HLnovel Chapter 132 This thing isn't afraid of competition, it's afraid of not winning.
Chapter 132 This thing isn't afraid of competition, it's afraid of not winning.
Lin Qingchuan smiled with delight and immediately said excitedly, "Alright, Manager Su, then we really won't hold back this time."
After several interactions with Manager Su, Lin Xiaotang increasingly felt that Manager Su's identity was mysterious. He was straightforward and had a good eye for people. For example, the managers and waiters in Yunlai Restaurant were all of good character, and they were all warm-hearted and easy to get along with.
She thought to herself, "If I save up more money in the future, it should go more smoothly if I talk to Manager Su about opening a braised pig's trotters shop together."
Manager Su said solemnly, "Recently, many restaurants in the county have started to follow suit and sell braised pig's trotters. However, they don't have the recipe. They can't replicate our taste in a short time just by tasting and copying ours. But since you always buy seasonings in the county, be careful that someone with ulterior motives will follow suit and analyze the ingredients. Why don't you divide the seasonings you need into several portions and buy them from different places?"
Lin Xiaotang nodded, "Manager Su is right. It's safer to buy the seasonings separately from different places. My dad and I bought some in town before, but after improving the recipe, we started buying a few more in the county. If I hadn't also bought the seasoning for boneless chicken feet in town, my stepmother would have almost made the first batch of braised pig's trotters taste like that."
After this incident, she and her father need to be more careful.
Manager Su smiled slightly, "I've already heard about that from Manager Yao. It was just a coincidence. If you hadn't come up with the idea of making boneless chicken feet before that, Juxian Restaurant would have gotten a good deal. Even if they used the unmodified recipe, they could still sell them."
Lin Xiaotang blushed and couldn't help but sigh, "Sigh, I was too careless. Something like this won't happen again. But even if those restaurants follow suit, their own recipes won't be authentic. In the future, when there are more people selling braised pig's trotters, our braised pig's trotters will only become more famous. This thing isn't afraid of competition, it's just afraid of not being able to win."
In modern times, there is a small town that sells braised pig's trotters. Several shops have opened on one street, and there are also many chain stores in nearby towns. However, the most authentic one is still the most profitable. Customers from surrounding towns drive a long way to buy from that shop.
why?
Because his food is authentic and unique, once the signboard was put up, many customers naturally came from far and wide.
They also sell online, vacuum-pack and ship via express delivery, growing their business larger and larger, and opening quite a few franchise stores.
As the saying goes, "Teaching an apprentice can starve the master." The recipe from the main store is always the best, while the recipe from the franchise stores is slightly different. No matter how much people study it, they can't replicate it.
Therefore, since things can't be kept secret, we can't be afraid of people following the trend. We still need to study carefully how to make it better and better, and stand out from the crowd.
Manager Su was deeply shocked after hearing this.
"Xiao Tang, you have such a profound way of reasoning. If I had only heard your voice but never seen you, I would have thought you were a well-traveled young lady from a wealthy family. You are quite remarkable at such a young age."
Even he wants a daughter like that!
"Manager Su, you flatter me. I just made it up, but I don't think I made it up wrong, do I?"
Shopkeeper Su shook his head and chuckled, thinking that this little girl was simply too clever.
"That's right. From now on, don't keep calling me Manager Su. I'm the second oldest in my family, so just call me Second Uncle."
So, Manager Su has an older brother. The Su family mansion is so big, his family must be quite large. But where do his family members live now?
unknown!
She also doesn't have the habit of prying into other people's privacy or inquiring about their identities in private.
Forget it, if Manager Su is willing to reveal it, he will. If he is not willing to reveal it, it would be impolite to pry. It would make it seem as if she, at such a young age, was trying to climb the social ladder by clinging to her father's wealth.
Shaking off her doubts, she immediately called out sweetly, "Okay, Second Uncle, I understand."
The moment he addressed him as "Second Uncle," their relationship immediately became much closer.
Lin Qingchuan and Manager Su exchanged pleasantries for a while, then the father and daughter bid him farewell and left Wanhe Restaurant, pulling their mule cart to make purchases.
"Tang'er, we didn't know Manager Su was here. We were completely unprepared. If we had known, we would have prepared some small gifts before coming."
Seeing her father's annoyance, Lin Xiaotang thought for a moment and said, "Dad, there's no such thing as knowing beforehand. We just happened to run into this situation. It's normal that we didn't prepare anything. Besides, we don't have any extra money to buy him any expensive gifts right now. Why don't we wait until the New Year and buy him something? We can also use this time to think about it properly."
Shopkeeper Su was older than her father, but he was refined and elegant, as if he had never been exposed to the elements, and looked much younger than her father. In addition, she guessed that Shopkeeper Su came from a wealthy family and must be extraordinary, as he had no shortage of good things.
The gifts she and her father bought might not even be appreciated by others; they were just a thank-you gift, and they shouldn't take them too seriously.
Lin Qingchuan couldn't think of any good solutions, so he could only nod in agreement.
"Okay, you're more decisive than Dad. I'll listen to you."
After buying the pig's trotters, the father and daughter returned to Dushui County.
When the fifteenth of the twelfth lunar month arrived, Accountant Lu instructed Manager Yao to arrange for the waiters to keep an eye out for the father and daughter when they returned from the county at noon, and then call them to go into the restaurant.
As per Manager Su's arrangement, Accountant Lu settled accounts with them every two weeks.
Clutching the settlement money, the father and daughter were so happy they almost burst into tears.
I have to express my gratitude once again in my heart; Manager Su has once again solved their urgent problem.
The next day, they discussed with several butchers in Dushui County that the demand for live pig trotters was high recently, and they must ask the butchers to reserve more for them, as many as they could get.
The bosses all readily agreed.
After all, the father and daughter often bought raw pig trotters from several butcher shops, and they were familiar with each other. The shop owners all readily agreed to buy them, so they didn't think much of it.
To their surprise, when they went to buy more two days later, all the live pig trotters at the butcher shops were sold out!
Lin Qingchuan was both angry and anxious, and hurriedly asked Boss Zhu of the Zhu Family Butcher Shop.
"Boss Zhu, didn't we agree before that you would save all the fresh pig trotters you slaughtered every day for us? Why are they all gone today? There are less than two weeks until the New Year, you should be slaughtering more pigs and have more pig trotters."
Boss Zhu looked a little embarrassed, his eyes darting away slightly, but he quickly regained his composure.
"It's true that there have been more pigs being slaughtered lately, but we're in business, and customers come to buy, so I can't just refuse to sell. If I offend all my customers because of you, my business won't last long, will it?"
It means that it was sold to other customers, and they broke their promise to save some for them.
Although he was angry, Lin Qingchuan felt that what Boss Zhu said was not wrong. It didn't matter who he sold to. They hadn't signed a written agreement with Manager Zhu to permanently reserve all the raw pig trotters from his butcher shop. It was normal for him not to keep his verbal agreement.
He had assumed things would go too smoothly and that's why he overlooked these things.
He felt both annoyed and guilty, blaming himself for being such a pig-brain, which led to his wasted trip and failure to buy any raw pig's trotters.
Lin Xiaotang, however, thought differently!
It's a coincidence that one shop sold out, but the fact that all the live pig trotters in the meat shops of Dushui County were sold out clearly indicates that someone was sabotaging things behind the scenes.
It was done on purpose!