"During this year's National Day holiday, major scenic spots across the country may be congested, but we also noticed that many tourists this year did not choose some popular scenic spots, but chose to travel around and go to some less popular scenic spots..."
As the National Day holiday approaches, many people have begun planning their travels.
Among them, the number of bookings for train tickets from Huaicheng to Huaicheng has increased significantly.
Moreover, before the National Day holiday, many people from nearby cities drove to Huaicheng in advance.
For a while, many hotels and guesthouses in Huaicheng were fully booked, and even several of the more famous hotels in Huaicheng had no rooms available.
This situation can be said to be something that has never occurred in Huaicheng in recent years.
The tourism-related departments in Huaicheng also felt very strange.
However, many people in Huaicheng are still clear about the reasons behind this.
The main reason is that Su Ji is about to open, and Feng Yifan posted a message on the Internet saying that no reservation is required for dine-in on the first floor of Su Ji. Naturally, many people want to come to Huaicheng and try the cooking skills of Chef Feng, who is very popular on the Internet.
Behind this is certainly the support of the Culinary Association, Meng Shitong's team and the local TV station.
But what is more important is that the videos of Feng Yifan that were circulated on the Internet have indeed made many people full of expectations for him.
Whether it was the early videos of professors cooking, or the later videos shot by Meng Shitong and others specifically for Ruo Restaurant, each of those dishes was very tempting.
More importantly, after a documentary about gourmet food was broadcast in China, many people are flocking to Chinese gourmet food. With the general improvement of people's living standards, everyone wants to taste the gourmet food from all over the world.
Judging from some previous publicity, a group of state banquet chefs including Zhuang Daozhong have endorsed the platform.
This also makes many people curious about Su Ji’s unique dishes.
In addition, diners who have been to Ruo Restaurant have also posted messages and Weibo on the Internet, and have made very detailed analyses of many of the restaurant's dishes.
In those analyses, almost all diners said that Feng Yifan would adjust the taste of the dishes according to the diners' tastes and would try his best to make the taste of the dishes satisfy every guest.
This has increased everyone's expectations.
Driven by this strong expectation, many people decided to take advantage of the National Day holiday to visit Huaicheng in person to taste the cooking skills of this chef who has almost become an Internet celebrity.
Faced with the pressure of the sudden surge in tourists, the local area also quickly made some adjustments.
Relevant personnel also conducted surprise inspections on restaurants, hotels, and guesthouses throughout the city.
After all, we need to ensure the safety of tourists' lives and make them satisfied with the trip.
The city is very clear that if this situation can be maintained, it will have a huge boost to the development of Huaicheng's tourism industry.
The city even sent someone to Su Ji to find Feng Yifan to find out more about the situation.
Feng Yifan was not nervous at all when facing his leader.
The other party was very polite.
"Chef Feng, during this National Day, the number of tourists in Huaicheng has increased dramatically, and this is inseparable from your contribution. We all know that many tourists come here for the opening of your Su Ji restaurant.
We came here this time to find out from you whether Su Ji is ready for opening. Is there anything else you can help with? If there is anything you need our support for, just let us know and we will try our best to coordinate. "
Feng Yifan responded with a smile: "You're welcome. First of all, I really want to thank all the leaders for their concern. Although I am not a native of Huaicheng, my wife is from Huaicheng, so I am also half Huaicheng. Therefore, I am naturally very happy to be able to contribute to the tourism of my hometown."
The other party laughed when he heard this: "Hahaha, if you put it that way, Chef Feng can be considered our Huaicheng son-in-law."
Feng Yifan also smiled and said, "Yes, he is considered the son-in-law of Huaicheng."
After a short pause, Feng Yifan continued, "As for Su Ji, the opening has been prepared, and in order to ensure sufficient manpower during the National Day holiday, I have specially found three senior brothers, all of whom are chefs who have participated in state banquets with my uncle.
So please don't worry about Su Ji's preparations. What I hope now is that the city can arrange some other supporting facilities, including the security of our Huaicheng scenic area, and the sanitation of hotels and guesthouses.
Of course, I'm just a cook, and I'll need your help with the details."
