Eight days later, a passenger plane landed at Wudu Airport. Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing dragged their suitcases and followed the crowd out of the airport.
The July fog was already very hot, so they both dressed coolly. Xu Tongdao wore black jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, and Zheng Qing wore loose camouflage pants and a black T-shirt.
After walking out of the airport, the two got into a taxi, reported the name of a hotel, and the taxi took them out of the airport.
In the past eight days, Xu Tongdao determined the direction of the catering business that will be operated in the urban area of Shuiniao City - hot pot.
Compared to hot pot, he definitely has more experience in barbecue.
After all, he was quite successful at Daolin Barbecue in Shazhou County, and his business has always been good.
And hot pot?
He had never done it after his rebirth, nor had he done it before his rebirth. He was seriously lacking in skills and experience.
But after careful consideration recently, he still chose the hot pot area.
The main reason is barbecue...the skill requirements for barbecue chefs are too high, which is not conducive to rapid expansion and opening of chain stores.
Moreover, barbecue is very smoky and gives many people the impression that it is not high-end. People who like to eat barbecue are usually accustomed to going to roadside stalls or some small shops in the streets.
In his impression, there are too few people who are interested in eating barbecue in big restaurants.
In comparison, hot pot is much better.
First of all, he had seen many chain hot pot restaurants before he was reborn. What does this mean?
At least it shows that hot pot is suitable for opening a chain store. Technically, it is easy to copy. The personal technical requirements for chefs are not as demanding as barbecue.
Moreover, although hot pot cannot be made into top-notch food and its quality is not too high, its customer base is much larger.
Ordinary people like to eat and can afford it, and rich people... there are also many people who like to eat. Moreover, as long as the quality of the store is good, it can indeed attract many wealthy people to patronize it.
This is enough!
Technically it is easy to copy and the customer base is large enough.
With these two points in mind, Xu Tongdao felt that it could be done.
Moreover, in addition, hot pot restaurants should have uniform standards in terms of service.
There are many other benefits as well.
For example: a successful hot pot restaurant does not need a first-class chef. It is enough to have one or two technical chefs. Other kitchen staff can definitely find women who are meticulous in their work.
These women can be responsible for washing vegetables, selecting vegetables, cutting vegetables, arranging dishes, etc.
Such women are easy to recruit, and their wages are much lower than those of formal chefs.
Very cost-effective.
The biggest problem facing Comrade Xu...is the technology of making hot pot.
He had been a chef for several years in his previous life, so he somewhat understood the core techniques of hot pot.
——Hot pot base!
This should be the core technology that determines whether a hot pot is delicious or not.
Of course, the hot pot base mentioned here is not the packaged finished hot pot base sold in dry goods stores.
That kind of hot pot base in a small package... Although the hot pot tastes good, it has two major problems.
First of all, the taste of hot pot made from the finished hot pot base ingredients in small packages cannot give the public a new idea.
Because usually everyone may buy that kind of hot pot base and make hot pot at home.
So the question is, if the hot pot that people spend money to eat at your hot pot restaurant tastes no different from the one they cook at home, then why should they come to eat at your place?
Secondly, each package of finished hot pot base ingredients sold in dry goods stores is small and the price is not cheap. If you open a hot pot restaurant, you will use the small packages of finished hot pot base ingredients to make hot pot all year round.
Soup base, then the cost of your hot pot soup base has gone up.
yes!
You can adhere to the principle of "the wool comes from the nourishment" and pass on the cost of the soup base to the diners.
But... in this way, you will lose your competitiveness when compared with other hot pot restaurants in terms of price.
hot pot……
It doesn’t count as high-end gourmet food. Taste and price are all factors that the public considers.
If your hot pot restaurant disappoints everyone in terms of taste and price, then why do you attract the public to come to your place continuously? Do you have a big face?
Comrade Xu considered other plans.
For example: spend your own time and energy, and use your own skills and experience as a chef to develop a hot pot base.
He has confidence.
He believes that he should be able to develop a hot pot base that tastes good.
But at best it's pretty good.
He has no confidence in how good the hot pot base can be.
Firstly, he has never made hot pot before, nor has he studied it specifically.
Secondly, the spicy food habit in his hometown can only be described as average.
There are some who like spicy food, and some who don't. Their local traditional diet does not include hot pot.
It's like a chef in an inland city. How good a seafood dinner you expect him to make is really difficult.
It's also like students in China learning English... If you want to learn better than children from English-speaking countries, you can decide for yourself what the level of difficulty is.
So Comrade Xu thought of Fogdu.
This is the birthplace of hot pot.
If you want to talk about the place with the best hot pot technology across the country, the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind is Wudu.
People here can and will eat spicy food.
Hot pot has been turned into a flower by the people here.
Before Tongdao Xu was reborn, he went to some famous hot pot restaurants.
Almost every one of them claims to be the authentic Wudu hot pot.
But each company's technology is different.
Some are outstanding in the taste of the soup base; some are extremely rich in hot pot dipping sauces, with dozens of dipping sauces, such as peanut butter, sesame sauce, beef sauce, etc.; and some hot pots focus on one ingredient.
There is a hotpot specializing in live fish, mutton, chicken and other ingredients.
There are all kinds of colors, each with its own characteristics.
Xu Tongdao, who has memories of his past life, knows very well that with the development of the times, those chain hot pot restaurants with different characteristics and characteristics will definitely appear again.
If the hot pot restaurant he runs, Xu Tongdao, is far inferior to those chain hot pot restaurants in terms of technology and features, then when those chain hot pot restaurants open in Shuiniao City, his hot pot restaurant will be quickly squeezed to the point where it will no longer survive.
When in space.
Of course this is unacceptable to him.
Since he decided to get involved in the hot pot business, not to mention dominating the national hot pot market, he at least wanted to have a place in it.
Otherwise, why would he make hot pot?
There are so many profitable industries, why not continue to expand Internet cafes?
He and Zheng Qing came to Wudu today for one purpose - to get the best hot pot technology!
As for how to get it?
——There are few problems in this world that money cannot solve. If there are, it is probably because the money is not enough.
And he, Mr. Xu, has some money now, and there are really many hot pot restaurants in Fog City.