Three days before the opening, all the employees of the hot pot restaurant were already busy.
On the first day, everyone worked together to clean up the hot pot restaurant inside and out. Before leaving get off work, Lin Dongmei left all the waitresses behind to practice on the spot.
On the second day, the waiters are mainly responsible for cleaning all the tableware in the store and disinfecting them in a disinfection cabinet. Chefs are responsible for boiling the bone broth needed for hot pot. The raw materials for making soup are usually pork bones and chicken. In order to save costs, most hot pot restaurants will add minced pork lungs, cheap pork bones with no meat, and cheaper cut meat when stewing bone soup. Chicken bones, these ingredients are often not so fresh, and the heat of the stew is not so high, but as long as you add some artificial additives to enhance the taste and freshness, use the chili pepper and various ingredients in the hot pot to suppress the taste, ordinary people simply can't eat it. I can't taste it. At most, I feel that adding water to the hot pot after cooking for a long time is not fragrant. Specifically, how is it not fragrant? Some people think that the spicy taste is weak, and some people think that the dishes are cooked too much. In fact, the real trick is in the soup.
The hot pot soup base in Lin Mo's shop is all made of the freshest ribs and local chicken with meat, which is used as a stock method. After a few hours of slow fire stewing, the dregs are slowly filtered out with fine gauze. Just cooking the soup base requires a person to guard several large stoves. The soup boiled in this way is white in color and fresh in color with a milky color, so experts can taste the difference once they taste it. In addition, Lin Mo also asked people to add a certain proportion of fish powder, mutton powder and other ingredients and medicinal materials developed into powders into the soup. This formula was bought from a royal chef at a high price in his previous life. After adding, It can maximize the freshness of the ingredients themselves, and also has a good warming effect.
Because he had already signed a confidentiality agreement and a dividend agreement with Liu Li, Lin Mo handed over the formula to him with confidence and let him take full responsibility. Liu Li did not disappoint him, he practiced several times in private, and now the bone soup made from the ingredients has completely met Lin Mo's three requirements of fresh, thick and white.
In addition to making soup, there is also cooking the bottom of the pot. The formula Lin Mo had also been handed over to Liu Li.
There are three types of pot bases to choose from in the store. One is the most common spicy red pot, which is divided into three types: slightly spicy, medium spicy, and extra spicy. The soup is made from mushrooms, and the soup is delicious and nourishing but not greasy. In order to buy authentic wild mountain mushrooms, Lin Mo went to almost all the grocery stores in L County, and finally bought what he wanted in a store owned by a lady boss in the northeast; The last and most expensive one is Farewell My Concubine Soup. The whole soft-shelled turtle is served with authentic black-bone chicken, together with medicinal materials such as red dates, wolfberry and astragalus, and a special formula provided by Lin Mo. After cooking, there is a very light The medicinal aroma, paired with a special oil dish, will have a feeling that the more you eat, the more delicious you will be, the more you want to eat, and the soup itself is a great tonic, suitable for all ages.
Liu Li and the newly recruited chef worked hard for three full days before preparing the ingredients for the pot. The newly recruited chef is a young man who has just graduated from the teacher, two years older than Liu Li, diligent and honest, he doesn't mind helping Liu Li at all, he is so busy.
In addition to the bottom of the pot, what needs to be prepared is snacks.
Cheng Hong is best at making all kinds of special snacks. Now that the store is newly opened, it mainly provides five kinds of snacks—gold and silver steamed buns, golden flatbreads, leaf rakes, glutinous rice cakes, and soup dumplings.
Gold and silver steamed buns are actually steamed steamed buns, some of which are put directly on the plate and some are fried until golden brown, and then dipped in condensed milk, either sweet and soft, or sweet and crispy, very delicious.
The golden flatbread made by Cheng Hong uses sweet potato, glutinous rice flour, and corn flour. After being prepared according to a certain ratio, it is rolled into a very thin pancake. After deep-fried, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, golden in color, sweet but not greasy.
