McDonald's and KFC, a pair of Western-style fast food sister companies from the United States, have dominated most of the fast food market since they entered the domestic market.

Her sister Xiaohua'er was originally hungry for McDonald's burgers that had just entered China, but Yao Yuan persuaded her to eat KFC's fried chicken instead.

For no other reason, as a chef, it is a matter of minutes to make a hamburger, as long as there is flour and yeast, you can easily bake a fluffy bread crust, and the beef patty sandwiched in the middle is even simpler, the beef is crumbled and tasted, and a juicy beef patty can be fried after a few beatings.

As for the sauces used in the burgers, it's even easier, just the finished products sold in the store.

The home-made burger can easily throw off the assembly line products of the M Ji family in terms of taste, so there is no reason to be the wronged leader.

But KFC's fried chicken is a little different.

As a leading Western-style fast food company, KFC American Fried Chicken was one of the first chain companies to open in the mainland, and a few years later, M Kee's burger restaurant saw the huge domestic market and followed in.

As early as five years ago, the first KFC opened in the Qianmen business district, with the name of Western food, which attracted great interest from the local people.

Thousands of square meters of business area of the restaurant was crowded as soon as it opened, for no other reason, the biggest advantage of our country is that there are many people and love to join in the fun!

In the mainland, which has been closed for a long time, a foreign gadget suddenly came, and a bland fried chicken fast food was treated as a Western meal by the people of Pingcheng.

The crowd of people dressed in formal attire and with curiosity about Western-style food poured into the restaurant, completely ignoring how unreasonable the price of a set meal of more than ten yuan was, and generously invited the family to open foreign meat.

The restaurant was packed, parents insisted for the sake of their children, lovers for each other's face, none of them flinched, even if they had to wait for an hour or two!

People waiting patiently queued up at the door, and the line at the entrance of the restaurant often went hundreds of meters.

The long, winding queue that occurs every day has become a scene in the business district, and even the local police station has to send police to maintain order every day.

What's more, some citizens will actually put the wedding ceremony in this fast food restaurant.

Wedding in a KFC fast food restaurant?! The special things that happened in this special era, who would dare to imagine in the future.

The main product sold by KFC is fried chicken.

As a chef, there are no less than dozens of ways to fry chicken.

"crispy chicken" in Lu cuisine; "popular fried chicken" in Cantonese cuisine; "tea-fragrant chicken" in Huaiyang cuisine; "Garlic Chicken" in Sichuan cuisine and "Eight Treasure Gourd Chicken" in Northwest cuisine...... And so on and so forth.

Almost every cuisine and region has one or two fried chicken dishes, and the taste of fried chicken is far better than that of Western food.

However, the fried chicken fast food that came from the food desert suddenly conquered the fast food market in Pingcheng, which is unreasonable.

Later, some people were not convinced, so they began to fight with this foreign fast food, and started a Chinese fried chicken fast food chain near each KFC restaurant, and the restaurant name was "Xiangfei Roast Chicken".

Although the business of this "Xiangfei Roast Chicken" is also good after its opening, it is too weak compared to the behemoth of KFC.

There is a characteristic of the catering market, that is, it is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat! This "Xiangfei Roast Chicken" finally disappeared and disappeared.

It's no wonder that the people who go to eat KFC are not only trying to fill their stomachs, but also trying to make them fresh and open meat. The roast chicken that the Chinese people open themselves is almost meaningless.

As a person in the catering industry, Yao Yuan has also analyzed this problem.

KFC fried chicken is not a high-end thing in terms of production.

It's nothing more than a few processes, the chicken nuggets need to be soaked, flavored, and then fried by hanging pulp.

Although the store keeps the crispy pulp tight, there is a similar operation method in Chinese food, and this recipe is not a secret to a professional chef.

It's just that the oil used in Western-style fried chicken is a little special, not our common peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, but a special shortening.

Shortening is palm oil, to put it bluntly, the biggest feature of this oil is that it is cheap, and the use of fast food chains will greatly reduce costs, and this oil also has an advantage, the smoke point is very high, suitable for frying, and the dishes fried with it will remain crispy for a long time.

This is the biggest secret of Western-style fried chicken, it is difficult to keep the crispy state for a long time when the dishes fried in other oils are used in Chinese food, and they will soften and deteriorate after cooling, but KFC's fried chicken can still maintain that crispy texture even if you eat it the next day.

So, KFC's fried chicken is hard to replicate at home.

In addition, Yao Yuan also grew up eating KFC's original fried chicken when he was a child, and that taste has formed his childhood memory, but later I don't know if it was because of the kitchen quality control, or the change in the chicken breed, or because of the degradation of his taste buds, I always felt that the fried chicken in later generations lacked some taste.

