Chapter 202: Hard Cake in Front, Chicken Soup in Back

[Master, Xiaozhi has listed the following disadvantages of the online cash register system for you.]

Zhao Xiaojing asked the question to Xiaozhi, who gave an answer after thinking for a second.

[First, there are many charges.

First of all, there is a fee for connecting to the food delivery platform, which is usually paid once a year, and it can only be connected to large food delivery platforms, excluding in-store self-operated food delivery.

Secondly, the QR code scanning box needs to be bound to the merchant’s designated payment software, and a certain handling fee needs to be paid for each payment, which is not cost-effective for small restaurants.

Furthermore, there is a fee for entering the order form into the cash register system's scan code ordering app. It is usually free for the first time, but subsequent entry by taking a photo and one-click entry functions will be charged.

Second, the online statistical function is not very practical.

The background statistical function of this cash register system is not well developed, the data statistics are messy, and a lot of manual input is required. The data is not targeted and cannot be adjusted in real time according to restaurant dynamics.

Third, manual maintenance and frequent upgrades consume time, energy and high costs.

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Xiaozhi listed all the shortcomings one by one, and Zhao Xiaojing was already dizzy after listening to him halfway.

"Okay, okay, let's not go through all this technical analysis. It's so tedious. Let's just talk about the plan."

[Master, Xiaozhi recommends that you use the most basic stand-alone cash register and receipt machine for now, and then add a mobile phone takeaway printer in the kitchen.

As for the complete cash register system functions, as long as you run your store with care and improve your capabilities, these will not be a problem and will come naturally.

"Okay." Zhao Xiaojing maintained a smile, waved her hand, and put Xiaozhi away. She silently complained in her heart that last time it was a hard cake, and this time it was chicken soup. Xiaozhi was like a capitalist.

After the conversation, Zhao Xiaojing returned to reality and called Su Yuchen back.

"Huh? You've thought it through so quickly?" On the other end of the phone, Su Yuchen had just walked out of the store when Zhao Xiaojing called again.

"I remembered some shortcomings of the cash register system..."

Zhao Xiaojing summarized the main shortcomings that Xiaozhi mentioned. As soon as she finished talking about the charging issue, Su Yuchen immediately formed a united front.

"No, I spent thousands of dollars on it, which is a huge loss. How can I continue to suffer from it? Our small restaurant can't be exploited! I won't buy it!"

Zhao Xiaojing smiled slightly and served Xiaozhi's chicken soup as is. "Don't worry, these are not a problem. We will run the store well and accumulate slowly, and these will eventually come."

"Hiss, wake up, you are just a small boss who is in debt, and the pie is already painted!" Su Yuchen complained exaggeratedly with a gasp.

The two discussed for a while and finally decided to follow Xiaozhi's plan and buy a basic cash register and receipt machine, and a mobile phone receipt printer to print takeout orders.

"By the way, I asked you to contact the band yesterday. Have you done that? The store is quite busy now. Once the two sisters are done with their work and come over, we'll have more space. It's time to let go." Zhao Xiaojing advised again.

"Got it, I'll contact you later." Su Yuchen smiled lightly and responded softly.

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Xiaojing entered the virtual space again, but this time she entered the scene of the Ancient Mountain Restaurant that was projected at that time.

There are only a dozen or so varieties of rice bowls in her store, and the dishes are prepared around a dozen or so rice bowl ingredients and some seasonal vegetables. Therefore, there is no room to experiment with the broth, so she can only switch to a restaurant with richer ingredients to try.

Zhao Xiaojing looked through the food in the restaurant. It had everything from flying creatures to crawling creatures and swimming creatures, but...

King crab, Australian lobster, six-head abalone, Japanese wagyu beef, black pork shank, scallops, fish maw, beef tendon, pigeon, old hen...

How could the soup made with these ingredients be bad?

Zhao Xiaojing silently picked out pigeons, old hens, abalone, leg bones, pig skin, beef tendons, scallops and some dried shrimps, and put them into different basins in different combinations of ingredients. After processing them in the quick module, she blanched them and stir-fried them. Then she took six pressure cookers on the side, turned on the fire at the same time, waited for the steam to rise, and then pressed them for half an hour. After opening the lid, she tasted them and added different seasonings according to the characteristics of different ingredients.

Unfortunately, the restaurant's pastry area is in another area, and the virtual space can only project 60 square meters at present, which cannot cover the pastry area. Therefore, Zhao Xiaojing cannot get flour, and can only cook soup and make jelly, and taste the soup and soup jelly instead.

Four hours later...

Zhao Xiaojing opened the refrigerator and took a few bites of each of the six bowls of different soup jellies.

She had already tasted all the soups, and now after tasting the soup jelly, she could roughly guess what the soup dumplings would taste like.

What Zhao Xiaojing was most satisfied with was the soup and pig skin jelly made from an old hen, leg bones, dried shrimps and pig skin.

Although these four ingredients may not seem that high-end, the soup they combine together tastes surprisingly delicious. It is the kind of clear, mellow, and fresh with a light aftertaste. It is not too heavy to overwhelm the taste buds, nor is it as bland as water. It can just play the role that a soup should play.

It’s just that we can’t make soup dumplings here, so we can’t conduct an overall experiment and then make detailed adjustments. We can only find a general direction.

Zhao Xiaojing exited the current scene, looked at the ingredients available in her kitchen, and then tore off a piece of paper to make a list of the ingredients. She planned to go to the vegetable market tomorrow to buy all the ingredients and start making water chestnut soup dumplings.

As he was writing, Su Yuchen came back holding a cardboard box, followed by a master carrying a half-worn front desk.

"Mirror, look at where to put it. Is it okay here at the door?" Su Yuchen put down the cardboard box and pointed to the left side as soon as he entered the door and asked.

"Okay, here it is." Zhao Xiaojing nodded, and quickly followed Su Yuchen to move the dining table on the left.

Seeing this, the master who was carrying the table gently put the table down, adjusted the angle of the table, and placed it in the position designated by the two.

"Thank you for your hard work, Master." After the table was set, the master took out his mobile phone. Su Yuchen immediately scanned the code and paid the money. The master took a look and waved goodbye as he left the restaurant.

"How is it? He went around the second-hand market and when he heard we were not far away, he agreed to deliver 150 packages and drove them over on his electric tricycle." Su Yuchen patted the front desk table he had just put down proudly.

The store didn’t have a front desk before. Su Yuchen would handwrite menus on small pieces of cardboard at each table, and customers would scan the QR code or pay with cash. Occasionally, Su Yuchen would go to the side to get the bag and give the change.

But now that there is a cash register screen, there naturally needs to be a front desk. The two of them opened the cardboard box. Su Yuchen took out the cash register and receipt machine, plugged in the power and connected them according to the boss's instructions, and fiddled with it for a few more times, and the cash register page appeared.

After that, I found a place in the back kitchen to plug in the takeaway printer that had been connected to the mobile phone and configured in the store, and the store's cash register and printing configurations were all completed.