Chapter 54: Reluctance
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This is the most prosperous area in Rongcheng, every inch of land is expensive, and the Tang family's catering company, Phoenix Restaurant, is located here.
As a top high-end Sichuan restaurant, Phoenix Restaurant was not very popular in Chengdu in the past few years, and its business was obviously inferior to other Sichuan catering companies such as Ginkgo Restaurant, Red Apricot Restaurant, and Da Ronghe.
The reason for this is that several other catering companies have at least decades, if not hundreds of years, of heritage. In addition to ordinary Sichuan cuisine, they also have their own unique signature dishes, which can attract a large number of loyal fans.
Phoenix Restaurant lacks heritage, and without this kind of chef who can really support the situation and calm the scene, it is not easy to leave repeat customers.
Even if the chef skills of Phoenix Restaurant are not bad, the ordinary dishes made are already full of color, flavor and flavor, and they are not attractive enough.
The chef industry, in fact, is the same as those who practice martial arts, and there are also factions in the rivers and lakes. Each sect has its own specialty, its own unique secret recipe, and it will not be passed on.
Even the procedures and standards for accepting apprentices for chefs are stricter than practicing martial arts.
A dish is like a martial art.
A trick with a wonderful taste is like a unique magic trick on the rivers and lakes, without the master to teach it, no matter how high the cooking skills are, it can't be made.
And the chef's profession respects teachers and has strict rules.
Ordinary chefs may also be unhappy in a restaurant, so they quit their jobs and find another job. But the chef who has been trained by the restaurant itself since he was a child is basically impossible to leave, and will stay in the restaurant until he retires.
So if you have money and want to dig people, you can't dig it.
The lack of background in Phoenix Restaurant was finally changed after Wen Kai joined half a year ago.
Fang Wenkai, as a chef from the Fang family, a century-old culinary family, no matter what his character is, his cooking skills are really good, not much worse than his brother Fang Wenjie. And the most important thing is that he can do all of Xiangmanlou's several unique signature dishes!
The business scale of Xiangmanlou is naturally much worse than that of a large catering enterprise like Phoenix Restaurant, but the unique signature dishes are not bad at all.
The food in the big restaurant may not be better than the food in the small restaurant, especially the century-old restaurant like Xiangxiangmanlou, the taste is even more unique. The reason why Xiangmanlou has not become bigger and stronger for so many years is just the lack of capital integration and the lack of ambition of the Fang family in the past generations.
If the Fang family is willing to work hard, it is not impossible for Xiangmanlou to become a famous restaurant in Rongcheng.
At the beginning, Xiangmanlou was able to have the highest online evaluation in Shuangnan Food District, becoming the most popular and longest-queuing restaurant, not because of Fang Shijie's good cooking skills and several signature dishes.
In an office at the Phoenix Restaurant, Fang Wenkai was leaning back in a chair and closing his eyes.
After joining Phoenix Restaurant, he immediately became the number one chef, with an extraordinary status, and his life was very leisurely, and ordinary customers did not need him to order food.
"Bang bang!"
There was a knock on the office door, and after Fang Wenkai said something, a shrewd and thin man walked in and said in a low voice: "Chef Fang, the incense you asked me to keep an eye on has been moving recently." ”
Fang Wenkai came to his senses when he heard this, opened his eyes and asked, "What is the movement?"
"The transfer advertisement of Xiangmanlou has been hanging for more than half a month, although the price is very low, but because their requirements for the transferor are too high, they must have their satisfactory cooking skills to transfer, so several groups of buyers have been rejected by them. Until yesterday, a man and a woman went in, and finally moved Li Ying and made her decide to transfer Xiangmanlou. The thin man said.
"Being able to impress Li Ying, a woman, shows that the cooking skills of these two people are not simple. Fang Wenkai's eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "Have you found the information of these two people?"
"Found it. The thin man immediately nodded and handed over the information about Qin Lu and Lin Youyou in his hand.
Fang Wenkai took the information and looked at it carefully.
Li Ying married Fang Wenjie and has been the daughter-in-law of the Fang family for so many years, and her vision for cooking skills is quite high, and what can satisfy her is at least a first-class chef in Rongcheng. And there are only so many first-class chefs in Rongcheng, as long as he uses a little connection, he can make this deal fail.
