Three servings of egg fried rice and one serving of imitation barbecue were shared among the three of them.
The chanting that was thought to last for a whole week did not happen. It seemed that from the moment they tasted the first bite of egg fried rice, everyone forgot to speak. Only the occasional comments could be heard from another table not far away, as if they were full of praise for these two seemingly ordinary dishes.
In such an environment, Luo's father and mother were obviously a little embarrassed. They couldn't praise him and continued to complain. But to be fair, was the food in front of them really not worth the price offered by Xingping Hotel
To be honest, they had eaten in larger restaurants before, and there were even a few that were more expensive than Yukihira Hotel. But they were not deliberately belittling the taste. If the taste was just about the same, it would be fine, but the two dishes in front of them were clearly more delicious than those in a serious high-end restaurant.
Therefore, from the time they paid the bill until the three of them returned home, neither Luo's father nor his mother complained about the high prices at Xingping Hotel, which made Luo Gaofeng feel relieved and proud at the same time.
Sure enough, he knew that even if it was a derivative theme restaurant, the painting would be different!
With a happy feeling of being well fed and well drunk, Luo Gaofeng immediately opened the familiar forums and social platforms and typed out Amway:
“I highly recommend Yukihira Restaurant in Qian’an Square in Xingning City! It’s super delicious! When I first watched Food Wars!, I thought the reactions of the diners in the animation were too exaggerated. I went there to eat it myself and realized that it was really super delicious! I highly recommend it! The price is very reasonable compared to similar restaurants, and most importantly, the taste is really great. You will regret it for the rest of your life if you don’t try it!”
After he sent out his sincere recommendation, he unexpectedly discovered that not only him, but many IDs that he was very familiar with were also seriously recommending the product, and even the language they used was much more cultured than his.
In order to communicate with like-minded people and express his excitement, Luo Gaofeng chose another friend who often talked about animation with him and said enthusiastically:
"You went to the Yukihira Hotel too?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, Luo Gaofeng recalled his lunch experience and continued to talk: "To be honest, I was mentally prepared to spend a lot of money before I went there. After all, you know, these theme restaurants always look so good, but in fact they are not reliable at all. I didn't expect that Huaying's father is still Huaying's father. He switched to the catering industry and is also a first-class level in the industry!"
He was still excited, but his group friend slowly asked a question: "?"
Luo Gaofeng was confused and didn't want his friends to continue, "Alright, alright, don't our own people know about this? I understand. But you don't need to say this to our own people, right?"
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Luo Gaofeng was confused and couldn't help asking, "What do you mean?"
He didn't want the other party to be even more confused than him: "No, it's meaningless to say this kind of thing out loud. Aren't we tacitly helping the thieves to make money? Didn't you reply to the comment section of Yueqi's video where the up master made money to promote the game, 'The game is super fun, I'll spend 100 million'?"
Luo Gaofeng: …
To be honest, he really didn't.
Wait, what the other party meant was...
Luo Gaofeng was slightly stunned, and said in shock: "You have never been to Xingping Hotel?"
"Of course not," the group member was also puzzled at this moment: "My home is not in Xingning City. I am not crazy to come to Xingning City just for a restaurant. Besides, aren't all these theme restaurants the same? I have that money, I might as well save it to buy "Food Wars! Soma" figures."
Luo Gaofeng: …
In other words, the recommendations for Yukihira Hotel that he saw were not posted by people who had returned from Yukihira Hotel like him, but were posted by fans of Huaying as a joke as usual
Luo Gaofeng rubbed his forehead, thought about it, and tried to clarify under another poster's Amway post: "I'm not kidding, I really went to Xingping Restaurant, the food was really delicious."
Less than ten minutes later, he received a reply from the original poster: "Yes, yes, yes, I've eaten it too, it's super delicious, Xingping's food is the best in the world, no explanation needed!"
Luo Gaofeng took a look at the other party’s residential address: Luocha County.
Xingping Restaurant only opened at 10am today, and the flight is at least seven hours away, but netizens living in the neighboring province claim that they have already eaten there? Isn't this nonsense
Thinking of this, Luo Gaofeng's heart moved. He clicked on the posts and users he saw in detail, and then looked at the voices of approval under his posts. Suddenly, he felt like he was shooting himself in the foot.
I thought you guys were just as passionate about food as I was, but it turns out you were just being passionate about your daily life to please the stars
Luo Gaofeng was a little bit unconvinced, so he thought about it and simply opened another post with a very provocative title: The food at Xingping Restaurant is terrible, don't go there.
As soon as the topic was published, before he could see other netizens' responses, his gay friend on the messaging app took the lead in knocking on his phone: "How dare you talk like that?"
Luo Gaofeng:
His friend was still trying to persuade him earnestly: "Actually, many companies are doing the spin-off theme restaurant thing, and there is no shortage of stars. It's only the first day that Yukihei Restaurant opened, and you're also a fan of Food Wars! So why are you taking it so seriously?"
