Food Customizer

If it looks good

Su Chen thought about this order for a long time after returning to the company. It was not until midnight that after much deliberation, Su Chen asked Bai Xiaobo to log in the product manager's WeChat account on one of the company's computers (the only one). computer).

To be honest, Su Chen doesn't have a good understanding of the so-called "good-looking". What exactly does it mean to be good-looking?

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In Chinese cuisine, the word good-looking is roughly equivalent to the color in color, fragrance, and flavor. That is to say, after a dish is made, it must make people appetizing at first glance. This is good-looking.

The simplest example is one of Su Chen's 30 home-cooked dishes: fish-flavored shredded pork.

Speaking of this dish, it is one of those rare dishes where the color is more important than the taste.

If the chef does a good job, one glance at the dish will make you want to eat it as soon as possible. If the chef does a bad job, the color will be unspeakable.

‘So the first requirement is to look good. Does that mean the color must be appetizing? ’

Su Chen came to the office area and logged into Bai Xiaobo's office WeChat and found the customer's information.

I want to find some clues from the other party’s circle of friends.

"Zhang Jiayi?"

Su Chen subconsciously read out the other person's name after seeing it. It's rare to see someone using their real name as their WeChat name, and the avatar looks a bit high on Internet celebrities, but you can still feel that this is the other person.

"It's a girl, look at the circle of friends."

Immediately, Su Chen opened the customer's circle of friends. Fortunately, it was not visible for three days, but always visible.

The first one that catches your eye.

【faint! Isn't this boss's business very good? I have to endure the stir-fried yellow beef I want to eat today~]

Su Chen couldn't help but smile when he saw this circle of friends. Sure enough, he saw the GG sign hanging beside the dining car when setting up a stall. And not surprisingly, she was a young rich woman. Even if ordinary people saw the GG sign, they would I won’t directly customize a lunch worth 5,000 yuan.

Continuing to browse down, the contents of the circle of friends soon confirmed Su Chen's thoughts.

This is a nine-square grid circle of friends.

[Afternoon tea today: I flew to Shanghai with my besties just for an afternoon tea, so the friendship between besties will last forever~]

In the nine-square grid, there is a set of very exquisite pictures of afternoon tea.

Almost all of them were pastries, some were Italian pastries that Su Chen knew, some were more ordinary Western pastries, and then there were a few cups of fairly good coffee.

There are a few photos, and some of them were taken intentionally or unintentionally wearing Valentino shoes and stockings.

The last picture, on the surface, is a photo of the restaurant, but in the lower right corner, I accidentally photographed the lunch receipt.

7820 yuan!

"She turns out to be a socialite."

Su Chen, who knew something about luxury goods, basically understood it when he saw those high heels.

When Valentino and Bulgari restaurants appear at the same time, there is no doubt that this is the style of a socialite.

If she were a real lady, she might go to Bulgari, but she would definitely not wear something like this.

"So the customer's demand is that delicious food is second only to good-looking food, and the real purpose of good-looking food is not to satisfy appetite."

After Su Chen looked at several Moments in succession, he finally understood that the good-looking ones had only one purpose: to take photos and post them on Moments.

That's enough.

"In that case"

Su Chen returned to the office, silently came to the recliner, and opened the fragment of a famous Chinese cookbook that he had not read for a long time.

pastry?

coffee?

Some things must be admitted. West Point is indeed superior in taking pictures, and the photos will give people a very high-quality feeling.

But some things must be admitted.

In this regard, Chinese pastries are definitely much better than them, but most of them have been lost now, which is really fucking uncomfortable!

But just Chinese pastries are not enough.

In a country that has studied its food to the extreme, small things like appearance never matter!

Su Chen sent a message to the other party in the WeChat dialog box.

"Hello, I am the owner of Meilai Company. After careful consideration, we can complete your order, but your budget is not very sufficient and the time left for us is not very sufficient."

After Su Chen thoroughly understood the other party's needs, he had a general direction in mind.

