Since they decided to open a restaurant, Chen Mo and the three of them distributed the proportion of their shares that night.
According to Bai Xiaoou's proposal, Chen Mo contributed 40,000 yuan for 40% of the shares. Chen Mo did not agree and only subscribed for 30,000 yuan for 30% of the shares.
Bai Xiaoou holds the largest proportion of shares, 40%. Zhang Kun, like Chen Mo, also holds 30% of the shares.
There is a saying in Chen Mo's hometown: how big a bowl can you take with the strength you have.
Running a restaurant seems quite simple, but they operate a high-end restaurant, with average consumption starting at US$35 per person. Including tips and consumption tax, the average consumption per person entering the restaurant is US$40. It should be considered one of the most upscale restaurants in Billings.
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The investment company where Bai Xiaoou works was burdened with heavy debts due to its large ranch project in Montana. Just a few days ago, Bai Xiaoou was held accountable by the shareholders' meeting, and he even planned to resign from his job.
When it came to opening a restaurant, Bai Xiaoou planned to test the waters. If the business could be successful, he would resign and focus on developing the restaurant.
I have already thought up the name of the restaurant, ‘Tang Xia Yipin’.
It doesn't have much meaning, Xia means Huaxia, Yipin means good... that's about it.
Early the next morning, Chen Mo explained some things to Canlby, mainly taking care of the chickens at home, and then headed to Billings...
Although the investment of US$100,000 is not much for the three brothers, they still have to make a decision before doing anything, that is, first determine whether the ginseng soup is suitable for the local tastes.
If the people who created this place feel that it is not good and there is no market for it, then their hard work has not been in vain.
Go to Billings, Bai Xiaoou's home...
Bai Xiaoou has a girlfriend, and Zhang Kun has moved out... The three of them discussed their division of labor. Zhang Kun tried to buy a big casserole and various spices.
Chen Mo and Bai Xiaoou went out to buy bantam chicken, which is garden chicken, what we call authentic native chicken.
Many pastures and farms have free-range chickens, but most of them raise chickens.
Chen Mo and the others want to buy black-bone chicken, reed chicken, and farm duck that are more than three years old.
In particular, black-bone chicken and reed chicken are both native chicken breeds from China. Bai Xiaoou only knows that Hayden Farm in Spokane, Washington has them.
This farm mainly produces fruits, including blueberries, cherries, etc. Farm farming is just a sideline business...
The chickens and ducks that are running around in the orchard, a black-bone chicken costs about 50 US dollars, and the reed chicken costs about 65 US dollars. Garden ducks, if you don’t have old ducks, you won’t buy them...
There are chicken breasts and drumsticks in American supermarkets, and the prices are so cheap that it makes people wonder. The price of a whole chicken, usually a wood-fired chicken, is only about 10 US dollars...
Chen Mo and Bai Xiaoou went straight to the Haydn Comprehensive Farm and picked up two black-bone chickens and two reed chickens. Then they bought 55 black-bone chickens and 330 reed chickens, buying out the entire farm at once. These chickens were sent directly to the snow mountain pasture to be raised.
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"Why is Luhua chicken more expensive than black-bone chicken?" Chen Mo felt that the price of these chickens was too expensive. When converted into RMB, Luhua chicken cost more than 400 yuan.
"Luhua chicken is a native chicken breed in China, and is rarely raised here in the United States. Black-bone chicken is also a Chinese breed, and is rarely raised in the United States... Hayden Comprehensive Farm is an organic farm, and the vegetables it produces are more expensive than meat, let alone ecological chickens.
." On the way back, Bai Xiaoou shared some basic common sense with Chen Mo: "In the big supermarkets here, the cheap chicken is produced by large farms. Most of them are April chickens and March ducks. Some are even chickens in April.
Two-month-old chickens, two-month-old ducks... they all eat feed to promote growth, and these chickens and ducks are cheap."
"If you find $1 or $2 a pound of beef in the supermarket, it's best not to buy it. Likewise, don't buy cheap pork or chicken. Those foods are specially prepared for the poor..." Bai Xiaoou said with a smile: "Every year,
The U.S. government wants to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in shopping carts to the poor. Most of these people use the shopping carts to buy cigarettes and alcohol, and only a small part is spent on food. In the United States, it is easy to tell whether a person is poor or rich, not by looking at them.
