Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 336 If you don't come to Beijing to eat, it's heaven, and it's useless to eat all over the city

"Let's eat first." Cao Zhiqiang, who instantly understood Xiang Dongfang's intentions, smiled slightly, "If you don't eat it, the steak will be cold."

Xiang Dongfang asked nervously, "Then what do you mean..."

"Don't worry." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang picked up the knife and fork again: "At first, I wanted to say that we will not discuss business today.

But for my sister's sake, plus you helped them a lot...

How about this, come to my publishing house at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and let's formally talk about your entry, okay? "

"Really?" Xiang Dongfang was taken aback for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, "You, are you really willing to want me?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "I've always been looking for someone as high-level as you. Since you're interested in my small temple, there's no reason why I wouldn't accept it."

"Great." Xiang Dongfang said happily, "But..."

"But what?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

"Can I bring a classmate there?" Xiang Dongfang said, "She has a good relationship with me."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned slightly, but soon laughed again: "Of course it's no problem."

"Then I'm relieved." Xiang Dongfang heaved a sigh of relief.

"Can we have a good meal now?" Cao Zhiqiang asked with a smile.

"Of course." Xiang Dongfang hurriedly picked up the knife and fork again, "Sorry, I, I lost my composure just now."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Okay, let's stop talking, let's eat quickly."

It seemed that they let go of their worries, and then everyone ate happily, talking and laughing.

Soon, one lunch was over.

Afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang asked Xiang Dongfang to take Cao Lili and Qiao Simei back to work on the pretext that he was busy with work and wanted to go back to work.

This shows the benefits of bringing items to the East.

With Xiang Dongfang around, Cao Zhiqiang can save a lot of worry, and don't have to worry about raising children.

After being separated from Xiang Dongfang and his two younger sisters, Cao Zhiqiang first went to "Food is Heaven".

After coming here, the atmosphere is quite lively, all the guests are full, and there are still people queuing up outside to wait for a seat.

"Hehe, big sister, business is booming." Cao Zhiqiang said to Cao Jiajia with a smile.

'That's not true. Cao Jiajia also smiled.

"At first, I was worried that the price you set was too high, which would scare off the customers.

Who knows, at the beginning, a lot of individual tourists left, and the company you mentioned didn't show up for eating or drinking.

But not long after, a few foreigners came over to eat, and then it was accidentally published in the newspaper, and it became famous all at once.

Now, more and more customers come here to eat, and there are many repeat customers.

Even the wine bureaus of many units have begun to come here, and they don't pay on credit.

Now, the place is full every day, and the business is very good. I have to be busy until late at night every day, and I can't count the money I make. "

Cao Zhiqiang curled his lips: "That's right, I don't want to see who opened it."

Well, after changing the rules here, not only the price of meals has been greatly increased, but also only lunch and dinner are served, and breakfast is not provided.

At the beginning, this kind of practice really affected the business, and many customers, especially some individual customers who are more sensitive to prices, really stopped coming.

As for eating and drinking at the unit that Cao Zhiqiang mentioned, in fact, he only came here a few times at the beginning, and soon he stopped coming.

The reason is very simple, because the units that Cao Zhiqiang is familiar with have their own canteens. It is more convenient to treat guests to eat and drink in the canteen of their own units. They dare to say something and it is convenient to reimburse.

But these leaders come to eat for the sky, in fact, it is inconvenient.

Among other things, it is particularly inconvenient to go home to get things after eating.

These days, it's a tradition for the leader to take some home after eating a small stove.

Let's put it this way, before these leaders came to eat for the sky, it was because of the face of the big leaders, they came to support the opening of the business.

However, after everyone found out the actual situation and knew that the big leader just wrote a plaque, he had no shares in the store and no children or relatives working in the store, his attitude changed.

But the most important thing is that the big leader has now completely retired and handed over power, and he really doesn't care about anything, and he is no longer the original leader.

In the case of Uncle Xu, although it is not enough to immediately go to the cold tea, but in fact the difference is not too big, at least you don't have to spend money to eat here all day for the sake of face, instead of eating small stoves in your own cafeteria.

Therefore, the situation that Cao Zhiqiang envisioned at the beginning, "there are no casual contacts, but there are leaders when talking and laughing", never happened at all.

There is still a gap between imagination and reality.

On the contrary, because the price increase was too high, even if there is a silly culinary skill, it is a bit inferior. As a result, the old customers in the vicinity stopped coming, resulting in a bleak business.

However, just a few days ago, the situation suddenly changed.

