After a while, Huang Wenbin's stomach was already filled with beer and food, and he burped, and he looked at the pile of food in front of him worriedly. Don't talk about things like roast chicken wings, only eat a few slices of meat back to the pot, Mao Xuewang also tasted the taste, the saliva chicken is almost unchanged, only the boiled fish is half eaten.

When I was hungry, I tried to order food, but I couldn't finish it at all. Huang Wenbin wanted to eat more, but his stomach really couldn't be stuffed. Do you want to pack it back? This kind of oily and spicy thing is not conducive to physical health, and Ding Shishi saw that Huang Wenbin was nagging to death. It would be a waste to just throw it all away.

The shopkeeper found that Huang Wenbin was looking at the large table of dishes in front of him with a sad face, thinking that there was something wrong, so he hurriedly came over and asked, "Hello, are these dishes not appetizing?" So much left? ”

"No, this boiled fish is quite delicious." Huang Wenbin said, "It's just that I screamed too much at once and didn't finish eating." ”

The shopkeeper also misunderstood, "Your friend released your pigeons, right?" ”

"Huh? Pretty much. Huang Wenbin said that it is better than saying that he has big eyes and a small belly, "Have you eaten?" Let's have a drink. "At this time, dinner has passed, the market has not yet opened for supper, and there are not many people in the store, and the store manager has nothing to do, so it is better to ask him to consume some remaining supplies.

"Okay." The store manager readily agreed, came over and poured a glass of beer, and drank it, "It's so hot now." It's only April, and it's 30 degrees. Especially those of us who do this business, they are very smoky and hot, and they are very afraid of heat. As he spoke, he sandwiched a piece of meat back to the pot and ate it with relish.

"How's business going around here?" Huang Wenbin asked casually.

"No, there are still a lot of people, the industrial park has not been opened, and there are fewer and fewer factory workers." The store manager sighed and said that he was a young man in his twenties, the kind of boss who cooks by himself, in addition to himself, there are only a few waiters and aunts in the store, "I am from Sichuan, I used to be a chef, and then I made a lot of money, so I chartered this shop and wanted to do it myself. ”

"It's going to be going to happen soon." Huang Wenbin comforted him that as long as the road is repaired, this side will be a prosperous area.

"It's not that easy." The store manager said, "The industrial park here used to be full of cars coming and going, and trucks carrying goods one after another, and there were often traffic jams. Now, it's smooth all day and night, and there is no traffic jam during rush hour. The traffic is really inconvenient, and everyone goes to other development zones with better conditions. But I heard that there is going to be an education center here, and there are thousands of students, and if it is true, then business may be better. ”

"It's true, I just came over there." Huang Wenbin said, "There are not as many as a few thousand, at most eight or nine hundred." ”

"Eight or nine hundred people were good when it first opened." The store manager said, "You work at the education center?" That's great, tell me, what's going on over there? ”

"It's just an adult education center, and it's a ...... sponsored by Provincial University," Huang Wenbin doesn't know what the situation is now, "Aren't many people not studying in college in order to work early?" You can go to the adult education center to sign up for study, you can study while working, and you can get a university diploma after reading, which is a formal graduation certificate of a provincial university and recognized by the state. In the future, you can use it to find a job, change jobs, take the civil service exam, or anything. If you are interested, you can also sign up. ”

"I don't dare to count on this, people like us who run restaurants, from morning to night, where can we have time to study, waste money." The manager said, "Besides, it's useless to study and graduate, I'm either a chef or a restaurant." It's this school that has opened, do you think my business will be better? ”

"It shouldn't be helpful," Mr. Huang said, "that the education center is closed and has a cafeteria, so there shouldn't be many people coming out to eat." And they are all non-full-time classes, most of them are open at night, and they come to class after work and dinner. ”

"Well, that's useless." The store manager said disappointedly.

"No, there should still be some people who will come to eat, not to mention anything else, at least learn to eat a good meal of classmates, and eat a casual meal after the final exam." Huang Wenbin said, "After graduation, there is a thank-you banquet or something." "But it's a long way off, at least in a few years.

"That's right, a little better is a little better!" The store manager was happy again, picked up the beer cup and filled it again, "Drink and drink, Brother Xie Xie brought me good news, I invited you this time." ”

"How can this work, you said just now that business is not very good, how can I take advantage of this." Huang Wenbin hurriedly refused, casually saying that some people would know the news of Lu Dao sooner or later, so he asked people to invite him to dinner, he really couldn't do this kind of thing.

