Chapter Eighty-Three: A Private Restaurant
"Although the location of this place is a little off, the rent is relatively cheap, and there is a high-tech park behind it, and there are two large trade cities across the road, so the source of tourists is still relatively rich. Lin Yi said, "The key is that the rent is relatively cheap, only 600,000 ...... a year."
This four-storey façade house is located next to the entrance of Shenglong Industrial Park, the gate of the four rooms, each floor has nearly 200 square meters of space, and it is still a frame structure, the newly built new house looks more spacious, and Lao Xie is a little dumbfounded.
Being a chef is actually very hard work, especially a chef who knows a few unique skills, that is the signature of the store, you can't take a break, the store will no longer sell those kinds of dishes, right? So Lao Xie usually has no holidays at all, only two days off at most a month, today is specially invited by Lin Yi to take a day off to chat with him, but I didn't expect Lin Yi to pull him here without saying a word.
"My plan is to open a noodle restaurant on the first floor, there are a lot of migrant workers nearby, although many factories have canteens, but the salesmen in the trade city or something, they still have to come out to eat, and the customer flow should not be a big problem. Lin Yi said, "On the fourth floor at the top, I plan to build a high-end teahouse, mainly selling all kinds of cooked water." As for the second and third floors, I'm going to make them private restaurants, what do you think?"
"Well, the private restaurant has been relatively popular in the past two years...... Lao Xie nodded, but his heart was full of waves. How long has Lin Yi just resigned from the hotel, and he actually started a chain noodle restaurant, which is opening a real restaurant again? But what about himself, he is still angry every day in the back kitchen of the hotel......
Nowadays, private restaurants are indeed blooming everywhere, because this form of restaurant has many advantages. First of all, the store does not need to look for a place that is too prosperous, or even requires a first-floor storefront, and the rent pressure is much lower. In addition, the service objects are also relatively high-end, and there are tens of thousands of dishes on a table, and ordinary people can't afford to eat them at all. The high profit is naturally used to pursue the flow of customers too much, which can ensure that every dish can be made into a high-quality product.
But because private restaurants are blooming everywhere, it is inevitable that the good and the bad are uneven, so that many people simply use the name of private cuisine to make farmhouse-level dishes to fool customers, and the price is a little cheaper than authentic private dishes, which causes the reputation of private dishes to be really not very high-end.
"Do you agree, that's good, hehe," Lin Yi smiled, "Come over and be my chef, how about it?"
"I'm going to be your chef?" Lao Xie was stunned.
"Yes, I didn't tell you that I asked you for help if I had something, that's it. Lin Yi said with a smile, "I usually be busy, I don't have much time to stay in the store, I don't worry about handing it over to others, only I can trust your cooking skills and character." As for the treatment, you just have to rest assured, it is definitely much higher than what you are now in Jinxing!"
"Hey, it doesn't matter what the treatment is, the point is that I'm afraid I'm not competent. Lao Xie smiled.
"You don't have to be modest about this, I know your level. Lin Yi said with a smile, "In addition, when it first opened, I would also be here for a while, and I promised to teach you as a teacher, haha." ”
"Hey, you're welcome, you kid just want to be a cheap master?" said Lao Xie with a smile.
To be precise, when he was in the Jinxing Hotel, Lao Xie was still half of Lin Yi's master, after all, Lin Yi learned to cook with his grandfather when he was a child, and he also loved to study, but his actual hands-on ability was still a little worse, and he didn't ask Lao Xie for some technical questions. However, Lin Yi has a little strength, that is, he has a very high level of understanding, and he will not stick to the inheritance of recipes, he often ponders it by himself, and slightly changes the details of cooking, which often has better results. So in turn, he didn't help Lao Xie improve his cooking skills, but he couldn't figure out who was the master.
The two laughed and joked, Lin Yi took Lao Xie up to the second floor again, pointed to the hall with the same open frame structure and said, "My idea is that we will only receive a maximum of eight tables of guests a day here." This half of the second floor was converted into a kitchen, this side is the lounge area, this side is two private rooms, and the third floor is only divided into six private rooms after all the renovation is completed......"
"There are only eight private rooms?" Lao Xie frowned, "How can it be done?"
"Then increase the spending limit. Lin Yi said with a smile, "My idea is that guests are not allowed to order, and we will charge according to the capitation, one thousand yuan per person......
"Huh......? Wouldn't it be too high?" said Lao Xie with some incredulity.
After all, Jinhai is only a second-tier city, and its consumption power is not very high, even in Jinxing Hotel, if you don't bring alcohol, the per capita consumption is only three or five hundred yuan, even Yan Baoyi can't spend a thousand yuan per person.
"Haha, it's not high, I'm too low!" Lin Yi laughed and said, "Don't talk about my cooking skills, just talk about my current fame, a thousand yuan is not expensive at all!"
Lin Yi's words are definitely not blowing, the ratings of the last issue of "Food Notes" have reached the fifth place in the same period, how many people in the country have to watch it? Of course, there are many gourmets and local tyrants, many of whom are leaving messages on the Internet, or simply calling the TV station to ask if Lin Yi and Xiao Ai have opened a restaurant, they are willing to pay a high price to try the dishes made on TV, and some people even offer 30,000 or 50,000 yuan just for a dish!
Of course, the price of thirty or fifty thousand is inflated, even if someone is really willing to eat, it is a hammer deal, so Lin Yi is priced at one thousand, which is the price of "daily consumption", which is really not high at all.
Lao Xie smiled bitterly, of course he agreed with Lin Yi's statement, this is the so-called star effect, right? Just think about the fact that he started learning to cook at the age of eighteen, and now he has been in the industry for twenty years, and now he is only a three-chef, and even the hotel is the same with him or not. But Lin Yi, it's only been a few months since he resigned, and if he shoots a TV show casually, he can open a private restaurant for 1,000 yuan a person, and he doesn't have to worry about having no customers!
This is ability, anyway, I don't have this hope in my life......
"Okay, it's almost noon, let's go to my house, get two side dishes, and talk while eating. Lin Yi said with a smile.
As a chef, he doesn't really like to cook and eat by himself, but for Lin Yi, who has already had an overly keen sense of taste, it is really difficult to swallow the dishes made by others, as long as there are conditions, it is more delicious to like to make some meals by himself.
On the other hand, he could also see Lao Xie's hesitation - Lao Xie's character was a little too real, and he really wanted to only count on fame to kill people, but he was afraid that he was not willing to go along with him. So Lin Yi decided to show him a hand and let him see how much his cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds in the past few months, so as to dispel his doubts and make him agree that the food he made was really worth a thousand yuan per person!