Fengcheng Restaurant is actually not far away. The straight-line distance from Bafu Garden where they live is less than three miles, but if you really walk, going around and around, it will be at least six miles. This distance is too far to walk, and it is too circuitous to take a taxi. Driving is too congested, it’s just about the awkward distance of whether it’s close or far.
Fengcheng Restaurant has a great reputation. For Xiangjiang people who love delicious food, many people have never eaten there, but not many people have never heard of it.
The same is true here. Except for Jiang Xiuping who really doesn't know, even Sun Dahai also knows the name of Fengcheng Restaurant from the memory of his previous life.
However, just like the darkness under the lamp, everyone felt that the distance to Fengcheng Restaurant was not suitable for having morning tea, so Sun Dahai and the others had been in Xiangjiang for more than a month, but no one mentioned it.
This was yesterday at noon. A friend of Ren's father was having a treat at Cao Ji Private Restaurant. During the checkout, he chatted with Chef Cao and talked about Fengcheng Restaurant.
We discussed it in the evening and concluded that since the next day was Sunday, Lisa and Cao Yong were both at home, so we just went to have a meal together regardless of the distance.
So, everyone called to make appointments in the evening, and soon they made appointments with Zheng Ziwei, Ren's father and mother, Ren Darong and his mother. In addition, Huang Feifei, Wu Dawei, the Lamma Island trio, and the private restaurant Zheng Peipei and Ah-Dai, and Ah-Dai’s mother Aunt Song.
Ah-Dai has been at the private restaurant for more than half a month. He is diligent and eager to learn, and he is not afraid of getting dirty or tired when working. He performs very well. Chef Cao is very satisfied with him.
Later, he let his father talk about his family affairs. At the same time, Chef Cao also felt that there were few people in the restaurant and it was a bit busy, so he hired Dumb's mother, Aunt Song.
Sister-in-law Song is not yet fifty, but she is very good at work and her hands and feet are very nimble.
She is mainly responsible for serving dishes, cleaning up and cleaning after meals, so that Dumb is freed and can focus on the kitchen. While helping Chef Cao, he can also learn cooking from Chef Cao.
In this way, a family of foodies gathered together twenty people and made an appointment to have dinner at Fengcheng Restaurant at nine in the morning.
Dad Ren showed his connections as a policeman in Kowloon for more than 30 years. With one phone call, he booked a large private room at Fengcheng Restaurant.
At nine o'clock in the morning, everyone came to the large private room on the second floor of Fengcheng Restaurant. There were supposed to be twenty people, but there were actually twenty-one. Although the little princess Cao Shanshan didn't eat these messy things, she also came with her. .
When you come to a restaurant, you will naturally eat whatever is famous. This is the instinct of us food-eating people.
Shrimp dumplings, siu mai king, large prawns with pot stickers, traditional Mala cakes, soup dumplings, barbecued pork buns, fried vermicelli in broth, crispy chicken, chicken feet, spareribs, baked sago pudding, fried shrimp rice rolls, private room There are two large round tables inside. When ordering, everyone needs four portions of each dish, two portions per table.
It seems that I ordered a lot, but the portion of Xiangjiang morning tea is indeed too small.
In his previous life, Sun Dahai came to Xiangjiang for morning tea for the first time. He ordered more than ten kinds of food and was 80% full in the end.
It's even more like this now. When many people gather together to eat, it just feels delicious. In a short time, all the dishes ordered are eaten.
Big bags are generally not included in the push carts, but everyone's appetite was so great that they couldn't wait.
Chef Cao found the waiter and stopped ordering. He asked the waiter to push the food cart directly in and get what he wanted to eat.
This is the most traditional and correct way to open Xiangjiang morning tea.
After a while, the food drawers on the table were piled high.
Today is Chef Cao’s treat to celebrate Cao Ji’s private restaurant’s first salary payment.
Yesterday was the 10th, which was the day when Cao Ji’s private restaurant paid wages for the first time. Three people in the restaurant received their share of wages.
