The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

The speed of information dissemination in modern society is quite fast. If it is said that in the era before Zhang Tong traveled, if a restaurant wanted to be famous, apart from advertising, the most important thing was the reputation of customers.

For restaurants, word of mouth from customers is more important than advertising. There is an old saying: gold cups and silver cups are not as good as the good reputation of the guests.

It is actually the highest praise for catering companies to spread word of mouth about how well a certain store is doing. Just like the Laoganma hot sauce that Zhang Tong bought at the vegetable market today, this is a catering company that relies entirely on word of mouth.

Moreover, this is a company that does not advertise at all, and only relies on word of mouth in the streets and alleys, and finally uses this most backward method to become a well-known company in China.

And how long does it take to build up a good reputation? Ten years or even twenty years!

The small shop opened by Zhang Tong’s parents before he crossed over was unknown from the beginning; later, the neighbors in the street began to come to eat, and became famous in the surrounding residential areas; Zhang Tong’s parents spent almost three years in this process time is completed.

And Zhang Tong felt that his cooking skills were not bad, but if he wanted to build a store based on word of mouth, it would take at least a year.

But Zhang Tong far underestimated the speed of information dissemination in this era. In this era, the distance from being unknown to being well-known in the world is only a UC shock department title. Lao Zhang's shop became popular much faster than he thought.

At noon after Wang Qian left, Zhang Tong officially opened for lunch at eleven o'clock. There were already six or seven people queuing up at the scene.

Among them are a few familiar faces, which Zhang Tong knows. There is a little brother with gold-rimmed glasses who comes to his place for dinner almost every afternoon after get off work.

When Zhang Tong opened the glass door to announce the opening, the young man with golden glasses smiled and said hello to Zhang Tong: "Boss Zhang, good afternoon. I brought my friends here to eat the dishes you cooked here. "

"Hello, hello. Thank you for your support." Today is Sunday, and there is business at noon, which was originally deserted, which is beyond Zhang Tong's expectation.

"What is Boss Zhang doing today? I'm really looking forward to it. I didn't go to work today, so I rushed here from Taopu." The brother with gold-rimmed glasses said with a smile. The little brother looks like he lives in Taopu and usually works in a nearby office building.

But it's quite a long way from Taopu to here. Zhang Tong smiled, does this count as having loyal customers? It takes tens of minutes to drive here for a bite to eat.

The glasses boy was very supportive, and the few companions brought by him were a little curious about the size of Zhang Tong's store, and one of them said: "This is the magic store you are talking about. It is too small."

"Small shops are good, but now the ones made by big shops are really tasteless. Do you remember the roast duck we went to last time? The shop is big enough, but the taste is really mediocre. It's better to be a small shop, and the flies are small." Sometimes the ones made by restaurants are much more flavorful than big ones." A female companion who was traveling with her said so, and at the same time looked at Zhang Tong twice. Maybe she thinks Zhang Tong's looks are pretty good too.

"A small restaurant is a small restaurant, but this restaurant is not a restaurant for flies. Haven't you seen how clean this small restaurant is?" The glasses guy seems to be a fan of Lao Zhang: "This restaurant is cleaner than many big restaurants. It's much cleaner."

After being reminded by the glasses brother, everyone noticed that this is really the case. Zhang Tong didn't let them comment on his small shop for too long and said to them directly: "Today, there are two main dishes, jelly eel pot and jelly chicken pot. You can choose spicy or not spicy." Zhang Tong pointed Serve today on your own menu.

Jelly claypot is relatively rare in Huaihai. In fact, Guangdong claypot food is very popular all over the country. Whether it is jelly pot or claypot rice, many people like to eat it.

However, this kind of claypot food is relatively difficult to cook. If the claypot rice is not cooked well, the rice crust underneath will be burnt and it will be uneatable, but it is not delicious without the rice crust.

There are many restaurants making jelly pot, but most of them are just for decoration. Most of the jelly pots in the store outside are to heat the casserole slightly after the ingredients are cooked, and then pour the cooked vegetables in the iron pot into it.

This is not the serious way of jelly pot at all. The clay pot has become a decoration in it, and there is no difference between whether it is there or not.

And Zhang Tong's jelly pot is serious cooking, cooking ingredients directly in a clay pot. The chicken and rice field eel were cooked directly in clay pots. The glasses guy came to five people, and at Zhang Tong's suggestion, he ordered three servings of jelly pot, two servings of eel and one serving of chicken. One of the eels ordered was completely non-spicy. Among the people who came, there were friends who could not eat spicy food at all, while the other four liked spicy food very much.

Cooking raw ingredients directly in a casserole is a very crafty thing, especially when the casserole is not non-stick under the rapid fire, and the food is easy to stick to the pan if it is in contact with the bottom of the casserole for too long. Easy to get mushy. And once the pot is mushy, there is no way to eat the whole jelly pot.

This is also the reason why many hotels outside do not use clay pots to make jelly pot directly. Zhang Tong made a quick attack, using clay pot to directly make jelly pot, which made the glasses boy and his friends stand outside the semi-open kitchen in awe, and some people used their mobile phones to record.

"Wow! It's really hard to eat such an authentic Cantonese taste in Huaihai!" When the three servings of jelly pot were served on the table, the glasses boy looked very pleased, because he discovered this store by himself, and now he introduced it to Friends don't lose face at all.

Everyone has done a thing that modern people do before eating, and that is to take pictures and send them to Moments. Although Zhang Tong doesn't quite understand what these people are doing, it's good for everyone to be happy.

Originally, the glasses boy and the others came to eat normally and Zhang Tong didn't pay attention to anything, but the topic they were talking about caught his ears.

"Is Chongming Island going to be demolished? And the entire island? There's no mistake!" The glasses boy looked at his friend in disbelief, who lived on Chongming Island. Chongming Island can be said to be the back garden of Huaihai, and it is also the third largest island in the country, at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The friend of the glasses guy, a man in his thirties, nodded: "Yes, the municipal demolition has already started. And the action is very fast. It is very straightforward to compensate the house or the compensation. Those homes have a continuous vegetable field and The farmers who built big houses got paid this time."

Chongming can be said to be one of the most important vegetable and fruit production bases in Huaihai City. Originally, Chongming could only be regarded as a countryside. But if what this man said is true, then these people really want to post it.

Especially in the early years, the compensation for building a big house with the homestead was quite a lot.

"The compensation this time is very fast and very high. The house next door to me paid 20 million yuan in compensation including the house and land, plus five houses in Songjiang District." The man in his early thirties said so, and several friends present All envious.

"Hey, this is going to be released!" The glasses guy couldn't help but say: "But what's the purpose of municipal development to Chongming Island? It's impossible to develop Chongming's real estate. To get to Chongming, you have to take a cross-sea bridge How far."

"It's not real estate development. My old man works in the township government of Chongming. He told me some news. It seems that the country plans to build a city that can accommodate three million people directly in Chongming."

"Crazy! Build a city in Chongming?!" The female companion said in disbelief: "And even if you want to build a city, there is no need to expropriate all the land in Chongming."

The man shook his head: "You don't understand, the city to be built this time is different. It's not what most of us understand. The country wants to build a semi-closed city."

"Why?" Everyone looked at the man curiously.

"Have you read the "Catalog of Certain Scientific Magical Prohibited Books"? What the country wants to build is a city similar to Academy City, and the main objects of activity in it are people who have awakened abilities and returnees!" The man showed himself well-informed.

When Zhang Tong heard this while he was busy in the kitchen, he frowned, huh? What the hell is this going on?