Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 263 The First Guest

November 11th, the eighth day of the tenth lunar month, is a good time to open for business!
At nine o'clock in the morning, with the sound of crackling firecrackers, the Grassland Fat Cow and Sheep Beijing Headquarters officially opened!

Since Li Yi didn't have many friends in the capital, no one said anything except notifying Jiang Longcheng and Ye Jianhua about the opening.

Therefore, the opening of a new store seems a bit simple and a bit deserted.

But Li Yi didn't care about this. After setting off the firecrackers, he walked into the store with a few excited little brothers.

Today is the first day of the new store's opening. Although it's not lunch time yet, you still have to prepare everything in advance.

Li Yi first went to the kitchen to take a look. Dongzi and Shitou were washing vegetables. Chinese cabbage, potatoes, and sweet potatoes had to be washed and set aside.

In addition, fresh tofu, frozen tofu, vermicelli, and beancurd sticks must also be prepared. After all, they are opening a restaurant that combines shabu-shabu and grilling, and it cannot only serve meat.

At the same time, the beef and mutton in the refrigerator were also taken out and defrosted.

Although Li Yi asked the foundry to help build two simple meat cutting machines, either electric ones or something similar to paper cutters.

Although the effect is good, the only disadvantage is that it cannot cut meat that is too soft or too hard. The kind that is slightly abrasive is best.

On the other side of the kitchen, Qiangzi and Yongzi were preparing small ingredients.

When grilling meat and shabu-shabu, the ingredients are particularly important.

There are two kinds of ingredients for the barbecue in Li Yi's shop, one is dry seasoning and the other is sauce, both of which are prepared by Li Yi himself.

Although the taste can't be compared with those famous restaurants, it's pretty good for now.

The dipping ingredients for shabu-shabu are much more complicated. In addition to sesame paste, there are also chopped green onions, minced garlic, fermented bean curd, oily chili peppers, and chopped peanuts.

To be honest, Li Yi also worked hard to prepare these various kinds of ingredients.

In addition to busy preparing to open the store these days, he also contacted several ticket sellers in the city and bought a large number of non-staple food stamps from them.

After all, most agricultural products still require tickets. Without tickets, you have to buy high-priced goods, and the price will be at least one-third higher.

Li Yi has thought very clearly about the store's business model and cannot run it as a low-priced small restaurant.

Not only would the profits be small, but the demand for supplies would also be huge.

Just like when he was doing cold-pipe and white-pipe cake business in Qingshan County, he consumed at least fifty or sixty kilograms of flour every day, and the consumption of other types of materials was also not small.

But in a place like the capital, he doesn't have that much energy to get so many supplies.

Therefore, what we want to do is to make high-end catering with high quality, high price and high profit.

This not only solves the problem of profit, but also solves the problem of material shortage, without having to worry about various bills every day.

Soon, the whole morning passed in a hurry.

It was almost time for dinner, but no one came into the restaurant to eat, which made the few brothers a little anxious.

"Brother Yi, why hasn't anyone come to eat yet?" Qiangzi couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, Brother Yi, we spent so much money, we won't have to pay for it!" Shitou also said with some worry.

Although Dongzi and Yongzi didn't speak, their expressions were still worried.

However, Li Yi was not worried at all. He smiled and said: "Why are you anxious? Be patient. Where are you from now!"

Li Yi had long expected that no one would come to eat.

His store is very well decorated and looks very classy from the outside. Ordinary people would not dare to enter this kind of store.

Of course, ordinary people are not Li Yi's customer targets.

Rich people don't know about this store yet, so it's normal that there are no customers.

That's why Li Yi asked Jiang Longcheng to invite his friends over for dinner. He believed that those people would be attracted to his restaurant's grilled and steamed dishes once they came here and become his repeat customers.

With such a group of repeat customers, the influence of this store will spread in the circle in the future, and naturally there will be no shortage of business.