The salary standard is based on the income of a person of the same level in a high-end restaurant, plus an additional 20%.
Chef Cao naturally earns the highest salary, 5,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, Ah-Dai's salary is 3,500 yuan, and Zheng Peipei's salary is 2,500 yuan.
Of course, we didn’t finish the month of June, so everyone only got one week’s salary.
Even though Dumb's nominal salary is one thousand more than Peppa Pig's, in reality there is not such a big gap in income. The price of a table in the restaurant is HKD 1,999, excluding drinks.
Drinks need to be purchased separately at the bar in the lobby. Zheng Peipei is responsible for these. She can get 10% of the net profit from the drinks as a commission.
Last month, after only one week of operation of the restaurant, Pepe received a commission of more than 100 yuan. Calculating this, the commission for a month will not be less than 700 or 800 yuan.
Pepe and Dumb have two positions with similar incomes. One has a light job and is only responsible for eight tables of customers every day, while the other can learn cooking skills. Which job is better is a matter of opinion. However, now they both
I am very satisfied with my job and treatment.
Aunt Song just came here in early July, so she doesn’t have June’s salary. Her monthly salary is two thousand per month. The swill and other garbage such as wine bottles, cans, packaging boxes, etc. that can be sold every day can bring her monthly salary.
Additional income of two to three hundred yuan.
The salary at Cao Ji's Private Restaurant is really high. Not only that, it also provides daily meals and lodging.
It's just that now Zheng Peipei is temporarily staying at Zheng Ziwei's house. Ah-Dai's mother and son's house is very close to here. It takes seven or eight minutes to walk home every day, so she doesn't live here.
If Chef Cao dares to pay such a salary, he must be confident.
Cao Ji Private Restaurant opened on the evening of the 22nd and officially started operations on the 23rd. It was actually open for six days that month, with a two-day break on 29 and 30. Chef Cao went to attend a senior health examination. During these six working days, the actual sales were
There are 22 tables, not counting drinks, and the net profit is more than 1,100 Hong Kong dollars per table.
Since July, the restaurant has been able to serve eight tables every day, and it has been fully booked a few days in advance. Even if you leave some money, it can be open five days a week and 170 tables per month can be guaranteed. The profit of a single table has also increased to 1
One thousand two hundred yuan.
Based on this calculation, the monthly net profit is more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.
The reason why Caoji Private Restaurant can achieve such high profits is due to a combination of favorable factors.
First of all, the house is your own. Using a high-end apartment of more than 1,000 square feet as a business place, you can save tens of thousands of yuan per month in rent alone.
Nowadays, a small and old business building of 200 to 300 square feet on the market has a monthly rent of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. As for whether it is a street-facing house, high-end private restaurants never consider whether it faces the street.
The second is the consumer group. The guests who come to support the restaurant on the opening day are basically potential customers in this range. Their publicity and promotion in their own social circles makes the restaurant's reputation instantly overwhelming, and in a very short period of time, it attracts customers
Yingmen. And because the restaurant only has four tables per meal, it has the effect of hunger marketing.
In addition, Bafu Garden itself is a high-end apartment community, and the people who live or travel here are either rich or expensive. They will instinctively approve of the high-end private dishes opened in this community, from class to privacy, and they will also
There will be a desire to try.
What's more, there is vigorous promotion and promotion by the property management office, as well as word-of-mouth sharing from lawyers who are also property owners in the community and have experienced it first.
In a word, Cao Ji's private restaurant is very popular.
Chef Cao, who was originally just satisfying his personal hobbies, didn't know what to do a month ago. Just one month later, he found that he now feels successful and famous.
Fortunately, Chef Cao, who has rich experience, was not blinded by the glitz in front of him. He still prepared dish after dish and completed meal after meal, without being impatient and conscientious.
He was now even more grateful to Sun Dahai.
The high-end private kitchen model that Sun Dahai helped him design allowed him to satisfy his cooking hobby while getting rid of the boring and repetitive work in the kitchen and making money easily.
