The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2121 Text
Chapter 257

In the roast duck restaurant in the suburbs, sometimes you can see some wealthy people ordering directly without looking at the menu or asking the price. Some customers also want to order dishes that the restaurant does not have, and they need to discuss with the head waiter whether they can cook according to their requirements. Sometimes it is difficult to make specific dishes, but sometimes it is really possible to negotiate. I have seen the head waiter discuss things with the kitchen chef using the intercom many times to try to meet the reasonable requirements of customers. Sometimes there are only three or four customers eating in the hotel lobby, and they can spend five or six hundred, or even one thousand or eight hundred. The consumption of private rooms in that place is often one or two thousand yuan. In a small corner of the restaurant in a big city, there are many rich people or people with certain consumption power who often go there. This consumption level is also available in most restaurants in the city. I don’t know if some customers will have trouble when checking out if they don’t look at the menu and order more expensive dishes at will, and they may spend one or several hundred yuan more than expected. Some people want to order lobsters and crabs in that restaurant, but when they look at the price of large seafood dishes on the menu, they think the price is not appropriate, so they don't order. Some people just glance at the price and order the dishes, thinking that three or four hundred yuan is not expensive, but the text on the menu is not the price of a dish or a fish, but the price of a pound. If it is a large seafood weighing two or three pounds or more, if you don't see the text clearly and mistakenly think it is the price of a dish, you don't know how much it will exceed the budget, but there should be a waiter to remind you and tell the specific weight. If the customer thinks it's okay, then cook the seafood to avoid misunderstandings and disagreements about consumption. When customers spend a lot of money in formal stores, the store has the obligation to remind them whether the dish is a few hundred yuan or a thousand yuan, and should tell the specific amount or price range of the dish. Some customers can spend more, but it must be voluntary, and don't argue because the price is unclear. The price of some single dishes or bottles of wine is indeed quite high, and you have to estimate it. Consumers should read the menu carefully and ask the price before consuming. This is a reasonable practice.

In the first few months of this year, the author went to the official restaurant of a four-star hotel in the suburbs for dinner many times. This year, I celebrated my birthday in that restaurant and ordered a decent amount of food. After the meal, the female manager and several waitresses sang birthday songs to bless me, accompanied by happy music and a blessing board with colored lights. This was quite unique and made this year's birthday quite good, and I felt blessed and happy.

That restaurant is still one of the most expensive places in the suburbs. After all, it is a restaurant in a hotel and the environment is pretty good. I heard that the restaurant used to be quite grand, with a lobby of several hundred square meters and a long row of dining tables that could accommodate hundreds of people dining at the same time. Many years ago, it was one of the stores with the highest overall consumption in the entire suburbs. Later, new medium and large restaurants gradually appeared in the suburbs. The hotel's cafe was originally part of the hotel. Later, in order to reduce operating costs, the business only left a total area of ​​200 square meters of the store, which also counted the area of ​​five private rooms. Such a total area is not as large as the area of ​​one floor of many large hotels in the suburbs, but the consumption of that restaurant is still quite high. The consumption of private rooms and New Year's Eve dinner packages are several thousand yuan, and the hotel's self-operated restaurant is also such a high consumption. Sometimes, according to the introduction of the hotel's official account, the self-operated restaurant has a more expensive consumption level, but there are also meals of dozens of yuan, and the store should have meals ranging from dozens to thousands of yuan. I have ordered takeout from the hotel's own restaurant many times before. There are dishes such as black pepper beef tenderloin, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, and pepper and salt crispy shrimp. If you catch a special offer or have a coupon, you can order three meat dishes for a little over a hundred yuan. The basic consumption is not high, but there are some high-end dishes in the restaurant, and the prices are very high.

I remember one time when I was dining at the official restaurant of the hotel, I saw some customers spending 5,000 yuan on a large recharge. In many cases, the starting price for a private room was more than 1,000 yuan. The overall cost was still quite high, but even ordinary dishes cost 20 or 30 yuan, such as the cabbage with sesame sauce and noodles with soybean paste. Although it is far less than the grand occasion of the past, it still has a certain level in a star-rated hotel.

You can find that in mid- to high-end places, some people have an aura. No matter whether they are really rich or not, they can spend a thousand or a few thousand yuan on a meal. They don't seem to care or adapt to such consumption standards. Sometimes, you can really feel the consumption level.

The author has been in the mortal world for so many years. Although he still doesn't have much spare money, he has finally reached the point where he can go to a big restaurant and order relatively cheap meals. In fact, he should have gone there a long time ago. There is no need to watch a bunch of review videos before spending money with a clear mind. He knows that the restaurant will have dishes that cost dozens of yuan. The prices of basic dishes are not outrageously expensive. There are always dishes with reasonable prices. He can choose not to order signature dishes and expensive dishes. He has too much experience in going to mid-range restaurants, so he can adapt to some restaurant venues quickly.

Sitting in the waiting area of ​​a large hotel, I heard that in addition to calling out dining numbers, the hotel was also promoting and selling sour plum soup, a refreshing drink that tastes sour and sweet and is appetizing. The store welcomes customers in need to come and buy and taste it.

I heard the voice advertisement in the hotel lobby saying that there is no need to queue up for the audio-visual hall, and you can enjoy delicious food while watching audio-visual introductions, which is an extraordinary high-end enjoyment of audio-visual dining. I was attracted by such a promotion, but when I heard that the price was only more than 500 yuan, I immediately lost interest. After all, the consumption budget is limited. I still look down at my phone and cannot reach such a consumption standard for the time being. If it is a New Year or a birthday, there may be a single meal at that price. In normal times, it is not possible to reach such a consumption level. Looking at the phone, I also look up from time to time. There are indeed many family members or friends and relatives who come to eat. There should be many customers who come to dine alone. They travel independently to taste famous dishes and are free. This is also good.

I waited in the waiting area for half an hour, and it was almost my turn to get a table. Fortunately, it was not a holiday that day, otherwise I might not get a table number even if I waited for an hour or two. Some of them were customers who went to the restaurant to eat. While I was waiting, many people came to the store and waited in line.

Before my number came, I stood up and went to the side of the service counter, and continued to wait for my number to be called. It came very quickly, so I didn't have to wait too long. When my number came, I gave the queue number slip to the waiter.

The waitress led us forward to the front of the main hall. There was a row of chefs slicing ducks on the spot, slicing and plating the roasted fat and delicious food. They looked skilled with their knife skills and were good at making. With multiple chefs processing food at the same time, it can be seen how much the restaurant's roast ducks are sold. You don't even need to look at it to know that there are quite a few tables in the store, and there are already half or whole signature dishes. Looking at the pictures and texts of the public account of the roast duck restaurant in the suburbs, it is said that 100,000 lychee wood roast ducks are sold a year. Is this the total sales of several stores combined? It is very likely. Looking at the sales of the signature dishes of that big store, perhaps more than 100,000 roast ducks are sold every year. If you count the amount of freshly roasted and plastic-sealed ducks, as well as the total amount of multiple chain stores, the number is much larger. It is estimated that there are special farms to supply the raw materials for stuffing ducks, and the fat may be more and thicker. It is said that some raw materials, if purchased separately, are not cheap, and may have higher costs.