If you want to achieve the desired effect in your mind, a budget of 5,000 yuan may not be worth the gain.

Unexpectedly, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and the other party responded immediately after the message was sent.

[Zhang Jiayi: Boss? Great! I waited for a long time at the pedestrian street today. Unfortunately, the queue was very long. Will you go to the pedestrian street to set up a stall tomorrow? 】

Su Chen felt that his brain was a little atrophied.

I'm telling you that I don't have enough budget, but you ask me if I'm going to set up a stall tomorrow?

Is this what carbon-based organisms can take over?

Fortunately, the other party quickly realized his problem and quickly responded with another message.

[Zhang Jiayi: Isn’t five thousand enough? If not, how much do you think is appropriate? 】

On the other side, Zhang Jiayi, who returned home, was doing a comprehensive maintenance on her skin before going to bed.

She was a little surprised when she received the message. When she saw that the other party was actually her boss, Zhang Jiayi suddenly jumped up!

The boss of the delicious company, chatted with me?

She couldn't help but think of the figure that she had not seen many times but had a particularly deep impression of.

The boss who cooks in a suit?

After asking her question, Zhang Jiali immediately realized her nonsense. She whimpered, rolled out of the bed and crawled, bending her white legs and swinging them in the air.

"Is five thousand not enough? If not, how much do you think is more appropriate?"

Zhang Jiayi didn't calculate the budget for this afternoon tea so clearly. The five thousand was just a number she said casually at the time.

In her circle, price itself is also a kind of comparison.

The boss's reply was unexpectedly fast.

[This level of gourmet customization starts at at least 50,000 yuan. ]

Zhang Jiayi glanced at it, and almost without hesitation, her fingertips flew on the screen.

[Zhang Jiayi: Then round it up, 20,000 yuan is okay? But what does it mean that there is not enough time? ]

Su Chen's reply was still very fast.

[Not enough time means that if you eat at 12 noon tomorrow, our company will not be able to complete your commission. ]

[Zhang Jiayi: OK~ How long will it take you at the fastest? ]

Su Chen replied: 3 days.

Is it that long?

Zhang Jiayi pouted and was a little puzzled.

Baking is also a small hobby in the socialite circle. Many sisters will make some cakes by themselves when they are free.

I am not sure whether it is delicious or not, but the photos taken are very good.

As far as she knows, the production of cakes is nothing more than making flour into a paste, then adding various sweet flavors and so on, throwing it into the oven and it's done!

Why does it take three days?

But Zhang Jiayi still has patience for choosing delicious food.

[Well, three days is three days! If it's three days, we have to wait! ]

Su Chen only replied with a "hmm", and there was no news.

Zhang Jiayi's fingers pressed on the screen for a long time and then deleted all the edited content. After thinking about it, she didn't take the initiative to talk about other topics.

'Afternoon tea worth 20,000 yuan? This boss is really bold. '

'Anyway, you only need to wait three days to see afternoon tea worth 20,000 yuan. This must be the more expensive afternoon tea in the circle, right? Hehe'

After finishing the content to post on WeChat Moments the next day, Zhang Jiayi covered herself with a quilt and went to sleep.

On this side, Su Chen couldn't sleep after getting a satisfactory answer.

A budget of 5,000 yuan is really not enough to make Chinese pastries once. In addition to the complicated production process, in order to achieve the necessary aesthetic effect, Su Chen has to purchase a lot of ornaments and plates.

'These are also fixed assets and will be used in the future. '

Su Chen has never been vague about buying things. The focus now is to list all the dishes he needs to make first, and then purchase various items in a targeted manner.

‘On the surface, this is just a ten thousand yuan order, but in fact, it implies a peak showdown between Chinese and Western pastries’

‘And it was initiated by celebrities. ’

Whether the socialite is real or fake, it is certain that once this order is made, it will definitely appear in the circle of noble ladies in Jingzhou City in a short time.

So Su Chen, very rarely, went directly into the food practice room and immediately began to continue to look through the naming recipes.

