Chapter 790 Choosing a Store
October 21st, sunny, with a southerly wind of level 4, a temperature of 22°C to 28°C, and a humidity of 64%. It’s time to make a comeback.
The previous information was what Jiang Feng saw when he checked the weather on his phone, and the latter information was what he was thinking.
Jiang Feng was very swollen after eating PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds roasted whole lamb. He felt that he was stable today, and Taifeng Tower must be stable as well - although the remaining sheep had already gone into the trash can.
It was so unpalatable.
The program team set a time to gather before ten o'clock in the morning. In order to be fully prepared, Jiang Feng and the four set out at around seven o'clock in the morning and arrived at the snack street before eight o'clock.
The snack street in the morning was deserted.
This is normal, after all, it's just before eight o'clock, and even if it's Sunday's rest day, all the workers are sleeping in at home. In mid-October, autumn has not yet faded away, and it is hot outside. Even if we want to go shopping, eat and relax, we have to do it in the afternoon and evening.
Jiang Feng and the others had indeed arrived early, and none of their photographers had arrived, but some staff members had already arrived and recognized the four of them, so they took the initiative to say hello.
"Hello, the four of you must be contestants from Tai Feng House. You came very early today. We haven't paid for food from other restaurants yet. Don't stand here and let's go over there and take a rest." Take the initiative to follow The person Jiang Feng and the others greeted was a young and beautiful lady with a sweet voice. She was very warm and familiar.
"I thought Zhang Guanghang would participate in the competition at first. Can I ask why he didn't participate?" asked the young lady.
Jiang Feng was shocked. He didn't expect that this was not only his friend, but also one of his own.
After taking a closer look at the staff member, Jiang Feng found that this sister was indeed kind-hearted, as if she had seen her before somewhere.
"Are you a staff member of the Good Taste Cooking Competition?" Wu Minqi spoke first.
"That's right." The young lady said with a smile, "You may not remember me, but I was the one in charge of reception during the semi-finals. I led each of you players in."
Sun Jikai lowered his head silently, he did not reach the semi-finals.
The young lady had no idea that there was another student who failed in the semi-finals. She said to Wu Minqi a little excitedly: "You don't know, during the semi-finals, when your boyfriend...Jiang Feng confessed to you on the stage, we staff I almost jumped up and screamed. That scene was really...I think I will never forget it in my life! It was so romantic. I have never seen anything so romantic in my life!"
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The young lady was so excited that she seemed to be attending an idol meeting.
Jiang Feng immediately changed the subject: "Where are we going, and what are the rules of today's test? There is no way we can wait here. Let's wait until ten o'clock to announce."
The young lady immediately realized her gaffe, controlled her expression, and returned to being a selfless staff member.
"Of course not. I'm taking you there now, and I'll explain to you the specific rules of today's test when we get there."
The four of them followed the staff member and walked for almost 800 meters until they stopped at the door of a very bourgeois-decorated cafe and walked in.
Basically all the tables and chairs in the cafe have been removed and replaced by video equipment like a studio. There are many staff members, both domestic and foreign, who can be seen at a glance, and there are also small benches and plastic chairs exclusive to the studio.
As soon as the young lady entered, she said loudly: "The contestants from Tai Feng Tower have arrived."
After he finished speaking, he repeated it in English.
The crowd suddenly became restless. Jiang Feng clearly saw a foreign guy who looked like he was not from his country. He was sitting on a chair leisurely drinking coffee. After hearing what the young lady said, he jumped out of the chair as if he had seen a ghost. When I got up, I spilled half a cup of coffee on my shirt.
Four people:?
Of course the four of them didn’t know that more than half of the staff here had gone through the hellish time of proposing a plan, sending back and modifying the plan, rejecting it, revising it again, and being rejected again, and so on, and they couldn’t sleep and worked crazy overtime.
Although they are asking for it, some people are innocent, such as the foreign guy who just spilled half a cup of coffee on his shirt.
With a pale face and dark circles under his eyes, the general manager looked at Jiang Feng with a smile that was false and passionate, painful and happy, helpless and sad, and deserved to die again. The four of them walked away.
The Taifeng Tower delegation sent Sun Jikai to have a dialogue with the general manager.