Dress up, but look at your body shape... With a figure like mine, in the United States, at least you are not born into the second generation of rich people."
"When I first came to the United States, I didn't know anything. When I went to the supermarket, I just picked out the cheap ones. Then I was 20 years old and still growing..."
Bai Xiaoou was talking about his experience of gaining weight when he was 20 years old.
Chen Mo chuckled and said, "Is it that exaggerated?"
"Exaggeration... not an exaggeration at all, okay? At least one-third of the poor who receive government welfare subsidies are fat." As the car drove into the Rocky Mountains, Bai Xiaoou threw a cigar to Chen Mo, and then
Said: "The poorer the people are, the more they can afford sugar and the less they can afford meat. The meat here is high-quality meat...Poor people all eat industrial food, including snacks and all kinds of meat."
"Most of the eggs and meat in supermarkets are industrialized large-scale breeding products. The animals do not see the sun from birth. The feed contains a lot of hormones and antibiotics are injected regularly to prevent infectious diseases. The price of high-quality organic meat is raised by ecological agriculture.
It’s more than three times the price of factory meat. Poor people usually can’t afford it and don’t have the awareness to eat it.”
Bai Xiaoou talked a lot.
The United States is a paradise, but it is only a paradise for the rich. In a word, cheap goods are not good goods... you get what you pay for.
Reed chicken costs $65 each, and is mainly consumed by the wealthy in Seattle. As for black-bone chicken, white people in Europe and America don’t eat black chicken very much...
In many countries, black is often associated with unknown, supernatural, mysterious, and even magical things.
But in the West, black is most often associated with metal.
Silky chickens, some white people directly call them metal chickens, are mainly consumed by Chinese, Asians and people of color in Seattle. There are not many black-bone chickens raised at Hayden Integrated Farm...
But not all white people don’t eat black-bone chicken.
It’s just that the proportion of black-bone chickens raised in the United States is very small. And the health concepts of Westerners and Easterners are also very different...
After chatting all the way, it was late at night when we returned to Billings. Early the next morning, Zhang Kun drove over in his car. Chen Mo and Bai Xiaoou were staring at each other...
Bai Xiaoou held a kitchen knife in his hand and looked fierce.
Chen Mo was holding the chicken with a sly look on his face.
"Damn, what are you two grown men doing? You haven't killed the chicken yet."
Zhang Kun's appearance made Bai Xiaoou breathe a sigh of relief: "You are so awesome, come here." He said and handed the knife to Zhang Kun.
Zhang Kun was speechless...
Chen Mo's face twitched slightly, and he handed the black-bone chicken in his hand to Bai Xiaoou: "Here... I'll boil some water."
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Chen Mo quickly ran to the kitchen...
Although Chen Mo was born in a rural area, he never killed a chicken when he was a child.
Zhang Kun and Bai Xiaoou are both from the city, and they have never killed chickens.
The two guys started staring at each other again. One was holding a knife, the other was holding a chicken... neither of them dared to make a move.
"Forget it, forget it... let's let him go." Zhang Kun was also a coward and didn't dare to do anything.
In the end, the three grown men discussed for a long time and decided to kill one, three, and stew three pots each... Guess the order... who is the coward and who is the dog, Chen Mo takes the first step...
Chen Mo took the knife: "Well...it's not that I want to eat you, it's the two of them that want to eat you...it's not that I want to eat you, it's the two of them that want to eat you..." Then he cut with the knife.
Chen Mo killed one and came to Bai Xiaoou. He was really a coward. He looked at Chen Mo with a smile: "Woof, woof woof, woof woof woof..."
Zhang Kun looked at the bloody knife and barked like a dog: "Woof woof woof..."
"Holy shit, you two are cheating." Chen Mo was truly speechless.
"Well, I think killing one is enough. Killing too many is a waste..." Bai Xiaoou looked at the chicken that was still flapping: "In this life, I have no love for chicken, and it's not that I want to eat you..."
"Me, me too...I won't eat chicken from now on."
Chen Mo put down the knife and gritted his teeth: "You two are cowards. I killed the chicken, it's your two's turn to pluck it."