The day for the opening of our big canteen is coming in a blink of an eye.
Although it is a joint venture between three companies, the main operations of the restaurant are provided by Cheng Lidong's Huimin Fast Food, and the management is transferred from the catering department of Miracle Group.
Despite this, Lin Shengfei, as executive director, was still a little worried and held an internal trial operation the day before the opening.
"welcome!"
After entering the door, the store is full of busy waiters, wiping tables, clearing tableware, tidying up the windows...
"Don't tell me," Lin Shengfei made a tour and looked back at Zhou Yan happily, "After uniforming the clothes, it looks more formal and gives customers more confidence... I just don't know how the dishes are..."
"This, Brother Fei, you can rest assured..." Cheng Lidong was happy, this was his basic dish, "We are making standardized dishes. The dishes made according to unified standards may not be as good as those of high-end restaurants, but
The best thing is that the quality is stable and the requirements for chefs are not high..."
Having been bombarded with the concept of "Chinese food standardization" so many times, Lin Shengfei can be considered a "understander": in Zhou Yan's plan, "Chinese food standardization" is similar to the standardization of manufacturing. The production process of dishes and
The standardized processing of ingredients not only ensures the uniform quality of dishes, but also increases the speed of meal delivery.
Anxin Mall's prepared vegetable production factories across the country are "standard parts" manufacturers that centralize the complex processing of ingredients and put them together, taking full advantage of the cost and quality uniformity advantages of mass production.
Although the profits of the fast food industry seem to be meager, Lin Shengfeique, who has seen cost accounting, knows that the fast food industry relies on small profits but quick turnover.
Standardized services and standardized catering production have created a terrifying meal delivery speed and quantity. In metropolitan areas where the pace of life is getting faster and faster, "Chinese food standardization" is undoubtedly a sharp tool that can quickly harvest wealth.
machine.
Of course, Lin Shengfei is also very aware of the limitations of fast food: standardized dishes, even if the ingredients and processing of ingredients have been graded and refined, will not taste as good as those cooked by regular chefs.
"So what, our target group has never been rich people!"
After entering the store, the busy store manager spotted several big bosses and quickly stopped what he was doing and came to greet them.
"Mr. Cheng, Mr. Zhou, Mr. Lin!"
"You don't need to worry about us, just treat us as ordinary guests!" Cheng Lidong raised his hand and looked at the time, "By the way, breakfast hasn't been taken away yet, everyone stays, lunch can also start, don't use too many, just pick a few
Featured dishes……"
"Okay! I'll get ready right away!"
When the store manager left, Cheng Lidong looked back at Zhou Yan and Lin Shengfei: "Just in time, breakfast hasn't been taken away yet, let's try it first!"
"living comfortably without anybody's help!"
The decoration of the store is quite in the style of the hot-blooded era, which complements the name of the store "Our Big Canteen"; slogans with exaggerated shapes but a sense of the times can be seen everywhere in the store; quotations from great people are everywhere.
But most of them are related to "eating".
Because it is located in Beijing, which is known as a "food desert", the breakfast planned by the operations team is relatively rich in categories and basically copied the breakfast department of Ruiyang Restaurant.
"Hey, Brother Yan, these half-baked buns..."
"It's just Goubuli..." Cheng Lidong was amused, "Their brand has been registered, and if we use the name, it will be an infringement..."
"That's right." Lin Shengfei looked at the display window and found that there were more than ten kinds of steamed buns inside. "It must be troublesome to prepare so many kinds of steamed buns, right?"
"You will know when you enter the kitchen later!"
Lin Shengfei, who was full of questions, was too embarrassed to ask more questions. He pointed to the several types of buns in the window with the waiter: "This, this, and that, give me a few of each..."
To be honest, Lin Shengfei had never eaten Goubuli, soup dumplings, and crab roe buns, and he was mentally prepared for the various simplified imitations in the store. But when he picked up the buns and took a bite
After that, I still felt a little bit of experience.
Lin Shengfei felt a little surprised. After eating, he picked up another crab roe bun...
After tasting all the varieties, Lin Shengfei turned back with surprise and stared at Zhou Yan and Cheng Lidong: "Brother Yan, Brother Dong, how about we just sell breakfast?"
"Yes," Cheng Lidong was shocked and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Master Lin, let's go see the kitchen first!"
The kitchen of a fast food restaurant is similar to the hotel kitchen Lin Shengfei has seen, except that there are not so many cooking utensils, and the pots and stoves are all large, and the rest are like ovens and steamers, which are not small in size.
Of course, the largest area in the kitchen operation room is the pastry equipment, especially the dozen or so bun machines of the same specifications, which look very eye-catching.
"Why are there so many machines?"
"Were the buns you just ate made from these things?" Cheng Lidong was amused, "This is how we keep the price of breakfast so low!"
"It's not like I've never eaten steamed buns made by a machine, but the steamed buns in the store don't look like they were made by a machine..."
Cheng Lidong, who was questioned, looked back at Zhou Yan.
"It's mainly about the molds," Zhou Yan smiled and walked to the machine, "Each of the machines used to make buns in our store is equipped with ten molds. Every time one is completed, the molds are changed, and even if it is a single mold
, the shape is also irregular..."
Lin Shengfei originally thought that cooking was just like a large pot, but when he took a look at the pot used for cooking, his eyes gradually widened: "We don't use fire for cooking in our store?"
“How to accurately control temperature using fire?”
Cheng Lidong smiled and winked at the chef who was about to operate, and the chef immediately turned on the stove switch.
“Please choose a dish!”
Under Lin Shengfei's watchful eye, the chef chose the "braised pork" on the panel.
"Please click to place the materials in advance. Please note that before placing the materials, you should scan the QR code on the packaging of the materials..."
The chef picked up the code scanner, scanned the packaging bag of the prepared dishes, then opened it and put his head into the cooker...
In the next half a month, the chef's operation completely exceeded Lin Shengfei's expectations: there was no need for the chef to have high cooking skills, he only needed to put in the ingredients according to the prompts, and the heat was completely controlled by the computer program...
After tasting the three or four dishes "cooked" by the chef, Lin Shengfei had a deeper understanding of the so-called "standardization of Chinese food."
Only those operations that can be repeated indefinitely and still maintain quality can be considered "standardized."
Of course, for Lin Shengfei, who calls himself a businessman, the large canteen system is fully capable of large-scale commercial operation: there is an industrial chain upstream, and there is no possibility of the core recipes being leaked. The most important thing is that the cost is low and the investment risks are low.
Small……
After returning home, Lin Shengfei told Lin Chongwen everything he saw, heard and felt in the store.
After listening to his son's report, Lin Chongwen breathed a long sigh of relief: "Finally, I didn't spend so much money in vain. At least I got the hang of it, but..."
Seeing Lin Chongwen frowning, Lin Shengfei felt a little upset.
"I asked someone to investigate Huimin Fast Food in Yunzhong," Lin Chongwen sighed, "Of the key points you just mentioned, there are still two missing..."
"Which two items?"
"Huimin Fast Food's main specialty is braised meat," Lin Chongwen smiled. "One more thing is that Cheng Lidong has the purchasing channels for national reserve meat..."