Farming and Raising Cubs (II)

Chapter 156: Imitation

Madam Shang and Min Huilan looked at Li Zhiyin, "Miss Li, do you have any good ideas?"

Li Zhiyin thought for a while and said, "How about calling Wangyou to take a nap?"

"This is good!"

Li Mumu, Mrs. Shang and Min Huilan all agreed to this name.

"I happen to have a three-story shop on Siping Street, and it's the right size." Li Zhiyin said, "Why don't we go take a look? If it's good, we can just use it to open a store."

It is much more convenient to have Li Zhiyin provide the shop. You don't have to look all over the street for something suitable.

So the three of them set out together for Siping Street.

Li Zhiyin explained, "Since I was away with my grandfather, I couldn't take care of many things here, and I didn't have time to take care of these shops, so they have been empty."

Her stepmother had always coveted the land and shops she owned, but she held them tightly in her hands, and the people around her were all left to her by her grandmother and were quite reliable.

So her stepmother never succeeded.

"It's right here." Li Zhiyin said.

Siping Street is the main street in Chong'an.

The streets are basically filled with rouge and powder shops, spice shops, jewelry shops, etc., which are especially suitable for women to shop around.

It is just right to open a Forget-Your-Sorrows Rest Restaurant here.

"When customers get tired of shopping around here, they can come to our store to rest." Min Huilan said happily as she observed the shops on this street.

"Our store should be opened here." Mrs. Shang nodded.

Li Zhiyin's shop seems to be tailor-made for a relaxing rest.

The size of the shop is also very suitable.

As soon as they entered the door, the four of them began to discuss how to arrange the first floor.

In addition to the booth design proposed by Li Mumu, Li Mumu also wrote down all the other decorations in his notebook.

After touring three floors, the general design of the shop came into being.

Li Zhiyin drew a new design drawing on the spot based on the details written down by Li Mumu.

Li Mumu saw that Li Zhiyin's painting was much better than her own, and her own painting looked as if a bug was crawling on it.

"My general knows a skilled craftsman who can make these. "Mrs. Shang said.

"Then I'll leave this part of the matter to Madam Shang." Li Zhiyin said.

"My husband is a civil servant, and most of the people he knows are civil servants. The wives of those civil servants love this kind of elegant things the most. When the store is about to open, I will give them some wine and snacks to try. They will definitely like it, and they will come to the store to taste it."

"Then leave the food to me." Li Mumu said, "I will prepare it carefully. We can't waste such a great arrangement."

The four of them agreed, and decided on each person's share before leaving.

In the following days, Li Mumu concentrated on preparing refreshments for the new store.

After making some, he met with Li Zhiyin and the other two to taste them together to decide which ones to use and which ones needed further adjustments.

When Li Mumu was making hawthorn cake, she heard Wang Cuizhen come in and said angrily, "This is so infuriating!"

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong?" Li Mumu looked up and asked.

"Didn't you say before that Huizhenlou imitated our dishes and put them on their menu?" Wang Cuizhen said, "Although they are shameless, they still have some face and didn't imitate the pot."

Huizhenlou is a big restaurant after all, and is quite famous in Chong'an.

It is an imitation of those dishes, with slight changes made, so it is not exactly the same.

I didn't feel comfortable just bringing the pot into the store.

"But now there are many small restaurants in the city that have directly copied our pots and pans." Wang Cuizhen said, "For example, Hao Zai Lai, Duo Wei Ju, and Shi Wei Tian are all on the same street as us. We can see them coming and going every day. They are so shameless that they directly copied our pots and pans."

"I thought a few days ago there were a few customers who seemed a little strange. They asked so many detailed questions while dining in the restaurant, and even studied the structure of the pot in detail." Wang Cuizhen said angrily, "Those people were probably sent by these restaurants to study it and then copy ours."

Li Mumu put down the work in her hands and asked, "They are all in the pot? Are there other things?"

"They're all in the pot, similar to ours, with pork bone soup and spicy hot pot." Wang Cuizhen said, "Even the meat and vegetables in the hot pot are similar. I also learned from you to put the chili peppers on the sliced ​​meat."

"In addition to the pot, we also asked them to learn how to make roujiamo," said Wang Cuizhen.

"Does the taste differ?" Li Mumu said, "We must first rule out the possibility that the recipe was leaked by a clerk in the store."

"Your second sister-in-law and I have never shown our faces in the store. Although they know the store belongs to the Gu family, they have never seen us and don't know what we look like. So your second sister-in-law and I have secretly visited those three stores." Wang Cuizhen said, "The taste is still different."

"We are not bragging, I really think their taste cannot compare to ours." Wang Cuizhen said, "Take the pepper beef slices for example, because pepper is quite expensive, they are reluctant to put more, only a thin layer of pepper on the beef slices."

"Before coating the beef with peppers, you have to marinate the beef with other condiments. But theirs also has other condiments, but the taste is very bland and cannot be compared to ours."

"The meat in the roujiamo is not fragrant even if it is braised," said Wang Cuizhen. "The taste of the bone soup pot is similar, and the spicy hot pot is not as fragrant as ours."

"Then we can rule out the possibility that the recipe was leaked by the shop assistant." Li Mumu said.

"Yeah." Wang Cuizhen nodded. "Other ingredients are no different. They can also make a bone soup pot. All the other ingredients need to be washed and cut. There is no need for special preparation."

"That's why I'm angry. We were the ones who launched it first, but they took it away so shamelessly," said Wang Cuizhen.

"There are too many customers in our restaurant, and many customers who don't want to wait go to those restaurants to eat." Wang Cuizhen said, "Anyway, the food looks the same, especially for customers who have never eaten there. They don't know how delicious our food is, and they think they are all the same."

Li Mumu nodded, "But this is indeed unpredictable."

Even in modern times, as long as a store opens with some special food, many stores will immediately follow suit.

This also applies to what products are useful.

"It's time for us to launch some new things." Li Mumu said, "Let's start with the pork belly and chicken hotpot and the three fresh hotpot. Sister-in-law, come with me to the blacksmith shop later, and we'll make some new things."

"What's new?" Zhang Caiping had just returned.