After a conversation in slightly accented English, Jiang Feng and the others finally figured out the specifics of this test.
The game is right, this test is indeed the last chance for Tai Fung House to make a comeback.
This snack street was newly built in the past two years. After continuous renovation and publicity, it has become a famous Internet celebrity snack street. It often attracts many unsuspecting foreign tourists and idle locals who come to hang out and buy some things when they have nothing to do, thereby boosting the national per capita GDP.
The content of this test is very simple. Xu Cheng and Han Guishan own a total of twenty-two shops on this snack street. Some of these shops are booming, some are bleak, some are large, some are small, and some are small. The prime location has some corners. There are milk tea sellers, rice roll sellers, small stir-fry restaurants, snack bars, pastry shops, dessert shops, everything.
What the contestants have to do is to select seven stores to operate starting from the first place based on the current points ranking. The menu can be changed appropriately but must fit the type of store.
For example, a milk tea shop can sell desserts, but not steamed buns. Rice roll shops can sell porridge, but not mapo tofu. Dessert shops can sell milk tea, but they cannot sell fried shredded potatoes.
The test period is from 10 am to 10 pm, a total of twelve hours. All dishes sold during this period will be included in the points, including takeaways. All products have triple points, and one dish can earn three points. At the same time, the points for positive reviews will be cancelled, but if you receive a negative review, ten points will be deducted.
It can be said that in this test, the store is crucial.
This is obviously a quantitative test.
After the general person in charge introduced the test rules, he asked the young lady who had just led Jiang Feng and the others to take them to see the twenty-two stores to choose from.
The location of the store, the environment, and the size of the store are all important factors in determining points. You must make a better decision after on-site inspection.
Jiang Feng and the others were really right to come so early. If they had come a little later, they might not have seen all the twenty-two stores before starting to choose a store.
Jiang Feng and the others followed the young lady and looked at each shop one by one. Four of the twenty-two shops had quite good locations and original businesses. Among them, the best business was a Western-style dessert shop.
The location is good, there are six tables in the store, the decoration is very good, and the air conditioning is very good. Puddings, cakes, coffee, juice, milk tea are all sold. There are many people for dine-in, eating on the go and take away. It is simply for the top floor A store tailor-made for the restaurant.
The other three stores have similar businesses, namely a milk tea shop, a cake shop and a pastry shop. From the perspective of sales alone, these three are very successful. Jiang Feng and the four of them agreed that these four stores were basically useless. As long as people with four of the remaining six stores had an online IQ, normal thinking, and any sense, they would choose these four stores.
They are the last one. When choosing a store, they must first eliminate six stores and then choose from the remaining 16 stores.
It was already past nine o'clock after viewing the twenty-two shops. These twenty-two shops were scattered very scattered, almost all over the entire snack street. Almost everyone in Jiang Feng's group had a favorite shop, and they were arguing endlessly along the way. They all feel that their vision should be good.
Sun Maocai took a fancy to a rice roll shop. He thought that the rice roll shop could sell rice rolls, stir-fried noodles and snacks. Two of the four of them were Cantonese chefs, which fit their style very well. Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi You can also make stir-fried noodles and fried rice.
The disadvantage of the rice roll shop is that it is not in a good location and the store is very small. It is just an ordinary snack bar. According to the staff, the original performance of this store was very average. It is almost impossible to make a comeback with this kind of small store. .
Wu Minqi prefers stir-fry restaurants. She feels that the four of them are all red chefs. When it comes to stir-fry, they can cook their own dishes, just like running a healthy stir-fry restaurant.
The shortcomings of stir-fry restaurants are similar to those of rice roll shops. The location is not good. The store is bigger than the rice roll shop, but the performance is also average.
Sun Jikai's perspective is rather strange. He has taken a fancy to a fried skewers shop that also sells snacks such as stinky tofu, sizzling tofu, and ice noodles. It is a very pure snack complex.
The business of this store has always been booming, because there are so many products sold and there is always one that can catch the attention of tourists. The store is very small and cannot be dine-in. It is the kind of ideal snack bar that can sell thousands of copies a day as long as there are enough customers and the business is fast enough.
The fried skewers were too fast to be cooked, and none of the four of us had any experience in making fried skewers. It is estimated that the fried skewers would not be as delicious as ordinary street vendors.