Yeerba is made of glutinous rice, wrapped with various stuffings—fresh meat, sprouts, bean paste, etc., wrapped with native pomelo leaves, put in a steamer, and will be steamed with the natural flavor of pomelo leaves Fragrant, unique fillings are always unstoppable.
Ciba is also made of glutinous rice. After it is ready, it is sprinkled with carefully prepared soybean flour and poured into the boiled brown syrup. It is sweet and glutinous with a thick rice-flavored bean aroma, which is very delicious.
The soup dumpling is only made with mushroom and chicken stuffing. After steaming, the skin is white and clear and you can almost see the stuffing inside. When you bite into the fragrant soup, it is fat but not greasy. The classic combination of mushroom and chicken is just right The seasoning, the ultimate fragrance and smooth taste are enough to make everyone who has eaten it unable to stop.
The snacks that Cheng Hong can make are naturally far more than these five kinds. Now he is doing these tests first, and when the sales gradually increase, he will slowly add new varieties. The Lin family promised him that as long as the snacks he is in charge of can make special features, the individual monthly income will accumulate to different levels, and monthly bonuses will be given to him according to the level. The individual annual income reaches a certain amount, and then the year-end bonus will be calculated according to the level. The highest year-end reward is a 5% dividend of the total annual income of snacks.
Just thinking about the carrot hanging in front of his eyes, Cheng Hong couldn't help but sell out his last bit of strength like a mule. However, temptation is temptation, and Cheng Hong also raised his opinion that all ingredients for making snacks and hot pot must not be adulterated, otherwise he will not do it no matter how much money is given to him.
Just by saying this to him, Lin Mo couldn't treat him as an ordinary cook. It's hard to imagine that someone can still control his heart when faced with such a direct temptation of money.
Since the Lin family has nothing to do in the county, not to mention the fear of hooligans coming to make trouble and extortion, but also worrying that some customers with poor wine quality will get drunk and go crazy in the store. It's not good to let the master in the kitchen show up. Lin Mo talked with Lin Jian and asked Cheng Hong to help them see if he could find a few stronger men from among his retired comrades to work in the store, responsible for maintaining daily order and purchasing. Cheng Hong was very happy to help them contact his old comrades in arms. The five who were willing to come were all from other provinces, and they were on their way now.
As for Dunzi, we invited three in total, two of whom are veterans with superb knife skills. Cutting out snowflake fat cows as thin as silkworm wings is easier than playing with them. You can carve a strange-shaped carrot into exquisite roses in minutes. The other one is not as good at knife skills, but he is quite good at arranging plates. A few pieces of water-ground tofu can make him form a small and exquisite hollowed-out pyramid. These green leafy cauliflowers are not inferior to exquisite western food just by looking at the plate.
These three people have their own strengths, and their skills are good. Originally, they rushed to the big hotel. Now that the money given by the Lin family is not inferior to the big hotel, they naturally come here happily.
The workers in charge of washing vegetables and cleaning are all aunts in their forties. They are all laid-off workers from the county or the suburbs. They have no education and skills. Therefore, they know how to cherish opportunities better than young people. Without Lin Jian or Lin Dongmei asking, they all rushed to work.
Everything was ready, and on the opening day, starting at 9:00 am, Lao Du, Principal Pang, Lin Hai, and some colleagues and leaders who had a good relationship with Lin Jian from the school before, sent flower baskets one after another. Principal Pang and Lin Jian's old colleagues had to attend classes during the day, so they could only come at night. At noon, Lao Du and Lin Hai brought some friends over, some were businessmen, some were familiar officials, and one or two people were from the 'mixed society'. Lin Jian promised Lao Du and Lin Hai to bring friends over for free, but neither of them was short of money. The reason why they brought so many people here was to introduce business to Lin Jian, and to hope that the two parties would mix together. If you have a familiar face, it is better to be a "friend" online, as the so-called multiple friends have multiple paths.
