Chapter 171 Small restaurant
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Lian Man'er has no experience in opening a restaurant, so she can only explore everything. However, she knew that some important things must be determined in advance.
"What do we sell in this small restaurant?" Goro asked.
"Let's sell breakfast." Lian Man'er said. Goro asked, which was one of the important things that needed to be determined.
Xiaotanzi said that the mountain provides lunch for those working. After work in the evening, those people have a lot more choices in dining. The mountain requires early work time. If they are at the foot of the mountain and provide simple and practical breakfast nearby, there should be a market. Xiaotanzi also said that the most people go to the temple to ask for water every morning these days.
Moreover, when they first start to open small restaurants, it is best to start with simple things. Of course, this does not mean that they cannot expand their business in the future.
"I think so too." Even Shouxin and Zhang nodded. They were both down-to-earth people. They measured in their hearts and felt that selling breakfast would definitely be as profitable as other restaurants and restaurants, but they are currently confident that they can be competent.
"What is our breakfast shop selling well?" Lian Man'er said.
It is narrowed down to selling breakfast only, but it still takes some thought to sell what to sell.
Only by catering to the needs of consumers can we make money. The consumers they have to face are currently people who go to work in the mountains. Lian Man'er recalled what she saw and heard outside the land temple and in the town just now, and those who come to work in the mountains can be roughly divided into two types of people.
One of them is richer, and these people prefer to eat it in the town. They usually eat buns with meat filling, fried dough sticks, oil cakes, or noodles with broth. A meal costs about ten cents.
Another type of people are poorer and more frugal. They bring their own dry food as much as possible. Then they hope to ask for a bowl of hot water at a kind-hearted family.
Compared with the two types of people, the latter type of people has a higher number.
"If that's the case, then we can open a breakfast shop, and no one will come?" Lian Zhier couldn't help asking after hearing Lian Man's analysis.
"On the surface, it seems like this. But this is not absolute." Lian Man'er said, "I heard that the wages of working on the mountain are more than elsewhere. It's also great to pay."
After all, the money was directly allocated from the emperor's treasury, and the project was repaired by Empress Shen. Among the people who supervised the project, there were people from the Shen family. They were also the territory of the Shen family. So no one dared to deduct wages. On the contrary, the conditions for work here are very generous. What the Royal Family and the Shen family want are all pomp, which is to benefit the reputation of the village.
"First talk about these people who are reluctant to give up money. The wages given on the mountain are high and the work is tiring. If they have money, they cannot always treat themselves badly. They cannot eat well and have no energy to work. If the things we sell are affordable, there will definitely be many people who come to eat." Lian Man'er said. She locked the basic consumer group of breakfast shops on the second type of people.
These people are reluctant to eat rice and white flour, but they must have wanted to eat it.
"Mom, how about we sell the steamed buns of Sanhe noodles?"
The so-called Sanhe noodles steamed buns are made of millet flour, mixed bean noodles and a little white flour and steamed buns. This is Zhang's invention (this is the case in the Lian family. Others may also eat it like this, but Lian Man'er said she doesn't know). Since the separation, their conditions have improved day by day, but they still cannot eat rice and white flour every meal. Zhang thought of this method. Sanhe noodles steamed buns, because they are added with white flour, are very appetizing in appearance and taste. Moreover, because they are mainly millet flour and mixed bean noodles, they taste very full and suitable for heavy physical laborers.
"I haven't seen any restaurant selling these three-melted buns..." Zhang was a little unconfident.
"Others don't sell it, but ours has it. Didn't everyone come to our house to buy it?" Lian Man'er smiled, "Dad, if you work in the mountains, would you buy our steamed buns or white flour steamed buns in the town?"
"Of course I bought this from Sanhemian." Even Shouxin said without thinking.
Even Shouxin, Zhang, Lian Zhier, Goro and Xiaoqi all like this kind of steamed buns very much. Most people who come to work should have a similar family background to theirs, and as long as the price is right, they will pay for it.
"I think this is OK." The family discussed for a while and decided to sell the steamed buns of Sanhe noodles.
"It's not enough to have steamed buns, but you have to have soup." Lian Man'er said.
Those who bring their own dry food cannot bring their own hot water, so they go to the Tudi Temple to ask for water. Therefore, their breakfast shops sell hot soup.
"Just use big bones to make radish, or big bones to make sauerkraut." Lian Man'er said the idea she had already thought of. In fact, when she was talking to Xiaotanzi, the first thing she thought of was to open a shop selling soup and porridge to provide hot soup and porridge to those who brought their own dry food.
The idea of opening a breakfast shop gradually matured later. Since you want to sell soup and porridge, why not just sell it with the staple food?
"That's what I think. We sell this soup cheaper, but we don't buy our steamed buns. We can sell it to him just by buying the soup." Lian Man'er said, this can slowly bring customers over and drive the business in the store.