"It's not good, I'll also invite such a meal of more than 100 yuan. Brother, you underestimate my brother and me too much. The store manager drank a few more drinks and began to call him a brother, "Don't look at me now that I open such a small shop with no customers, and I can't make any money." In the past, when something happened to someone, I also had 10,000 yuan a month, and the chef didn't have to worry about food or housing, and I didn't have to buy good clothes, and all the money was saved. Even if it's a year's worth of business now, you still won't starve to death. ”

"Ten thousand dollars? Isn't that a chef? Huang Wenbin said casually. If it is 10,000 yuan, it is considered a high labor force in terms of part-time workers. Huang Wenbin is now an assistant to the general manager, and his regular salary is 5,000 yuan a month. Even if it is the vice president of Dongsheng, it is only 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a month, which is still a figure only after the salary and bonus are added together.

"Three chefs, I'm staying in Sichuan." The manager said, "The chef package the kitchen, you can make more than 100,000 yuan a month, and the second chef also has 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, my skills are not worse than them, I can only take 10,000 yuan, and I don't have to rise, and my heart is unbalanced, so I came out to do it alone, held my breath, and wanted to make a lot of money to go back and show off with the second chef. ”

Sichuan people are the most high-end Sichuan cuisine in the provincial capital, and a boiling cabbage costs more than 300 yuan, which is about the same as other people's abalone. The amount of dishes is still very small, and there are only four or five pieces of meat in a back pot, but they are staggered and beautiful. Once someone invited him to dinner, Huang Wenbin was fortunate enough to have a meal, seven or eight people ate more than a dozen dishes, spent more than 2,000 yuan, and they were not full.

However, although the amount of food is small, the taste is still very good. The white meat of garlic is the size of a palm, crystal clear like a work of art. There is also their back-to-the-pot meat, each piece has a lamp nest, fat and thin, all the oil is boiled out, and it doesn't taste greasy at all.

"Are you from Sichuan?" Huang Wenbin was a little skeptical, "This pot meat seems to be different from the one over there." "It's so badly done, it's not comparable to other people's versions. Boiled fish is good, but unfortunately Huang Wenbin has never eaten boiled fish in Sichuan.

"This? It's not something I did. The store manager said, "My apprentice made it, and he hasn't graduated yet." But I'm the only chef in this restaurant, and sometimes it's really busy. And it's not buttocks meat that is used, but pork belly, and it's hard to make a lamp nest. I made the boiled fish, not bad, right? ”

"Good boiled fish." Huang Wenbin nodded and said, not only is it good, it is simply delicious. So Huang Wenbin left everything else, but he ate more than half of the boiled fish.

"Well, I'm using authentic ...... Grass carp, reservoir grass carp, freshly killed, sliced on the spot. It's not the kind of refrigerator that has been killed and sliced in other stores. The shopkeeper said, "Actually, my apprentice's craftsmanship is very good, but the raw materials are not good, and the varieties in the vegetable market here are few and the goods are single, and I want to find local pork, but I can't find it at all, they are all feed pigs." If you go early, you can buy hip meat, and if you go late, you can only make do with five flowers. ”

"It's also a novelty to use dried tofu as a side dish." Huang Wenbin said.

"The garlic sprouts are running out, and the vegetable market here has few goods and is slow to replenish." The store manager defended, "In fact, dried tofu is also good, absorbing oil, increasing flavor, Sichuan's local back to the pot meat, that's what to put on hand, it's very casual, you don't necessarily have to have garlic sprouts." ”

Huang Wenbin smiled and didn't speak.

The store manager was anxious, stood up and said, "I'll personally fry a pot meat for you!" With that, he ran into the kitchen, and after a while, he brought out a plate full of back pot meat, "Taste it!" ”

Huang Wenbin looked at it, the ingredients were still dried tofu, and there were few lamp nests, which looked very inauthentic. However, the store manager said so, he still took a pair of chopsticks, and as soon as he entered the mouth, the umami of the pork spread, and the taste of Sichuan pepper, chili pepper, and bean paste appeared in turn.

"This!" Huang Wenbin ate another piece, and the taste of the meat in the pot mixed again, but it was still so delicious.

"Is it delicious?" The store manager asked with a smile.

"Delicious!" Huang Wenbin was already very full, but he still couldn't help but eat one piece after another, it was amazing.

"My craftsmanship is not blowing, and the Sichuan people are also top-notch. Other Sichuan restaurants are even more incomparable. To put it bluntly, in the provincial capital, I am also the first. The store manager sighed, "But if you don't choose a store well, you will end up like this, and you can still lose money as a restaurant." ”

Huang Wenbin felt a little strange, here in Songshan High-tech Development Zone, if you want to say that the popularity is not strong, it is really not good, but if you want to say that the food stalls are losing money, it should not be. When Huang Wenbin came to order food just now, there were quite a few customers, and the business was not bleak.

This food stall is poorly equipped, and there is no private room, just a tin shed and a kitchen, and the rent should not be high. There are also few staff, and the manager is also a chef himself, so the personnel and management costs should be very small. Overall, the operating expenses should be very low, so why would you lose money?