The cause of the incident was that a few Japanese guests, plus an interpreter, happened to pass by here two days ago, and they were attracted by the smell by chance, and then they couldn’t help coming to eat. After eating, they all raised their thumbs up and said repeatedly in poor Chinese: Delicious!", "Excellent!"

This scene happened to be seen by a reporter from the Peking Youth Daily who came over for dinner, and then happened to "capture" the scene of those Japanese friends giving thumbs up and praising "superb".

Then, the reporter went up to interview a few Japanese people, and only then did he know that they were tourists visiting the country.

It's just that they didn't come here to eat by chance, but they came here to eat specially for this restaurant.

I asked the reason again, and said that it was recommended by a friend, so I came here to taste it. Unexpectedly, the taste is really super good, even better than the chef at Jianguo Hotel.

Not only is the cooking skill good, the ingredients here are also very fresh and delicious, and there are many good things that cannot be eaten elsewhere.

The overall feeling is first-class, right, and then I praised the Chinese food.

After this reporter went back, he wrote an article in the Beiping Youth Daily.

The content of the article actually wants to say that Chinese cuisine is to conquer Japanese friends and build a bridge of friendship between China and Japan.

You know, now is the honeymoon period between China and Japan, and there are more and more Japanese tourists visiting the country.

Therefore, it is absolutely politically correct to write something praising the friendship between China and Japan.

Starting from the perspective of food can also avoid stepping on thunder.

In this article, the author "truthfully" wrote some Japanese tourists' admiration for Chinese food.

In addition to the general Chinese food, he also "truthfully" wrote about Japanese tourists' impressions of the restaurant "Food is Heaven".

For example, they agree with chef He Yuzhu's culinary skills very much, and they also admire the hard conditions such as the ingredients, dining environment, and hygienic conditions.

Of course, these foreign friends did not say good things, but also talked about some Chinese food, or the shortcomings of domestic Chinese restaurants.

For example, these Japanese tourists said that Chinese food is good, but the dining environment of most restaurants in China at this time is really not flattering.

Only some restaurants in foreign-related hotels, such as Peking Hotel and Jianguo Hotel, have unsatisfactory sanitary conditions.

However, they never expected that a small roadside restaurant that should be dirty and unsatisfactory in their impression, with various sanitary conditions that are not up to standard, has such good sanitary conditions, such fresh ingredients, such superb cooking skills, and the key price is extremely cheap. It's a restaurant of conscience.

They also said that they would strongly recommend it to their friends when they go back, so that they must come here to taste the authentic Chinese food after they come to the capital.

Only when you come to eat once, can you come to the capital in vain.

For this reason, at the end, the author refined the content based on the words of those Japanese tourists, and wrote a doggerel-"If you don't come to Beijing to eat, it's heaven, and it's useless to eat all over the city."

Good guy, this article is clearly praising the friendship between China and Japan, praising the opening up of China-Japan tourism, and various Chinese delicacies. I don’t know if the common people feel proud, anyway, food is the sky is completely famous.

Many people come here just to taste the "Beijing cuisine" that Japanese friends are full of praise.

It doesn't matter if you taste it, everyone immediately gave their thumbs up, even saying that the taste is good, the ingredients are good, the environmental sanitation service is good, and it is worthy of being a restaurant that conquers the Japanese devils.

Next, spread it to ten, ten to a hundred, Shiweitian is really famous, and many people come here to have a meal.

Even, because those Japanese tourists boasted that food is good after returning home, some foreign tourist groups were alarmed and brought foreigners to taste it.

After foreigners came to taste it, they all said it was good, and there was nothing bad about it.

And with the increase of foreigners, more and more local guests come here.

Especially the dishes that many foreigners have ordered, such as braised pork ribs with scallions and braised pork, and grilled lamb chops with cabbage in clear soup have become signature dishes, and everyone rushes to order them.

Business was so good suddenly that both Cao Jiajia and He Yuzhu were caught off guard.

For this reason, they had to add more staff, and He Yuzhu was no longer the same as in the past. He only came to cook at night and at noon.

No one forced He Yuzhu to do this, it was entirely He Yuzhu's own will.

According to what He Yuzhu said, the current food is different from the past.

In the past, this restaurant was mainly for Chinese people to eat for themselves, so that's okay.

But now, many foreigners came to taste it, especially at noon, so he had to come and cook it himself.

He can't let the foreigners down, let the foreigners laugh, he must win glory to the people of the country and the people of the capital.

Since He Yuzhu is so proactive, of course he can't be attacked.

