Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 812

Chen Nian didn't let An Hongdou come for dinner because the production team of King Chef's Fighting Hegemony was coming tonight.

Fortunately, An Hongdou went to find Miao Miaowu in the afternoon, and had dinner at Miao Miaowu's place, so Chen Nian didn't have to worry about her being hungry.

At about 09:30 in the evening, a van stopped at the entrance of Honghong Hotel, and three people got off from it soon.

"Hi Boss Chen, I am Kang Hongbo, the chief director of Chef King, this is our planner Zhang Xiao, and he is our photographer Mao Xiaofeng."

Chen Nian nodded and shook hands with them one by one.

"I am Chen Nian."

"Hahaha, we already know this, but Boss Chen is far more youthful and handsome than what he saw online." Kang Hongbo said with a smile.

"Director Kang is being polite, I feel that I look quite ordinary." Chen Nian was also very modest.

"Boss Chen, if your words are ordinary, it will embarrass us all."

Kang Hongbo, as an old fritter who had been on the TV station, got closer to Chen Nian after a few words, and made the atmosphere a lot easier.

Then Chen Nian took them to sit down, and poured a few more cups of tea.

"Thank you." Kang Hongbo held the cup and didn't immediately raise it to drink, but went straight to the point, "Boss Chen, this time we came to Chengdu mainly to take a video of your side, but the official shooting will not be until tomorrow. To start, today I mainly want to get some information from you, so that we can arrange a shooting plan."

"No problem, just ask if you want to ask anything."

Kang Hongbo nodded: "Well, Boss Chen is like this, because the short film we shot here will be shown on TV, so I want to ask first, what is the best dish you sell here? "

"Mapo tofu."

After hearing this, the planner began to record in a small notebook.

"Boss Chen, how long has your store been open?"

"A few months or a year." Chen Nian thought for a while, and then replied.

"It took less than a year to become so popular. It seems that Boss Chen's craftsmanship is really good. No wonder Master Zhou and the others will drag you along."

"No, no, it's mainly because of Master Zhou's appreciation, and the cook they hired before had some trouble and couldn't go to the farm, so they came to me."

"Boss Chen is too modest. Master Zhou invited you to join the team, which in itself proves your ability." Kang Hongbo said with a smile, "Have you ever counted how many copies of your Mapo Tofu have been sold?"

"53, 157 copies."

Chen Nian blurted out without hesitation, Chen Nian didn't even need to think about this number, he just wrote it clearly on the recipe.

"Is it that accurate?"

"Yes, because mapo tofu is our signature, so I remember it very clearly."

"Then I heard that your mapo tofu only sells for one yuan, and you will lose about seven or eight yuan if you sell a single copy. If you calculate this, you have lost at least 40 yuan?"

"It's about the same, but other dishes are also making money. Although this is a loss, other dishes can always make money. I won't be in a loss-making business. And without this one-dollar mapo tofu, I can't have The current scale.

There are too many catering in a city, it is difficult to do it without some gimmicks, and there are no scenic spots around me, so the passenger flow is not that big. To be honest, there are so many customers every day, which is far beyond the reach What I expected at the time. "

"The fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, it can always be done."

Chen Nian shook his head: "But that's too slow."

"That's true."

It seems that even though he is a director, he also knows a lot of inside stories about various industries. It is still difficult to do it in the catering industry. The main reason is that it is difficult to adjust the taste of everyone. If you think it is delicious, you may not find it delicious if you change it to someone else. .

And now that the Internet is so developed, 70% of the 30 reviews for a restaurant may be positive, but if the remaining [-]% are negative, the impact on a restaurant is fatal enough.

Unless it's a one-time sale, the overwhelming publicity will attract customers, and after the other party feels bad, they will stop doing business with the other party.

Now there are many such restaurants.

But obviously the Red Hotel is not.

Although Chen Nian lost 40 on Mapo Tofu, he would definitely make more money on other dishes.

In fact it is.

As early as last year, the money spent by the shop next door to Honghong Hotel has been earned back, and it will be pure profit from now on.

