Because she was also busy preparing lunch and afternoon meals, He Wenlin made three trips that day, spending 500 yuan to finally buy a coal stove, 300 coal briquettes, a large iron pot, a steamer, flour, and other equipment and ingredients.
After buying everything, He Wenlin immediately put up a red paper on the door that read: New products are now available! Steamed buns and dumplings are 1.5 yuan per steamer. Welcome to order!
He Wenlin also made some xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings overnight, some for herself tomorrow and some for guests to try for free tomorrow morning.
If you're in the food business, you have to be willing to let your customers eat well. If the food tastes good, you'll naturally have no trouble making a living.
The next morning, when everyone came to pick up their meals, they saw this message.
"Now we have xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings."
"I don't know if it will taste good."
Upon hearing this, He Wenlin enthusiastically said, "Whether it's delicious or not, you'll know once you try it. You can try it for free here. The chili sauce is also my secret recipe. It's very fragrant when you drizzle it on."
Upon hearing this, the guests all walked towards He Wenlin.
"Here are toothpicks, everyone can try them."
He Wenlin took out a box of toothpicks and distributed them to everyone, letting them eat with them.
Zhou Liping arrived early and stood at the front of the line. Without a toothpick, she pinched one with her hand and put it in her mouth. She took a bite, and the soup burst in her mouth.
"My goodness, this is so delicious!" After saying that, Zhou Liping made another one and then said to He Wenlin, "Linlin, I'll order one tomorrow."
Zhou Liping has always been very supportive of He Wenlin's business.
He Wenlin smiled and said, "Okay, you can place an order with my mom or He Shan. Anything made by He Wenlin is guaranteed to be of high quality, you won't lose out."
"The taste is pretty good, better than the steamed buns from that shop over there."
"Finally, a new variety! I'm so tired of eating sticky rice. Mmm, this chili sauce is really fragrant."
"The taste is really good. I don't want the sticky rice balls today. Can I have xiaolongbao instead?"
Other guests also praised it.
Upon hearing this, He Wenlin immediately apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, brother, we don't have any xiaolongbao or steamed dumplings to sell today, so we can't replace them for you. We will officially start selling xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings tomorrow morning. Currently, we only accept pre-orders. If you like them, you can pre-order now. We only sell a total of sixty trays of xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings each day. If you like them, you should order early."
Huang Dandan looked completely bewildered and said, "What do you mean? We're only making sixty trays in total, but we're ordering eighty, ninety, or ten. Is that not allowed?"
"Sister Dandan, it's not that I don't want to sell, it's just that I can't make it. My freezer is too small, and no one else knows how to make it. I'm the only one who knows how, so I can't make more."
Steamed dumplings are a bit simpler; you just need to learn how to wrap them, since the dumpling wrappers are store-bought.
However, making xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) requires you to knead the dough yourself, and the wrapping is also more difficult than making dumplings.
"Your business is so good, why don't you buy another freezer?" Li Haibing said.
"Business is good, but expenses are also high. How many mouths do we need to feed every day? We just got a phone installed at home, but we don't have money to buy a freezer. If you like our food, you can place an order in advance."
"Then I'll order some steamed dumplings first; I haven't had them in ages."
"I want xiaolongbao (soup dumplings)."
"I want xiaolongbao too."
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The sixty drawers were quickly sold out.
He Wenlin said she would only sell sixty drawers, so she would only sell sixty drawers. Many customers wanted to order, but He Wenlin didn't agree to any of them. She was afraid that if she agreed, she wouldn't be able to make them and would break her promise to her customers.
Another reason is that she wants to create a situation where supply cannot meet demand. Only when it is difficult to buy and cannot be bought will people miss it often.
At 7:40, He Wenlin gathered everyone together for the daily meeting.
As usual, let's settle the accounts first.
The lunch orders I just received were for 80 boxed meals, 20 fried rice, and 18 fried noodles.
The afternoon orders were 63 boxed meals, 22 fried rice, and 30 fried noodles.
The order for tomorrow morning is for 36 servings of glutinous rice, and 30 steamers each of xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) and doujinshi (steamed dumplings).
The total amount was 679.4 yuan, and the actual amount received was 662.8 yuan.
"Today it's much less, more than sixteen yuan short," said Grandma He. "Did you miscount? Count it again."
It's common to be short a few dollars, but this is the first time I've seen someone short more than ten dollars.
He Shan said, "I heard from my aunt that two people from Jiangxi Province wanted to pay on credit, and those two people together owed eleven yuan and sixty cents less."
“That’s about right,” He Wenlin said. “Shanshan, if anyone else asks you to buy on credit, just say you can’t. If they insist, just say you’re also a worker and ask them not to make things difficult for you. Be gentle in your tone and nice in your attitude, understand?”
The customers who come to the store to order food are all from the Bosi Garment Factory. They are colleagues of Mr. and Mrs. He and often come here to dine. When they ask to pay on credit, Mr. and Mrs. He are definitely too embarrassed to refuse.
However, He Wenlin knew that it was easy to buy on credit but difficult to collect debts, so she tried to minimize credit and ideally avoid it altogether.
"The new shop also needs to have steamed dumplings and xiaolongbao, so Lin Fei and Second Brother, it's okay if you two can't learn how to knead the dough, but you must learn how to wrap them!" He Wenlin said. "Grandma and Shanshan, you two also need to know how to wrap them."
If you don't know how to knead dough, you can just knead it here and have them take it to the new store to make dumplings.
However, it's quite troublesome if you don't know how to make dumplings. You can't expect He Wenlin to make dumplings and xiaolongbao every day.
"Linlin, should we buy another freezer?" Grandma He said. "If we want to store so many steamed buns and dumplings, I'm afraid we won't have enough room."
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