62. Join
62. Join
After Xiangji closed, Zhang Dagui's booth became even more popular, and everyone had to queue up to make an appointment to get a seat.
While the popularity is rising, the reputation is also spreading rapidly, attracting many small internet celebrities to check in and live broadcast.
"Busy, I'm so busy!"
Another busy night passed, Chen Youcai was sweating profusely, and his hands were about to cramp from exhaustion.
The three of Zhang Dagui also felt uncomfortable, and they all sat slumped in the wicker chairs, not bothering to move their fingers.
Those diners who couldn't eat still refused to leave and surrounded the stalls, and many people kept taking pictures with their mobile phones.
"Let's break up, everyone. This restaurant is so pissy. If you want to eat something good, then come early tomorrow night."
"Yeah, the boss is also stubborn, and he refuses to prepare more ingredients."
"We locals are used to it. Now that there are more and more people, we will have to queue for a long time to eat in the future..."
Everyone chattered and discussed, and even made fun of Zhang Dagui.
Zhang Dagui was not angry at all, he smiled weakly at the crowd and bowed their hands, which was regarded as an apology.
"Dagui, it won't work if it continues like this. The business is so good, can't you let the money go without making money?"
Aunt Zhang took off her rubber gloves, and put her hands under Zhang Dagui's eyelids.
She complained rather distressedly: "Look, these days I just washed the dishes, and I almost washed my fingers out of calluses."
"You think it's easy for me, my old waist is almost exhausted."
Zhang Dagui rolled his eyes angrily, rubbed his back and kept moaning.
"..."
The corners of the stall owners' mouths twitched when they heard this, they were envious and jealous.
This is really the death of the drought, the death of the flood... My family is poor, and I am worried about the poor business.
But Zhang Dagui was fine, instead he complained that the business was too booming, which made everyone exhausted...
Listen to it, listen to it, is this special meow still speaking human language?
"Great expensive, why don't you just rent out our booth, since we don't have much business anyway."
Those people came over one after another, half joking and half serious.
Everyone is a native of Zhangjia Town. If we really want to talk about it in detail, most of them are related to each other.
Seeing that Zhang Dagui's business has become very prosperous, they are both happy and a little bit disappointed.
Why can someone else suddenly make their business booming?
I asked Zhang Dagui several times overtly and secretly, but this guy seemed simple and honest, but his mouth was unequivocal.
He refused to reveal a single word at all.
Some people also secretly wondered if he used Xiangji's method, also adding poppy shell powder to the dishes as seasoning?
However, since Tianxiangji was seized the previous day, the food stalls have also undergone severe searches, and even high-tech olfactory detectors have been used.
Zhang Dagui's booth was booming, so he was naturally the focus of inspection, but no problems were found.
This made all the stall owners secretly amazed, and became more curious about Zhang Dagui's stall.
"Are you willing to give up your booth?"
Zhang Dagui squinted at the familiar faces, and said with a smile: "That is your lifeline, I don't dare to think about it."
"No way, who made everyone happy to come to your place to eat?"
The one who spoke was a lean man, others called him Genzi, and he smiled wryly and said, "We're not complaining about being robbed of the business by you."
"But if this goes on like this, we will lose money to the point that we can't even earn back the booth rent."
"Yes, Dagui, you can think of a way for us, if you have money, everyone can earn it together."
"I see that your booth is already too busy, so it's not impossible to share some of the business with us..."
Zhang Dagui was quite embarrassed by what everyone said, and couldn't help scratching his head and looking at Chen Youcai.
In fact, the solution to this matter is quite simple.
The secret to the popularity of his stall is nothing more than the "secret seasoning" that Chen Youcai concocted.
To put it bluntly, as long as the seasoning is provided to other stalls, naturally they will not worry about the other's business.
But in other words, who would really dislike the flow of customers, making money and making hands cramp?
Zhang Dagui was concerned, and at the same time thought that this seasoning belonged to Chen Youcai personally.
The real decision-making power is actually still in Chen Youcai's hands.
"Uncle Genzi, do you think this is okay?"
Facing Zhang Dagui's eyes, Chen Youcai also reacted.
He pondered for a while, then bit the bullet and said, "You can choose to join our booth."