Therefore, Sun Jikai's proposal was unanimously rejected by everyone as soon as it came out.
Jiang Feng chose the largest store among the twenty-two. This store could no longer be called a snack bar, it was just a restaurant, and it was a two-story porridge shop in a large hotel.
In terms of area, this porridge shop is a bit larger than the healthy snack restaurant Jiang Jiankang opened in the back streets of City A before.
Jiang Feng's reason for choosing a porridge shop was very simple. Of course he, the porridge king, had to choose a porridge shop. At the same time, the reason why he chose the porridge shop is somewhat similar to that of Sun Maocai. This is a Cantonese-style porridge shop that sells everything, including stir-fries, dim sum, and cold dishes. It is basically the same as an ordinary restaurant.
But this porridge shop has a fatal flaw: it does not belong to a snack street.
Originally, this two-story shop sold calligraphy and paintings. Later, the shop was bought by Han Guishan. I don’t know what Boss Han was thinking, but he insisted on changing it into a porridge shop.
The business of the original calligraphy and painting shop was already very bleak, and the business after it was converted into a porridge shop was not as good as the original calligraphy and painting shop.
From Jiang Feng's point of view, there is nothing wrong with the porridge shop itself. The decoration, dishes, and air-conditioning are all very good, but it seems to be inconsistent with the snack street. The business is not good, and the takeout is average. But it is said that the takeout business is much better than the dine-in business, and some nearby residents still like the porridge of this store.
There are probably no more than twenty residents in this part of the country, so you can imagine how poor the business of this porridge shop is on weekdays.
We all work in restaurants, so we all know why this porridge shop is not working. This is a snack street, or an Internet celebrity snack street. All snacks are sold. Everyone is shopping, checking in, taking photos, eating some snacks and having fun. Who has nothing to do and comes to the snack street to drink porridge and stir-fry? Fan. This behavior is no different from eating at Tai Feng Restaurant and grabbing Jiang Feng's dish, but ordering fried shredded potatoes instead.
Moreover, the location of this porridge shop is very problematic. The porridge shop is in the middle of the snack street. This snack street is very long, about four kilometers in length. A normal person's stomach, as long as he is going to eat something at the snack street, will be almost six to seven points full by the time he walks two kilometers and arrives at the entrance of the porridge shop no matter which way he starts.
Most people would not have milk tea in their left hand and fried skewers in the right. When their stomachs are six to seven times full, they would walk to the door of a porridge shop and see the sign of the porridge shop. They would say to their companions: "Hey, if there is a porridge shop, let's go and have a bowl of porridge." Let’s go again.”
In general, the store is a good store, but it is in the wrong place.
All four people felt that the other's proposal was not feasible.
Even if Sun Jikai's proposal was unanimously rejected from the moment he said it, he felt that the other three people could not do it.
No one can convince the other.
"How about this." As she was about to reach the door of the cafe, Wu Minqi decided to take a step back, "I don't know if other people will choose the store we like. In fact, I think the store Fengfeng chose is the same as the one chosen by Master Sun. The types of stores are similar, so we ranked these two stores as the first consideration, then my store as the second consideration, and Sun Jikai’s store as the third consideration.”
"It depends on what they choose. If there is no candidate, we have chosen these four stores. We will choose between Fengfeng's store and Master Sun's store. If we choose, we will see what happens."
The three of them agreed that this was the only way to go.
If there was no choice between good ones, who would choose among these four stores with obvious shortcomings that can be seen at a glance.
Everyone wants to choose a dessert shop, and it seems like no one can do it.
Seeing that the atmosphere was suddenly sluggish, the staff member smiled and encouraged: "Come on, I believe you can do it. I will go to your store for dinner at noon today to increase your sales."
Jiang Feng:?
It can still be like this.
Wu Minqi was also shocked: "This... wouldn't it be considered cheating?"
"Of course not. We were going to have lunch today. Besides, how many points can I eat by myself? Three points is the maximum. Mr. Han said yesterday that he would eat all of your seven participating restaurants today. I want to eat it again. It seems that Mr. Han’s wife and his son will come to eat together.”
Jiang Feng:...
Boss Han... his appetite has been increasing recently.
Really, any food competition show you invest in can be turned into a canteen. (End of chapter)