SWNOVELXO Chapter 146 Opening a branch
Su Xuexue and Mi Yuan were having a drink in the outer dining hall, and the waiter had already brought spicy chicken diced and stir-fried mutton diced to the table.
When it was Lou Lan'er's evening storytelling time, she went to a corner of the shop, took a paper fan, imitated a storyteller, and recounted her recent experiences of the "Tiger Monster Lantern" in a decent manner.
With the arrival of the night market, Luda also became busy. As soon as the smell of grilled squid, grilled oysters, and kebabs wafted out, diners entered the shop one after another.
Mao Xi also didn't expect that the diced mutton stir-fried on a whim would be so popular with everyone.
Mu Zhiyuan was eating fried diced pork in the kitchen, occasionally helping to serve and wash vegetables.
Mao Xi, Xiaoqing and Yaomei seemed to be glued to the stove, cooking one dish after another.
Mao Xi originally wanted to just open this snack shop, occasionally salt fish, and live here for a good retirement.
Suddenly having a plan to buy a restaurant, Shui Xi put pressure on herself and got busy.
In the past few days, with the help of the signature new dish "Shan Hai Dou" sung in nursery rhymes, it has indeed attracted a lot of traffic to the shop, but she knew in her heart that by the end of the month, she would only be able to buy a small workshop.
But take your time step by step. First open a fruit cake shop and put pressure on the shopkeepers who went to her shop to find trouble.
She didn't plan to use the jewelry box given by Mu Zhiyuan for the time being. It was stored in the space for now.
Brother Ying was also dizzy from the rush. He went to the kitchen for help: "Shopkeeper, the drinks and stew are almost sold out. Do you need to cook more?"
Mao Xi let him make his own arrangements and said: "We have all the ingredients for the soup. You choose the best-selling ones and put two cages in them to steam. For drinks, you can boil some passion fruits and lemons and soak them in water... "
That night, Mao Xi counted his silver. It wasn't even the end of the month, but he had already saved 12 gold.
Another system prompt appeared in front of me:
<Reminder: Ganoderma lucidum and dendrobium were successfully cultivated. ＞
Mao Xi went to the space to dig them out, leaving some of the smaller ones to continue cultivating on the second floor of the space.
The Ganoderma lucidum growing in this greenhouse is much larger than the ones growing in the wild before.
She specially used water from the hot spring to water it.
She dug some ginseng a few days ago and kept a few of them in the greenhouse to cultivate. If ginseng could be cultivated by herself, there would be no need to dig it up the mountain.
The next day, Mao Xi went to the pharmacy with Ganoderma lucidum, Dendrobium and the ginseng picked from the mountains a few days ago, and sold them for a total of 3 gold.
When passing by the market in Kaitang County, she bought 20 kilograms of sour plums and brought them back to the shop.
Recently, diners are ordering more meat, so she wants to make a dish with pickled plums to relieve fatigue.
With the successful experience of baked pumpkin with salted egg yolk, Mao Xi thought of the snacks she used to eat when shopping.
That's right, fried vinegar pork and sweet potatoes with sweet plums.
Fried vinegar pork is not difficult, the main steps are to marinate the meat and fry it. For sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, you need to make sour plum powder first.
She took some sour plums, cut off the flesh with scissors, and then ground them into sour plum powder in a stone mortar.
The sweet potatoes are cut into thick strips, fried and then sprinkled with sour plum powder. The flavor is amazing.
As for the fried vinegar pork, you can sprinkle it with spicy powder or tomato sauce according to the customer's preference.
Because in the past, as a late-night snack stall, in addition to grilled seafood, Maoxi also sold kebabs and fried potato chips, and some regular diners were tired of it.
This time she added these two new products, hoping to open up sales again and save 30 gold before the end of the month.
After the sweet potato strips were fried and sprinkled with sour plum powder, Mao Xi asked Brother Ying to put them in oil paper bags and bring them to the stage to sell them.
Everyone had never tasted this sweet and sour fried food and rushed to buy it.
After the basket of sweet potatoes was sold out, some guys still wanted to ask, "Do you still have these fried sweet potato strips?"
"Brother, if you don't mind the trouble, you can come with me to Liuxiang Snacks. The shop not only has fried sweet potato sticks, but also fried pumpkin sticks."
Brother Ying brought several diners to the shop, which was a really good way to attract customers.
The waiter Ah Xing explained that the diners who originally only came to buy sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes also bought other food.
Some diners were attracted by Lou Lan'er's storytelling, so they stayed and ordered some peanuts and other snacks, eating while listening to the book.
At the end of the month, Mao Xi calculated everything and saved a total of more than 20 gold.
She then went to Kaitang County to look for a shop again. The one she found was a little more expensive because it was next to a restaurant.
Mao Xi plans not to open a restaurant in Kaitang County yet, but he can open a fruit cake workshop first.
She found a shop near the market, bought it for 20 gold, and transferred the ownership.
Mao Xi also hired a master carpenter to renovate it.
On the opening day, the theater troupe was not invited to play gongs and drums. Instead, a huge opening cake was made and distributed to the children and people who came to cheer.
There are already many young ladies and wives in Kaitang County who are regular customers of Liu's fruit cakes. In the past, they would send people to Lihua Town to buy them.
“Don’t crowd around, everyone, queue up to buy, you’ll get 20% off everything today!”
Chen and Ah Tang were sent to manage the shop here, while Shui Xi and Lou Laner helped distribute cakes and orders.
Mao Xi also recruited two more people, one stayed at the fruit cake shop in Lihua Town to assist with the cashier, and the other came to Kaitang County to help with the cooking.
As soon as this branch opened, the shopkeepers of several other fruit cake shops in Kaitang County couldn't sit still.
Mao Xi's shop has completely taken away their business.
The shopkeepers of the three bakeries who had hired servants to find trouble in Lihua Town went directly to the Zhou Mansion to find a solution to the trading company's president, Zhou.
Chairman Zhou saw that in the past month, these shops not only failed to find ways to improve their business, but also found people to steal cakes, he found an excuse and asked the housekeeper to drive the three people out.
The leader, shopkeeper Huang, complained that Chairman Zhou was trying to burn bridges: "We used to give Chairman Zhou a lot of money and have a good relationship, but now he is trying to burn bridges."
Shopkeeper Jin rolled his eyes and said to Shopkeeper Huang: "How about we join forces and sell the same fruits as theirs, and lower the price?"
Shopkeeper Xiang nodded: "That's all we can do now. Let's go, let's go find other fruit cake shop owners to discuss countermeasures."
A week after Mao Xi's fruit cake shop opened in Kaitang County, other fruit cake shops began to imitate her shop's fruit cakes, and the prices were even cheaper.
One day, Lou Lan'er brought some imitation fruit cakes from other shops to Shu Xi, and said angrily: "Ah Shu, look, I bought these from other fruit cake shops in Kaitang County. Each kind of fruit is better than ours." The same style is 3 cents cheaper.”
Mao Xi took an egg yolk cake and smelled it first, but found that the milky flavor was not enough.
She opened it in half again. There was less egg yolk and red beans inside, and it tasted very dry.
Mao Xi told the analysis calmly: "It's only 3 yuan short. The taste and appearance are worse than ours, and the pastry is not crispy enough. I really like egg yolk pastry, so I will only buy it once."
Mao Xi also has high requirements for the quality of his fruit. Each egg yolk cake must contain a whole salted egg yolk.
However, these competitors who have lowered prices are using salted egg yolk, which is dry and hard, and the quantity is small. I really don’t know what kind of black technology they use.