"Join? If you are talented, please tell me in detail, how to join?"
Genzi and the others looked at each other, but they didn't despise what Chen Youcai said because he was just a part-time worker.
One must know that Zhang Dagui attached so much importance to Chen Youcai that he almost regarded him as the backbone, and he had to discuss all matters big and small with him.
Several stalls are next to each other, not far apart.
All these things were seen by Genzi and others, so they naturally understood the weight of Chen Youcai's words.
"We are responsible for the selection of ingredients, purchase, and teaching the process of cooking... You are a chain store of our booth."
"After excluding the basic costs, we only charge one percent of your net income as the franchise fee every night. What do you think?"
Chen Youcai spoke out the plan in his heart with a smile, and everyone was lost in thought.
In fact, Chen Youcai had long wanted to help these stall owners.
But the secret seasoning is of great importance. If the challenge mission fails, the secret seasoning will also be invalid and will no longer work.
There are still eight days left until the end of the challenge mission.
After much deliberation, Chen Youcai only came up with the more appropriate method of "joining in".
Even after the mission fails, the secret seasoning loses its effect.
At that time, many stalls will be connected together, advance and retreat together, and the business will not suffer too much decline.
As for the selection and purchase of limited ingredients, it is to prevent various stalls from having other ideas and shoddy.
As a result, the quality of the ingredients is not up to standard, which messes up the reputation.
The so-called "teaching the cooking process" is actually sharing the secret recipe and seasoning with everyone without knowing it.
"You are talented, I think it's better to discuss this matter slowly, don't worry, hehe."
Aunt Zhang stared at the dog for a moment, then touched Zhang Dagui with her foot, seemingly reluctant.
Unexpectedly, the latter pretended to be deaf and dumb, and did not express his opinion at all.
Aunt Zhang was angry and anxious, she quickly opened her mouth to delay the matter.
If you think about it, the business of your own stall is booming, as long as you can make money, who cares about the life and death of other stalls?
If other people join in and take away the business...and make less money, everyone will not be happy.
"How can you not be in a hurry, sister-in-law, you didn't see that we are almost drinking the northwest wind!"
Genzi and the others looked at each other, and they all saw the excitement in each other's eyes.
I could only hear him laughing and saying: "I think Youcai's idea is good. If you eat meat, let's just drink some soup!"
"Yes, we also agree, what is a one percent franchise fee?"
"It's much better than closing down..."
Everyone opened their mouths to express their agreement, and Aunt Zhang was so anxious that she couldn't help abducting Zhang Dagui with her elbow.
"Okay, since everyone thinks highly of me, Zhang Dagui, and is willing to follow me, I'm also very happy."
Zhang Dagui gave Aunt Zhang a hard look, ignored the other's complaining gaze, and finally nodded with a smile.
"That's really great, Dagui, you will be my dear brother from now on!"
Genzi was beaming with joy, and the others were also beaming with joy, eager to help clean up the booth.
"Uncle Gui, have I made Aunt Zhang unhappy?"
After sending Genzi and the others away, Aunt Zhang got angry and went home first.
Chen Youcai watched her go away, and smiled wryly at Zhang Dagui.
"Blind, don't pay attention to her, a woman is just a woman with long hair but short sense."
Zhang Dagui happily patted Chen Youcai's shoulder, and said with a red face, "Speaking of which, I haven't been so majestic for a long time, haha."
"Uncle Da Gui is the number one in the family, who dares to be disobedient?"
Zhao Xiaolin joked while wiping the tables and chairs.
"Smelly girl, you know how to make fun of your uncle."
Zhang Dagui scolded with a smile, waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'm exhausted today, go home and rest, and I'll clean up the rest tomorrow."
"Okay, goodbye uncle."
Chen Youcai nodded, feeling a little tired, and immediately bid farewell to Zhang Dagui, and walked out of the food stall with Zhao Xiaolin.
Just as the two were chatting and laughing, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind: "You are talented, Xiaolin!"
Turning around in astonishment, I saw Wang Zhuzi striding forward with a smile on his face, and grabbed Chen Youcai's arm.
"I was going to look for you in the food stall. I specially invited Yiyi to buy you a drink. I would like to thank you for saving my life last time!"
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