Chapter 242 Non-Competition Agreement
Xu An had barely stepped into Xu's Fast Food Restaurant when Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Dezhen came out of the kitchen excitedly and pulled Xu An toward a table inside the restaurant.
When Xu An came to his senses, a plate of carefully arranged, delicious-looking braised dishes appeared on the table. A pair of separate chopsticks, their outer packaging removed, also appeared in his right hand.
This is?
"Boss, why don't you try this braised dish and see how it tastes?" Zhang Dezhen ignored Xu An's questioning gaze and instead urged Xu An to try the braised dish.
How does the braised food taste?
Xu An's brain started working quickly. Zhang Dezhen would say that, so it must be because the braised dishes in front of him were different from the usual ones. Could it be that the recipe had been improved?
Xu An twitched his nose twice, then leaned closer to the dish of braised food and took a deep breath. He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but the aroma of the braised food in front of him seemed stronger than usual. Looking at the color, it hadn't changed much and was still as tempting as ever. Finally, of course, he had to taste it.
I picked up a piece of lotus root with my chopsticks and put it in my mouth. With one bite, a long strand of lotus root stretched out. As I chewed, the braising sauce and the chewed lotus root completed the final, soul-stirring fusion of this dish in my mouth. It was as delicious as ever.
The taste hasn't changed, so surely the direction of this recipe improvement isn't to make the aroma stronger?
That's unlikely. If that were all, Zhang Dezhen wouldn't be so excited. What could make him so excited is that he feels this change is extremely important for the store.
"Currently, Xu'an Braised Food Shop sells about 400 jin a day, its cooperative merchants purchase 1,800 jin a day, and the Limai platform sells 200 jin. Taobao store's production capacity is definitely up to 8,000 jin a day. All of these channels combined, the daily sales are 7,800 jin, and the total income is 82,400 yuan."
"Based on an 8% commission, the daily income is 447 yuan; based on an 8% commission, the daily income is 1484 yuan... Master Zhang, you joined Xu'an Slow Food Shop right after it was established, so you should know how rapidly the braised food shop has developed... In the beginning, the daily sales were only 80-70 jin, but now, in just two months, the daily sales have reached 7,000-8,000 jin. And that sales volume is far beyond our lower limit!"
After saying that, Xu turned and walked out of the kitchen, called over eight helpers who would be responsible for watching the heat and stirring, and handed us eight portions of braised food: "Those are the braising spice packets developed by Master Zhang. Let them try them!"
At Yan Peiwen's home.
The voice of the person in charge of the failed supermarket's distribution center came through the walkie-talkie placed outside the break room. The group, who had been chatting merrily, immediately fell silent, shrinking forward in unison, their voices ringing out.
And so, the two of them transformed into deliverymen for the failed supermarket.
Sure enough, as soon as I stepped into the small kitchen door, I saw some unprocessed spices and a grinder under the square table in the center. Next to the grinder were eight small packets of spoiled braising spices!
The seven-person group who had come to Haishi with Zhang Dezhen's wife to make a living immediately lit up upon hearing this. The two men exchanged a glance, then reached out and grabbed the walkie-talkie, eagerly pressing the talk button and saying into the walkie-talkie, "You two take that small order, Zhang Hong and Li Guang!"
"That document changed the commission rate from 7% of profits to 8% of total sales. Although it appears to be a higher percentage on the surface, the actual take-home pay is double... In addition, there was a secret recipe purchase agreement at the beginning of that document... to purchase their braised food recipe based on Xu An Braised Food Shop's annual profit..."
Of course, that includes the processing of the braising spices. The section on braising spices only specifies when, what heat, what water level, and which packet of spices to add...
But fate has other plans. Just as the two were lamenting their lost financial future, a guy outside the group posted a job ad for delivery drivers.
"Hehe." Zhang Dezhen chuckled, rubbing his hands together as he explained to Xu Shi, "Yes, last night before the boss went home, your wife came up with an idea, so we tried it out, and it worked on the first try! It even tastes better than before!"
"Those eight dishes of braised food taste a bit better than the ones that came later. Did Chef Zhang adjust the recipe?" The seventh person to speak was Zhou Qi, the owner of the Zijing Restaurant in the next life.
Could it be that Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Dezhen successfully modified the process? The braised food in the dish behind us looks like it was cooked using the new process?
At this moment, the two men were still unaware of the seriousness of the situation. They walked excitedly behind their supervisor and asked with smiles, "Which of those goods are to be delivered to the customers' homes by the two of you?"
Before fully explaining the key points of the eight documents, Xu's expression turned serious, and he began to offer empty promises.
Mr. Xu, having been influenced by Mr. Liang's skill in making empty promises the other day, proceeded to paint a series of pie-in-the-sky promises that left Mr. and Mrs. Zhang speechless, their heads practically steaming, completely dumbfounded...
"Hmm..." The first to answer was Chef Liu Daxi of Xu'an Slow Food Restaurant: "The eight braised dishes tasted the same overall, but the one on the left seemed a little bland. They must have been cooked in the same batch, right?"
"The shop on the back road is under renovation. It is planned to install seventy sets of noodle soup buckets, not seventy noodle soup buckets, but enough to cook seven thousand catties of braised food at a time! With the introduction of braising spice packets and the modification of the process, adopting an eight-shift work method, producing more than ten thousand catties a day is a problem!"
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