After taking a sip of the steaming soy milk poured into the cup by the waiter in the stands, Wang Lin called out that the woman who greeted the guest just now was a talent, and she should dig it back to be the steward of her restaurant, but when he adapted to the environment and carefully watched the interior layout and management of Wangjiang Tower, he found that his restaurant had so many deficiencies compared with this giant.

In the half hour before noon alone, there were about one or two thousand guests coming in from outside the door, either on the first floor or on the second floor, and depending on the number of people, the waiter could always lead them to the right table and sit down without any confusion.

There will be a maid in red bright clothes and pants every two large tables, the waitress will meet the needs of every guest at the table, and there will be a counter in the middle of the two tables, which will be placed in advance pastries, dried fruits, dishes and plates, etc., the maid can use these things at any time, a young man with a cart will ask the waitress of the stands every time he passes by a counter, if he wants to replenish soy milk, pastries, hot water and other things.

In fact, the place where Wang Lin and others can't see in the hall on the first floor will be more chaotic, most of them are small tables for three or five people, a waiter here is responsible for looking at four tables, and most of the people who sit down are rushing to see the lively people, and they will eat after the table, and at this time, the waiter will give each table a book, on which there will be nearly 100 dishes for them to choose from.

You know, it's winter now, the food is scarce, and Wangjianglou can't escape this limitation, but they only have a few kinds of fish, there are more than 20 kinds of methods, and then there are chickens, ducks, sheep, tofu food, pork food, each has more than a dozen methods, and the taste is different, so this thick menu is simply hearty in the eyes of the ancients.

There are also many illiterate customers, the waiter has to recommend them and tell them the price of the dish, all the prices of the dishes in Wangjiang Building, tea seats, etc., are all clearly marked, but the price is replaced by their special symbols, which is what later generations called Arabic numerals, but now! Arabia didn't know where it was, so it became Sun's algebraic symbol.

Not only the price uses this simple number symbol, but also the number of the countertop and each dish on the menu are numbered, the waiter does not need to learn all those Chinese characters with many strokes, only need to write the number of the dish on the list, and the kitchen knows what to do, this is Sun Xiangfu groped for several days, and came up with a quick solution to the problem of literacy, each waiter, when he saw the number, he was able to recite the name of the dish and the unit price, so that the operation could be basically guaranteed, the longer the time, They will naturally know the Chinese characters on the menu, and now, there are many people who are good at using the brains to recognize all the Chinese characters on the menu.

Of course, the dishes on the menu are not all moved by Sun Xiangfu according to his memory, most of the dishes, but Sun Xiangfu put forward an idea, dozens of kitchen workers in the back kitchen are grouped, constantly groping and experimenting, and a lot of raw materials are wasted to make it, Sun Xiangfu feels that the taste is right, it is OK, so far, Wangjianglou has taken a step forward than other restaurants, and there is one more dish research department.

When Wang Lin and the others began to look through the menu, they knew that the kitchen system of Wangjianglou was powerful, in fact, he wanted to serve every dish, this was his habit of eating in other restaurants in the past, the general restaurant in Chang'an City, in winter, there would not be more than twenty dishes, but he looked at the round table, although it was very large, it was impossible to put down so many dishes.

"Bring up all the best dishes you've got here." Wang Lin didn't bother to choose on the menu, and handed the menu to the waiter.

"Childe, every dish in our Wangjiang Tower is delicious, why don't I recommend a few special dishes to a few sons that are not available elsewhere! Make sure that a few sons are satisfied. ”

The waiter still maintains a graceful standing posture, with a smiling expression on his face, although it is not particularly beautiful, but it makes people feel comfortable when they look at it.

"Then you just watch it!"

Wang Lin originally came with anger, but he couldn't make it out when he looked at the woman who was smiling at him like this, so he waved the folding fan in his hand casually.

"Then I recommend a stone pot fish hot pot for you, with radish strips, sprouts, tofu, bean skin, and other side dishes, in addition to a roast lamb chop and a chicken called Hua, and then there is a sauerkraut foamed steamed egg and pork ribs lotus vegetable pot, which is almost enough for a few sons to eat." The waiter explained with a smile.

"There are so many of us, only five dishes? Are you afraid that we won't be able to pay for it? Wu Ting listened to the waiter's introduction and said angrily.

"Hehe, don't worry, childe, when you see our dishes, you will know that the five dishes may not be finished." The waiter still explained with a smile that Wu Ting was really hard to say before he saw the real thing.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, the waiter quickly wrote down the serial numbers of these dishes on a small piece of white paper, and then handed the list and a small brush to Wang Lin next to the main seat, "If you confirm the dishes I just recommended, you will draw a hook on this list, and when you settle the account, you will mark the price according to the clear price on the menu, and add a tea table fee of five cents per person." ”

"Well, what's the cost of the tea table?" Wang Lin didn't just come to eat, he also wanted to inspect the newly opened Wangjiang Tower, and asked by the way.

