rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 548 Ideal Fast Food Restaurant

There is an old saying that goes from being frugal to being extravagant is easy, but from being extravagant to being frugal is difficult!

Chen Li now truly understands this sentence.

You know, when he worked in this electronics factory in his previous life, he still recognized the food from these mobile stalls outside.

But now, although it cannot be said that this kind of roadside stall is unpalatable, when Chen Li ate the fried rice noodles with eggs, he felt that it was somewhat tasteless.

But in fact, Chen Li really started to be picky about food, which was more than half a year after he dropped out of school.

It can be seen that this old saying is really very insightful.

Of course, it could also be that the owner of this fried rice noodle shop is not very good at his craftsmanship. After all, roadside stalls have mixed reviews for their craftsmanship. Some are as good as five-star chefs, while others are more or less difficult to describe.

But no matter what, Chen Li was somewhat dissatisfied with his fried rice noodles.

So he took Zhang Ruolan to the previous seafood stall again, but this time, Chen Li didn't even enter the store.

Because it’s already past two o’clock at noon and this food stall’s noon business hours have ended!

To be honest, as a Sichuan native, Chen Li didn’t understand the business hours of many restaurants in Guangdong Province.

The reason why Chen Li invited these chefs was not only to take advantage of their reputation in the culinary world, but also mainly to allow these top chefs to shape the dishes of the fast food restaurant.

Su Mei ordered a mushroom and slider chicken set meal, and Chen Li ordered a chicken cutlet and rice set meal.

Compared with the previous fried chicken restaurant, the business area of ​​Ideal Fast Food Restaurant is much larger.

After all, Ideal Fried Chicken is now a well-known company. Even here in Hebei Province, there are dozens of Ideal Fried Chicken branches.

Therefore, it can only be said that the time is still too short, and we still need to slowly draw up the blueprint that Chen Li drew before.

It's just that the ideal white-feathered chicken and the ideal yellow-feathered chicken are both improved from the previous white-feathered chicken and yellow-feathered chicken, so Chen Li continued to call them that.

Unlike Sichuan Province at the moment, its economic development is not ranked high in the country at all. In order to make more money, the shop owners naturally do not distinguish between rest periods and will open as long as there are customers.

As long as it can reach a good standard, it is actually very rare.

In many restaurants in Sichuan Province, you can basically get a meal at any time before they close in the evening.

In fact, although Chen Li has always used the ideal white feather chicken and the ideal yellow feather chicken to call the ideal chicken, in fact, neither the ideal white chicken nor the ideal yellow chicken has anything to do with the original white feather chicken and yellow feather chicken.

Regarding the dishes of the fast food restaurant, they were developed by professional chefs as early as the preparation time. For this purpose, Chen Li even asked Chef Gong to hire two top chefs.

“This shows that the fast food restaurant’s preliminary publicity work was pretty good.”

This kind of dish may not make people feel amazing ~ but the key point is to be stable.

Of course, this information only belongs to Chen Li's personal memory. Whether it is a common phenomenon in the entire industry, Chen Li does not know.

It can even be said that the two are not the same species.

As for the deputy district chief, he was invited by the person in charge of the Ji Provincial Branch to calm things down.

But this is not the reason why Chen Li came to Hebei province this time. He came to cut the ribbon for the first Ideal fast food restaurant.

However, the quality of the ideal white-feathered chicken that has been systematically improved is not much different from that of ordinary native chicken, but the meat quality is more tender than that of ordinary native chicken.

But many restaurants in Guangdong Province are different. They rest just for rest. Even if a customer comes to the door, they will tell them that it is not dining time.

After returning to Yanjing, Zhang Ruolan started taking a vacation, but Chen Li couldn't rest.

First of all, as the most economically developed province in the country, people in Guangdong are really relatively wealthy.

It’s not like ordinary people cooking. What you cook today may be okay, but the food you cook tomorrow may not taste good.

In addition to this shiitake mushroom dish, Chen Li also specially ordered a few home-cooked dishes, such as Kung Pao Chicken, etc. He even asked the chef to develop a Kung Fu Chicken Chop Rice.

Of course, before each dish was completed, it was tasted and affirmed by Chen Li, Su Mei and other relevant persons in charge.

Moreover, Chen Li also specially found a few dishes based on the memories of his previous life and asked the chef to help shape them.

Because although Chen Li didn't eat at this food stall, he did at another food stall not far away.

Another example~a set meal that is paired with a variety of dishes and side dishes!

Hmm. Okay! This is actually another way Chen Li borrowed the dishes from some Chinese fast food restaurants in his previous life.

