Chapter 104: Hot Sales

The first sale of dried tangerine peel tea received unprecedented praise.

Qin Huai cooked a large pot. He didn't know exactly how many portions could be divided from one pot, but it definitely wasn't 1314 portions.

Of course, he had no intention of cooking a second pot. After all, the canteen's daily main focus was actually cheap fast food and high-priced dim sum. Previously, selling herbal tea, hand-beaten lemon tea, and the soup sent during this period were all sold casually, and the quantity wasn't large.

If the taste was good, he sold it; if it was average, he sold half and gave half; if it wasn't good, he gave it away. The fact that it could all be sold out every day relied entirely on the strong support of old customers.

Qin Huai still followed the old approach for today's dried tangerine peel tea, selling it casually.

But soon, reality told him that some things couldn't just be sold casually.

Because it really sold too well!

12:00 PM is the busiest time of the day for the Cloud Canteen.

Unlike the tense busyness of the morning when the passenger flow was full but no one was eating in, and unlike the leisure of the evening when nearby residents who were too lazy to cook brought their families to eat, chat, and hold tea parties, the Cloud Canteen at noon was full and racing against time.

The precious lunch break made nearby office workers wish they could hold a stopwatch to eat efficiently.

Sharing tables, waiting for seats, and adding seats happened from time to time in the canteen. As long as the customers didn't mind, a small 4-person table could even squeeze in 7 people, and the competition was more intense than the university canteen during military training.

When every seat was precious, the grandpas and grandmas wouldn't occupy the canteen seats to eat and chat leisurely.

Everyone would chat in shifts very thoughtfully and come in to sit and chat after this hour of peak dining time passed.

Many customers noticed that the canteen had new items today.

A new drink was added: dried tangerine peel tea, priced at 15 yuan a bowl. Compared with the cheap set meal of 25 yuan for one meat and two vegetables, this price was simply outrageous.

But this dried tangerine peel tea was cooked by Master Xiao Qin.

Master Xiao Qin dared to sell it at this price and dared to hang the dried tangerine peel tea on the menu board, so the dried tangerine peel tea must have its unique features.

Many regular customers gritted their teeth and chose to trust Master Xiao Qin once.

The waiters at the serving window skillfully added a small bowl of dried tangerine peel tea to their meal trays and calmly explained to the customers' shocked expressions: That's right, this is dried tangerine peel tea. The dried tangerine peel tea produced by our Master Xiao Qin is like this!

The regular customers who were briefly shocked started eating their daily meals.

For most regular customers who stably ate lunch at the Cloud Canteen, eating lunch here, besides ensuring freshness, health, safety, and cheapness, the most important thing was to spend a lot of money to add a little sweetness to their miserable working life.

Cheap fast food didn't affect them eating expensive dim sum.

After working hard for half a day, can't you eat something good to reward yourself?

Can't grab the crab-shell yellow, can't afford the five-diced baozi, haven't seen the white jade frost cake, don't know what the mung bean ice cake looks like yet, but you have to eat the donkey-rolling-donkey!

Cut it, cut a big piece! Don't let outsiders see it, or they'll think we can't afford it.

In places Qin Huai didn't know, the Cloud Canteen already had a large group of loyal customers of donkey-rolling-donkey, whose dining philosophy was that they had to eat at least one piece of donkey-rolling-donkey.

Today, the followers of the donkey-rolling-donkey sect chose donkey-rolling-donkey with dried tangerine peel tea.

The dried tangerine peel tea was warm, the ingredients were sufficient, and it made the diners of the donkey-rolling-donkey sect feel warm in their hearts. They felt that the grievances they had suffered from working for half a day were healed by this small bowl of dried tangerine peel tea, and the "grievance fee" wasn't so hard to earn.

Even the messages in the work group looked so...

Well, the messages in the work group still looked so annoying that people wanted to quit the group.

The followers of the donkey-rolling-donkey sect who finished their lunch at light speed all chose to pack a cup of dried tangerine peel tea to take back to the company to drink as afternoon tea, while frantically recommending it to their colleagues.

You don't like eating donkey-rolling-donkey? You have to drink dried tangerine peel tea!

What? You say this dried tangerine peel tea is dried tangerine peel, white fungus, and lotus seed soup? Don't worry about it, just drink it.

1:00 PM ended. After a day of hard work, Master Xiao Qin, who accidentally worked half an hour of overtime with his colleagues, ate lunch with his colleagues.

Ouyang had a separate small stove and didn't eat in the canteen today, going home to gnaw on dim sum.

Chen An, Huang Xi, and An Youyou, who wasn't afraid of eating with the boss, ate at the same table as Qin Huai.

Chen An sat beside Qin Huai, eating rice absent-mindedly, and seized the time to ask questions.

"Grandma Ding reflected again today that the sponge cake is a bit hard and feels a bit dry when chewed. I also want to make the sponge cake fluffy, but according to the current method, it's impossible to make it very fluffy." Chen An was very distressed.

