PWDLAW Chapter 222: Lacking Sour Cabbage
Chapter 222: Lacking Sour Cabbage
"Son, you're right. It's your old man who made a mistake." Zhang Shu hurriedly asked Zhang Cong to teach him how to read.
Though difficult, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
Meanwhile, Ye Muyu was unaware of the conversation between the father and son. After finishing her meal, she took her usual afternoon nap.
In the county, at the Fragrant Pavilion, the menu for sour cabbage fish had been taken down not because it tasted bad but because they ran out of sour cabbage. To avoid upsetting customers, they had to wait for the ingredients to arrive before adding it back to the menu.
"Still haven't figured out the sour cabbage?" the manager of the Fragrant Pavilion anxiously inquired.
"No, Manager. Look, we made over a dozen jars ourselves but the taste is always a bit off." the chef explained.
"If it were a small place, we could use it directly. But selling this sour cabbage fish to customers might not meet the expected standards." the chef lamented.
In fact, the chef's sour cabbage was already quite close to what Ye Muyu made which usually took only a day or two to be ready. However, it was considered inferior.
The Fragrant Pavilion was the best restaurant in the county, offering high-quality dishes at a premium price. Any compromise in taste would not only mean losing money but also tarnishing their reputation.
The main family, the Xie family, insisted on not compromising on quality.
However, the manager noticed that customers kept ordering sour cabbage fish and even passing merchants would specifically come for it. Yet, for two consecutive days, they couldn't serve it due to the lack of sour cabbage, missing out on potential business.
For the cunning businessman, Manager Xie, this was unbearable.
So, from the moment he learned they needed to buy sour cabbage, he secretly instructed the chef to make some.
The result? They made it but unfortunately, the taste wasn't good.
"Ah, the person who sold us the recipe probably had us in a tight spot from the beginning." Manager Xie sighed. But considering that there were now miscellaneous sour cabbage fish available and still no high-quality sour cabbage, it indicated that those who were really doing business with the Third Young Master weren't in a hurry to be overtaken.
This situation had likely been anticipated.
Either they were too confident or very clever.
"Manager, should we continue making it?" the chef asked.
Manager Xie sighed again, "Yes, make it. What if you succeed?"
"But don't use what you make for cooking. I'll go urge the person selling sour cabbage. If they don't provide it soon, I'll be losing a lot of business every day."
Manager Xie's heartache aside, the issue was left unspoken.
In these days, Xie Yu had also instructed his subordinates to organize and renovate the shops not only in the county but also in the nearby towns and the capital.
Though Nanchang County was a bit far from the capital, the Xie family, despite having considerable influence in the county, had most of their wealth concentrated in the surrounding towns.
There were only two shops in the capital and one was just an estate outside the city.
Since hearing Chu Heng's words, Xie Yu felt that he indeed needed to have his own business
Hence, his subordinates had been busy managing and renovating the shops. At the same time, in the backyard of the prepared pastry shop on the busiest street in the county, a baking oven had been set up.
Xie Yu had already signed the contract with Chu Heng, a 70-30 split. Chu Heng needed to provide good pastry ideas regularly.
As for the two hundred taels, Xie Yu would take one-tenth of it. Since Xie Yu planned to open seven pastry shops in one go and all the shops he had couldn't be reopened, they were all profitable. Naturally, he wouldn't touch those well-performing shops.
In this way, he had to ask his grandfather if there were any failing shops that couldn't continue.
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