Rebooting the Peak Years of 1985

Chapter 271 Failed To Steal Teacher
"The situation is not good and this store poses a great threat to us."

After leaving the hot pot restaurant, Wu Fugui said with a gloomy look on his face, his mind racing with thoughts, thinking about how to deal with it.

"He doesn't have a famous chef in his restaurant. Maybe the customers will get tired of it after just a few meals?"

Li Xing didn't know as much about catering as Wu Fugui, so he said somewhat optimistically.

Wu Fugui glanced at him with disdain, thinking that the other person was simply an idiot.

Because the less chefs there are, the more diners can mix their own ingredients and dipping sauces, and the less likely they will get bored.

And most importantly, the cost is low!
The biggest costs in the catering industry are, first, the cost of stores and ingredients, and second, labor costs, of which good chefs account for the bulk of the labor costs.

The more he thought about Wu Fugui, the darker his face became. Li Xing did not dare to say anything more when he saw him like this.

But when he returned to Fugui Restaurant, he still thought of a way.

"We can also open a store like this. The lack of chefs means that the technical content is low. If they can open it, why can't we open it?"

Li Xing murmured, not thinking that Haidilao opened by Chen Huajiang could have any success.

After all, in his opinion, the chef's skills are the key to a good restaurant.

Although it was a mistake, it provided Wu Fugui with a good idea.

"Not bad!"

Wu Fugui's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands vigorously, and said excitedly: "I'm thinking wrong, I've been thinking about how to use my own method to deal with them. It's a wonderful way to deal with them in the same way as others!"

"I will let the chefs learn the skills from their masters. After learning, with our financial strength, we will definitely be able to crush them."

After saying that, Wu Fugui rushed into the store excitedly, and then solemnly asked several of his chefs to go to the Haidilao Center store opposite to learn from his master's skills.

Wu Fugui's subordinates are all masters of cooking. They quickly identified and tasted the more common ingredients among the hot pot bases and began to try the combinations in Fugui restaurants.

But day by day, experiment after experiment, they all ended in failure.

"It doesn't taste right, it doesn't have that umami taste."

"No, the hotpot mutton I ate at their restaurant had no fishy smell at all. This hot pot base didn't cover the fishy smell of the mutton, so make it again."

"The spicy taste is enough, but - I still feel like something is missing? That's wrong again, the flavor of this shabu-shabu is enough, but how can the shabu-shabu have a bitter taste?"

Wu Fugui's tongue has become swollen from eating in the past few days. What worries him even more is that after repeated experiments, his chefs can only imitate the base ingredients in Chen Huajiang's shop at a [-]-[-]% level.

Moreover, the appearance is very different, there is a lot of foam on the base, it looks unappetizing, and it doesn't smell like Haidilao.

All this discouraged Wu Fugui and asked the chefs to try again and again.

"Mr. Wu, there is nothing we can do. It is said that we are running to death by looking at the mountains, and we are tired of cooking by looking at the dishes. In our chef's profession, many dishes look simple at first glance, but the seasoning and cooking techniques are top secret. If there are no experts to guide you step by step, it is almost impossible to crack it. It is already very good to be able to learn something that is [-]% to [-]% similar.”

"No, there is no way for us to infer the production process from the base of the finished product. You said earlier that it doesn't smell fragrant, and we can't do anything about it. The taste is very complicated, and we don't know what spices are used."

"There are thousands of spices on the market now. If we try to match them one by one, it will not be possible in a few years or even more than ten years."

The chefs were not happy either. They had been in a daze under Wu Fugui's instructions for the past few days. They were so tired that they couldn't leave their feet off the ground, but it still didn't work.

They can't see any hope, this is the limit of what they can imitate.Unless you can get the recipe, how can you make it completely similar?

Wu Fugui fell into silence. Of course he understood this.

Take their Fugui Catering as an example. Their most famous dish is the ancestral honey-glazed barbecued pork. Anyone can make barbecued pork, and it looks simple.

In fact, the seasoning of honey sauce is the key, and it is also the fundamental reason why their Fugui Restaurant is so popular unlike other restaurants.

The recipe of their honey juice is also passed down from ancestors. After several generations of improvements, the complete formula was finally left behind. How is it possible for ordinary people to imitate the exclusive honey juice of their wealthy restaurants?

Wu Fugui himself would not believe that someone could learn the secret recipe passed down by his family for generations by tasting food.

If this were the case, then there would be no exclusive formula in this world.

Wu Fugui waved his hand. The chef was already disgusted and resisted, and he couldn't force them to experiment anymore.

"Chen Huajiang!"

"I didn't expect you to come up with a unique recipe again. Are you the cooking genius that my uncle often said before?"

After the others left, Wu Fugui muttered to himself thoughtfully.

The conflict between him and Chen Huajiang was essentially to acquire several recipes from the other party, including barbecue seasoning recipes and mutton soup recipes.

As a result, the other party has now come up with another hot pot base recipe, which is more valuable than the other two recipes.

Of course Wu Fugui didn't know that Chen Huajiang was a reborn person. In the era of information explosion, no recipe can be hidden.

Several well-known hot pot bases in later generations have their own characteristics, but either their relatives leaked it, or the head chef was bribed to leak it, and even the founder of the company leaked it himself.

Later, the hot pot base ingredient was no longer a top-secret formula, but was sold directly to the outside world as a business.

Chen Huajiang's listed catering company also has a processing factory that specializes in selling hot pot base ingredients online.It even once became the online sales champion of hot pot bases for [-] years, bringing more benefits than physical restaurants.

It was precisely with the support of excellent financial statements that Kunlun Catering was able to go public that year.In the following years, with the blessing of a bunch of leeks, Kunlun embarked on the fast track of development and growth.

Wu Fugui could not imitate the hot pot base, but he discovered the huge value in it, so he thought about it again and approached Chen Huajiang.

"Boss Chen."

Wu Fugui waited at the door, and when he saw Chen Huajiang appearing in the Haidilao store, he walked in quickly.

He was so fast that the two waiters at the door didn't even say "Welcome".

"Boss Wu? Is something wrong?"

Chen Huajiang stopped and looked at him curiously.

He was a little curious in his heart. The two were enemies. What was the other party doing to come to him?
Could it be that he came to seek peace because he found that the business at his place was very good and that his own store was about to die?
Not only Chen Huajiang was curious about the other party's purpose, but the waiters in the store also looked at Wu Fugui.

After all, they are close competitors. The waiters in the store also know that Wu Fugui is the big boss of the Fugui Catering Center store and a very wealthy Hong Kong businessman.

Even some diners recognized Wu Fugui's identity and watched the two of them curiously while preparing the dishes.

"Boss Chen, please don't tell secrets. For 1000 million, I want your hot pot base."

(End of this chapter)