Chapter 72 The barbecue skewers are popular
In the next two days, Caiwei has been very busy. She has to spend a lot of time every day to teach Jiujin and Uncle Zhou the essentials of barbecue skewers. From the control of the size of the fire to the amount of seasoning to use, strict control is required to grill out the taste that people can't stop! Fortunately, Jiujin and Uncle Zhou are very attentive. Every word that Caiwei said, the father and son carefully remembered in their minds and put it into practice. Therefore, after two days, they can already grill out the taste comparable to Caiwei's skills.
In addition to teaching Jiujin and others to grill skewers, Caiwei also hired a few neat-looking women nearby and let them follow Aunt Zhou to grill skewers.
If her estimate is correct, once the barbecue skewers are launched, they will surely be popular in the whole town. At that time, the skewers made by Aunt Zhou alone will be far from meeting the market demand, so it is necessary to stock up more before the skewers enter the market.
"Put the fat and lean skewers and the tendons separately..."
"The wild boar's skin is very thick, it needs to be boiled for a while before it can be sharp..."
"The small skewers here are only two cents each, and the big skewers over there are five cents each, don't get them mixed up..."
Caiwei was so busy that she was dizzy and overwhelmed, but when she thought of the prosperous scene of the meat skewers after they hit the market tomorrow, all her fatigue was swept away.
Du and Caifei were not idle either. They mixed a lot of meat fillings according to the method Caiwei taught her, wrapped a lot of wontons, dumplings, etc., and froze them outside to be sold when they opened. Even
the little Wen'er and Wu'er took the initiative to find the job of watering the vegetables. The two little guys took a watering can every day and shuttled between the six rooms to water the vegetables planted by the eldest sister. The
eldest sister was really capable and planted vegetables well. In just two days, the vegetables in the six rooms had sprouted, and they were green and growing very well!
During this period, Caiwei also stole some time to visit the Yangyang Hall, picked a basket of fresh vegetables from the space and sent it over, and also asked Baimaohu for a wild boar and left it there.
The old, young, sick and disabled people in the Yangyang Hall are now well fed and warmly clothed, which is already very satisfying. Unexpectedly, the benefactor lady even sent them rare vegetables in winter and wild boars that are more precious than pork. These people were so moved that they burst into tears, and there was no way to say more...
Two days later
, after intensive preparations by everyone, the delicacy of barbecue skewers finally appeared in front of the people of the town on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day when Caiwei took over the Bafu Restaurant. At
noon that day, a mouth-watering and irresistible fragrance suddenly floated in the long Goldfish Lane. The strong and fragrant smell diffused in the air, attracting passers-by to stop and unconsciously follow the fragrance to find it...
Soon, they found the Bafu Restaurant.
In front of the Bafu Restaurant in the center of Goldfish Lane, a long row of iron stoves were burning charcoal, with strings of small pieces of meat skewered on them. The meat pieces were either fat or lean, and were grilled by the raging charcoal fire until they were shiny and oily. The meat pieces were sizzling with oil stars, and some unknown seasonings were wrapped around them. The seasonings were sprinkled on the meat, and after being grilled by the charcoal fire, they gave off a mouth-watering fragrance!
Faced with such delicious food, some people couldn't hold back and walked into the restaurant, shouting and asking for the skewers of meat grilled outside the door. Jiujin
and Zhou Shu saw that someone was ordering, so they didn't dare to slack off. They were very energetic and used all the barbecue techniques that Caiwei taught them two days ago!
The skewers were grilled, and the waiter shouted and sent a handful of grilled skewers of meat that were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside and fragrant to the diners' tables.
As soon as the meat skewers were served, they immediately caused a strong response from the diners. The guests who ate the meat skewers couldn't help but applaud. Some immediately sent the servants around them to invite their friends to come and taste it...
In less than an hour, the Bafu Restaurant was full. All the guests ordered the meat skewers without exception. Most of the guests who didn't have seats would rather stand outside in the freezing cold and wait than go to other restaurants to make do!
Two hours later, the 3,000 meat skewers reserved in the Bafu Restaurant were sold out, and some people licked their lips and complained that they didn't eat enough. And those diners who had been outside for a long time but didn't even taste a skewer of meat, when they heard that the skewers were sold out, they were frozen in the cold wind for a long time, and they all shouted in dissatisfaction.
Seeing this, Caiwei hurriedly called the waiter aside and whispered a few instructions.
After receiving the instruction, the waiter immediately ran outside and shouted loudly: "Dear guests, don't be angry. Our boss just ordered that all guests who queued up in my Bafu Restaurant today but didn't get to eat can go to the counter to reserve seats for tomorrow first. As compensation, all guests who paid a deposit to reserve a seat today can give each table a plate of cold cucumbers and a plate of braised pork head tomorrow!"
Cold cucumbers?
After hearing the waiter's introduction, some people were shocked, while others were skeptical?
In the winter, it is already amazing to have some green leafy vegetables such as spinach and rapeseed. Even a big restaurant like Zuixianju doesn't have such a rare thing as cucumbers!
And this Bafu Restaurant can actually get cucumbers? And from the tone, it seems that there are still a lot of stocks!
Immediately, everyone had a new assessment of the strength of Bafu Restaurant, and the resentment of not being able to eat skewers just now also dissipated. After all, none of them had eaten cucumbers in winter!
A small unpleasantness was resolved just like that, and diners all rushed to the counter and began to reserve seats for tomorrow...
Because of the delicacy of meat skewers, the business of Bafu Restaurant was so good that day! Not only the large pieces of grilled meat, grilled lettuce, cabbage, and other grilled series were sold very fast, but some dishes that were not so popular on weekdays were also sold much more than before...
Although Caiwei expected that meat skewers would be popular, it was really beyond her expectation that they would be so popular! But when she thought of several guests who had to go to other restaurants for dinner because they couldn't get a seat, she couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart.
No, she had to think of a way to make all the money go into her own pocket!