Chen An felt that he had changed.

When he worked in other catering shops before, he never cared about customer reviews, as long as the boss didn't deduct his money, whatever.

But now...

It could only be said that the grandpas and grandmas in the community were too enthusiastic.

The pomelo that Grandma Ding stuffed to him the day before yesterday hadn't been finished yet. If he couldn't make sponge cake that was fluffy, delicious, and suitable for the elderly's taste, how could he be worthy of the pomelo!

"Then change the recipe." Qin Huai had a lot of experience in this matter. "You think it's impossible to make it fluffier according to the existing method, which means there's a problem with the existing method. Just change the method."

Chen An:?

"For how to change it specifically, you can refer to the osmanthus steamed cake I made, or fermented rice baozi is also fine. If you think these two methods are too difficult... go online and borrow how those fluffy small breads are made."

Chen An hesitated: "Changing in these directions... is it still sponge cake?" Qin Huai pointed to the dried tangerine peel tea in front of Chen An: "What is this?"

"Dried tangerine peel tea."

"Then what is it actually?"

"Hmm... dried tangerine peel, white fungus, and lotus seed soup?"

"Look, but I ask you, your first reaction is still that it's called dried tangerine peel tea. Isn't what we sell determined by ourselves?" Qin Huai looked around. The sales of dried tangerine peel tea were very impressive. Basically, seven out of every ten dining customers ordered it. "Look, as long as you introduce this to customers as dried tangerine peel tea, everyone won't raise any objections."

Chen An realized.

He found that his pattern was still too small. No wonder he could only work in a canteen at his age, while the boss was already working for himself at a young age.

Eh, he seemed to be working for himself when he was young too.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Chen An continued to bury his head in eating.

While eating, a waiter with soup on the corner of his mouth, who could tell at a glance that he hadn't had time to wipe his mouth, ran toward Qin Huai's side: "Sister Xi, Master Xiao Qin, the group order just came in, totaling 36 cups of dried tangerine peel tea."

As soon as the words fell, another waiter ran over: "19 cups were just ordered!"

Seeing work coming, Chen An put down his chopsticks: "I'll go pack."

An Youyou was shocked by the work spirit of her colleague who went to work overtime without even eating, and looked up blankly: "Then... I'll go deliver it first?"

"Eat first." Qin Huai pressed Chen An down. "It's not urgent for a moment."

It was indeed not urgent for this moment.

By the time Chen An and An Youyou finished their meal, the number of dried tangerine peel teas for group delivery had reached as high as 171 cups.

Qin Huai was shocked and immediately called a halt, asking Chen An to pack and count how many cups there were now, and he himself went to cook.

Fortunately, Zhao Rong had the foresight to soak a lot of ingredients in advance. Sure enough, ginger was still old and spicy.

Two hours later, Qin Huai found that Zhao Rong didn't have that much foresight either.

Zhao Rong had soaked a pot of ingredients, but cooking another pot of dried tangerine peel tea was obviously still not enough.

Because not only was the group order group ordering "bouncy," but some diners who didn't know where they knew that the Cloud Canteen sold dried tangerine peel tea and exceeded the delivery distance were also ordering through errands.

3:00 PM, there were more errand runners waiting for the dried tangerine peel tea to come out of the pot in the Cloud Canteen than grandpas and grandmas sitting and chatting.

Qin Huai was stunned.

Today's high-quality soup couldn't be cooked.

There was no pot.

The canteen hadn't prepared so many large pots.

The pots were all used to cook dried tangerine peel tea.

It seemed it was time to order a few larger pots that could cook a child.

"Buddy, ask you something." Qin Huai, who had suspended online teaching for a day, lay on the window and asked the errand runner brother sitting at table 9 waiting for the dried tangerine peel tea to come out of the pot, "Can you reveal where the errand was called from?"

The errand runner brother answered smoothly: "You are Master Xiao Qin, right? Dr. Qu called it."

"There is a note in her order, saying that she is your friend, and if you ask, let me tell you."

"She said she brought a few cups of dried tangerine peel tea to her colleagues this morning, and her colleagues thought the taste was good. She thought about supporting your canteen's business, so she placed an order to call an errand runner to buy a batch. I already came once this morning; you might not have an impression."

After speaking, the errand runner brother also pointed to five or six people sitting happily playing on their phones: "These are all orders from that hospital, some are for hospitalized patients, some are for doctors in the department."

"That big guy, my buddy, took the order for the orthopedics department."

"That yellow-haired guy, I took the order with him and chatted a bit. He took the emergency department's, and I took the neurology department's, which was also Dr. Qu's order."

After speaking, the errand runner brother also thanked Qin Huai with a smile: "Buddy, thank you. It's rare to run into so many big orders with a lot of money at once."

Qin Huai:...

Understood, go order the large pot for cooking a child now.

Cook 1314 cups of dried tangerine peel tea tomorrow morning first.

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