Chapter 917 Price Killer
To be honest, the first time Zou Guodong went to Salia to eat, the initial experience was not good.
And this unpleasant mood is completely opposite to when I went to get a haircut just now.
When I was getting a haircut, I was so happy when I saw the hair salon, but now Zou Guodong is so depressed.
For no other reason than because the restaurant Ning Weimin took him to was actually located above a vegetable market.
The location of the restaurant is really terrible!
Not to mention the noise and chaos of bargaining and the flow of people in the market, there is also a large amount of sewage, vegetable leaves and garbage on the market floor.
The key is that the restaurant is still at the end of the vegetable market, in the corner of the corner.
Even the stairs leading to the restaurant are filled with foam boxes and sundries used by vendors to preserve freshness.
And as soon as you walk into the market, you can smell a very strong smell of seafood.
A place like this, let alone a "high-end" Western restaurant, requires a lot of attention to detail.
In Zou Guodong's view, even running an ordinary restaurant is very difficult.
If you open a restaurant here, probably no one will patronize it except the vendors in the market.
Not to mention the inconvenience, the key is that it is dirty, messy and smelly.
Who would want to dine in such a terrible place?
So before arriving at the destination, Zou Guodong couldn't help but express doubts.
"Say Weimin, are we in the wrong place? How can there be a Western restaurant in a place like this? Who would come here to eat?"
Ning Weimin didn't explain either. , just kept walking in vaguely.
"Just follow me. I have been here several times, and there is no mistake. Don't worry."
"Really? You have been here several times. Is it really here?" Zou Guodong became more and more confused, "But...don't the Japanese love to be clean? Why would they choose such a dirty place to open a restaurant?"
"Haha, in fact, many people feel the same way as you when they come here for the first time. They think there is something wrong with the location, but this is what makes this restaurant great. Think about it, even such a bad place can still attract customers The door is so crowded that people flock to it. Isn't this worth a visit? I believe that as long as you come out after you walk in, you will never say "no" again. How about we make a bet? "
"Huh? Is it true? Why am I getting more and more confused? It's too prejudiced against me. Anyway, it can't be fake, and it can't be true. Let's not say that it's only appropriate for us to come here to eat later. You see, it's almost eight o'clock. Otherwise, we still have to queue up, at least starting from the stairs. If we wait for half an hour, we will definitely not be able to eat..."
"You are still queuing up, you are getting more and more awesome!"
Zou Guodong became more and more disbelieving.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he went up the stairs, he found that Ning Weimin had been right.
Because even at this time, the restaurant upstairs with red and green decorative colors as the main image is still full.
There are even waiting guests. They have to wait for five or six tables to be arranged before it can be their turn.
But the good thing is that we Chinese are the most experienced when it comes to waiting in line for a seat.
Even Zou Guodong and Ning Weimin have experienced hardship, and they have long been accustomed to it.
So I didn’t feel anything bad after waiting for ten minutes.
What's more, no matter how simple the environment of Japanese restaurants is, they still look much higher than the restaurants in our alleys.
Seeing that there are sofa seats and chandeliers inside, it doesn’t seem so unbearable.
And it was somewhat exotic and expensive per capita, so Zou Guodong stopped saying anything.
On the other hand, when Ning Weimin kept raising his wrist to check the time, Zou Guodong was surprised to notice that his watch had been changed again.
The original Omega was actually replaced by a pure new Cartier.
So Zou Guodong found a new topic and couldn't help pointing to his hand and jokingly said, "Okay, don't show off. Look at your watch so diligently. I really have you. I bought a house, but the furniture was so basic. I spent 20,000 yen to get a haircut, and even quietly bought an expensive watch. But you brought me to a place like this for a dinner party. Look, where did this take me? I haven’t eaten yet, so I have to step over the mountains of vegetables and groceries. Besides, what do you call this red and green combination? Don't you know? ..."
However, he knows happiness. Even in the face of Zou Guodong's squeeze, Ning Weimin is still happy with his career and love.
"What? Mr. Zou, are you interested in this watch of mine? It doesn't matter, I will get you one tomorrow too. Anyway, you will need it when you meet the Japanese later."
"Don't No, I don't mean that. This watch is from Cartier. It costs a million yen, right? Don't scare me. I don't even dare to give it to you. I can't afford it. This thing.”