Luo Gaofeng:…
Damn, you guys are poisonous?!
—
Mu Suxing naturally noticed the reviews about Yukihira Hotel on the Internet.
"The current situation online doesn't seem to be very good..." After roughly scanning the business on the mainstream forums, Mu Xingxue felt angry and amused: "According to the current situation, even if there are fans or passers-by who are interested in trying it, they may give up directly because of this situation."
Mu Suxing was actually somewhat caught off guard by the grand event online.
only…
He thought of the dishes he had personally tasted, which were exactly the same as those in the animation of Food Wars!, and said nonchalantly, "It's okay."
If other companies open restaurants in order to take advantage of the popularity of anime and make some money from fans during the anime's serialization period, then Makusuxing wants to open the Yukihira Hotel with the goal of achieving a win-win situation.
Just taking the animation "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" as an example, the setting of exploding clothes is both its highlight and its shackles. Its sales may not be low, but it also has certain limitations.
If you want to break through this limitation, you must use other means to eliminate this shackles and expand the originally small market.
This is also the reason why Mu Suxing chose to update the animation of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" and the dishes of Xingping Restaurant at the same time.
The customer flow of Qian'an Plaza Food Street is not small to begin with. Considering the small number of two-dimensional people in reality, the number of customers who actually come to Yukihei Hotel to consume may be even greater than the fans of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma". Many of these live customers may not usually watch anime.
There is no doubt that human beings’ pursuit of delicious food can be said to be instinctive. It would be fine if the food at Yukihira Restaurant tasted average, but what if it was extraordinarily delicious, and during the serialization of the animation "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", new dishes were released every week
Even if you are not interested in animation, if you are conquered by the food itself, wouldn’t you be curious about what the next new dish will be like
You know, the price of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" is only 15 credit points. For most people who like to eat, this price is a drop in the bucket. It is not difficult to understand that you can spend 15 credit points to satisfy your curiosity and know the new dishes of Yukihira Restaurant in advance.
—Who says the food at Yukihira Hotel is so damn delicious
In Makusukoshi's heart, the animation of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" and the Yukihira Restaurant derived from it are actually like a circle.
Some fans of the anime "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" will go to the real Yukihira Restaurant to try the delicacies in the anime; and there are also people who are not interested in the anime and only come for the food, some of whom are so greedy that they subscribe to the anime to learn about the new dishes in advance.
As it turned out, he succeeded.
While anime fans were still skeptical about the anime-derived theme restaurants as usual and were indifferent about whether to go to Yukihei Hotel, passers-by who had nothing to do with the anime and were simply conquered by the food of Yukihei Hotel, on the contrary, began to recommend it to their friends.
At the same time, most people believed that the sales of "Food Wars! Soma" would probably only reach 600,000 at most. When the growth rate was getting lower and lower day by day, there was suddenly a nearly straight-line surge.
When "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" was serialized to the tenth episode, which was the tenth week, this number even exceeded "Sherlock Holmes" and "Taking Vegas", which had their own comic popularity bonus, and won the sales championship of the month in one fell swoop, and also broke the record set by Gaei himself in the past!
1.2 million.
This is the final result of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma".
Fans were naturally cheering for this record-breaking achievement, but other companies, after studying the reasons for the explosive sales of "Food Wars! Soma", felt an indescribable complexity.
If we count Huaying's past animation and comic works, they basically have one thing in common: that is, no matter what subject matter Huaying chooses, the audience and market that the animation will eventually correspond to will never be limited to the conventional audience range.
For example, My Hero Academia is a passionate anime that is widely praised by female fans, and the Sherlock Holmes series has attracted countless readers who are not interested in reasoning, even though the subject matter is not very popular. As for the record-breaking Shokugeki no Soma, it is even more rare.
Other companies use the popularity of animation to open theme restaurants to make money, but Huaying uses the charm of theme restaurant food to expand the audience of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" to ordinary people outside the two-dimensional world!
If they can learn from other animations to expand their market, then Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma is a miracle that other companies cannot replicate. Apart from anything else, if they can make delicious enough dishes, why do they still need to make animations? They can just switch to the catering industry.
The animation series of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" is still continuing.
By the time the fans, who had originally been focused on following the anime, realized what was happening, the reputation of Yukihira Hotel had already unknowingly flooded the friend circles of most people on Blue Planet.
When they saw that the non-2D group around them who never watched anime also began to praise Yukihira Hotel and swore one by one that they would travel to Xingning City just for Yukihira Hotel, the fans finally realized that something was wrong.
Judging from the situation, this first derivative theme restaurant of Huaying does not seem to be a water army, nor is it the habitual behavior of fans to coax stars on a daily basis, but... it is really delicious!