Chapter 540: The Storm Rises
On the third day of the first branch of Chef Wu's restaurant in the provincial city to launch the flavored shrimp, Wu Xiaozheng was about to go back to Xiangshui.
First, since two signature dishes have been launched here, Xiangshui naturally has to keep up, and he has to go back to teach the two signature dishes.
Second, Wen Wen called him, saying that Ma Li was back, but he didn't know when he would disappear again, and asked him to go back and have a look.
Wu Xiaozheng must go back.
But just as others left, under the trigger of a variety of factors, a storm quietly came.
In Changshi, there is a special taste shrimp shop called Kangwang Lobster House.
As one of the earliest restaurants in Changshi to operate taste shrimp, Kangwang Lobster Restaurant is one of the best reputations, and the business is quite hot, and because it is mainly engaged in crayfish, Kangwang Lobster Restaurant has also been competing with others for the name of the most positive crayfish.
Kang Youdao, the owner of King Kang's lobster restaurant, has tried his best to make his restaurant famous and strive for the name of the most righteous crayfish.
The news of Chef Wu's restaurant launching flavored shrimp originally didn't reach Kang Youdao's ears so quickly.
But something very coincidental happened.
On the night when Chef Wu first recommended crayfish, Kang Youdao suddenly found that the old customers who had booked a table that night suddenly called to cancel their reservations.
It's nothing.
It often happens in the hotel that customers cancel their reservations temporarily, and some don't even bother to call to cancel their reservations.
Therefore, although there were a few more customers who canceled their reservations that night than usual, Kang Youdao did not pay much attention to it.
But another coincidence happened.
A diner who dined at Chef Wu at noon that day, because he booked a table late, did not book a seat for Chef Wu that night, but his desire to eat crayfish was hooked by Chef Wu again, so he called a few friends to go to King Kang's lobster restaurant in the evening.
It's a shop he frequents.
There is no harm without contrast.
As soon as the taste of the shrimp in the Kangwang Lobster House was served, he tasted two of them, and he felt bad.
He complained to his friends: "I used to eat the shrimp here and thought it was good, but after eating the shrimp at Chef Wu's restaurant at noon, I found that the crayfish here were not delicious enough." No, I still have to go to Chef Wu to eat another day. ”
It's not uncommon for diners to privately discuss and compare the taste of the same dish in different restaurants.
But these words were heard by Kang Youdao, who was patrolling the restaurant.
Some diners say in my restaurant that other people's shrimp are delicious, and do they mean not to eat again?
What's the matter!
Kang Youdao contacted that the number of reservations canceled tonight was a bit large, and decided to quietly go to Chef Wu's restaurant to investigate.
At noon the next day, he found Chef Wu's restaurant.
Before the person entered, Kang Youdao was a little surprised.
At noon, there are still so many people waiting in line for seats?
In order to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, Kang Youdao had to wait in line for a seat.
The wait is half an hour.
As soon as he entered the reception hall, Kang Youdao became angry.
Which is the most authentic crayfish? Wu's flavor shrimp!
Damn, I didn't dare to hit such a brand in Kangwang Lobster Restaurant, and you just opened a restaurant to hit it, this guts is too fat!
Holding back his anger, Kang Youdao went upstairs and sat down and began to taste Wu's shrimp.
After eating this, he had to admit that the taste of shrimp here was indeed a little stronger than the one in his store in terms of taste and heat.
Kang Youdao didn't want to admit it.
But even if he subconsciously favors his own taste of shrimp in a large proportion, he still can't deny it.
There's trouble.
As soon as this business is on fire, its own business will be affected.
Although there are many diners in Changshi, your restaurant does not have to worry about being cold, but in the long run, the reputation of the most authentic shrimp will fall to the Wu family.
After arguing with other families for so long, Kang Youdao has never had such a big sense of crisis.
How can this work?
We have to think of a way not to let the reputation of the most authentic shrimp go aside, especially not to fall into the most threatening Chef Wu restaurant.
Based on this consideration, Kang Youdao began to think of tricks.
What forced him to take immediate action was that when he returned to his store, the shopkeepers responded that the business was at least a decade or two worse than usual.
The same is true at night, and it seems to be a little more serious.
Actually, this is a normal thing.
Since the main dish of Kangwang Lobster Restaurant is crayfish, and now a restaurant with a better taste has emerged, the most affected is naturally the restaurant specializing in flavored shrimp.
Therefore, that night, Kang Youdao visited his old friend Li Canru overnight.
In the course of more than a year of operation, Li Canru wrote several touting articles to help him publicize.
Of course, Kang Youdao also gave Li Canru no less benefits, and whenever a propaganda article came out, Kang Youdao's pen polishing fee was not less.
The reason why Kang Youdao was looking for Li Canru was not to slander Chef Wu's restaurant at the beginning, but to find Li Canru to promote King Kang's lobster restaurant again without finding a good way, so as not to continue to decline in business.
A sum of money was stuffed into Li Canru's hand.
After Kang Youdao left, Li Canru began to think about how to help Kang Youdao solve this trouble.
Since you have received the money, you have to do something really effective to be worthy of the name of the famous pen Li Canru.
To be honest, Li Canru was angry at Chef Wu that day, and he was really angry.
What made him even more angry was that Chef Wu's restaurant didn't say anything afterwards.
Too ignorant of the rules, too bad at doing business!
According to Li Canru's original character, he will definitely do something to let out this evil breath. It can be seen that Xiong Guoping has a certain influence in the food industry in the entire Hunan Province, Li Canru endured it.
He didn't bother to do that kind of thing that harmed others and didn't benefit himself.
But now it's different.
Now there is a profit drive.
How to write it, in order to press Chef Wu's restaurant and praise King Kang's lobster restaurant?
As soon as you press it, the effect comes out.
After so many years in the food reporting industry, Li knew he had to do it to achieve the best results.
Yes, the dishes at Chef Wu's restaurant taste so good that it feels like poppy husk powder has been added.
Also, the Xiangshui golden liquid in Chef Wu's restaurant also makes people feel that they have added flavor.
Let's make a fuss about this aspect.
After some brewing, a brilliant article was freshly released.
In this article promoting the theme of crayfish in Changshi, Li Canru focused on the reputation of King Kang's lobster restaurant, and at the same time, he also vaguely mentioned in the article that a newly opened Wu Chef Restaurant tasted a little abnormal, and it was suspected that some harmful substances had been added.
Later, Li Canru also cited some methods to make food taste too good to be normal, such as adding poppy husk powder to food and adding flavor to wine.
This article was published in the food column of the "Changshi Evening News" in the afternoon issue on the same day.