The food practice room has a feature that if Su Chen only practices and makes food in it, he can persist for a long time.

But if the time in the practice room is used for other things, the energy required will increase exponentially!

Well, Su Chen tried to memorize words in the practice room before, but later found that he would be exhausted if he could not memorize a few.

For example, Su Chen is now checking famous recipes in the practice room, which also requires multiple times of energy, but in order to save time, he can only do this.

‘Speaking of pastries, the peak period should be the royal pastries of the Qing court. ’

Su Chen looked through all the recipes in the famous recipes and never found any information related to the royal family.

Because when he was a broadcaster, there was a content about the Dim Sum Bureau, so Su Chen remembered it very clearly.

At that time, their team's first destination was Beijing. After all, the Qing court had been in Beijing for hundreds of years. It stands to reason that the chefs in the imperial kitchen had more or less passed down some skills.

But they searched all over Beijing and couldn't find the dim sum they wanted to shoot.

Later, after several twists and turns, the team leader contacted an old man in Jinshi, whose name was Wang Shixiang. He was not a famous chef.

But he was a big foodie!

Mr. Wang's lifelong love was Sachima. At that time, he said that the Sachima in Beijing had long been gone, and the most authentic Sachima now belonged to Guishunzhai and Xiangdezhai in Jinshi.

Following the clues, the team leader contacted another master, Yang Ming, who was the successor of the dim sum master of Xiangdezhai, a state-owned restaurant!

'Mr. Yang's pastry should be one of the best in the country. '

'So the pastry can definitely be made as a pastry. ’

What Su Chen has to do now is to replicate the pastries he has seen before, and if possible, to go one step further!

Thinking of this, Su Chen had a general direction in his mind.

‘First, determine the type of pastries needed this time. The palace pastries can be a single type of pastry, so make jujube paste rolls! ’

After leaving the practice room, I recorded the name of this pastry in the notebook on the table, but it was named by another name: imperial concubine cake.

‘The second way must also reflect China’s five thousand years of culture, that must be’

A new name appeared on the notebook: Lotus Crisp.

‘The skills and techniques have all been demonstrated, but there is still one thing missing’

The third name: Dragon Beard Cake.

In the past, this was something only the emperor could afford.

After all, the other party directly gave me a budget of 20,000 yuan. It would be unkind to only make a few pastries.

The process of making pastry is complicated, but it is actually very fast once you really know how to make it.

Su Chen wrote down in his notebook the two pastries he had seen in Jin City in his memory.

It's just rose walnut cake.

This pastry is pink in color and very cute. It is a very typical palace dessert.

There are also noodles.

If you don't eat noodles when eating Chinese pastries, you really can't understand how particular the Chinese ancestors were when they ate them!

Not only is he particular about it, but he definitely treats eating as the top priority in life!

After spending more than two hours, Su Chen finally decided on all the pastries he wanted to make.

Next is

‘How on earth are these things made? ’

With the current popularity of the Internet, you can actually know many things just by searching online, but food is different.

On the surface, it seems that various state banquet chefs teach you how to cook every day, but in fact they just tell the audience the basic operations of those dishes.

This alone has allowed many viewers to improve their cooking skills a lot, and the real secrets of the food are all held in the stomachs of these guys!

Su Chen began to collect specific recipes for various pastries on the Internet.

Now we need to have a general direction. As for the next advancement, we need to use the food practice room!

While searching, Su Chen recorded in his notebook all the items that he could remember temporarily. These were all things that he had to seize the time to purchase.

At the same time, Su Chen also asked Su Chen to take care of something.

[Lao Ba, there will be a very special banquet in three days, and it can’t be done without you. 】

Before Cui Yufen and his group left, Su Chen had added all the 'nephews' as friends.

It is also for the convenience of waiting for the athletes' restaurant on the third floor to be completed, so that everyone can help. Isn't this coming in handy now?

The Eighth Senior Brother specializes in making pasta. Although he is not a pastry chef, he is very knowledgeable about various types of pasta.

If he can guide himself from time to time on the spot, the progress of pasta will definitely be rapid.