But this all takes time, so before Jiang Longcheng invited the guests, Li Yi didn't even think that anyone would come to the door!
"Brother Yi, aren't we impatient? After investing so much money, what will we do if no customers come to the door?" Although the brothers don't know how much money Li Yi has invested in total during this period, they think there should be Fifteen thousand and six thousand yuan.

After all, the rent cost more than 3000 yuan, the tables, chairs, benches and tableware cost more than 6000 yuan, and the decoration cost more than 2000 yuan.

In addition to the [-] spent on buying a refrigerator and the [-] on buying various meats and vegetables, the total is [-].

This is not counting other trivial matters, such as ordering various drinks, ordering clothes for them, etc.

With so much money invested, everyone is worried about him.

Li Yi was still not in a hurry at all, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about it, I generally don't do things that I'm not sure about!"

"Besides, if you want to compensate, it's my money. What are you guys worried about?"

Just as he was talking, a Volga car suddenly drove up to the door, and then four or five middle-aged people in coats got out of the car, and then walked into the store.

When several people entered the door, Li Yi recognized them at a glance. The leader was Jiang Longyin, Jiang Longcheng's second brother.

After seeing Li Yi, Jiang Longyin smiled and said: "I heard your store has opened, come and support me!"

"Welcome, please come in!" Li Yi said with a smile.

To be honest, Li Yi really didn't expect that the first wave of customers in his store would be brought by Jiang Longyin.

Li Yi also knew about Jiang Longcheng's second brother, who would be a giant in power in the future.

Even now, he is not an ordinary person. It is really flattering that he can come to support a little person like me.

"The decoration is quite unique. Can you introduce us to the main food?"

The main reason why Jiang Longyin appeared here today was because he overheard Jiang Longcheng calling his friends at home last night.

After asking, I learned about Li Yi's store opening, and then learned about the bet between Jiang Longcheng and Li Yi.

When he learned that Li Yi had started planning to open a hotel in advance and predicted that the rent of shops along the street in Beiguan Village would increase, he became very interested in Li Yi.

It happened that at noon, several colleagues in the unit proposed to go out and sit for a while. On a whim, he asked for a seat with his third brother and dragged them to Li Yi's place.

"Our store specializes in barbecued meats and shabu-shabu, and of course we also have various vegetables. I will demonstrate to you the details after the dishes are served!"

Li Yi is still very patient with the customers at the first table.

"Row!"

Since there were five people and Jiang Longyin's unusual status, Li Yi invited them to a small private room for six people inside.

Then, he asked Dongzi to serve everyone a charcoal basin and a copper pot for cooking meat!
Then, Li Yi did not let them order. As the first customer at the opening table, Li Yi decided to give them a free order.

He directly asked the chef to give Jiang Longyin and others to cut a pound of beef and mutton suitable for roasting, as well as a pound of mutton rolls and beef rolls suitable for boiling.

In addition, we got them some vegetarian dishes such as vegetable vermicelli that are suitable for boiling.

After the dishes were served, Li Yi asked people to prepare some dipping sauces for them, and he personally showed these people how to barbecue.

There is no need to demonstrate how to cook mutton-shabu. There are probably no people in the capital who don’t know how to cook mutton!
Soon, the mutton on the grate was cooked.

Li Yi used scissors to cut the large piece of mutton into small pieces, then signaled to everyone that they could eat it, and reminded them that they could dip it in dry ingredients or sauce.

This was the first time for Jiang Longyin and others to eat such a unique delicacy. When they saw the roasted golden mutton exuding an alluring aroma, they were not polite and started to eat immediately.

When everyone put the plump mutton into their mouths, they were all stunned.

They are all people of high status and have eaten all kinds of delicacies, but they did not expect that the freshly roasted mutton would be so delicious.

At this time, Li Yi asked Dongzi to bring them beer.

Barbecue, hot-pot and beer, this combination will be a perfect match 40 years later, let alone the 80s, this is the king of fried food!
In an instant, they were conquered by this strange delicacy.

(End of this chapter)