Although the store also has rest time at noon, if a customer comes to the door, the boss will still greet him with a smile and give him a warm welcome.

Since last year, the business territory of Ideal Fried Chicken has begun to expand outside Yanjing City. Jinmen City and Hebei Province are the first new maps to be opened by Ideal Fried Chicken!

Thanks to the vacancies in the market, the expansion progress of Ideal Fried Chicken is relatively smooth.

Now that Chen Li has money, he will naturally put his previous plans on the agenda.

But in Guangdong Province, especially in Guangdong Province these days, as long as the craftsmanship is decent, if you open a restaurant, it will be really profitable.

There is no way ~ This is actually not a simple chicken breed issue.

Su Mei nodded and looked around, then said with a hint of nervousness:

“I just don’t know how many people will choose to become members today?”

However, the taste of this restaurant was very average~ Chen Li and Zhang Ruolan just filled their stomachs casually, and then Chen Li and Zhang Ruolan took a flight back to Yanjing that night.

After all, this is a fast food restaurant, not a gourmet restaurant.

Because in Sichuan Province, many restaurants usually open from noon to close at night.

This is mainly because Ren Xiaobo was confused by Chen Li's ideas one after another. One moment it was a naked sturgeon, another moment it was an ideal cow, and then it was an ideal pig and an ideal sheep.

For example, this slider with mushrooms and chicken is one of the dishes specially proposed by Chen Li.

Anyway, as a Sichuan native, the first time Chen Li ate this dish was in a Chinese fast food restaurant.

In fact, Chen Li had already thought about this kind of Chinese-style fast food restaurant when he first started making fried chicken.

This is also the reason why Chen Li always wants to speed up, because as time goes by, Ideal Fried Chicken is bound to usher in stronger competitors.

And Chen Li led Su Mei to become the first batch of customers of Ideal Fast Food.

But because of the Ideal Chicken, most of the dishes at Ideal Fast Food Restaurant are based on chicken.

That's right~ With the opening of the first fast food restaurant, the membership system for Ideal Food has also been officially launched.

It’s just that at that time, Chen Li didn’t have enough funds on hand, so he could only choose a fried chicken restaurant with relatively less investment.

For example~fried rice and donburi.

At 2 o'clock, the electronics factory starts working. This food stall will immediately close the store for a rest. Before the workers in the electronics factory get off work, the store will be ready in advance and open for business!

But this is Guangdong Province now, and before Chen Li was reborn, perhaps it was because of the downturn in the industry ~ or perhaps because of fierce competition ~ many restaurants in Guangdong Province began to be like those in Sichuan Province, basically as long as they did not close ~

You can go there anytime and someone will greet you.

This membership system is different from the previous offers offered by Ideal Fried Chicken. In addition to members themselves being able to enjoy a 10% discount at Ideal Food stores, this time there is also a membership day!

Therefore, the ideal white-feathered chicken can be used not only for braised and fried dishes, but also for stewing soup.

After all, not everyone is a chef, and not everyone has good cooking skills.

"what do you want to eat?"

The traditional white-feathered chicken is actually not suitable for making soup.

In fact, Chen Li originally wanted to directly launch the "Crazy Days of the Week" event, but considering that the current competitive pressure on the Ideal Food Morning Market is not great, Chen Li finally decided to organize the event as a monthly membership day.

That was Chen Li's first time eating mushroom slider chicken, and then he thought this dish was so delicious!

The so-called set meal is that in addition to mushroom chicken and fried chicken steak, it also comes with several side dishes and a bowl of chicken soup stewed with ideal white feather chicken.

After the "finalization" of the dishes, you only need to strictly follow the relevant methods and regulations to complete the procedures to get the corresponding dishes.

And this membership day is on the 15th of every month.

Of course, the soup made from white-feathered chicken is definitely not as good as the local chicken soup made from yellow-feathered chicken, but compared to traditional white-feathered chicken and farmed yellow-feathered chicken, the soup made from ideal white-feathered chicken is still a step above.

Of course, Chen Li is not in a hurry~because there are some things that cannot be rushed.

"Well~ after all, it opens today~ and there are discounts."

"Hmm~ I'd like a combo of shiitake mushroom and slider chicken!"

After all, everything is difficult at the beginning~ This fast food restaurant also wants to set a benchmark for ideal fast food in the future.

Especially these top chefs are accustomed to making high-end dishes. If they are allowed to express themselves freely, the dishes they develop may not be affordable for ordinary people just because of the cost.

As for this fast food restaurant, Chen Li has been preparing for it since last year.

