Otoharu

Chapter 338

No matter how much Mrs. Li complained, Li Meier's noodle shop was soon finished and ready to open.

Li Meier really spent a lot of brains in order to draw up the menu. They are in the south, and there are not as many people who like noodles as in the north, but there is one local characteristic of noodles that people in Yin County like very much, that is, noodles. Noodle knots are stuffing made of pork, soft tofu, green onion, salt, and cooking wine on the bread in dried tofu skin, then wrapped into a cylindrical shape, tied with twine into a bundle, and there are usually three to four dough knots in a bundle. .

In a bowl of clear soup noodles, usually put a bundle of noodles, and then put a few green and fresh chicken feathers. The most important thing is the soup base. The clear soup noodles pay attention to the original flavor of ordinary ingredients, and this clear soup It's not as simple as the real clear soup, it's a broth that has been rolled over countless knots.The noodles made with such a clear soup are authentic.

Li Meier's noodle restaurant is going to focus on this noodle, plus various side dishes, such as vegetarian chicken, peanuts, duck blood, capers, duck intestines, etc. All kinds of ingredients you can think of can be added to the noodle. In the noodles, it can make the noodles more delicious and moving.Because it is the hottest time in summer, Li Meier also thought of some cold dishes to cool off the heat, including noodles, cold vegetables, and a kind of soy milk cold noodles made with soy milk, which also has a special flavor.

After deciding on the main dishes in the store, the next step is the most important chef and staff. Now I will go outside to hire a cook. Without knowing the basics, Li Meier is afraid that it will affect the business of the store, so she finally decides to use Qiu, the chef at home. Sister-in-law, she has worked as a cook in Li's family for so many years, and she has also helped Li Mei'er cook many fashionable dishes. There must be nothing to say about her cooking skills. It is really overkill for her to cook noodles in the shop.

But in order to start a business for her small shop, Li Meier gave her a monthly salary of two taels a month, which is twice as high as that of Sister-in-law Qiu's work as a cook in Li's house, so Sister-in-law Qiu happily agreed .

She heard that Li Meier's shop still lacked a clerk, so she recommended her eldest son Qiu Da by the way.Qiu Da has just turned 15 years old this year, and he was thinking of finding an apprentice job in a shop this year, but now Li Meier just opened a restaurant, so he was really sleepy and came here happily.

Naturally, Li Mei'er would not recruit people casually, she asked sister-in-law Qiu to bring her son, and she and Mrs. Jiang looked carefully to make sure that his character was not bad, so she hired him.

After everything was ready, Li Mei'er's noodle restaurant chose an auspicious day to open. Xiang is an elegant name for plum blossom, which happened to be Li Meier's name, so she took this name.

On the day of the opening, in order to attract business for Li Meier's noodle restaurant, Jiang Shanqing even organized an opening promotion for her. Three days before the opening, all dishes were discounted by [-]%, and a membership recharge service was also set up to apply for a membership card in the store. , and the recharge reaches a certain amount, the same corresponding amount will be returned, and members can also enjoy preferential activities such as a [-]% discount for early adopters of new dishes every season.Anyway, if you become a member, you will get a lot of discounts.

The membership card was made by Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing together. A plum blossom was drawn on the front of a piece of bamboo, and various discounts and precautions for members were written on the back. It was very delicate and beautiful.Li Meier's paintings and Jiang Shanqing's calligraphy are both good, so it's not shameful to send them out.

In fact, this kind of opening promotion activities can be said to be commonplace in modern times, but in ancient times, it was still rare. As far as the membership system is concerned, it is the only one at this moment, so once Li Meier's noodle restaurant opened, the business was unprecedentedly good .

Those customers who were attracted by the discount at the beginning were all attracted by the delicacy after eating the signature noodles in the store. After all, they have eaten the bad-tasting meals in the canteen of the academy for many years, and then eat this delicious soup. It's really a heaven and an underground.Many people applied for membership cards on the spot and recharged a lot of money, which snowballed the noodle shop's turnover.

Li Xin knew that Li Meier had opened a noodle restaurant, so he specially sent a flower basket to support him. Because he had something to do in the morning, he asked his servants to bring the flower basket first. He and Li Jian arrived in the afternoon, and they waited at the door of the shop. When I was there, I was shocked by the overcrowded scene outside the store.

Because Li Meier's noodle restaurant is not big, it can accommodate up to four tables inside, plus two tables outside, it can serve more than [-] guests at a time. Although eating noodles is faster and the table turnover rate is also high, But there were so many people, many students felt good after eating, so they called their classmates and friends. It was only this morning, and the store was overcrowded.

When Li Xin and the others came over, it was almost dinner time, so there were naturally more people.But fortunately, the sharp-eyed Baozi who was helping to greet the guests outside saw the father and son, and immediately called them in.

Mrs. Jiang knew that Li Xin and his son were coming, so she immediately came out of the counter to greet them. Because the noodle restaurant opened these days with many customers, the whole family of Li's family came to help. Mrs. Jiang helped to collect money at the counter, while Li Meier was Helping Mrs. Qiu cook the noodles together, several maids from the family came to the store as temporary helpers, except for the smallest meatball, which was left at home, and all the steamed stuffed buns and dumplings came.

As soon as Li Xin walked into the store, he saw puffs of heat coming out of the store before he even entered.It turned out that there were two stoves right next to the door of the store, and a pot was set up on each of them. One pot was filled with fried tofu, green vegetables and dough knots, and the other pot contained several small wire baskets with hooks. Fill it with noodles and hang it from the side of the pot.

Sister-in-law Qiu was skillfully cooking noodles, Li Meier was pouring soup on the noodles, and Qiu Da warmly greeted the customers who entered the store and asked them what they wanted to eat.

As soon as Li Meier saw Li Xin and his son, she immediately said hello, "Sanbo, brother Jian, you are here, what do you want to eat, I will give you something."

Li Xin saw that Li Meier was sweating profusely, so he naturally didn't want to cause her any more trouble, so he waved his hands and said, "You are busy with your work, I will just line up like other guests."

At this moment, Mrs. Jiang also came over, took their father and son and said, "I'll set up a small table for Uncle San outside, it's cooler outside. Look at the menu first and think about what to eat."

Li Xin looked at the menu board hanging on the wall. In fact, there was also a big menu board outside the store, so that those waiting for a table could think about what they want to eat first, and then they can order immediately when they arrive.

(End of this chapter)