Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 192 Hot soy milk with big meat buns, breakfast business is also better

Li looked surprised and delighted.

Shen Yu was also surprised when he heard this. It was said that Linjianglou in Ji'an Prefecture was the best restaurant in Ji'an Prefecture.

Shen Yu looked at the remaining vegetarian dishes and felt a little emotional.

I only made four vegetarian dishes today, and I did it on purpose.

It seems that in the future I only need to make one or two vegetarian dishes. It seems that whether in modern times or in ancient times, people love meat and meat is the mainstream.

Li said, "It will get colder and colder. After October, there will be no fresh vegetables to eat.

"Let's eat these vegetables at noon today, don't waste them."

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Let's make a few more meat dishes tomorrow. There are many ways to cook pork. I'll make them one by one and add them to the menu."

Speaking of the menu, Shen Yu thought that after Dun Dun and Yu Cheng came back in the evening, he would write a few menus and post them on the wall of the store so that it would be more convenient for customers to order food.

A few people talked for a while and prepared to clear the table for dinner.

It was already past lunchtime, and the ingredients prepared yesterday had been almost used up. We could only wait for the butcher to deliver the ingredients in the afternoon and then order more pork.

Since the food on the plate has been in the steamer, it does not need to be heated up and can be eaten directly.

However, the pancakes and rice were also sold out. Fortunately, the dough and stove were ready, so Zhou Dalang went to make a few more pancakes.

Yutao brought two small plates of spicy ginger radish, and added a spoonful of spicy vinegar shredded radish when rolling the pancakes, which was the most delicious.

There were still a lot of eggs in the store, so Shen Yu went to the stove and fried a large plate of eggs with chives, then took off her apron and sat down to eat with everyone.

Although they were all vegetarian dishes, everyone was in a very good mood.

Although it was the first time to open a store, I had no experience and was insufficiently prepared, so I was a little hesitant, but the ingredients were sold out on the first day of opening, which was obviously a good start.

After dinner, Li counted the money she had received that day.

Because several customers packed up a large number of meat skewers and paid with dimes.

Li counted copper coins and small change, and it took him a long time to settle the account.

All added up, there was more than three taels of silver.

Shen Yu was a little disappointed after hearing this, thinking that the profit was not much more than before selling buns.

She pouted and said nothing, but she was muttering in her heart, wondering if she was losing money by giving away the meat skewers today?

Li said cheerfully, "Don't be upset. This is the money we received for selling stir-fried vegetables and meat in the store."

"This morning, after I sold the buns and collected the winnowing baskets, I took out the silver from the money box and put it aside."

"A lunch meal costs more than three taels of silver, which is not a small amount."

Seeing that Shen Yu didn't seem satisfied with her income, Li quickly comforted her daughter.

"Every customer who came to the store today was given a free skewer of meat, and the ingredients were not prepared enough. The customers who came later haven't bought any yet. If we prepare more skewers of meat tomorrow, we will definitely be able to sell more."

Only then did Shen Yu realize that this was the money calculated from the lunch bill.

If you calculate it this way, it is indeed not a small amount.

If we stop giving out meat skewers after the first three days and have sufficient ingredients, and add a few more meat dishes, will we be able to make more money?

What Shen Yu wants to do most now is to make some money quickly so that he can quickly return the one hundred taels of silver that Lu Lang borrowed from him.

It is now early September, and Qi Xi said that Lu Lang will go back to celebrate his grandmother's birthday at the end of September.

I don’t know if I can pay back Lu Lang before the end of September.

With the one hundred taels of silver borrowed from Lu Lang, Shen Yu did feel a lot more comfortable.

I felt confident when ordering ingredients, and I could buy more spices at one time. I also secretly paid the deposit for the chili peppers.

Although Lu Lang downplayed the matter of the jade pendant, it still became a thorn in Shen Yu's side. She thought that if she could pay the money back quickly, this matter would have nothing to do with her.

Today, due to insufficient food preparation, Fengnian Restaurant closed early before the afternoon.

Shen Yu went to Chengdong Street again.

Early the next morning, a large bucket of raw soy milk was delivered on time.

Shen Yu and Yu Tao both slept for half an hour longer before getting up.

Li and Jiang were responsible for steaming the buns and sweet cakes, while Zhou Dalang made soy milk.

When Shen Yu got up, the steamed buns were ready and the soy milk was ready.

Hot buns with soy beans are of course popular. People here love to drink sweet soy milk, so Shen Yu simply put the sugar jar on the table and let the guests add it themselves.

The tables and chairs in Fengnian Restaurant are brand new, and the floor is smooth and clean, making people feel comfortable and relaxed just by looking at it.

Customers who are not in a hurry would like to order a bowl of hot soy milk, buy a few buns, sit in the spacious shop, eat comfortably before leaving.

Customers sitting in the store and eating breakfast have become invisible living advertisements.

When people passing by saw that the shop was steaming hot and almost full, the customers who originally did not plan to eat buns all turned to this Fengnian restaurant.

Li was happy but also a little panicked. She whispered to Shen Yu, "We didn't steam enough buns today. Looking at the situation, I'm afraid we won't be able to sell enough."

Fortunately, the dough and fillings for steamed buns are always available, and the stove is convenient.

Shen Yu handed over the sales matters in the store to Li and Jiang, and he, Zhou Dalang and Yutao went to the big kitchen in the backyard and steamed three more baskets of meat buns.

The result was that even though we steamed three more pots, some customers still didn’t buy any, and once again we didn’t prepare enough ingredients.

Today, the customers who buy buns are not like before, mostly old customers from the market and street shops. There are also many customers who come to the market early in the morning to buy buns.

They walked by the street and saw this restaurant full of diners, so they walked in following the aroma and had breakfast here.

After breakfast, Shen Yu asked Zhou Dalang to go to the butcher shop.

Please order more minced meat and pork belly.

Shen Yu felt that he had underestimated the number of customers coming to this market to shop.

In the past, it only sold buns, and it was a small stall, so most of the customers who came to buy would not go there for breakfast.

But it was different after opening a restaurant. When customers saw that the store was clean and tidy, and no less tidy than those big restaurants in the west of the county, they were naturally willing to come in and dine.

Shen Yu silently estimated in her heart that if she continued like this, she would still have hope of paying back Lu Lang's 100 taels of silver before the end of September.

After the busy breakfast, everyone took a short break after having breakfast, and then Jiang and Li started to skewer the meat for lunch.

With experience gained today, the meat skewers are mainly pork belly, with some pork rib skewers and the skewered meat that Shen Yu bought yesterday.

There are a wide variety of meat skewers here, including chicken, duck, goose, rabbit, quail, yellow sparrow, etc., and these are all affordable meat skewers.

Mutton is expensive. Small street stalls usually don’t sell mutton skewers. They are only sold in large restaurants.