Probably because it was too late, Lao Ba didn't reply to the message, and Su Chen didn't bother to care. Anyway, as long as the other party saw it, he would definitely reply.

Until the white fish belly appeared in the east, Su Chen was still sitting at his desk, looking at the videos played on the computer from time to time, and then hunkering down at his desk to record various contents in his notebook.

This state lasted until ten o'clock.

The second floor of the company.

Ling Shuyu came here not too early today, so she checked in at a certain time.

"Sister Ling, what's the mission today!"

Zhang Li was eating the steamed buns made by her second brother in the cafeteria. She couldn't get enough of them, but they were just not as delicious as those made by Boss Su.

"It seems like there are no tasks today? You should continue preparing the food and then wait until the afternoon to set up the stall."

Xiaobai was drinking millet porridge next to him, "Not necessarily. Yesterday our boss took another big order, and I guess he will make it today!"

"Oh?" Ling Shuyu asked, "What list?"

For the first time, Xiao Bai felt that he had confidence in front of Ling Shuyu, and he puffed up his chest subconsciously, "Originally it was just an order of 5,000 yuan, but then the boss talked about 20,000 yuan!"

"Hiss! So many? The boss is really awesome!" Zhang Li's eyes almost jumped out of her heart.

But Ling Shuyu frowned slightly and said nothing.

Xiaobai felt that he had finally made a difference, and immediately said proudly, "I took this order. Just yesterday, my boss and I returned to the company early to discuss this business. Afterwards, I fell asleep, and the boss contacted me on WeChat After a few conversations with the customer, we directly negotiated a price of 20,000 yuan, and also negotiated the time in three days. "

When he said this, the expression on his face became more and more arrogant, as if this matter would not be possible without him!

After he finished speaking, he looked at Ling Shuyu from the corner of his eye.

‘Praise, praise me quickly! ’

‘How long has it been since the company had such a big order? This time I have made a great contribution! ’

Ling Shuyu's brows grew tighter and tighter, "Since you accepted the order, why don't you take the initiative to negotiate it yourself? As a product manager, you should accurately analyze customer needs and the company's actual situation, and then make a match."

Ling Shuyu stared at Bai Xiaobo, and his simple words stunned him.

"For such a simple thing, you still need to get up in the middle of the night to communicate with customers by yourself. If I were the boss, you would have been fired long ago."

After saying this, Ling Shuyu snorted contemptuously and neither ate the buns nor returned to the office.

Instead, she turned and walked into the stairwell. Obviously, she was going to the nineteenth floor.

During this period, as long as it is after 8 a.m., employees basically have to take the stairs if they want to go up or downstairs.

Bai Xiaobo was stunned for a long time and pointed at the empty door unconvinced, "Zhang Li! Do you think she is sick?"

Zhang Li tilted her head, "Huh?"

"I worked hard, running around, not only did I not delay our stall, but also helped the company screen various orders. She actually said I was a waste?"

The short legs thought for a while, and said very seriously, "Xiaobo, I think what Sister Ling said makes sense."

"You"

"As a product manager, these things are indeed what you should do. You should negotiate this order to 20,000 yuan and three days later before the boss meets with the customer, instead of letting the boss negotiate it himself. Well, you have to learn more from Sister Ling in the future~"

After saying that, Zhang Li also stuffed the last bite of the bun into her mouth, "I'm going to help Shu Ting disinfect~"

Xiaobai looked at the direction where Zhang Li disappeared.

Damn!

Am I really a waste?

After going through untold hardships to climb from the second floor to the nineteenth floor, Ling Shuyu first took a long time at the door, until his heartbeat and breath returned to normal speed, then he straightened his clothes and walked in.

'Since the boss took the initiative to negotiate the order to three days later, it means that he must have encountered some difficulties. ’

‘As an employee, the most important thing is to help the boss solve problems. ’

Ling Shuyu stood at the door of Su Chen's office for more than ten seconds.

He gently raised his hand and knocked on the door.