flstandardbreds Chapter 143 Hot Pot
Chapter 143 Hot Pot
"Besides, we have a farm in our hands. Poultry, livestock, vegetables and fruits can all be supplied by the farm. This self-sufficient model can also greatly reduce food safety issues."
"Of course, this is just my personal suggestion. It's up to you to decide what to do and how to do it.
Lin Chuyi listened carefully throughout the whole process. After Qian Lai finished explaining his ideas, she thought for a long time before she started to express her ideas.
"Even if Chen Shundong wasn't here, I wouldn't plan to get a piece of the rice market. This market has too many restrictions and limited room for development. If someone gets jealous and starts investigating the source of our goods, it could easily lead to big problems."
"Now that Chen Shundong is here, as long as he wants to maintain his leading position in the Lanzhou rice market, he will not disclose our identity as the pearl rice supplier. In addition, in order to bring us closer to him, he will do his best to provide us with convenience before we gain a firm foothold."
"As a member of the Lanzhou Chamber of Commerce, it is not difficult for him to make things easier for us. This is a good thing for us. One more friend is better than one more enemy. I understand this principle. I will not break up with Chen Shundong for a little profit in the rice market."
"You said that we should change all these shops into gourmet shops. I think we can change some of them, but not all of them. Scarcity makes things valuable. No matter how good the gourmet shops are, if there are more than a dozen of them at once, not to mention how many customers they will attract, these shops will compete with each other. This is not what I want to see."
"As for your suggestion to make the food shop novel and unique, I agree with that. It also reminds me of a food called hot pot that is very popular in my hometown. I think it's worth a try."
"Hot pot?" As soon as Qian Lai heard the word, he searched for relevant information in his mind.
Soon he found the relevant description and pictures of hot pot in the massive amount of information data. After a quick browse, Qian Lai also frowned.
"Girl, this hot pot you mentioned looks quite similar to the ancient soup you have today. The ancient soup only appears in winter. It is used to keep the food in the pot warm so that people can eat it while the food is still hot. Is it inappropriate for us to do hot pot business in the middle of summer?"
Qian Laiye spoke tactfully, but Lin Chuyi understood his hidden meaning. What he meant was that hot pot already existed at this time, and the weather was hot at the moment, which was not suitable for eating such hot food. If he really opened a hot pot restaurant, he was afraid that the business would not be good.
Lin Chuyi came up with this idea because he had naturally considered this issue. Facing Qian Laiye's questioning, Lin Chuyi did not get angry, but calmly explained the reasons why he made this choice.
"The reason why I chose to open a hot pot restaurant is very simple, because hot pot has three characteristics: low cost, standardization, and fast replication, which best suits our current situation."
Qian Laiye's brows were still furrowed, and it was obvious that he still didn't quite understand what Lin Chuyi meant.
"Let's put it this way. Let's say we open a specialty restaurant. I can provide a large number of high-quality recipes, and you can arrange enough service staff and shopping channels for fresh ingredients. But the problem is, where can we find a suitable chef in a short period of time?"
"This..." Qian Lai had never really thought about this problem.
"If you haven't thought about this question, then skip it for now. Suppose you find a chef you think is suitable, then a new question arises. Cooking requires diligence and talent. How can you ensure that the chef you find can master the new recipe well and make it perfectly? And how can you ensure that the cooking skills of several chefs are relatively consistent, and there is no risk of being poached?"
Qian Laiye's brows were furrowed and his lips were pursed into a straight line. He suddenly realized that he couldn't answer any of the questions Lin Chuyi asked him.
When Qian Lai was still struggling, Lin Chuyi suddenly changed the subject and started talking about the benefits of running a hot pot restaurant.
"It's different if you're making hot pot. The taste of hot pot depends on the hot pot base and sauce. The hot pot base you need can be processed uniformly by food processing factories according to uniform standards."
"This can not only ensure the uniformity of the taste of the same hot pot base, but also to a large extent ensure that our base formula is not leaked, ensuring the core competitiveness of our hot pot restaurant. Even if we open a chain in the future, we don't have to worry about the taste of the same brand of hot pot restaurants being different."
"Without the concern about the taste of the hot pot, we only need to ensure the freshness of the ingredients and the quality of service to customers when they dine, and you have perfectly solved these two problems."
"As for your problem of not wanting to eat hotpot in the hot summer, it's easier to solve. Don't forget our character. We are the young master of a large family with abundant resources. Is it difficult to transport some ice cubes here? Besides, the store can't be opened at any time. Decoration and training don't take time. When everything is done, it will be autumn. Even if the weather is hot, how many days can it be hot?"
Qian Lai was also dumbfounded when he heard this, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.
"That does make sense, but from what the girl said, you only plan to open a hot pot restaurant at this stage?"
"Yes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Let's make the first hot pot restaurant famous first, and then it will be much easier to open branches in the surrounding areas. Of course, the above are just my own subjective speculations. It is also possible that, as you said, the hot pot restaurant is not suitable for the local environment here and cannot open up the market at all. In the case of only one store, we can also stop the loss in time."
Qian Lai also nodded in agreement, and then raised a new question: "Miss, what you are thinking about is, we have bought so many shops, if we only open a hot pot restaurant, what about the other shops? It's not good to just leave them empty, right?"
"Of course it can't be left empty. Do you have a detailed map of the main city of Lanzhou? Let me first take a look at what kind of shops are around and then make a decision." Lin Chuyi asked.
"No." Qian Laiye paused and added, "The main city map is considered confidential nowadays and is not circulated on the market, but I can roughly draw the distribution of shops around our shop."
Lin Chuyi thought about it and shook his head. "What I want is a detailed map of the main city. Your drawing may not be comprehensive. Let me draw it. Please help me clean up the desk. I will first write down the road details of Lanzhou City."
"Yes."