, and it was later that he sold the shares to that Minaya - a classmate, there must be something to do with it, a man is rich to this extent, three wives and four concubines are not very normal, there is nothing more than no way to cross the road~"

This kind of brain supplement is very powerful, cutting off all the doubters, and everyone thinks that this is logical, only the worship legend of thousands of people is left.

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The Lantern Festival has finally arrived, and Qiantang in late February, if not the coldest of the year, is quite cold and snowy.

However, the enthusiasm of the onlookers at the ceremony was not diluted in the slightest.

The statue of the white-bearded grandfather in the store, that is, the "KFC Colonel", only moved into the store a week ago, and the mysterious curtain was pulled down yesterday.

Many citizens were surprised when they saw this statue through the large glass floor-to-ceiling windows, and the red and white color of KFC made people mistakenly think that it was Santa Claus.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was set for half past eight in the morning, and the official opening was nine o'clock - Mina didn't want to get too much red tape, so the leader's speech and all other activities added up to half an hour to save face.

On the other hand, today's KFC catering recipes are completely copied from the United States, and have not made any adjustments for Chinese tastes, so there is no operation of those unconventional breakfast meals.

A restaurant that focuses on dinner is already very face-saving when it opens at 9 o'clock in the morning, but if it is a Chinese restaurant, there will be no business for at least the first hour and a half. No matter how early people eat lunch, they have to go after 10:30 in the morning.

This is already measured by the laziest group of people in society in later generations, that is, those "college students who only have the first three classes in the morning, but retain the habit of going straight to the cafeteria after a class".

However, the gimmick of "the first American big-name high-end Western food in China" is enough to make the onlookers forget the unimportant difference between breakfast and lunch, and many people come to watch and queue up hungry for breakfast. (It's not Gu Biao's publicity, Gu Biao has never said what kind of high-end Western food this is, it is made up by the people who eat melons themselves)

Besides, people have a big appetite these days, and the vast majority of people don't need to go hungry at all, because they don't feel that their wallets can support all-you-can-eat only KFC food.

First eat two three-cent southern meat buns at the Qiantang restaurant next door, or go to the Zhiweiguan next door to get two cages of xiaolongbao for one dollar each, and then come to KFC to queue up.

When Winston Lord and Kissinger arrived at the scene at half past eight o'clock, they saw thousands of people watching. Rao is that they are all accustomed to seeing the crowd of people who are welcome in the middle of the road, so they will not be surprised, but they will inevitably question it.

"Gu, didn't you say that you shouldn't organize people to support the opening, just run it naturally, why bother. Seeing this, Kissinger reproached Gu Biao, of course, he was also qualified to blame, after all, he was the professor with Dr. Gu Biao.

Clearly, he saw these people as the same kind of flower children he met on his state visit 15 years ago.

"Teacher, you misunderstood, it's really not our organization - these people are here to line up for dinner. Gu Biao shrugged helplessly.

"It's just a fast food restaurant selling fried chicken and hamburgers! And there are at least three or four thousand people here!" Kissinger thought it was incredible, because he already knew that Chinese were now eager for a Western way of life, and still did not expect to desire it to such an extent.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Kissinger or Winston Lord, because in the history of another time and space, the operators of KFC and McDonald's, they themselves did not expect it, and these people are professional.

None of the seasoned professionals in the restaurant chain could have expected it, and it is not surprising that neither would the politicians.

In the original history, on the first day of the opening of the KFC on Qianmen Street in Beijing in 87, it was forced to extend its business hours until late at night to ensure that all the guests in line ate to eat chicken, and later counted 5,000 diners on the first day.

5,000 people is nothing for a movie theater or a football stadium, but it's definitely an outrageous flow for a fast food restaurant. So that the citizens who did not have a place to sit could only stand there with fried chicken and bread to eat, and no one felt that this was a bad service, but felt very simple that "it is because there are too many Chinese, and the operators cannot be blamed."

Historically, on January 31, 1990, when the first American fast-food chain opened in Moscow, the onlookers were only worse than in China - of course, the protagonist of that time was not KFC, but McDonald's.

According to statistics, the first McDonald's in Moscow was open 24 hours a day, with 20,000 people, and the entire Pushkin Square was temporarily fenced up to maintain order in the queues, which had been around Pushkin Square for several weeks.

McDonald's even decided overnight to "never close the store and open all night until the queue is digested", and also temporarily and urgently purchased beef near Moscow at a high price at a loss to make a giant, because the entire McDonald's supply chain has been greatly challenged, and it did not expect to prepare goods for 20,000 people to eat.

And these 20,000 people are only "24-hour reception people", if you count according to the number of people in line to digest all the people, about 30,000 people have been received in a row, but the last 10,000 people are digested at noon and afternoon on the second day of continuous operation. The turnover is more than 100,000 dollars a day. (It's a lot for a store to sell hamburgers for more than $100,000 a day, and the price is low in 90 years, and a Big Mac is less than $1)

Those who are interested can go to Du Niang to see the queuing photos of the Soviets scrambling to feel the decay and degeneration of capital and pay attention to the lifestyle.

It is not surprising, then, that Kissinger and Winston Lord did not anticipate the magnam.

"I didn't expect Chinese to have such a great enthusiasm for consumption when their per capita income was not high. It seems that they are no different from the Americans. Kissinger couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a lovely people. Winston Lord sighed.

"Ambassador Lorde, it's time for you to speak. ”

It turned out that when the two of them were sitting on the rest seat and whispering, the leaders of the province and the city had already finished speaking.

In China, the leader is bound to speak a speech, and when there are US dignitaries, the leader also has to compress the time, and since the time given to the ambassador does not exceed five minutes, the leader can only speak for three minutes and two minutes respectively.

The people who eat melons are used to it anyway, although they are in a hurry to enter, they are not too impatient, after all, they usually can't hear the provincial and municipal leaders speak in public, and it is quite fresh, and they can bear it for two or three minutes.

Winston Lord prepared a little and said a kind word to Kissinger.

"You're welcome, now you're an ambassador, I'm just a retired consultant hired back into a business consulting firm, you first. Kissinger replied symbolically.

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