Chapter 782: Number One in Sales
There are eight domestic participating restaurants and eight foreign participating restaurants. Since the top-floor restaurant is in Peiping, Chef Arnold just wants to battle with Tai Feng House. The program team’s funding comes from him. He is the real sponsor father of this show, and the competition format has become seven plus one.
The eight domestic restaurants are Rooftop Restaurant, Tai Feng Restaurant, Yonghe Ju, Babao Zhai, Zhiwei Ju, Bazhen Restaurant, Chengji Restaurant and Huaiyang Restaurant. Four of the eight restaurants are in Peking, and the remaining four are in Peking. The most famous restaurants are Bazhenguan and Zhiweiju.
As a rare restaurant in China famous for its white dishes, Zhiweiju's status is self-evident. Bazhenguan once had the title of the best restaurant in Guangdong Province, but due to the large number of restaurants in Guangdong Province, the real number one has never been determined. It feels a bit like the heroes of Peking are competing for hegemony. Unlike Jubaolou, although it also specializes in Cantonese cuisine, it easily won the title of FJ's No. 1 restaurant because it is not in Guangdong Province.
Chengji Restaurant and Huaiyang Restaurant are both old-fashioned restaurants that specialize in Huaiyang cuisine. Pei Shenghua now works in Huaiyang Building. Huaiyang Building also hosted state banquets in the early years, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
Such a comparison shows that Babaozhai, who has an empty reputation but no strength, is a bastard who was bought with money. Jiang Feng seriously suspected that Ling Guangzhao bought this entry list through the back door.
In fact, he paid for this list. Originally, the program team was interested in Wu's Restaurant. However, Wu Minqi, her father and Grandpa Wu have no interest in participating in a reality show. The Wu Family Restaurant has been dominant in Shu for so many years and does not need any publicity. Mr. Wu didn't want to go out and make trouble at his age. Wu Minqi wouldn't compete on behalf of the Wu Family Restaurant anyway, so he simply refused.
Only then did Ling Guangzhao find the opportunity to spend huge sums of money to buy a spot.
I don’t know where Ling Guangzhao got the confidence to come to participate in this competition where gods gather. Although Babao Zhai's business is good, there is not a single chef who can compete. If you participate in a competition of this nature, if you are at the bottom, you will probably lose ugly. Let alone publicity then, I'm afraid Dabao's little remaining reputation in these years will be completely consumed at once.
But this was Ling Guangzhao's matter, and Jiang Feng didn't care too much.
Jiang Feng spent some time paying attention to the domestic participating restaurants. Jiang Feng only glanced at the eight participating restaurants from abroad. Anyway, he didn't recognize any of them.
In fact, we still know one of them, because the competition format is seven plus one. If a top-floor restaurant is sneaked into the Peking side, a Chinese restaurant is destined to be sneaked into the American side, and this Chinese restaurant is Peng Changping's restaurant.
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It can be seen from Peng Changping's naming of the restaurant Jiang Feng that he really doesn't know how to name.
The start time of the competition was set for October 15th, Monday. When Jiang Feng got the entry list, it was already October 11th. Perhaps in order to maintain a sense of freshness and mystery, and to prevent several restaurants from spying on each other's opponents or playing dirty tricks, the program team only announced the competition process and participating restaurants, but did not announce the list of participating chefs.
But the list is actually not that difficult to guess. There are only one or two awesome chefs in each restaurant. Even if you guess with your eyes closed, you can guess one or two correctly. As long as you guess the two most important ones correctly, it doesn’t matter. .
Although the competition method has changed to seven plus one, the specific competition system has not changed. As agreed before, each of the four chefs will draw a dish, and the scores will be based on the week's sales and the positive and negative reviews from customers.
Because it is a reality show, the program team sent people to sign a contract with Tai Fung House in advance to install cameras everywhere in Tai Fung House and the homes of several contestants, except for the bedrooms and toilets. In addition to installing cameras, the program team will also send a photographer to each contestant to follow them at any time, which can be said to have spent a huge amount of money.
The installation of cameras caused quite a stir in Tai Fung Building. Even though they knew the reality show had not started recording yet, everyone couldn't help but glance at the cameras when they passed by. Sang Ming was still thinking about it in the kitchen, wondering whether he should spend a lot of money to get a fashion perm, so that he would look better if he was photographed.
As a result, Sang Ming, who had been thinking about it for two days, did not spend any money to perm his hair, but Master Wang and Qiu Fu spent huge sums of money to perm their hair so that it was invisible. This shows how heavy the burden of the middle-aged chef idol of Tai Feng House is.
Jiang Feng felt that if his biological father, Comrade Jiang Jiankang, didn't have any hair to perm, he might have permed his hair. During lunch these two days, Jiang Feng kept seeing Jiang Jiankang taking photos with his cell phone with a black screen, as if he was checking whether his bald head looked good or not.