Zou Guodong was also frightened by his words and quickly shook his head.
"I, actually, I just want to advise you, you are still young, don't worry too much about the flashy things on the outside, the inner essence is important. Look at you, just open an American in China Big Jeep travels around all day long, and even used gold lighters to pretend to be a tycoon. Later, our company executives all imitated you and asked the company for a car, and because they used gold lighters in groups, they couldn't tell whose belongings belonged to them. , there were several troubles. The police were almost recruited to our company to solve the case. How long will it take for you to be so extravagant? Don’t you know that the first person will be killed first? Your current status is also very special. You are no longer an ordinary middle-level manager. You are a shareholder of Huaxia Company and Yilade Company. Even I am a young person working for you. People even worship you as an idol. Do you understand what I mean? It’s easy to say that what goes up is what works abroad. When you return to China one day, you have to consider the impact of your actions..."
Facing Zou Guodong taught as earnestly as an elder, but Ning Weimin didn't say a word and just laughed and ate wontons.
I actually said to myself, Tsk, you Zou Principle, give me another political lesson.
You can be jealous if you are jealous. If I tell you who gave me this watch, you will probably be even more shocked.
Besides, you don't get any points for saying such things.
Returning to the inside? Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought you here.
Didn’t you make a hasty judgment about this restaurant just based on its appearance?
We’ll talk about it later when we get in. I want to see how you react when you get the menu.
Indeed, despite scoffing at Salia’s not very respectable location, Zou Guodong also complained about the poor service after entering, with no one serving tea or water.
Even because there were only two of them, Zou Guodong was still a little embarrassed because they were not allocated a comfortable seat with a sofa seat on the train.
But after getting a seat and sitting down, Zou Guodong, who had the menu in hand, still did not escape Salia's "really delicious" law!
You must know that the “price killer” in the catering industry is by no means in vain!
Zou Guodong, who has no idea about the restaurant's business style, will find an unbelievable fact once he opens Salia's menu.
Why are the dishes so rich?
It’s so cheap again!
Indeed, Salia’s menu has hundreds of dishes.
The menu covers soup, cheese, salad, barbecue, pizza, pasta, rice, desserts, drinks, and most iconic dishes of Italian cuisine.
And all come with beautiful, alluring photos.
As for how cheap the price can be?
Among these one hundred dishes, seventy-eight dishes are priced under 500 yen.
If you want to have appetizers, you can choose corn soup or mushroom soup for only 149 yen.
You can also spend 399 yen to eat a portion of six garlic snails.
Or order a calorie bomb - baked potatoes with cheese and bacon, hash browns with milk and so on. Or spend 299 yen and order a garden salad or spinach bacon.
As for the choice of staple food, for 499 yen, you can order a six-inch double cheese pizza, or a small barbecue such as garlic chicken steak and sausage platter.
For 399 yen, you can have a serving of seafood garlic pasta and ink ink pasta.
If you want to be extravagant, you can order a sirloin steak for 999 yen, or a satisfying barbecue platter for 899 yen.
When you get tired of eating, you can get a cup of soft drink or oolong tea with unlimited refills for 100 yen.
You can also add dessert after the meal. For 149 yen, you can enjoy a waffle with chocolate sauce ice cream.
In Salia, the most expensive product is the Tiano dry red wine from Tuscany.
A bottle of 750ml red wine only costs 1,599 yen.
Isn’t this cheap enough?
It’s so cheap!
To put it bluntly, based on the appetite of an adult man, ordering three dishes is enough.
The daily consumption cannot exceed 1,500 yen.
This is Western food!
Not to mention being in Tokyo again!
Japanese people who earn at least 150,000 yen a month spend this amount of money on a meal, which is equivalent to people in Beijing who earn 100 yuan a month spending 1 yuan on a meal. .
It can be said that the price is almost the same as the Japanese price of a dumpling set meal and a ramen set meal. It is equivalent to the people in the capital buying a pot sticker and some steamed buns from a restaurant. It is much more cost-effective than cooking at home.
Of course, a shopping mall veteran like Zou Guodong can easily calculate the approximate operating costs in his mind.