In this way, He Yuzhu now comes every day at noon and night, which means that most of his time and energy are spent in this restaurant.

Although He Yuzhu hasn't resigned from his original unit yet, but seeing how he is now dispatched, it is estimated that he will be soon.

"Oh, it's all thanks to those foreign devils." Speaking of this, Cao Jiajia sighed, "Since the reputation of our shop has spread, there have been an endless stream of customers here.

You see, it's almost two o'clock, and there are still so many people eating, and so many people queuing up. "

Cao Zhiqiang frowned when he heard this: "Sister, didn't I say that we only open until two o'clock at noon?"

"Yeah, I have to do it anyway." Cao Jiajia nodded, "The door closes on time between one and two o'clock."

"Then these people come at this time, do you still welcome them?" Cao Zhiqiang asked with a frown.

"No." Cao Jiajia said, "According to what you said, the door closes on time at two o'clock, but this is only for dine-in and private rooms, and I didn't say that takeaway is not allowed."

"Takeaway?" Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback, "What takeaway?"

"Oh, that's right." Cao Jiajia said, "This is Uncle He's idea.

He said that when there are few customers, it’s okay for us to close at some point, and he agrees.

But now food is on the rise, and many diners wait in line for half a day every day just to have a bite.

If you make people wait in line for half a day without eating, there will inevitably be complaints, so he came up with the idea of ​​takeaway.

To put it simply, we are the same as in the past, dine-in and private rooms are open or closed as usual.

However, after the dine-in private room closes at some point, we just don’t provide guests with a place to eat, but if the guests still want to eat our meals, we can continue to work together and continue to cook, and then the guests buy them and eat them at home.

This way is called takeaway! "

Cao Zhiqiang blinked: "Well, can this be done? I mean, will it be too hard for everyone?"

"No!" Cao Jiajia said with a smile, "Didn't you send a group of people over last time to learn cooking skills from Uncle He in the back kitchen?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Does this have something to do with takeaway?"

"Of course there is." Cao Jiajia said, "Uncle He said that the people who come to our restaurant to eat are all served by him himself, but the people who order takeaway are all served by his apprentices.

Also, the takeaway menu is different, there are no freshly fried dishes, only some stewed dishes, fried goods and other long-time dishes, which are similar to the big pot dishes in the cafeteria.

Of course, the price of takeaway is also cheaper, not as expensive as eating in our restaurant.

By the way, Uncle He also ordered a batch of paper bags and foam lunch boxes, all of which were printed with the signature name of "Food for the Sky".

All our takeaway food will be wrapped in foam lunch boxes, and then sold to others in paper bags.

In this way, it seems that our takeaway is very high-end. "

Speaking of this, Cao Jiajia smiled and said, seeing Cao Zhiqiang stunned, "Don't tell me, this way, the business will be even better.

It is said that many people come here to buy just for a paper bag in our store.

It's like, yes, Uncle He said, this is like going to Quanjude to buy roast duck! "

"Hehe." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "Uncle He can do it, and he still has brand awareness, amazing, really amazing!"

"Hehe, it wasn't Uncle He's idea in the first place." Cao Jiajia smiled and shook her head.

"Whose is that?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

"It's from Xiaodang." Cao Jiajia said, "Uncle He said that Xiaodang gave him the idea of ​​doing takeout and ordering special packaging. He thought it was okay, so he tried it first. Everyone agreed, so we did it.

Now you see so many people queuing outside, most of them are actually going to the back kitchen to buy takeaway, not eating in the lobby. "

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Let me tell you, why so many people walked back after they came, I thought they were all going to the private room, and wondered why so many people went to the private room, so they all went to buy takeaway."

"Isn't it?" Cao Jiajia smiled, "You, the nobleman is busy with work, so there are too few people here. If you come here a few times, you must have known about the changes here."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "I've said it all, I'll leave it to you, I don't worry."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang touched his chin: "But it's not appropriate to always do this, if you really want to take out, you'd better open a separate window, separate from the dine-in side.

For example, open a window in the back kitchen, and customers who buy takeaways will go there to buy in the future, so as not to affect normal customers coming here to eat. "

"I thought so too." Cao Jiajia said, "But Uncle He said to try it first, and if it works, I'll discuss it with you.

It just so happens that you're here today, so I'll just tell you about it.

Although Uncle He also knows a lot of people, but they all said that you have a wide network and the people you are looking for are better decorated, so I still want you to find someone to come over and renovate a takeaway window. "

"Understood." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and said, "Leave this matter to me. I'll send someone to do it. I'm sure it will be done properly."

(End of this chapter)