Chapter 87: Odd Moves Win Victory
Wu Qingyuan will not be too angry about the poaching of the cooks, but he will definitely not swallow this insult silently.
The business that was supposed to open on the ninth day of the New Year was delayed by him for half a month, and at the beginning of the new year, Wu Ji Department Store only opened the department store while the restaurant was closed, which disappointed the people in the town. Now Wu Ji’s restaurant is a place where everyone goes to enjoy a meal at least once a month, and the townspeople who save their money will not be able to resist going to Wu Ji’s to buy something before heading home.
But soon everyone was attracted by the old restaurant of the Qian family in the town.
After the several previous incidents, the Qian family’s various businesses in the town have plummeted, especially the Qian family’s restaurant, the time Qian Yuan instructed people to go to Wu Ji’s to poison was a failure that made the townspeople in the town very angry. Even if the Qian family’s restaurant has no fault, not many people are willing to consume their products, and then there is also Wu Ji’s restaurant attracting them- not only the Qian’s restaurant, the people who do food business in the town are more or less affected.
At this moment, the Qian family’s restaurant was reopened under the auspices of Madam Qian, and in order to reverse the previous impression, it can be said that a lot of effort has been made. First the chef who was promoted under Wu Ji’s restaurant jumped to their restaurant, and then used the price advantage they learned from Wu Qingyuan to attract customers with various discounts.
In the end, Madam Qian also put down her pride and personally apologized to the townspeople when the restaurant opened for the New Year, saying that her husband was seduced by an adulterer to do those immoral things. She said it with great affection, coupled with the fact that she was a woman born with the advantage of making people sympathetic, the townspeople’s impression of the Qian family gradually improved, and with the mentality of trying, they walked into the Qian family’s restaurant again.
Now the chef in charge of the restaurant is the apprentice carefully taught by Amo, and the cooking skills are naturally not bad, but after coming out, the cook found that there were none of the seasonings that they used in Wu Ji casually before- even if a small number of them were spices from other countries, the items were rare, their prices were extremely expensive, and the Qian family could not use them as ordinary seasonings.
However, in order to hold his job and get better treatment, the cook also tried his best to improve, and finally made the dishes, but the seasoning was insufficient, and the taste was still a little worse, so the townspeople were actually a little disappointed after eating.
But the problem is that Wu Ji’s restaurant has not opened, so everyone who wants to go back there to eat can’t. The Qian family’s restaurant dishes are not as good as Wu Ji’s but it is better than before, and for a while the Qian family’s business has finally recovered, and it was better than before.
At the same time, restaurants in other towns near Shiqiao Town have also improved their business because of the new cook, and all the big landowners want to celebrate their victory every day.
But this did not last long, and half a month later, Wu Ji’s restaurant reopened, and a dish called ‘hot pot’ attracted customers back.
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Hot pot is also a very famous dish in modern China. It is sought after by the people who like food, the taste is delicious, a pot of mandarin duck pot is suitable for customers with both light and heavy tastes, the way to eat is even simpler. When the family eats together, it invokes a fun and warm atmosphere, and the weather is cool at the moment to make eating more comfortable.
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“Fragrant! What a fragrance! Boss Wu, what new dishes are coming out of your store, I smell them all at the end of the street…”
“It’s so fragrant, I was drooling when I smelled it…..”
“Oh, look at it, what is that, putting the stew and red chili soup in one pot, oh, it’s not mixed together, this pot is really strange!”
Smelling the fragrance, everyone who found Wu Ji’s shop gathered around the door and asked lively questions.
Wu Qingyuan stood at the door and smiled calmly.
On the day of their reopening, he did not directly open the door to let everyone in to eat, the emergence of new things needs to be promoted, no matter how good the reputation of Wu Ji’s cuisine is, advertising still has to be done.
In order to attract everyone’s attention, he placed a specially customized super large hot pot to cook at the door. Not only did the fragrance waft out, but everyone who heard the news stared at the red and white bottom of the pot and were secretly surprised.
In fact, the dish ‘hot pot’ has already appeared at this time, but whether it is the eating methods or the ingredients, they are not as rich as modern times, and hot pot is oil-consuming, few are willing to make a hot pot with a red soup base. And no one thought of this way of making because many of the seasonings have not spread here, and the scarcity of seasonings made the food scarce, so Wu Ji can easily capture everyone’s stomach by casually taking out a dish from later generations.
At this moment, the hot pot that constantly exudes a rich fragrance at Wu Ji’s door is even more tempting and stimulates everyone’s mouths to swallow their saliva continuously. Fragrant, really fragrant! How can there be such a fragrant thing in the world?!
Seeing that everyone’s curiosity had been raised, Wu Qingyuan clapped his hands to let Wang Dafu next to him come out to introduce it, and the other slaves cooperated in pouring the dish into the pot and boiling it, and then preparing it for the drooling townspeople to taste.