Based on his understanding of Western food and his understanding of the operating conditions of the company's Maxim Restaurant and Menimus, this price is close to a myth and is simply impossible to achieve.
Because even if the Japanese yen is converted into RMB at the black market price, one thousand five hundred yen is only more than forty yuan.
This kind of consumption level can only be regarded as an average level even if it is compared with the Western food consumption in Beijing.
In the capital, forty yuan is enough to eat Menimus, Lao Mo and Xin Qiao.
But eating serious French food from Maxim and Jianguo Hotels is even less interesting.
This caused Zou Guodong to order dishes without any worries, as if he had found the feeling of eating in a restaurant in China.
I ordered all kinds of salads, soups, pastas, pizzas, teppanyaki grills, desserts, and even a bottle of the most expensive red wine.
To put it bluntly, even though he is from a third world country, the cash in his wallet can still afford it even if he eats everything on the menu.
Looking at Western restaurants all over the world, I am afraid that only here can he find such confidence.
He was so heroic, and Ning Weimin, as the host of the treat, had no reason to be stingy, and he was not far behind.
Not only did this boy follow the prescription and order the three or four dishes he needed, he also specially selected a few of Salia's unique specialties and recommended them to Zou Guodong.
As a result, the dishes they ordered are really a bit "silty", there must be more than a dozen of them.
So much so that when placing an order, the clerk kept confirming with them and asking them repeatedly.
"Two gentlemen, do you really want to order so much?"
The best thing is that the food is served very quickly. Within ten minutes, the entire table was filled with dishes.
But this was not enough, and the clerk regretted not taking them to a larger seat from the beginning.
In the end, we had to temporarily pull up another table to make up the number, and finally put all the dishes they requested.
So some Japanese people around me looked at me with big eyes and small eyes, completely looking at something new.
Zou Guodong and Ning Weimin began to enjoy their dinner.
But to be honest, even if the price was so cheap, Zou Guodong still had some concerns and worries before the dishes were served.
Because as the saying goes, cheap products are not good.
Can such cheap Western food be delicious?
But when the dishes were served, Zou Guodong picked up a knife, fork and spoon and started eating. From the moment he put the first bite of food on his tongue, he felt more and more that this restaurant was amazing.
To be fair, when it comes to taste, these dishes are naturally not as good as the most authentic Italian dishes.
For example, Salia's most popular item, grilled corn with cheese, only has a layer of corn on the surface that is fully mixed with cheese.
For example, the black pine oil pasta is so weird that it makes people want to shout "Oh my God".
Especially the baked snail dish that imitates French cuisine, which makes Zou Guodong, a diner who is already familiar with French cuisine, feel very funny.
It feels like a pure Beijing person drinking soy milk-flavored soy milk, or eating fried liver without garlic and without the soup.
But even so, he has to admit that the taste of these dishes cannot be said to be unpalatable. At least they are better than the Yili Food Factory in Beijing and the "Yili Fast Food" jointly produced by people from Hong Kong City. Much more.
In addition, even if the materials are insufficient, you can't blame the store for being evil. After all, the price is here.
And not all the dishes are bad, just like the mushroom soup, which is full of rich milky and mushroom flavor.
Tuna salad, the vegetables are not only very fresh, but also a lot of fish, which is very cost-effective.
Teppan sausages are paired with chicken chops. The chicken chops are quite tender and the grilled sausages are also unique.
The taste is black pepper, which is quite satisfactory. Although it is not necessarily that good, it is worth eighty points.
Especially the seafood pasta and seafood baked rice, just looking at the ingredients, they are quite sufficient.
What about squid, shrimp, scallops, seafood sauce, cuttlefish balls...
I don’t know if it’s because of Japan’s natural geographical advantages, or because the restaurant is located in a wet market, but anyway Allow guests to enjoy seafood freedom in minutes.
All in all, Zou Guodong had to admit that most of the dishes tasted pretty good.
Even if there are flaws, considering the price of the single product, the price is low enough to completely make up for the regret.
Compared with eating until you are satisfied and your belly is stretched out, you can feel the most primitive happiness that food brings to you.
No matter how much dissatisfaction he had at the beginning, it would disappear completely.
It even caused him to start a certain degree of self-reflection.
With such a price, do we really have to demand so much from it?
(End of this chapter)