It’s easy to test dishes, but difficult to buy recipes.
Just like whoring is easy but getting married is difficult.
In the next two days, both Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing deeply understood the meaning of this sentence. When they tried hot pot restaurants one by one, they were very efficient. When things went well, they could try seven or eight hot pot restaurants a day (three at noon).
Four houses, three or four houses at night).
But when it was my turn to buy the formula, things didn't go so smoothly.
Although there are a lot of hot pot restaurants where you can ask for prices every day, and you can visit more than a dozen in a day, but...
Or, when they come to the door, the owner of the hot pot restaurant is not in the store, and the cashier or the proprietress in the store ignores them.
Or, they met the owner of a hot pot restaurant successfully, but when the owner asked them to buy the hot pot recipe, his attitude was similar to the first hot pot restaurant they went to.
Or, although the owner of a certain hot pot restaurant is interested in selling the hot pot recipe of his restaurant, he has great differences with Comrade Xu and others on the price, and always wants to go big and sell it at a high price.
If Xu Tongdao's current net worth was several times richer, or if the funds on hand were several times more, he might agree.
But the problem is - although his current net worth has exceeded one million, more than 90% of his funds are invested in Internet cafes.
The funds he brought to Wudu this time... totaled only around 300,000.
A small half of it was a temporary package of money he raised before coming to Fog City, and he needed to pay interest.
In other words, as his assets have increased and he has opened eight Internet cafes under his name, it has become much easier for him to borrow more money than before.
This time he just mentioned it to Ge Liangcai, Ge Lianghua, Tan Shi and others, saying that he wanted to borrow some money and asked them to help think of a solution.
Then, within a few days, hundreds of thousands of funds were gradually sent to him.
The ease made him believe that if he waited another ten days or half a month, he should be able to borrow hundreds of thousands more.
The love of saving money has been a tradition of Chinese people since ancient times.
Almost every household will try to save some money.
Some people may live a normal life and appear to be very poor. They may have tens of thousands or even more saved at home.
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Comrade Xu was accustomed to spending more than 300,000 yuan sparingly.
Unless he couldn't buy the formula at a low price, he didn't plan to spend 100,000 or 80,000 yuan to buy a formula from the beginning.
The main reason is that there are too many hot pot restaurants in Wudu.
He saw too many choices.
Since there are so many choices, for him, this is a buyer's market, and there is a lot of room for him to choose.
No, after two days of hard work, the owner of a hot pot restaurant called Mala Renjia signed the agreement provided by Xu Tongdao.
Agree to sell their own hot pot base, spicy oil, and dipping recipes to Xu Tongdao.
This agreement stipulates that after Tongdao Xu gets this formula, he will never open a hot pot restaurant in Wudu and compete with Mala Renjia.
The selling price of the formula: 30,000 yuan.
The moment the agreement was signed, both parties were happy.
Xu Tongdao got the first ready-made hot pot recipe, and the boss and wife of Mala Renjia got an income of 30,000 yuan in addition to normal business.
Before signing the agreement, the boss and his wife specially looked at the ID cards of Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing and confirmed that they were neither from Wudu nor even from Sichuan Province. Therefore, they believed Xu Tongdao's promise and believed in Xu Tongdao.
Once I get their formula, I won't open a store here in Wudu to steal their business.
As for Xu Tongdao and the others, if they get this formula, will they take away the business of other hot pot restaurants?
Then they don't care.
People are selfish. As long as they can benefit themselves, why should they care about the life and death of others?
Therefore, both parties to the agreement are happy.
Everyone feels they have made a profit.
On the afternoon of the day when the agreement was signed, Xu Tongdao paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan in advance, and the owner of the hot pot restaurant wrote the complete recipe to Xu Tongdao.
That night, after Mala Renjia closed, the boss personally followed the recipe and demonstrated to Xu Tongdao how to make the hot pot base, how to make spicy oil, and how to make eight kinds of dipping sauces.
Each time a product was made, Tongdao Xu and Zheng Qing were asked to taste it on the spot. After they confirmed that the taste was good, they continued to demonstrate the next one, and then Tongdao Xu and Zheng Qing tasted it on the spot.
During this process, Tongdao Xu paid special attention to whether the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients used by the other party when making the hot pot base, spicy oil, and dipping sauce were consistent with the recipes the other party wrote to him.
Well, Comrade Xu also paid attention to the details such as the cooking temperature and time.
If he is a complete layman, he may overlook many details.
But before Tongdao Xu was reborn, he worked as a chef for several years.
Compared with traditional Chinese food, hotpot is much simpler.
This is also a big reason why Chinese chefs in the chef industry generally look down on hot pot chefs.
Chinese chefs with excellent skills generally will not apply for jobs in hot pot restaurants. Even if the wages of hot pot restaurants are higher, ambitious Chinese chefs will not apply.
Of course, this does not mean that any Chinese chef can make a delicious hot pot.
After all, what everyone studies and researches are in two different directions.
But, how should I say it?
The recipe of any hot pot restaurant is generally kept strictly confidential.
Even if an average chef applies for a job, he or she will not have access to the hot pot restaurant's recipes, and can only do low-tech tasks.
Therefore, Chinese chefs who want to improve their skills are not willing to go.
As for the production of real hot pot base ingredients, spicy oil, and dipping sauces, it is indeed difficult to imitate them until you get the secret recipe.
But Comrade Xu, who had already obtained the secret recipe, saw it with his own eyes as the other party demonstrated the production process to him, and it became clear at a glance.
After watching the live demonstration once and tasting the taste, he was sure that the other party had not tampered with the formula.
He can understand.
So, he settled the remaining balance on the spot with the cash he had prepared in the afternoon.
According to his recent taste test evaluation, the quality of the hot pot soup base, spicy oil, and dipping sauce of this spicy restaurant is not top-notch among the dozens of hot pot restaurants he has tasted recently.
But it can still be ranked in the top ten.
He was very happy to be able to buy the formula from this store so smoothly.
I am also a little more confident about whether I can buy formulas from other companies in the future.
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The next morning.
Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing came to another hot pot restaurant - Shuxiang Pavilion.
When he arrived at the store, Tongdao Xu looked at the time on his watch - 9:16.
It's not that they don't want to come early, but hot pot restaurants generally open late in the morning and usually don't open until 9 o'clock.
The two of them walked into Shuxiang Pavilion with smiles on their faces, but in the next second, their expressions suddenly became very shocked. They were surprised to see a young man in chef's clothes in the store grabbing the collar of a young man in black trousers and a white shirt.