On the sixth day of the New Year, after packing up their things, Qin Man and others set out for the city.
This time, I went out to resolve the supplier issue and then prepare for the trial operation phase.
Qin Man quit her job, and the Fifth Store had to recruit new people. Jiang Lian had worked with Qin Man for a year, and she was already able to take charge of her own business. Last year, her highest salary was 90 yuan a month!
As soon as she arrived here, Qin Man had to busy herself looking for suppliers and ran around all the vegetable markets.
Vegetarian food is easy to solve. The vegetable market has all kinds of vegetables, including mushrooms, lettuce, baby cabbage, kelp knots, lotus root slices, potato slices, tofu puffs, dried orchid seeds, halved dried tofu, soft tofu, rice tofu, konjac tofu, ham sausage, grilled sausage, etc. ..
Qin Man would buy beef and fish and make beef balls, fish balls, and rice balls by herself.
The braised dishes include pig heart, pig lung, pig stomach, beef brisket, chicken feet, pig large intestine, as well as pig blood and duck blood.
In terms of staple foods, there are sweet potato flour, pearl powder, flour, and dough, but instant noodles are not yet available.
At that time, instant noodles were a rare commodity, costing 30 cents a bag, while rice was only 1.3 cents a pound, so selling them might not be worthwhile.
One is that ordinary people will choose products with better value for money, and they can eat something full with only three cents.
Qin Man went to the market and found the owner of a pork shop and bought their pork offal. The price of pork offal was half the price of pork. Qin Man was buying it on a long-term basis, and the normal price of pork was 80 cents per pound. Now it was 1986, and food coupons were gradually disappearing from the historical stage, so pork offal was sold to Qin Man at 40 cents per pound.
A pig's lung weighs about five pounds. When it's time to cut it into slices and put five slices on a string, it can be put on a hundred skewers. A pig's heart weighs about two or three pounds. The pork seller sells it to Qin Man at three cents a pound. A pig's stomach weighs about three or four pounds.
Qin Man bought three pig lungs, three pig stomachs, and five pig hearts at one time, took them home to process them, and then put them in the refrigerator. However, this was still far from enough, and she had to go to other vegetable markets to buy more.
Anyway, there are two refrigerators, so you can make some extra and keep them there just in case.
The market price of beef is one yuan and eighty cents per pound, which is extremely expensive. Ten pounds of beef costs eighteen yuan. It is ground into powder with a manual meat grinder and then pounded into a paste with an iron rod, forming a sticky state. Ten pounds of beef can make nine pounds of meatballs. However, the cost is so high, so it must not be sold too cheaply. At least you have to make some profit, right?
There are about thirty beef balls in one pound, so nine pounds means there are 250 balls. At eight cents a ball, you only make two dollars. It's definitely not cost-effective. You have to add the labor cost, so it should be at least one cent a ball, right?
Beef, a rare food, certainly cannot be compared with pork.
I also bought ten pounds of pork to make pork meatballs, which were five cents each. In the end, I bought five pig lungs, twenty-five pounds, for ten yuan, which could make five hundred skewers. I sold them at five cents a skewer, making a net profit of fifteen yuan. I also bought five pig hearts, for a total of ten pounds and three yuan. One pig heart could make thirty skewers, so I could make one hundred and fifty skewers at five cents a skewer, making a net profit of four and a half yuan. Pig stomachs were also five cents a skewer.
All meat, except beef balls which are 1 cent each, is 5 cents a skewer.
Tofu costs three cents, vegetables cost two cents, noodles cost five cents, and the average consumption per person is about fifty cents.
A fast food meal now costs 30 cents, including two meat and one vegetable, and they are not tasty. Everything is going up in price.
If you want to have a spicy hot pot without any pickled vegetables, three cents is enough.
Girls eat noodles and add something else and they are full in no time.
However, what troubled Qin Man was what to do with the chicken feet, as they were not available wholesale.
Until the former boss, Sister Hong, told her that the Far Eastern International Hotel had a signature dish called roast chicken. They hired a foreign chef and the chicken feet were never served on the table. They could sell hundreds of chickens a day. One hundred chickens and two hundred chicken feet were enough for her to sell.
So Qin Man went to the Far Eastern International Hotel and found the head chef in their kitchen to buy chicken feet from him.
There is not much meat in this thing, and it would not look good on the table for those who are picky. The chef thought it could not be wasted, so he sold it to Qin Man at a low price of 30 cents per pound.
The two refrigerators in the store were packed to the brim. In addition, we had to buy a lot of ingredients, prepare the braising recipe, and the pot base for cooking soup. These were not difficult to do.
After all the ingredients were processed, I bought a bunch of bamboo skewers. These bamboo skewers can be recycled. When the customers have made their selections, they are sent directly to the kitchen to be cooked. They never pass through human mouths and are very clean.
Use Xiaoyu's watercolor pen to paint different colors on the top of the skewers to distinguish them. Black meat is five points, red is three points, and vegetables have no color, which is two points.
Beef meatballs and pork meatballs are different and easy to distinguish. You don’t have to string them together. Just pick them one by one. Beef meatballs are darker in color, while pork meatballs are lighter in color.
In addition, pig blood is sold by portion, one portion has four pieces, three cents per portion, this is cheaper! Low cost!