"Our Man'er's brain is so good, just do it." Lian Shouxin said happily.
"Then how much do we plan to sell these steamed buns and soup?" Zhang asked a new question.
The ratio of the Sanhe noodles steamed buns made by Lian’s own is three to one, with three portions of millet flour and mixed bean noodles, and mixed flour with one portion of white flour. In the grain shop in the town, white flour costs 8 cents per kilogram, while millet flour and mixed bean noodles are relatively cheap, and four cents per kilogram. Three kilograms of millet flour/mixed bean noodles, plus one kilogram of white flour, the cost is twenty cents, which is four kilograms of noodles.
According to Zhang, four kilograms of noodles can steam at least about six and a half kilograms of steamed buns. The steamed buns are also made according to Zhang's method, two taels per bun, and each steamed bun is sold for one cent, so four kilograms of noodles can make about thirteen cents.
As for soup, a large bone and a white radish can be used to make a large pot of soup. Large bones can be boiled repeatedly, and the soup can be served in a big sea bowl, and each bowl can only be sold for one cent. After selling a pot of soup, the cost of removing the large bones, radish and firewood can also be more than ten cents.
The same goes for Dagu sauerkraut soup.
"Sell another pot of porridge every day, which is also a bowl of porridge." Lian Man'er calculated it and said. A bowl of porridge costs one penny, which is actually a hot and water portion. Calculate the cost and you can earn ten cents a pot.
Lian Man'er sighed in her heart that the profit of such a few cents or a few cents is more than a thousand miles away from huge profits. Small businesses are not easy to do. They make money by hard work.
The family's heads were head-to-head and they had been calculating for a long time. They were used to steaming buns, cooking soup and porridge every day. If they opened this breakfast shop, they could do it and they could accept the profits. No, it should be said that they were happy.
This matter was settled.
"Dad, mom, I have something else." Lian Man'er thought about it and spoke again...
"What else is there to say," said Zhang.
"In addition to Sanhe noodles steamed buns and soup porridge, how about we sell another basket of buns every day?" Lian Man'er said.
"Sell buns?"
"Mom, do you still remember that in the autumn, grandma and grandpa came to see us and praised our buns for being delicious. Mom, don't you say that they are better than the meatball buns in Chen Ji in the town." Lian Man'er said.
"I remember it." Zhang nodded, "Man'er, are you talking about how to make soup dumplings?"
"Yes." Lian Man'er nodded, and the word "sweet soup dumplings" was what she said to Zhang.
The food just now is affordable, and the target customer group is the second type of people. As for the first type of people, at least for the moment, Lian Man'er does not think they have the strength to compete with the old shops in the town for many years. However, they also have advantages. They have a good location and are closer to Daqianshan where the project is located.
Then the first type of people can become their potential customers when passing by them every day. Lian Man'er thinks that the soup dumplings she makes are still competitive.
"This soup dumpling is sold in comparison with the meatball buns from Chen Ji's family, which costs two cents each." Lian Man'er said. In terms of calculation, her soup dumplings are just an extra process of adding skin and frozen. The cost is not higher than Chen Ji's meatball buns. It sells at the same price as Chen Ji and is better than Chen Ji's, so it can attract customers and make money.
The profit of filling soup buns is higher than that of Sanhe noodles, big bone soup and porridge.
It only takes time to create an export monument and attract a large number of diners, so Lian Man'er only planned to make a basket of buns like this at the beginning.
The whole family discussed it again and finally agreed to pass Lian Man'er's suggestion.
"Which breakfast shop is better to choose which day to open the business?" Lian Shouxin asked.
"The sooner the better, the better, it will be better if it will be opened tomorrow." Xiao Qi said. In his opinion, opening one day earlier will make money one day earlier.
"The breakfast shop is different from our original sauerkraut workshop. You have to find someone to calculate the opening day and choose a good day." Lian Shouxin said.
Even Man'er wanted to open the shop earlier, but she also understood that it was not only this era, but also that in the past, the opening of the shop was also a good day.
"It's too urgent to open tomorrow. We still have a lot of things to buy," said Lian Man'er. For example, you have to go to the town first, order pork bones and pork you need every day with Butcher Zhang, and you have to go to the grain store to buy rice and noodles. There are some sauerkraut and cabbage at home, so you don't need to buy it for the time being.
"...The tables, stools, bowls and chopsticks in the store have to be purchased," Lian Man'er said, "and where is our store open..."
The location around the Land Temple is the best, but there are no suitable houses nearby. If you want to build a house in order to open a store, it will take too long.
"You have to buy rice and flour." Lian Shouxin smiled on his face, "Didn't your mother and I go to the temple to see it just now? Your mother and I have already chosen this house for opening a store."
"...If you come to my house, please give it to me." Lian Ye'er's voice rang in the yard.
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Chapter completed!