Chapter 428: Let You Open a Gourmet Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Watching Hu Xiaoyun hold the exquisitely bound manual in her hands, flipping through it page by page with a look of surprise, Lu Feng couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

Hu Xiaoyun's reaction filled his heart with confidence, and he firmly thought to himself: "This method will definitely work."

Yesterday after Lu Feng closed his shop, as he passed by Li Ji Xiaolongbao Shop on Food Street, he casually glanced inside.

Before Lu Feng opened his shop at the Food Festival, Li Ji Xiaolongbao was considered a fairly well-known old brand shop on Food Street, and its hall was filled every day with diners coming to eat xiaolongbao.

But ever since Lu Family Restaurant became popular, Li Ji's business had visibly cooled down considerably.

Not a few of Li Ji's regular customers, after eating the food at Lu Feng's shop, stopped patronizing Li Ji, and Li Ji's business became not what it used to be.

To retain customers, Li Ji's boss, two weeks ago, gritted his teeth and lowered the price of xiaolongbao to fifteen yuan a steamer basket, almost selling at cost price.

Although this move was simple and rough, it did have some effect.

Some regular customers accustomed to Li Ji's taste, or office workers looking for cheap food, gradually flowed back a bit.

Therefore Li Ji's business nowadays was passable, but compared to its peak period, it was naturally far worse.

When Lu Feng passed by last night, his gaze was attracted by the paintings on the wall inside the shop.

Before, he had gone to Li Ji to eat xiaolongbao once, and at that time he hadn't paid much attention to the paintings on the wall.

Last night, by the light inside Li Ji's shop, he saw that the walls around Li Ji's shop were all painted with colorful ancient-style paintings.

There were plump piles of wheat stacked on field ridges, fat black pigs rooting for food in pigpens, and emerald green scallions covered with morning dew...

These paintings were all ingredients used to make xiaolongbao, with small text introducing the ingredients beside them.

Lu Feng stood outside Li Ji's door for a while, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

Although the ingredients Li Ji used to make xiaolongbao could not compare to the top-grade quality he bought in the System Mall, they were at best a relatively good level available on the market.

But through this method, they allowed diners who came to the shop to eat xiaolongbao to intuitively feel the quality of the ingredients.

The ingredients used in his own shop were almost all rare categories that could not be bought on the market.

He could completely do like Li Ji, letting diners know how excellent the quality of what they ate was.

But if they presented ingredients with pictures on the wall like Li Ji, the workload would be too great.

Moreover, unlocking subsequent dishes and ingredients would also be troublesome to update.

Therefore Lu Feng thought, why not bind the ingredient introduction into a manual, print the introduction content of those ingredients in the Mall, and add ingredient pictures found from the internet, which should achieve the same effect.

Lu Feng had screened the content inside the manual for a long time, choosing relatively rare ingredients that could be made public and were presentable.

Such as Algae Flower Fragrant Pig, Ecological Free-range Chicken, Top-grade Qimen Black Tea, and so on.

As for some more extraordinary System Special Supply ingredients, many were almost impossible for ordinary people to obtain, and those of course could not be printed in the booklet.

"Boss, are the introductions on this... all true?"

Hu Xiaoyun raised her head to look at Lu Feng, her voice carrying an unbelievable tone: "Free-range in the Ecological Orchard, eating wild fruits and flowers every day, growing up listening to music, and even getting massages, this pig is too precious, right?"

"Yes, it's true."

Lu Feng glanced at the booklet in her hand; Hu Xiaoyun was currently flipping to the introduction of Algae Flower Fragrant Pig, and he continued: "So the Red Braised Pork in our shop has meat that is fatty but not greasy."

Hu Xiaoyun couldn't help but exclaim, her gaze falling on the price list on the wall; she looked at the price of Red Braised Pork above, and couldn't help but say with a serious face: "Boss, I used to work part-time at a supermarket; their ordinary Black Pork there costs over forty yuan a jin, this Algae Flower Fragrant Pig is much more expensive than that! We sell a portion of Red Braised Pork for only 108 yuan a portion... Are the dishes in our shop too cheap?"

Just as Hu Xiaoyun's voice fell, the task progress in Lu Feng's mind quietly advanced a small notch.

Lu Feng secretly rejoiced in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he just said lightly: "It's okay, selling cheaper doesn't matter, as long as the customers eat happily."

"Boss, I think... why don't we raise the price!"

Hu Xiaoyun looked at the Food Ingredient Introduction Manual in her hand, then looked at the prices on the price list on the wall, and suggested with a serious face: "The cost of this pork must be very high; won't we lose a lot of money selling it for only 108?"

Lu Feng did not answer directly, but just pointed to the manual in Hu Xiaoyun's hand and said with a smile: "You finish reading it first before speaking; there are introductions of other ingredients behind. After you finish reading, I still need to arrange some things for you."

"Oh oh, okay."

Hu Xiaoyun nodded quickly, then lowered her head to flip to the next page of the manual, exclaiming softly in surprise as she read.

Every time she turned a page, her mouth couldn't help but open wider.

When she finished reading all the ingredient introductions and closed the manual, she felt the booklet in her hand was heavy.

Hu Xiaoyun only felt her head buzzing.

Among these ingredients in the manual, more than half she had never even heard of.

The introduction content on those ingredients exuded one word between the lines: expensive.

Hu Xiaoyun raised her head, paused for a while, and then said with a very firm tone: "Boss, I still think our prices are a bit too cheap."

Lu Feng said nothing, looking at Hu Xiaoyun's serious expression, and already had a number in his heart.

It seems this method of the Food Ingredient Introduction Manual can indeed change others' impression of the prices in his shop quite a bit.

Only when diners know the preciousness of the ingredients will they feel how cheap the prices in his shop now are.

This way, this System Task can also be completed faster.

Seeing Lu Feng say nothing, Hu Xiaoyun did not speak again either.

She picked up the manual, looking at the name "Lu Family Restaurant Ingredient Selection" on the cover, and silently sighed in her heart.

"The boss is really too generous! It turns out every dish in the shop uses such good ingredients! I originally thought the boss's prices were a bit high, but now looking at it, the prices are actually too cheap!"

Actually it wasn't Hu Xiaoyun's fault for feeling so strongly just now that Lu Feng should raise prices.

On the manual Lu Feng printed, besides detailed introductions of the ingredients themselves, there were also market reference prices for the ingredients.

When Hu Xiaoyun worked part-time at a supermarket before, she had also seen relatively expensive ingredients, but the ingredients on this manual in her hand, any one of them was much more expensive than the most expensive ingredient she had ever seen.