"Boss Chen, what time do you get up every day?"

"Five o'clock."

"What time do you go to bed at night?"

"Generally speaking, it's around twelve o'clock. Sometimes you will be delayed in the store for a while, and you may have to wait until around one o'clock."

"Only sleeping four hours a day, can this ensure sleep?"

"Almost, anyway, it's enough for me to sleep for such a long time at night, and I will rest for an hour or two after we open at noon the next day before getting up to work."

"Just resting in the shop?"

"Yeah, although my home is not far from here, it's still too troublesome to go back and forth."

"Well, it seems that Boss Chen is still very hardworking."

"No way, after all, you are starting a business, so naturally you have to work harder."

"Boss Chen, then you close the shop every day after nine o'clock at most ten o'clock, and you will stay in the shop for the remaining two hours?"

"Yes."

"And what will you be doing during this time?"

"Usually I'm researching new dishes. After all, I've just entered the industry and I still have a lot to learn."

"Do you have a master?"

"Yes, but it's not convenient to disclose, sorry."

"It's okay, if it's inconvenient to say it, I won't say it." Kang Hongbo didn't mind these things.

If Chen Nian has a well-known master, it will be a bonus item to bring it out at that time, but if he doesn't have it, it's a big deal not to talk about it at that time, anyway, it won't be too long to introduce the chef.

"By the way, I heard from Master Zhou that you speak Italian, don't you? And I have seen the Chinese kitchen you participated in the filming before, and I think your Italian is quite good."

Chen Nian nodded: "Know some, daily communication should not be a big problem. A large part of the reason why Master Zhou chose me is because I can speak Italian, which will facilitate communication at that time."

"When did you learn?"

"When I was in college."

"Teach yourself?"

"Yes, self-study."

"Excellent, self-taught foreign language is quite remarkable!"

"However, this time the competition against foreign chefs will use Chinese food to compete against Western food. Are you confident?"

"Of course, because although I am studying Chinese cuisine, I am not specialized in one cuisine, but can learn all eight major cuisines, so naturally I have some understanding of Western food. When I was in the Chinese kitchen, I made a bet with a foreign restaurant. , I won at the time.”

Kang Hongbo smiled, and suddenly there was something inexplicable in his eyes, but he didn't say anything.

"Boss Chen, I suddenly thought of a word called time management master. I think you are very suitable for this title."

After hearing this, Chen Nian quickly waved his hands: "Don't, don't, it's not a good word now, I don't want it."

"Hahaha, what about King Juan, don't you young people like to say that?"

"The king of rolls is not bad, I really feel quite rolls, but now all walks of life are rolls, not just our catering industry."

Kang Hongbo then asked some more questions.

After asking, he turned his head and looked at the planner Zhang Xiao who had been taking notes: "Have you written it all down?"

"Write it down."

"That's fine." Kang Hongbo nodded, then looked at Chen Nian again, "Then let's come over during the daytime tomorrow, Boss Chen, when is it convenient for you to shoot here?"

"Is it shooting the guests? Or the cooking?"

"Shoot all."

Chen Nian thought for a while: "Then you can come over after nine o'clock, we are preparing dishes at that time, if Director Kang needs you, I can also cook some dishes.

However, if you want to take pictures of customers, you may have to wait until after 11:30, and the customers on my side will start to line up outside after 11:30.

Or you can come here earlier, we still have breakfast here after eight o'clock, so you can have breakfast at my place then. "

"Alright, then we'll come over early tomorrow. Go back tonight and make a list of the shooting plans. Boss Chen will also take a look at it tomorrow, and I plan to ask you some more questions then."

"Ok."

"Then we'll go back first, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow, stay safe on the road."

After seeing off the three of Kang Hongbo, it was almost eleven o'clock, and Chen Nian didn't plan to stay in the shop anymore, because even if he stayed, he wouldn't be able to cook any serious dishes.