Lin Jian went abroad for a trip, and someone taught him a special lecture, and gained a lot of knowledge. He is no longer the taciturn bumpkin he used to be. Although he doesn't talk much now, he can understand when others are chatting, and when asked about him, he can give some convincing answers, giving people the illusion of being wise and foolish. That's right, it's just an illusion, and Lin Jian himself knows very well that he needs to learn too much. This attitude of seeking knowledge leaves a good impression of humility on everyone. After a long time, Lin Jian really made many friends. Of course, this is a story.
Because the appointment was made before, Lao Du, Lin Hai and their friends arrived before twelve o'clock at noon. At noon, Liu Li and Cheng Hong hung the wooden plaque with big red flowers on the gate, black and white The gold characters on the bottom are specially invited by the master of Jincheng Guoxue, and carved by famous masters. The five big characters of Lin's Hot Pot Building are strong, simple and elegant, and perfectly integrated with the antique decoration of the Hot Pot Building. While Liu Li and Cheng Hong hung the plaque, Lin Mo lit firecrackers, and the festive roar announced the official opening of Lin's Hot Pot Restaurant.
The well-trained waitresses came out one after another, standing in two rows in an orderly manner, wearing beautiful red cheongsams to outline a tall and exquisite figure, with high buns revealing a handsome face, slightly bending their knees, everyone has a kind of time The illusion of going back, and then they said "Welcome" in unison with a clear voice like orioles, and successfully called everyone at the door back to the secular world. Everyone congratulated Lin Jian one after another. Lin Mo became a foil because of his young age. Lin Jian smiled politely and welcomed everyone upstairs to the private room.
There are quite a few hot pot restaurants in L County, large and small, most of which serve red soup as the main ingredient and clear soup as a supplement, and most of the clear soup is original bone soup. People in L County like spicy food, and not many people order clear soup. Many people have heard of wild mushroom pot and Farewell My Concubine for the first time. Many people ordered the pot base with two flavors out of the idea of trying something new. After the waiter brought it up, everyone noticed the difference just by the aroma wafting from the pot.
Once I tasted it, it was really delicious. Some people even stopped people from boiling the dishes, and waited for him to drink a few bowls of soup first. Soon, people discovered that the dishes blanched in clear soup were no worse than those blanched in red soup, except for a few fishy-smelling dishes. The dishes in the store are all bought by Lin Mo and Cheng Hong from the vegetable markets in the county, and the quality is undoubtedly first-class. In addition, the use of fertilizers and pesticides in this era is far less than that of later generations. Most of the dishes retain their original fragrance, and then put them in the top-quality soup pot for a while, and dip them in the special dipping dishes provided by Lin's. The taste is simply impossible. Describe in words.
Of course, the performance of the red pot is also surprisingly satisfactory, and I don't know how Lin Mo asked Liu Li to prepare the ingredients. The four words of spicy and delicious are enough to conquer the picky taste buds of any customer.
The so-called people are divided into groups, Lao Du is a foodie, and there is no one who has a good relationship with him who is not delicious. These people are all 'old ghosts'. When eating, they like to chat and fart the most. Today is unprecedented. All of them are like taking dumb drugs, they only know how to suffer. The hot pot restaurant is unique and the portions are not enough. They can't help but order again and again. Some of them are careful and silently calculate the account in their hearts. Fuck, the way they eat, a table of eight people, at least You have to spend four to five hundred, my dear, this consumption is completely comparable to the only two high-end hotels in the county.
But look at the pleasing decoration, the service is not inferior to the five-star hotel in Jincheng, and the first-class taste, the price is definitely not expensive! When I talk about business tomorrow, I must come again, even the taste of the bastard soup (Farewell My Concubine) must come!
The beverages in the store are currently mainly purchased bottled wine, supplemented by various beverages on the market. Lin Mo is considering to focus on special bubble wine in the next step, supplemented by self-made beverages such as milk tea. A store wants to be prosperous for a long time Going on, in the final analysis, the most indispensable thing is "characteristics".
However, everyone is so busy right now that Lin Mo doesn't have time to think about the next business plan in detail.