Others are only concerned about whether their hair looks good or not, or whether their makeup skills are up to par, things that come with the baggage of being an idol. Jiang Feng and other contestants are concerned about some more important things.
Choice of dishes.
The first stage of points is based on good reviews, bad reviews and sales. Good reviews are important, but the most important thing is sales. No matter how good the quality is, the points will not be high if the quantity cannot be accumulated. Under this competition system, Jiang Feng felt that the most advantageous among the eight restaurants in the country should be Zhiweiju. Their main specialty was pastries, which sold the best, and the quantity was definitely increasing.
Both quality and quantity are important. Jiang Feng cannot serve many dishes, especially buff dishes.
But Jiang Feng is most famous for his buff dishes.
In order to prevent restaurants from cheating in price wars, the program team specially investigated the previous dishes and prices of major restaurants, and specifically stated in the competition rules that no new dishes were allowed, and malicious price reductions were not allowed.
The seemingly easiest stage turned out to be the most difficult stage for Jiang Feng.
He didn't have ten courses.
To be precise, he didn't have ten dishes that could be piled up.
The recording will officially start on the 15th, and the menu must be submitted before 12 noon on the 13th at the latest. It is already 8:00 am on the 13th. Jiang Feng has not yet finalized the menu.
You know, it only took Sun Jikai ten minutes to finalize the menu.
Seeing that the deadline is still four hours away, Jiang Feng's menu currently only has two dishes: chickpea pudding and eight-treasure chestnut pigeon. The remaining eight dishes have not been settled yet, and he has no thoughts.
Jiang Feng could only flip through the old menu of Tai Feng Restaurant, looking at the menu as if he was a fool.
For this competition, he had been training hard in Yongheju for so long, practicing Jiang's Ginseng Soup, but he didn't expect that he would lose at the beginning.
"Old Sun, I really envy you. You can tell me the menu directly without even thinking about it." Jiang Feng put down his phone in despair and made an envious voice to Sun Jikai.
Sun Jikai:?
I suspect you are scolding me.
"Fengfeng, can't you really make more portions of your caramelized yam dishes?" Wu Minqi still couldn't understand why Jiang Feng was unwilling to change these limited-edition dishes to unlimited.
"No." Jiang Feng firmly refused. The buff dish must have buff's final persistence.
"I added fresh ground vegetables and stir-fried pork with chili peppers. I just checked that the sales of these two dishes were pretty good before." Sun Maocai said after carefully studying the menu and sales.
Several people discussed it again and added crab stuffed orange.
The crab-stuffed orange must be sold together with fried noodles to trigger the buff. If sold alone, it can be treated as an ordinary dish. Moreover, now is the time to eat the crab-stuffed orange seasonal dish, so sales should be good.
After two hours of intense discussion, the four of them finally finalized Jiang Feng's recipe.
Chicken bean curd, eight-treasure chestnut-flavored pigeon, ground three delicacies, crab stuffed with orange, fried pork with pepper, fried shredded potatoes, scrambled egg with tomatoes, salt and pepper river shrimp, minced eggplant and pure meat wontons.
Even pure meat wontons are on the menu, so you can imagine how difficult it is to find Jiang Feng's food.
After submitting the menu before the deadline, Jiang Feng sighed deeply, feeling that if nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely be the one holding Tai Feng Lou back.
If you draw stable dishes such as chickpea curds, eight-treasure chestnut pigeon, and pure meat chaos, it will be easy to handle. If you draw a tomato scrambled egg or stir-fried shredded potatoes, Tai Feng Lou will probably say goodbye to qualifying.
The deadline was twelve o'clock, and Jiang Feng didn't submit the menu until eleven forty-seven. At one o'clock, the program team told everyone the first week's competition dishes.
Sun Maocai: Serve baby vegetables in soup.
Wu Minqi: Mapo Tofu.
Sun Jikai: Fried beef river.
Jiang Feng: Fried shredded potatoes.
Jiang Feng:...
When the news was received, the four of them happened to be eating at the same table.
Jiang Feng gave Sun Jikai an affirmative look, and even enthusiastically poured Sun Jikai a glass of free boiled water.
"Come on, Old Sun, we are relying on you this week!"
Sun Jikai's dry-fried beef river is sold cheaper than Ji Xue's. During this time, he has improved his cooking skills. The quality of the dry-fried beef river is actually on par with Ji Xue's, and it is deeply loved by diners at Tai Feng House.
The most important thing is that he fired quickly.
Sun Jikai's Fried Beef River was the number one selling item in Tai Feng Lou last month!
Sun Jikai:? ? ? (End of chapter)