Now that I have the opportunity to taste the taste of childhood again, of course, I can't let it go.

After a long queue, the two finally got their wish and sat down in the restaurant, each with a fried chicken set.

In addition to two pieces of plain fried chicken, the set menu also includes a mashed potato salad and a small round meal pack.

The package also includes drinks and drinks, Xiao Hua'er chose a large glass of Coke with ice, and Yao Yuan chose a beer.

That's right, it's beer, KFC at this time also has canned beer supply, and beer fried chicken is a perfect match.

Yao Yuan secretly estimated the cost of this meal in his heart, in the set meal priced at 14 yuan and 51 yuan, the cost of two pieces of chicken and a salad to take out is no more than four yuan, plus beer and bread, the cost of raw materials is about five yuan, this is still the market price, if the group purchases, the price will be two to three percent lower.

What a profit!

It's no wonder that knowledgeable people say that a good catering unit is a cash cow.

Xiao Hua'er tore the chicken in spite of the image, and her eyes smiled into a crooked slit: "It's okay, it's so fragrant!" ”

"Virtue! Pay attention to the image, this is not much better than the crispy chicken I made for you, right? Yao Yuan put down the beer, wiped the foam from his mouth with his hand, and deliberately teased Xiaohua'er.

"Come on, it's still enjoyable to eat!" Xiaohua'er lifted the fried chicken thighs, and the whole fried chicken was exactly one circle larger than Xiaohua'er's little face.

Yao Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, another child's stomach was deviated by this kind of foreign fast food.

Companies like KFC and McDonald's enter a new market, starting from the young market, when a generation of children form consumption habits, they will become their main consumers when they grow up.

Coupled with strict quality control and rigorous standardized processes, such an enterprise can be able to survive for a hundred years.

"Brother, KFC is finished, should you take me to McDonald's next week, by the way, I still want to go boating in Beihai Park!" Xiaohua'er should be happy, and it is rare to call "brother" and put forward a new request.

Yao Yuan nodded indifferently: "Okay, no problem!" It's all up to you! Even if you want the stars in the sky, your brother will go up to heaven to pick them for you! ”

Xiao Hua'er's eyes began to flicker: "What do I want stars, I can't eat that thing, no, you can buy me another ice cream!" ”

Yao Yuan smiled, got up and returned to the counter to start queuing.

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"I've eaten enough, but why don't I feel full?" Xiaohua'er came out of the restaurant holding her stomach and sighed.

"Cut! Two people spent more than 30, and you still have a person who is not full and has no conscience, and the 30s are about to catch up with half a month's salary of other workers! Yao Yuan is still worried about the price of today's package.

"Look at your stingy appearance, if it weren't for the loss of all the money in the family, I could afford to eat fried chicken every day, but I don't feel as comfortable as eating a bowl of fried noodles after eating this Western food." Xiao Hua'er once again accused Yao Yuan of losing money.

"You are a stomach that eats fried noodles, and today you can eat a belly of fried chicken and coke, it's strange to get used to it." Yao Yuan rolled his eyes and replied.

The two of them were talking nonsense as they walked in the direction of the bus stop.

It was dark late in the summer, and it was already eight o'clock, when the last glimmer of light in the west was fading, and the city was lit up.

Buses are also less crowded.

The trolleybus started with a long two braids, and there were not many passengers on the train driving outside the city, and there were still empty seats at the link between the front and rear carriages.

Yao Yuan stood beside him by leaning on the handrail, touching around.

The location of Qianjiakou is already outside the West Second Ring Road, from the front door to the Qianjiakou trolleybus has to pass through a total of thirteen stations, the tram runs very smoothly, Xiaohuaer sits on the seat full of water and food, and sloshes drowsy after a while as the carriage shakes rhythmically.

The car stopped at Xisi Station, and the door opened with a "clang", and a tall and thin figure floated onto the tram.

Yes, the thin man who looked like he would fall down when the wind blew, walked step by step, and felt like there was no root under his feet, just like floating.

Yao Yuan couldn't help but be curious, so he looked at it twice.

The thin man walked to the back of the car, sat on the empty seat, and yawned as soon as he sat down, and with the continuous yawning, snot and tears also gushed out, and his face was covered with a wipe of his hand.

The street lamp shone into the carriage, and you could see that his completely fleshless face seemed to be hung with a layer of water, glowing with a strange light.

"Damn, is it possible to be a powder addict?" Yao Yuan secretly guessed in his heart.

When the car arrived at Qianjiakou Station, Yao Yuan evoked the little flower and jumped off the car.

The tall and thin man also got out of the car, his head shut, and walked towards the dark shadows in the depths of the alley.

Yao Yuan stared at the thin back, and suddenly woke up in his heart, remembering a rumor he had heard before......