As for those side dishes, they were already soaked long before my mother left. Chen Nian taught this skill to my mother. Anyway, every time I make it, I just need to follow the list I made. It’s not a big skill. content.

At around 08:30 the next morning, Kang Hongbo brought the two of them to the Honghong Hotel again, and this time they also brought their equipment.

During breakfast, Kang Hongbo showed Chen Nian their shooting plan, including that he would continue to ask Chen Nian some questions during the shooting, and these questions were asked yesterday, and Chen Nian only needed to repeat them.

Chen Nian didn't ask for their money for breakfast, but Kang Hongbo still looked at the price of the menu on the wall and directly scanned the payment code in the store, and paid for the breakfast.

Chen Nian couldn't stop them at the end, just after they had breakfast, Chen Nian arranged the three of them into a box to rest for a while.

Otherwise, with so many valuable equipment outside, if someone knocks it down, it will be a big loss.

After tidying up the kitchen, Chen Nian went to the box and called Kang Hongbo and the other three, telling them that he could take pictures here.

In the video script given by Kang Hongbo, he either needs to cook three dishes, one of which is naturally Mapo tofu, and the other is Wensi tofu.

As for the last dish, it is a seafood.

After all, you can't always cook home-cooked food.

Since I want to be on TV, I have to bring out some amazing dishes.

Looking at the cannon-like camera, the apprentices of Chen Nian couldn’t help but feel a little nervous, and the photographer needs to move around when shooting, and to shoot different angles of Chen Nian
So every time when the photographer turned to their side, they would quickly get out of the way. After all, the TV station was interviewing their master, not them.

"Boss Chen, can you still cook seafood?"

"Yes, I took over a private banquet before, and the main dishes at that banquet were seafood."

Seeing that Chen Nian's ability is so strong, Kang Hongbo feels that even if Chen Nian doesn't work as a chef in the future, he can still shine in other industries.

Soon they were in the state of filming and being filmed.

In the morning, what they were going to shoot was the business process of Honghong Hotel.

Some things, including roast duck and sour plum soup, are made by my mother when I am too busy.

After all, this is his mother, and Chen Nian will teach the other party to do some simple things as much as possible.

If there are too many, it is easy to get tired.

But now that someone is sharing the work, Chen Nian also freed up and started to cook here, a total of three dishes.

Although they had just had breakfast, looking at these dishes aroused their appetite again. Unfortunately, there is no rice now, so they can only send someone to the nearby vegetable market to buy a few steamed buns and taste them together. .

"How does it taste?" Chen Nian asked.

"It's pretty good. Before we came here, we also had dinner at Master Zhou's. To be honest, with your skills, you can go to a big restaurant to be the head chef."

"Director Kang won the award." Chen Nian simply said modestly, and didn't say that what he cooks is just home-cooked dishes, because Chen Nian really knows more than that now, if he can pick out all the dishes he knows There are hundreds of them.

More than enough to open a big restaurant.

But the biggest problem now is that Chen Nian has no money, and he doesn't want to work for others.

But just now when they were shooting these dishes made by Chen Nian, they felt that the dishes made by Chen Nian would definitely be delicious, but after eating them at this time, they found that the taste of these dishes was better than they imagined. The ones are even more delicious.

"Director Kang, is there anything else you want to film next?"

"No, in fact, when I came here just now, I saw that your angle is very good. I wanted to pat the door of your store, but the time was not right.

But it’s nothing, you don’t have anything to cooperate with today, I’ll go take pictures of the customers in your store at noon, and I’ll come back to shoot the scene I just mentioned earlier tomorrow morning. "

"What lens?"

"The angle of your store is especially suitable for shooting a shot of the sun slowly rising from the back of your store."

Chen Nian thought about the scene Kang Hongbo mentioned. Although he would come here early every day, he hadn't really noticed what it looked like to watch the sun rise slowly from outside the store.

"However, you have to cooperate with me tomorrow. When the sun rises slowly, your small shop will gradually be filled with fireworks. You have started a busy day in the shop, and you will definitely have a special artistic conception by then."

(End of this chapter)