"This involves the issue of positioning."

"Let me see, is this Master He? Are you two planning to open a restaurant with good food, or one that's popular?"

"Is there any difference?" Liu Zhaodi asked.

"Master He should know that there's a difference between large-scale cooking and meticulously prepared dishes. If you have a large number of people, the food has to be served quickly, and there has to be a lot of ingredients. One pot can be used to cook dozens or even hundreds of portions of food. As long as it's cheap and tastes decent, naturally many people will eat it. This is just one of our insights."

"It's like a factory canteen," He Yuzhu suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean, except that you're opening this cafeteria yourself." The short-haired woman nodded with a smile. "If you're going to open this type of cafeteria, then you need to have plenty of space, and the food needs to be served quickly and cheap. It's tiring, but it's profitable, and it serves customers fast. That's one way to do it, but with Chef He's skills, it would be a waste to open this type of cafeteria."

Four points is a very high score here.

"So what kind of restaurant would be suitable for us? To be honest, I... don't have enough money for those big restaurants," He Yuzhu said.

Given his past practices, calling it a hole-in-the-wall restaurant wouldn't be an exaggeration. Although no one else has taken his money over the years, he's practiced quite a bit in private.

What do chefs do? They're all trained by the ingredients.

So even later, when he opened his own restaurant, he didn't have much money left. He did have a lot left after marrying Liu Zhaodi, but it was still not enough to open a restaurant.

"Don't worry, we have a special method. Let's open a private restaurant," said the bespectacled man next to him.

"Home-style cuisine?"

Wang Shouren and his two companions can truly say they ate their way through the day.

Good heavens, Beijing is truly a place where hidden talents abound. Dongfang Fuxing's move has really unearthed quite a few chefs. He doesn't know where he found so many gourmets, and judging from their appearance, they are the old guard of the past, eating with gusto.

While having the dishes served, Dongfang Fuxing explained to them, "To be honest, after the concept of a food street was proposed, I've been thinking about what exactly qualifies as a food street. It doesn't seem to make much sense for places like Bianyifang, Quanjude, Tongheju, Cuihualou, and Fengzeyuan to open branches here."

These days, tourism is relatively rare. The places Dongfang Fuxing mentioned are all famous spots in Beijing, but it's unrealistic to expect them to be packed every single day. There aren't that many wealthy people there.

"It's mainly because it's too expensive," Qin Huairu said.

"That's true. If you're in a rush and eat something that costs several months' salary, anyone would feel the pinch. Of course, your factory's employees don't seem to care."

Wang Shouren smiled. A meal at these famous restaurants can cost anywhere from tens to hundreds of yuan, depending on what you order, but one thing is certain: the taste is always the same. Calling it expensive wouldn't be an exaggeration.

"So, I was thinking, maybe I could set up some simple food stalls here so they could eat cheaper food."

"Aren't you planning to build restaurants on this food street?"

“That’s right, the specialty dishes, at most, are private kitchen dishes.” Dongfang Fuxing nodded affirmatively: “The key to a food street is the quantity of food. So…”

"Good heavens, this is a trap!" Wang Shouren realized instantly.

On the other side.

"Can't I buy the ingredients from somewhere else?" He Yuzhu said seriously.

"Of course, you can. Mr. He, you can come and take a look at our purchasing department. If you like it, you can just take a look at our purchasing department." The short-haired woman smiled slightly, not caring about He Yuzhu's attitude at all.

A chef, especially a good chef, has very strict requirements for ingredients. He cannot relinquish this right.

Hearing this, He Yuzhu breathed a sigh of relief: "If that's the case, then there's no problem."

When He Yuzhu heard them say that the ingredients could be purchased from the purchasing department, his heart clenched. He, a cook, knew exactly what the purchasing department was like. In previous years, there was no other way, but later, even the steel mill's canteen couldn't stay afloat. Tell me, how many problems were involved? If he had to buy things from the purchasing department, he'd rather not run the business here at all.

"Now, let's talk about the renovation."

"Are there any problems with the renovation?"

"Our renovation is funded by the municipal government. You two can go with Comrade Sun to see the model apartment. Then you can decide whether to follow our style. Thank you for your help, Comrade Sun."

“Alright.” The officer surnamed Sun stood up and said to the couple, “Gentlemen, please come with me.”

He Yuzhu and Liu Zhaodi stood up and followed them out...

"Your Qin Family Village should still have some spare capacity, right? If I remember correctly, the orchards, livestock breeding, and feed production are practically a complete industrial chain, and there shouldn't be any problems with the overall supply, right?" Dongfang Fuxing smiled.

The Feast at Hongmen was just a joke between friends.

If we're talking about a supplier who can reliably provide these things in this day and age, it's Qin Family Village. You could say that Qin Family Village's supply has expanded beyond Beijing, reaching increasingly larger and larger markets. Moreover, they place great emphasis on integrating upstream and downstream operations. You know, a pig farmer wouldn't bother with the piglets; they'd just turn their attention to feed.

It's one thing to look at feed, but the real problem is that they want to grow their own feed.

The packaging, decoration, and supply of this food street were actually a method that Dongfang Fuxing came up with after looking at the Qin Family Village model.

Their department's finances are actually quite tight.

Although there are regulations prohibiting one from engaging in business, there are still some ways to do so.

“Yes, if your volume increases, we can cooperate.” Qin Huairu nodded.

"Oh? So the small batch of users have stopped cooperating?" Dongfang Fuxing wasn't aware of this. Qin Family Village's annual tax revenue was satisfactory, and under normal circumstances, he wouldn't go looking for trouble or interfere with their internal policies. The cooperative, after all, was, in essence, Qin Family Village's own territory. Looking around was fine, but too much interference would only cause too much trouble.

"It was fine when the scale was small, but it's not fine now that the scale is large."