Volume 2 Tokyo Hua Menglu Chapter 59 Careful Preparation (II)
Liufangju suddenly closed its doors and stopped accepting customers, which quickly attracted the attention and discussion of many people around. Although its business has been very poor for most of the past six months, and there are almost no customers coming to the door, it is one of the seventy-two stores in Bianjing City after all, and it is also the property of the Tong family, which naturally attracts people's attention.
For a while, both the surrounding people and drinkers and their peers were speculating about this, thinking about what the Tong family would do with this restaurant, which obviously made them lose money, whether to close it and think about it separately. There are even people who make bets on what the outcome will be.
A few days later, someone heard the jingle sound coming from the door of the restaurant, which made many people even more curious, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of Liufangju. It's a pity that because the door is closed, everyone can only guess the specific content, but they can't get the right answer.
In fact, at this time, many masonry craftsmen in Liufangju were in full swing, and they actually built a much smaller stove in the place where the counter should have been placed. Although these craftsmen had a big opinion on this, and felt that no restaurant would set up a kitchen in the front, Sun Tu had made up his mind to let them do it, and they could only follow their orders.
In the original kitchen of the restaurant, there was no leisure, and it was even much busier than usual. Under Sun Tu's guidance, several chefs are learning to stir-fry dishes in an improved iron pot.
At this time, stir-fry has not yet been popularized, and in the final analysis, the key lies in the tools. Most of today's pots are built on the stove, and it is impossible to move at all, so there is less stir-frying techniques, and it is naturally more difficult to stir-fry the dishes well. In addition, the current level of iron pot technology is not enough, and the uneven thickness leads to differences in heating, so it is naturally more difficult to fry dishes that suit people's hearts.
So when Sun Tu decided to use stir-fried vegetables to start the restaurant's sign, he asked Tong Mu to find a suitable blacksmith and let him carefully build a batch of iron pots for Liufangju, thus replacing the original pot stove.
Now, these preparations come into play. Several chefs are already well versed in cooking, but they don't know the tricks of stir-frying. But now with Sun Tu's permission, after a few days of on-the-spot experiments, he has quickly mastered the way of stir-frying.
After seven or eight days, they were able to stir-fry a plate of dishes with good color and aroma, even far surpassing the dishes made by Sun Tu. This made Tong Mu, who took the time to come over to take a look, very happy, and praised them.
At this time, the stoves in front of them were also completely built, and even the chimneys were connected to them, and Sun Tu began to teach them how to master the oil temperature to fry the chicken. If you want to attract customers to the door again, it is obviously not enough to rely on stir-frying, after all, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. But with this fried chicken, the situation is different, and he believes that with this aroma, it will definitely attract people who pass by to come and taste it.
However, this fried chicken is a little more difficult than stir-frying, and it is something that is more difficult for several chefs to understand, which took them nearly half a month to fully master.
During this period, Sun Tu did not hide any secrets, and it can be regarded as teaching everything he knows. This naturally won the respect of many chefs, and also made Tong Mu admire and gratitude, and immediately decided that once the restaurant business improved, after removing the costs and expenses, the remaining profits would be shared equally with Sun Tu.
For his kindness, Sun Tu did not shirk. Because he knows that if he wants to survive in Tokyo, if he wants to live under the fence, he must have a sustainable financial route, and Liufangju is obviously a very good choice. The only thing he hid was the recipe for the fried chicken, not that he didn't want to tell it, but that the seasoning came from the warehouse, which was the biggest secret, and he couldn't tell anyone else.
As the chefs continue to learn these new cooking methods, green smoke rises from the chimney from time to time, which naturally attracts the attention of many people, and makes the topic that has been a little cool due to the passage of time heat up again.
And this popularity came to a new height on August 23, because on this morning, when people took to the streets and came to the front of Liufangju, they found that in front of the main entrance of the restaurant, there was a big red silk cloth that was several feet long and wide, and was almost dragged from the second floor to the ground. And there was nothing else on this piece of red silk, just a big "ten" written in ink.
The red silk cloth was eye-catching enough, and it was hung in front of Liufangju in such a strange way, which naturally aroused everyone's discussions, speculating about the intention of the restaurant to hang this silk cloth.
It's just that no matter how they guess, they still can't get the right answer, because the door of the restaurant is still closed, and no one comes out to say anything, so they just hang a red silk stick.
In everyone's speculation, the day passed quickly. The next day, when everyone passed by again, they found that although the red silk was still there, the word on it had been replaced with "nine".
Over the next few days, the numbers on the silk cloth continued to decrease, from eight to the bottom. At this time, everyone has already understood, this is clearly Liu Fangju is making a notice to people that he will make a big move in a few days. As a result, news spread everywhere, arousing more speculation and interest, and countless people in Tokyo were discussing and looking forward to the final day, which was the third day of September. They all want to see what kind of freshness Liufangju will show when he does so many things.
"Saburo, I'm really convinced of you, just such a simple hand, it actually attracted the attention of almost the entire Tokyo city. When we reopen on the third day of September, we will be greeted by many customers. Tong Mu bowed his hand to Sun Tu with joy on his face.
He was indeed pleasantly surprised, because in the past few days, even those classmates in his country's prison had kept asking him what Liu Fangju was going to do, which was something that had never happened before. Those students of Guozijian all regarded themselves as high-minded, and they never took things in the market to heart in the past, and this time they were able to make an exception, it must be because they were too curious about it. However, Tong Mu had already received Sun Tu's instructions, so he was naturally silent about this, only saying that he didn't even know what was going on.
After hearing this, Sun Tu just smiled calmly: "This is nothing, it's just some little tricks." โ
He is not humble, because this kind of marketing method is so common in a thousand years, and many businesses will come to the door when they are engaged in any activities, in order to attract enough attention. However, this method is very effective in the Great Song Dynasty at this time, even the people in Tokyo City have no knowledge in this area, so it is naturally easy for him to arouse his curiosity and be led by his nose.
After a pause, Sun Tu said with a straight face: "Although this kind of means can attract the attention of the whole city, what can really make Liufangju's business better depends on our own strength." So as long as we can come up with enough new dishes, plus some other means, we will naturally be able to turn over, and it is not difficult to even stabilize the other main stores. โ
"What else do you do?" Tong Mu asked in even more surprise.
"Well, it depends on the business in the future." At this time, Sun Tu was sold. He does have a way to make the restaurant business prosperous, what membership system has been used to by those merchants in later generations, and how much discount is full...... All of these can be used by him after a slight change.
Seeing his confident appearance, Tong Mu smiled even more happily: "That's great." Seriously, not only the people outside, but also myself, are looking forward to what it will look like when we reopen on the third day of September. โ
"yes, I'm looking forward to what that day will be." Sun Tu's eyes shone brightly, full of longing.
Just as everyone was waiting anxiously, the third day of the ninth lunar month finally arrivedโโ!
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The new store is open, so let's collect some recommended ticketsใใใใใใ