Try it! This is Wu Ji’s consistent sales method, no one is a stranger to it and instead they hurry up to taste. In fact, there is no need to taste at all, just smelling this fragrance has captured everyone’s taste.
After tasting it, Wu Ji’s restaurant entrance instantly exploded with the shouting of people.
“Ahhh, it’s so spicy, but it’s delicious, was that cabbage just now? How can cabbage taste like this?!”
“Meat, I have eaten some meat, it’s delicious!!”
“This white soup tastes so strong, and the boiled greens have a meat flavor…..”
Whether it is spicy or lightly flavored, all of them are full of praise at this moment, and the hotpot full of seasonings is a killer dish in a world where even frying, steaming, and simple cooking techniques are not widespread!
There was no need for more publicity, people rushed into the store, even if the price is high because of the huge fuel consumption, it does not make everyone give up the idea of eating, and the appetite is one of the greatest ignitors of greed of human beings.
On the second day of Wu Ji’s restaurant’s reopening, the business of other restaurants in Shiqiao Town was reduced by more than half, especially the Qian family’s restaurant which suddenly became a ghost place again overnight.
At the same time, Wu Qingyuan not only launched hot pot in Shiqiao Town, but also spread out in other towns surrounding Shiqiao Town, and Wu Ji’s hot pot was opened.
Years ago, he actually had the idea of transforming Wu Ji cuisine into a hot pot restaurant. There was no other reason other than watching Amo being too busy in the kitchen, being too tired, and distressed. The hot pot restaurant would mean that he would not have to be so busy at that time, the diners did it themselves, the chores were done by the attendants, the town store also had slaves to help, Amo at most calculated the ledger.
It’s just that there are a lot of things to prepare when opening a hot pot restaurant, especially the hot pot recipe, unlike in modern times where one can buy it directly. The unique shape of the pot also needs special customization, the blacksmith speed is limited, a large number of pots can not be built in a short time, and it was finally dragged to the present.
Taking advantage of the time of the pots being built, he naturally did not sit idle, and let the slaves scatter to other towns to find suitable shops- they were just waiting for the pot to be ready, and then they could prepare to open for business.
Unexpectedly, this matter has not been finalized yet but a few cooks in the restaurant couldn’t help but jump jobs- this was a good thing for him anyways, his hot pot restaurant relies on hot pot base, he does not need too good cooks.
With the delicious and novel hot pot, the townspeople will not waste silver to relieve their stomachs by going to the Qian Family’s Restaurant. What Wu Ji’s restaurant chef? Just the level of that half-taught chef was not comparable to when they were at Wu Ji’s before, now that they think about it, they actually ate pig food for half a month!
When Madam Qian and the others heard these reports, they did not stand firm again, and sat on the stool for a long time without returning to their senses.
Is this Wu Qingyuan a god? The cooks were all dug up but he could still bring his business back to life, where did he get so much power?! Where did you get all that novelty?! How could he make no mistake?!
In fact, not only Madam Qian and others thought so, even Wang Dafu and the others also admired him very much. They really wanted to knock open the head of the family master to see what was inside, how it was different from them, there were so many novel ideas.
“What’s so strange about it, my Brother Wu is a person who travels around a hundred countries and is well-informed!”
Amo helped Wu Qingyuan explain things, in addition to his origin, Wu Qingyuan’s space and special abilities are also things he basically already knows. After all, getting along day and night in the same bed, these secrets cannot be hidden forever, and each of these secrets is related to Wu Qingyuan’s life and death, he naturally tries hard to help cover up for him, the husband and wife must be of the same heart.
Although the explanation of traveling around a hundred countries and being well-informed is ambiguous, it also works- this world is very large, and it is in the era of far-apart countries. There are countless large and small countries, and many overseas countries, not to mention Wang Dafu and others who have never gone out in their lives in Shiqiao Town, that is, Jiang Da and others who run businessmen from various countries do not doubt Wu Qingyuan’s explanation, the world is so big, they don’t know too many things, so this is normal.
After a simple explanation, Wang Dafu and the others did not continue to ask too much, they were just curious for a while, and after the small talk, everyone quickly emptied their energy doing their duties at Wu Ji’s business.
In addition to the store in Shiqiao Town, several hot pot shops in the surrounding town opened at the same time, Wu Ji Department Store branches also opened, the overseas goods traded with Jiang Da a few months ago cannot be all sold in Shiqiao town, and after signing a long-term overseas goods purchase contract with Jiang Da, the branches of Wu Ji Department Store will naturally open.
Along the way, Wu Ji’s factory is also quietly starting work, after last year’s preparation, starting this year, Wu Ji will quickly occupy the business market in Jiangyi County by thunderous means!
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