But this time the fast food restaurant is different. It not only provides dine-in ~ but also adds many new dishes.

Rather than delaying the rest time of the chefs and service staff, it is better to let them take a good rest, so that they can entertain the guests well during the meal, and the final effect may be much better than being on call at any time.

“There’s a queue over there!”

After the chef finalizes the process of making the dishes, as long as you follow the procedures, you will get a good pot of dishes.

In fact, this dish of shiitake chicken with mushrooms~Chen Li didn’t even know which cuisine it belonged to.

However, overall the promotion of Ideal White Chicken and Ideal Yellow Chicken is still relatively slow.

After spending a day with Liu Qingqing, who had already started school, Chen Li and Su Mei, the general manager of Ideal Fried Chicken, went to Hebei Province.

Whether it is the location selection of the store, the training of employees, or even the decoration style, everything has been determined at multiple levels.

Chen Li can explain it with a few casual words, but Ren Xiaobo needs a complete system to prove the success of his variety breeding.

Especially today's Ideal Food, which is an absolute pioneer in paying taxes. It is also based on this that the deputy district chief agreed to come and help the Ideal Fast Food Station.

But later Chen Li realized that it was natural for other people to do this for their own reasons.

This has prevented Ren Xiaobo from focusing on variety promotion. After all, so many varieties were directly "changed" by Chen Li, but it took a lot of time and energy for Ren Xiaobo to improve the corresponding system.

Chen Li and Su Mei dismissed the person in charge from Ji Province, and the two of them ate and chatted in the newly opened fast food restaurant while observing the store and listening to the feedback from the surrounding customers.

However, the deputy district chief was too busy. After cutting the ribbon, he chatted with Chen Li, Su Mei and others for a few polite words and then left the scene.

So their business hours are basically linked to the work and rest hours of that electronics factory.

This "shaping" mainly sets out a strict standard for the side dishes and condiments of the dishes and even the cooking methods and time.

After all, Ideal Fried Chicken has never been a dine-in option before. Almost all fried chicken restaurants do not offer dine-in food, only takeout.

In fact, it was originally arranged for Chen Li to give a speech, but he was really not too keen on this kind of activity, so he directly rejected the arrangement.

Just like the fried chicken at an ideal fried chicken restaurant, there are very strict regulations from the initial marinating to frying and seasoning.

After all, Chen Li hired those two chefs, which cost a lot of money.

It was only after he tasted the local chicken soup stewed by yellow-feathered chicken that he realized the difference.

Some people even mistakenly thought it was authentic native chicken soup after tasting white feather chicken soup.

"There are so many people~!"

As long as you come here during meal time, these restaurants are almost always overcrowded. Compared with the profit earned during mealtime and the three melons and two dates earned during the break, people will naturally look down upon them.

Chen Li looked around and casually chatted with Su Mei.

These dishes are actually the classic dishes that Chen Li had eaten in Chinese fast food restaurants in his previous life.

The purpose of hiring these chefs is not simply to develop dishes, because the dishes specially developed by these top chefs may not necessarily be suitable for ordinary people.

At the beginning, Chen Li didn't quite understand this. He felt that these restaurants in Guangdong Province could make money by doing this business?

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was actually very simple. After the person in charge of Ideal Food's Hebei Province branch, a local deputy district mayor, and Su Mei took turns to speak, Chen Li went on stage and happily talked about the fast food restaurant with these three people.

A ribbon cutting was held.

Although with the strength of Ideal Fried Chicken, it is not afraid of any competitors, but at that time, the development speed of Ideal Fried Chicken will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.

Hmm~ Actually, that fast food restaurant is what Chen Li is mainly imitating at the moment.

Okay~ Forgive me that Chen Li was a local at that time. He had a new understanding of many dishes that he had never tasted before.

At present, the ideal white-feathered chicken has gradually opened up the domestic market for breeding. The same agricultural product company has begun to cooperate with the ideal agricultural product company to introduce ideal white chicken breeders from Chenli for breeding.

In addition to the original fried chicken, many Chinese fast food with Chinese characteristics have also been added.

At this moment, the restaurant where Chen Li came, the bulk of the business came from the electronics factory not far away.

Chen Li saw Su Mei's nervousness and joked with a smile:

"what are you thinking?"

"This is our first fast food restaurant. It's hard to say whether anyone can apply for a membership card today."

"Do you still want many people to become members?"

What Chen Li said is naturally true, but facts are often not so easy for people to accept.

Therefore, Chen Li received a blank look from his partners!

(End of chapter)