The other party nodded: "That's right, what Chef Feng said is also what we have been working hard to improve these days. Since we have attracted so many tourists, we naturally cannot let them return disappointed. We will definitely make good supporting facilities."
Feng Yifan said: "Then we should not have any other requests. Su Ji will definitely work hard to make it better so that the diners who come to Su Ji can taste delicious food."
At this point, he added: "Oh, by the way, there may be a lot of people on the ancient street, so some security and coordination personnel may be needed."
The people accompanying the other party had already recorded everything Feng Yifan said.
"Chef Feng, please rest assured. We have made all the arrangements. As long as you and Su Ji can prepare everything properly, the rest will be our business."
Feng Yifan saw that the other party was very confident, so he naturally said with confidence: "Thank you for your support, leaders."
The two of them stood up together again and shook hands goodbye.
After seeing off the people from the city, people from the local catering association came.
The Catering Association came here hoping that Feng Yifan could join the association, and also hoping that Feng Yifan could become a role model for the Huaicheng Catering Association.
Feng Yifan didn't care much about these things. After thinking about it, he simply pushed it to his father-in-law.
"In fact, my father-in-law has always been buried. His cooking skills are definitely good enough to enter the association, and Su Ji is still under my father-in-law's name, so he can definitely join on behalf of Su Ji. I am indeed busy and cannot participate in the association's activities."
Under Feng Yifan's insistence, the catering association finally agreed.
When Su Jinrong found out, he felt a little amused.
"Why did you push such a troublesome thing to me? You think that my body has recovered too well recently, so you want to give me some excitement, right?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Dad, I don't think that's what I meant. I think that if you go to the catering association, you can better complete some ideas that you haven't completed before. Don't worry, all of our Su Ji employees support you behind the scenes."
Speaking of Su Jinrong’s unfulfilled ideas, it is naturally about developing and promoting Huaiyang cuisine.
Su Jinrong had thought about this matter before, but he did not receive any support.
In particular, there was a small dispute between Huaicheng and Yangcheng, so they were ultimately unable to develop together.
But now, because Feng Yifan’s reputation has soared, coupled with the reputation that Su Ji may bring in the future.
With such support, Su Jinrong may be able to do his best.
At least on the issue of cooperating with Yangcheng to develop Huaiyang cuisine, it should be relatively easy to reach a consensus. Then, with Huaicheng and Yangcheng as the bases, we can gradually bring in surrounding cities, and eventually even the entire Jiangsu Province may be involved.
After listening to Feng Yifan's analysis, Su Jinrong felt that this was indeed a good opportunity.
Su Ruoxi also supported him and said, "Dad, I think it's very suitable for you to go."
Feng Ruoruo followed suit and said, "Grandpa, Ruoruo supports you too."
Seeing that everyone supported him, Su Jinrong finally nodded and agreed: "Okay, then grandpa will give it a try, and grandpa will work hard."
In this way, Feng Yifan felt that the atmosphere was pretty good, as everyone in the family had their own things to do.
My father-in-law has recovered well, but it will take some time for him to return to the kitchen. So I let my father-in-law go to the catering association temporarily, so that he can have something to do, so that the old man will not get other problems because of being idle at home all day.
At the same time, after obtaining some information from the city and the catering association, Feng Yifan also notified other shop owners on the ancient street.
"Everyone must pay attention. During this National Day holiday, there will definitely be a lot of tourists coming to our ancient street. Everyone must do more business and bring out all your good things.
But there is one thing, the quality must be up to standard. I certainly cannot interfere with you in making money, but if the quality cannot be guaranteed, and someone buys something with problems, it will ruin the reputation of our ancient street, then I, Feng Yifan, will not be polite."
The shop owners on the ancient street also said that they would definitely guarantee the quality.
Liu Wanhua was the first to take the lead and said, "Don't worry, Yifan, we will definitely guarantee the quality. If someone's quality is not good and tourists buy bad things, we will definitely drive him out of the ancient street together."
The bosses of other ancient streets also followed suit and expressed their opinions.
"Yes, the quality must be good enough."