"Two college students who haven't graduated from college yet?Can their cooking skills impress Li Ying?" Fang Wenjie looked at the news on the data with a dumb smile, and his first reaction was not to believe it.
The details of Qin Lu and Lin Youyou are investigated very clearly, one is a senior who is about to graduate from Shu Normal University, and the other is a senior who is about to graduate from Tianfu College of Finance University. Qin Lu didn't have any chef experience, and Lin Youyou's family had opened a restaurant, but it was closed because the business was too poor.
Neither of them comes from a family of culinary artists, and if they don't have good cooking skills, how can they impress Li Ying, who is obsessed?
However, seeing Qin Lu and Lin Youyou's recent situation later, it made him frown again.
"Running a noodle restaurant that is about to close down, improving the taste of the noodle restaurant, making what is known as the best noodles in Chengdu, a bowl of noodles for 20 yuan is also booming, and the net profit is nearly 20,000 ...... a day"
This information is clearly abnormal.
It seems that there is indeed something unusual about these two people, which will impress Li Ying and give her confidence that Xiangmanlou will come back to life after the transfer and carry forward the brand of Xiangmanlou.
"Chef Fang, what should we do next?" the fine man asked.
Fang Wenkai quickly finished reading the information, put it aside, and said with a sneer: "Of course, you can't let Xiangmanlou be transferred so easily. Aren't these two young people opening a restaurant just to make money, and they will make much more money when they come to our Phoenix Restaurant than they do in Xiangmanlou, right? If they don't know what to do, then ......."
Fang Wenkai's eyes flashed with a ruthless light, and he didn't say any more, but asked, "When will they sign the contract?"
The lean man replied, "Tomorrow morning." ”
Fang Wenkai sneered: "I haven't been back for a long time." Then let's walk around the building tomorrow morning. ”
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The sun is rising.
Qin Lu, who was meditating by the Love Lake, ended a whole night of cultivation.
Feeling that there was only a faint trace of true yuan in his body, Qin Lu smiled a little bitterly: "It will take at least two or three months of penance cultivation before you can enter the middle stage of qi refining! Qi refining, foundation building, and golden pill are more difficult than the other, if you want to restore your cultivation in the cultivation realm, you don't know that you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey." ”
"It seems that after a while after the Xiangmanlou is regularized, I will have to walk around and see if there is a shortcut. ”
Qin Lu walked towards the champion noodle restaurant, pondering.
The earth is also so big, in the inaccessible places of the deep mountains and old forests, there is always a possibility that there will be spiritual herbs and elixirs. Even if the effect is a little weaker, such as wild ginseng and the like, after being personally trained by him, a genius of herbs and trees, it will always help in cultivation.
When I returned to the champion noodle restaurant, the landlord aunt had just opened the door and was about to open, and Han Xiaolong and Han Xiaoqian, who were going to school, were eating breakfast with sleepy eyes.
"Qin Lu is back from morning practice?" said the landlord aunt looking at Qin Lu with a smile.
Now that her attitude towards Qin Lu has changed one hundred and eighty degrees, she will not be as poisonous as before. After all, Qin Lu is now the majority shareholder of Zhuangyuan Noodle Restaurant.
After finishing speaking, she also turned her head and used Qin Lu as an example to teach Han Xiaolong and Han Xiaoqian: "You two hurry up and cheer me up! You see that Qin Lu doesn't go to school now, and you get up so early every morning to exercise, don't you feel ashamed as middle school and elementary school students?"
Han Xiaoqian was indignant and dissatisfied with her mother's transformation: "Inconsistent!"
Han Xiaolong pursed his lips, pulled the bun, and hummed: "If you agree to let Qin Lu teach me martial arts, even if I get up in the middle of the night to exercise, I can!"
In the past few days, he has no choice but to pester Qin Lu, so Qin Lu thought of a trick and asked him to ask the landlord and aunt, if the landlord and aunt agree to him to practice martial arts, he will teach him himself.
Of course, the landlord aunt disagreed, she knew that her son was too wild.
Bang bang!
Ren Min tapped lightly on the heads of the two.
"Hurry up and eat!"
Qin Lu looked at this noisy but warm picture, and there was a faint reluctance in his heart.
I should be here, I can't stay here for too long, right?
After taking over Xiangmanlou, I can't still run here every night, it's too frustrating, and I should find a place to settle near the hotel......
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