"Fuck, is this possible?" Tan Zhilin jumped up and asked.
He paused, then said worriedly, "If we buy all the food and process it ourselves, then no one will come to eat it. What should we do?"
Jiang Tiantian rolled her eyes at him, "Didn't you listen to me just now?"
"I'm talking about dishes that have been replaced, which means they will no longer be served in the restaurant."
"We want to ensure that our guests are served the latest dishes developed so that they can maintain a sense of superiority."
"But the dishes we replaced are not bad in taste, and it would be a pity to just throw them away, so we'll just make them for takeout delivery."
“The two don’t conflict.”
Ah Ku pondered for a moment and nodded, "I think it's feasible. We can give it a try."
Looking at the amount of ingredients used in the kitchen every day, you can tell that developing a new dish is not cheap, and it would be a waste if it is not used after a while.
Not long after, although Baiweizhai did not officially announce it to the public, everyone who had eaten there knew about it.
After all, Baiweizhai only has six private rooms, and including lunch and dinner, it can only accommodate a maximum of twelve tables of guests a day. Even so, reservations must be made at least one week in advance.
For those who want to eat but can't book a seat in a short time.
They can choose another way.
Diners can buy delicious semi-finished ingredients through Baiweizhai, take them home, follow the instructions, and simply process them, and they can be eaten soon.
These ingredients are hard to find of the same quality outside.
It is said that most of them come from a remote mountain village called Chajia Village.
The special geographical environment and climatic conditions of that place have created fat cattle and sheep, abundant wild goods, fragrant fruits and vegetables, and sweet...
If you buy it and process it yourself, the taste may be a little worse than that made by the chef of Baiweizhai.
But the more high-end the ingredients, the simpler the processing they require.
Even if you just boil the cabbage in water, it will be a hundred times more delicious than the ones sold outside!
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Soon, the reputation of Baiweizhai's takeaway business spread.
Some people not only buy one or two signature dishes, but buy almost a whole table of pre-prepared dishes.
This makes it convenient for them to quickly prepare a banquet of decent standards for guests at home.
After Tan Zhilin discovered this, he launched different meal packages and sold them together.
In this way, diners can add a 'hard dish' to their meals, or they can hold banquets and gatherings at home.
It not only frees up family time, but also improves the quality of the family dinner.
The effect of this change is quite good.
In the kitchen, the daily food loss is visibly decreasing.
Tan Zhilin's little hands, which were playing with the abacus, became more and more cheerful.
Not long after.
Seeing that the daily sales volume of pre-prepared meals was not small, Jiang Tiantian directly announced to the public that if the quantity was large, Baiweizhai also promised to provide free door-to-door delivery.
Jiang Tiantian had plenty of money now, so she just spent a lot of money and bought a small truck and several tricycles.
Hire another driver and a few handsome and hardworking errand boys to be responsible for delivery every day.
When Jiang Tiantian first opened the business, she asked Tan Zhilin to apply for the trademark of "Baiweizhai".
Now, she asked A Ku to design a complete set of takeout boxes with unified logos and specifications.
Even the errand boys were wearing Baiweizhai's uniform.
The high-standard service level, high-end packaging, and convenient operation method simply dazzled everyone's eyes.
This model is equivalent to "picking the best" from famous restaurants in Chengdu and is the first of its kind in the industry.
For a time, even though the price was not cheap, there were still many people who were not short of money and were flocking to it.
Catering is a traditional industry, and what is important is repeat purchases.
This also applies to pre-prepared dishes, but the prerequisite is that the dishes are delicious, and it is best if they can still taste the aroma of the hot pot, so as to satisfy diners' desire for dining in.
After Jiang Tiantian and Erzhu spent some time studying and improving on this, Baiweizhai's pre-prepared dishes have achieved this.
Especially for some well-off dual-income families, not only can they satisfy their appetite in time, but it also saves them a lot of housework, which gradually makes them become long-term regular customers of Baiweizhai.
Takeaway delivery has gradually become a very profitable business for Baiweizhai.
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The small trucks that transport matsutake mushrooms to Chajia Village every day are not only loaded with matsutake mushrooms, but also many other agricultural specialties and fresh produce from Chajia Village.
After a period of exploration, Baiweizhai has gradually mastered the taste codes of Chengdu people.
In addition to selling pre-prepared semi-finished dishes, we have now added a lot of raw ingredients.
For example, the old tree black tea from Chajia Village, various dried wild mushrooms, ghee, milk residue, beef jerky, etc. made by the herdsmen in the village.
The tofu is made with brine from the ancient well in the village, and there are also secondary processed products such as smoked tofu, blood tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, and fried tofu.
The sesame oil and sesame paste produced by the small mill in the village are all made from pure sesame seeds, without any other adulteration.
As soon as the lid is opened, the rich sesame aroma can be smelled from far away.
In addition, people in Chengdu particularly like to eat cured meat, cured sausage, cured fish and the like, especially cured sausage. If the family has the conditions, they will make some almost every winter to satisfy their cravings for the next year.
But meat in this era is not readily available.
In many families, it takes a long time to eat a piece of bacon.
But Chajia Village is not short of meat, so Jiang Tiantian directly sent a message to Cha Chengye and bought a batch of cured meat, cured sausages, cured fish, and even cured ducks and cured chickens from the village.
The village’s stock has been almost consumed.
She even set her sights on the big fat pigs that every household would save for slaughter at the end of the year and directly reserved a batch of them.
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Jiang Tiantian asked someone to print a product brochure.
In fact, the content is very simple. The front is photos and names of various pre-prepared dishes, and the back is various agricultural specialties of Chajia Village.
One portion will be given to all customers who dine in or purchase pre-prepared meals.
Jiang Tiantian also asked Jiang Liming and Jiang Fengmin to help distribute some.
Ruan Jing's lingerie store also helped distribute a lot.
The effect seems to be very good. Many people follow the product brochure to find the store and specifically ask to buy things.
The small trucks in Chajia Village are filled to the brim every day, but even so, the demand is still far from enough to meet the supply.
The sudden increase in workload made Xiaoliu and other drivers so tired that they almost questioned their lives.
The daily consumption of Baiweizhai alone is not small, not to mention the take-out?
This is under the premise that Jiang Tiantian secretly smuggled a lot of private goods into it. It is conceivable how great the demand for high-end food ingredients is in the market?
This made Jiang Tiantian more determined to expand the scale of planting in Chajia Village.
One day, Xiaoliu came back to the village, slumped in a chair, and complained to the village chief, "Uncle Chengye, I thought I could have a good rest after the matsutake season is over."
"Now it seems that this vacation is far away."