Chapter 188: Cooked and Frozen Seafood
Lan Wenjuan saw the skyrocketing number of followers, and she realized that the opportunity for Intercontinental Hotel had come.
At the beginning, she didn't agree with Wei Jia's decision, because the Intercontinental Hotel was already losing money, and she brought this program team over and ate and lived for nothing all day long, didn't this add fuel to the fire?
At the beginning, Lan Wenjuan was skeptical.
And now, Lan Wenjuan has decided to increase her investment.
Just like today's banquet, which was originally intended to be held in a large private room on the second floor that can accommodate 100 people, Lan Wenjuan temporarily decided yesterday to hold the banquet class in the cafeteria.
The cafeteria was previously open to the public.
The cost of five or six hundred people is not a small amount for the locals in Rongzhou.
For the buffet, people's generally accepted amount is less than two hundred yuan, so there are not many people who can come here to consume, and Lan Wenjuan has also considered lowering the grade of the buffet before.
For example, can the Australian lobster, which is priced at 180 yuan a catty, be exchanged for a cooked and frozen lobster with a price of 60 yuan a catty?
Lan Wenjuan also thought about this question.
Cooked and frozen lobster, although the price is twice as cheap as live lobster, but the meat quality is really different.
The seafood is just fresh.
Preferably the kind that has just been fished out of the sea, is alive, and then immediately put it in a pot and cooked. A group of people, sitting on the boat, around the stove and gnawing.
The sea breeze blows, the boat is rocking, which feels very good.
But this experience of eating seafood is not something that everyone can taste after all.
Most people eat seafood that is brought to the shore by fishing boats, raised in seawater trucks, and transported to all parts of the country. But this kind of stuff is all for the kind of seafood that is easy to feed.
Like some of the more valuable seafood, such as lobster, king crab and some deep-sea fish, it is very likely that they will die before they faint on the shore.
Then there will be two ways to deal with this kind of seafood.
One is live frozen and the other is cooked frozen.
The activity is only directly put in the freezer at a temperature of minus tens of degrees Celsius to freeze.
This freezing method is generally suitable for large sea shrimp, such as Greenland, Ecuadorian white shrimp and the like. There are also various deep-sea fish, such as hairtail fish, flounder, and the like.
This fish lives in the deep sea, and after being fished from the bottom of the sea, it will burst its spleen and die because of the large difference between the internal and external pressures, and it will hardly live for two minutes.
Therefore, this kind of fish cannot be alive in the market at all.
Except for the fishing boats, most of the things that diners could eat were frozen on the fishing boats at that time. This thing, depending on the length of time of death, also has a certain difference in texture and taste.
The most delicious seafood is naturally eaten on the fishing boat.
For many reasons, people can't eat that delicious taste, and it's a pity that how to pass on the taste of the most delicious taste to the diners, and how to pass on the taste of the taste eaten on the fishing boat, is also a problem that has been bothering fishermen.
So, they came up with another way to preserve the seafood.
This is cooked jelly.
Cooked and frozen seafood is cooked directly on the fishing boat, and all kinds of seafood are cooked in a large pot.
The cooked seafood is then transferred to the freezer. After steaming, it retains the delicious taste greatly.
However, many diners are reluctant to accept this way of eating.
Because, some black-hearted merchants will make frozen food from seafood that dies after landing.
Dead seafood is left on the shore and no one cares.
Even if someone comes to buy it, it will be the price of one or two yuan a catty, which can almost be said to be a gift.
Of course, those who bought it bought it back, and they didn't eat it themselves.
They also took it back, cooked and processed it, frozen, and sold it with the frozen ones on the ship, because they were cooked and frozen after they died, and their taste was naturally much worse than that cooked and frozen at sea.
Not only that, but people who know how to do it can also see the difference in appearance.
However, many residents in the inland who eat seafood do not know how to distinguish between good and bad. After eating some inferior seafood, they think that it tastes like that.
The price difference between two kinds of cooked and frozen seafood is ten times.
For example, cooked and frozen Australian lobster, as mentioned earlier, is cooked at sea, and the purchase price is about 60 yuan, and after it dies, it is placed on the shore and is purchased and processed.
Because of the low purchase price, the price of all this cooked and frozen seafood is less than ten yuan.
Many cafeterias that are not cheap buy this seafood in large quantities.
When I met a guest who didn't understand, I felt that it was really cost-effective to be able to eat such good seafood for more than 100 yuan, so the business of this buffet restaurant was very good.
Such a price is very affordable.
Therefore, such a buffet is overcrowded, and there are often queues at the door.
But diners don't know what they are eating, whether the quality is new or new, but they don't know anything.
Wei Jia suggested Lan Wenjuan.
He said that he would simply lower the price of the cafeteria, so that the number of customers would increase a lot.
Lan Wenjuan roughly calculated the cost and reduced it to more than a hundred yuan? Even if it is reduced to 198 yuan per person, it will definitely be a loss, think about it, even if one person eats Australian lobster, the price of 198 will not be able to beat.
Wei Jia said: "Actually, it's not that you can't use ...... if it's frozen."
"Frozen?" Lan Wenjuan was stunned: "Then it will cost sixty yuan a catty, one per person, and something else, it can only be just flat." ”
"Why do you have to be fresh and frozen, in fact, just after death, the cost is much lower, if we use that kind of seafood, the price of 198, then the profit is half, and ......"
"I see what you mean."
"Then Mr. Lan, you ......" Wei Jia's eyes lit up.
“…… Let me think about it. ”
In the end, Lan Wenjuan decided to give up, at the beginning of the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel, it was defined as the best hotel in Rongzhou, so the best hotel, the dishes should naturally be the top.
The hotel is losing money, and Lan Wenjuan wants to turn losses into profits.
But in the end, she still didn't adopt Wei Jia's idea.
Wei Jia didn't understand this:
"Mr. Lan, now in our hotel, making money is the top priority, and maximizing profits is our goal. It's just a fresh meal......"
"If I say no, I can't! Don't talk about it later! ”
Lan Wenjuan had a straight face.
Wei Jia was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Since that's the case, it's still the same as before......"