"Yes, it's fine to make money during the National Day holiday, but if they sell inferior goods as good ones, it will damage the reputation of our ancient street, and we can't agree to that."
"That's right, we can't agree to that. If anyone dares to do something that passes inferior products off as good ones, we will never let them off."
"Like Yifan said, during this National Day holiday, there will be many tourists from other places, even many from abroad, coming to our ancient street. In fact, everyone has seen it in recent days, so the quality must be guaranteed. That is the guarantee of our ancient street's reputation and fame."
Wang Cuifeng was even more direct: "I'm telling you, don't be greedy for any petty gains. If anything goes wrong, I, Wang Cuifeng, will never forgive him."
Wang Cuifeng's domineering speech can be said to be more powerful than Feng Yifan's.
Many of the owners of the old shops on the ancient street are actually afraid of her.
With Wang Cuifeng speaking up and Feng Yifan issuing a warning, it naturally served to intimidate some bosses who had ulterior motives.
I believe that after these days of business, the bosses on the ancient street have come to understand that if they want to make money on the ancient street for a long time, they still have to follow Feng Yifan's requirements.
After all, everyone can see that the ancient street will become a very prosperous place in Huaicheng in the future.
Especially because of the presence of Su Ji and Ruo restaurants, it will inevitably become a gathering place for many tourists.
With so many tourists flocking to this ancient street, who would joke about the reputation of their own shop
Feng Yifan then said a few words to the owners of other snack shops on the ancient street.
“Dear bosses, your snacks will definitely be doing well during the National Day holiday, so you must be careful and try to keep the ingredients fresh. I think you should not process and sell the leftovers from the past few days.
If you feel that you are short of money, I can temporarily help you pay for the food. We will sign an agreement and you can pay me back when you make money later."
After hearing what Feng Yifan said, a snack shop owner stood up and said, "Chef Feng, do you have no confidence in the popularity of our ancient street? Or do you have no confidence in your influence? If your restaurant needs reservations, how much backlog do you think we will have every day?"
Other bosses also said that there was no backlog at all.
"Chef Feng, you may not know that since the opening of Ruo Restaurant, the business of my pan-fried dumplings has been so good that I can hardly meet the demand every day. How can I have any backlog of materials?"
"Yes, the same goes for our grilled squid. We can't sell enough of them."
"Stop talking about it. We are exhausted these days."
The person who was speaking was the owner of Caolu Shaobing.
His sesame seed cakes were not very popular to begin with, and most of the time they relied on some old customers. However, thanks to Feng Yifan's promotion, the Caolu sesame seed cakes suddenly became popular.
The old couple is almost overwhelmed by their business every day.
Originally, the old couple’s son was reluctant to come back and take over, but now that he saw that the sesame cakes were selling so well, he took the initiative to come back and learn from his father.
"Yifan, my husband and I and our whole family would like to thank you."
The old lady even said, "I really have to thank you. If you hadn't taught my daughter-in-law how to cook chicken soup, she would still be idle at home."
In order to promote the sales of Caolu Shaobing, Feng Yifan also taught the Cao family, the owner of Caolu Shaobing, how to cook excellent chicken soup. This also made the boss' business better. The Shaobing soaked in chicken soup tastes really good.
When Feng Yifan saw the old lady was about to bow to him, he quickly stepped forward to support her.
"Don't be polite, Auntie. I'm just trying to preserve the characteristics of our ancient street. If we talk about the oldest characteristics of our ancient street, who can compare with yours? The grass stove sesame cake can be regarded as the earliest sesame cake in China, so of course we have to support it."
The son of the Cao family also stood up and said, "Chef Feng, thank you so much."
Feng Yifan looked at the eldest son of the Cao family, a middle-aged man, and said, "Brother Cao, you don't have to say thank you. As long as you can learn Uncle Cao's skills well, it will be difficult for you not to make money in the future. I believe you understand."
The son of the Cao family nodded: "I understand. I will definitely learn from my father."
With the help and encouragement of Feng Yifan, the bosses on the ancient street can be said to have found their own suitable position, and their business is booming and getting better and better.