"The tea seat fee is the cost of the seat of the sons, because the restaurant has a wonderful performance for up to an hour, and the soy milk hot drink is not limited, and the guests can only sit down to eat and watch the performance when they buy the tea seat, and enjoy the unlimited refills of hot drinks such as soy milk." The waiter explained with a smile.

"What about the drink?" Wang Lin asked again.

"There is also a wine list, the price is clearly marked, most of the famous drinks in Chang'an are available, but today the opening is a big reward, the drinks are free, and when the banquet starts, there will be a bartender cart to send our homemade drinks from Wangjianglou."

The waiter explained, and soon, a male waiter who was patrolling the hall came over, and she fried a copy of the dish code on the order menu that Wang Lin ticked, and the waiter would hand the list to the kitchen, and the chefs would cook the dishes according to the order, and then the waiter who served the dishes would bring it up.

In the restaurant, there is this situation everywhere, the new restaurant business model, the waiter needs to explain to the customers, everyone knows what the mode of dining here is, so the waiters in the hall on the first and second floors are very busy, but the guests are very relaxed to enjoy the service.

Outside the door, the four gentlemen who served as the welcome were not idle, and after a while, they led a family of the prince and a family of the prime minister to the private room on the third floor, also according to the number of people prompted by the waiter, of course, there are relatively few family members, such as Qin Qiong, who got together with Dugumou to a room, and there are some courtiers below the third grade, although there are many people from the family, but they are afraid of occupying the position of Shangguan, so they directly choose to sit on the table of the hall.

At the moment before noon, seventy or eighty percent of the seats in the entire restaurant were full, about three or four thousand people, and the emperor's frame also arrived at the gate at this time.

"I said, why are all the nobles of the Manchu Dynasty running here! It turned out that the emperor was also coming, but he didn't wear a crown robe today, so I don't have to salute him. Wang Lin glanced downstairs, and Li Shimin, who was picked up to the third floor like a moon by the stars.

"Exactly, exactly, we don't need to hold the emperor's stinky feet." Wu Ting and Yourong took a sentence, but found that the surrounding countertops suddenly quieted down, and it was not good to sit in the hall, and they couldn't speak loudly, otherwise they would be listened to by the people on the countertop next door.

"Your Majesty and all the ladies can come to Wangjiang Tower, it is really a great blessing for Weichen, and Weichen will announce the banquet." After Sun Xiangfu gave a big gift to the concubines and princes in the private room, he waved his hand to Chun Tao, who was nervous beside him, and soon, she ran towards the kitchen.

Li Shimin brought a lot of people, and a king-size private room with eight tables was almost full, not only the queen's eldest grandson Wuwu and several concubines, and even concubines, but also a lot of princes and princesses, plus the eunuchs and aunts who served, there were sixty or seventy people, and the eight-year-old prince Li Chengqian was the first to take Sun Xiangfu's arm and said, "Sun Xiamu, did you call flower chickens to eat today?" Is there a new row of songs to perform? ”

"Yes, yes, after a banquet, Weichen will go to change his costume and put on makeup, and then he will ask the prince to take a look, this performance is absolutely wonderful."

Many wild histories say that Li Chengqian loved to wear Hufu in the East Palace as an adult, played the Turkic Khan, and sang and frolicked with a group of prostitutes in Qinglou all day long.

"The prince is young, don't take him badly."

Empress Eldest Sun glanced at Sun Xiangfu and said, at this time, Li Shimin, who had carefully looked at this private room, walked to Sun Xiangfu and said, "The design of your restaurant is exquisite, and the profit should be close at hand, but there are elements of the Prince's East Palace, don't make any mess and damage the royal reputation, I will only ask you when the time comes." ”

Seeing that thousands of diners gathered on the first day of the restaurant's opening, Li Shimin was more concerned about political issues, who else in Datang could convene a gathering of thousands of people besides him, and told Sun Xiangfu just to give him a wake-up call, in his heart, he had already decided to send secret guards to monitor the restaurant.

Sun Xiangfu was depressed in his heart, why does your son have a share in the restaurant, but I am the only one who asks if there is a mess, but the emperor is no longer the object of his reasoning, and after personally explaining to everyone some of the facilities and uses of the No. 1 box, Sun Xiangfu quickly ran to the backstage of the stage on the first floor, and after a meal, the program that had been rehearsed for more than a month was about to start.

He spent so much effort to get things out not only to amuse everyone, or to make more money for the restaurant, in later generations, there is a kind of halo, called the star halo, when there is this kind of halo body, his words and deeds will be concerned by the whole people, and what Sun Xiangfu wants to do is to put this kind of star halo on himself, when the time comes, those families don't say blatantly against themselves, even if they say a bad word about him behind his back, and the people know it, it will cause a great shock, and the power of the people is infinite, Sometimes even greater than the imperial power, Sun Xiangfu does not believe that he has the dual protection of the imperial power and the power of the people, and these sons of the family still dare to touch themselves.