Chapter 20 Managing Restaurants 8
When I came to the restaurant the next morning, everyone had already arrived at the restaurant, and the hygiene of the store was cleaned again, and after I came to say hello, the new dishes were announced and put out for business.
Breakfast or make bula sausage and porridge, the category has more choices, yesterday's only a single kind, today can be made into a double spell of mandarin duck rice noodles, in addition to shrimp intestine powder, pork liver intestine powder, abalone intestine powder, etc., porridge is also more of these.
New for lunch and dinner is Malatang. First, a pot of beef bone soup is boiled in the kitchen, and after the guests have selected the ingredients, they calculate the money according to the weight, and then put the ingredients into the beef bone soup to cook, and then add seasonings according to the guests' tastes after cooking.
The ingredients for making Malatang are: lotus root, shiitake mushrooms, yams, fungus, kelp, radish, tofu, winter melon and various green leafy vegetables; Meats include fish, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, goose, shrimp, abalone, etc., all washed and cut for later use.
In modern times, there are many people who like to eat meatballs, and you can use meat to make meatballs again. The production steps are simple, but also cumbersome, you need to chop the meat very much, add the seasoning and stir evenly, boil hot water in the pot, make the meatloaf into a ball-like shape and put it in the water to cook, just like that, you can make fish balls, beef balls, mutton meatballs, chicken meatballs, duck meatballs, goose meatballs, shrimp balls, abalone balls.
After the ingredients are ready, let the chefs try to cook Malatang, first cook some ingredients that are not so easy to cook, and then put in the easy to cook after a few minutes, and take it out after cooking, I adjusted a slightly spicy seasoning, the taste is similar to the modern one, it tastes a little tearful, the taste of hometown!
After I was done and had my fill, I went to the study to draw the packaging drawings. In the past, the cumbersome process of ordering and ordering dishes and the problem of packaging dishes needed to be solved. Uncle Zhong vacated a small box for me as a study, where I could read calligraphy, paintings, and pictures, and it was also convenient for me to talk and exchange things about the restaurant.
When ordering food, I thought of the principle of a microphone, two paper cups, a cotton thread, and two small wooden sticks. Make a small hole in the bottom of the paper cup, tuck one end of the cotton thread in, and remove it from the mouth of the cup, and then tie the cotton thread to the wooden stick. Again, the other end of the cotton thread is also manipulated so that a microphone can be made. The method of use is that two people each take a microphone, straighten the cotton thread, one person speaks in the microphone, and the other person listens with his ear at the microphone opening, and you can pass the message and place an order.
Packing the dishes I thought of making lanterns, which are made of bamboo and pasted with a layer of paper, which can be made into various shapes. We can first put lotus leaves at the bottom of the lantern, then put dishes on top, and finally paste two or three layers of paper on the outside to make a thermal insulation effect. This will look more aesthetically pleasing and easier for guests to carry.
After drawing all the methods I wanted, I explained them to Uncle Zhong, and he also thought that these two methods were very good, so he found someone to make lanterns. The microphone was made by myself, there were no paper cups in ancient times, so I made it out of a round box folded out of paper, so that Xiao Er and the chef tested it, and the other party's voice could be heard within a hundred meters, which felt very practical, so that it could save some guests the waiting time after ordering.
I met the decorator introduced to me by my father, Master Hu Shi, and I told him my needs in detail. Facades, windows, handrails, ladders, railings, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc., are all replaced, and some patterns are made on their surfaces or sides, and the design of the patterns is what I drew on the drawing, auspicious clouds, diamonds, back-shapes, bamboo-shaped.
After listening to this, Master Hu Shi felt that it was very challenging, because there was no carving in this era, so he was very determined to do it.
"Miss Yu'er, I can complete these in about five days, and I need to close the business for two days during this period, can you accept it?"
When I heard that it would be completed in just five days, I immediately agreed, and at first I thought it would take at least half a month. He kept Master Hu to stay for dinner, but he was already eager to try the decoration, so he politely refused.