Chapter 606 How to Pretend to Eat KFC Often, Online etc.
"…The Sino-US joint venture in the fast food industry not only allowed the Chinese people to taste American roast chicken, but also promoted the friendship and cooperation between China and the United States. I am very satisfied with the current status of cooperation between China and the United States in the economic field..."
The ambassador's speeches are always full of official accents, so Gu Ao cannot expect more.
Because Winston Lord said the same thing when the news broadcast in his previous life, now it is nothing more than a fine-tuning of the suffix part.
Fortunately, he spoke English, so the onlookers couldn't understand it. They only knew that an American big man was smiling on the stage, and he secretly applauded and felt excited.
Although there was a translator on site, which was sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was prepared for the subsequent closed press conference and was not responsible for translating to the audience on site. Moreover, the wording of the translation accent was even more stable, and the American-style slightly playful and relaxed translation was lost.
So, strictly speaking, Winston Lord's words are really expressed in Chinese, and they should not be so official. It's just that Gu Ao is used to the wording of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so when he figures out his mind, he also turns into the translation tone as expressed in the above.
After Winston Lord, it was Kissinger.
Many people know him, after all, Kissinger has shown his face on the front page photos of Renren Daily too many times, and hundreds of thousands of Qiantang people saw him when they were greeted more than ten years ago.
So the voices of his voice are naturally higher when listening to him.
Because Kissinger has no burden, his tone of speech is more relaxed and targeted:
"...The US government believes that this is an important attempt to promote mutual understanding between China and the United States and increase mutual trust. The US welcomes China to actively understand the lifestyle of the American people and better eliminate the misunderstandings accumulated by history..."
"Crack," Xinhua News Agency and Renren Daily reporters flashed the spotlight, recording every moment.
The people from CCTV News broadcast crew kept on the camera, not caring about film, recording the entire process, and there was nothing to operate.
The half-hour ceremony finally ended, the store door opened on time and the crowds were flooding in.
The melon-eating crowd is obviously more interested in fried chicken.
...
Liu Jianhong, wearing a work clothes made of a red coat and a white shirt, stood in front of the counter of the Kentucky fried chicken, and watched at a loss as her colleagues opened the door and the crowd rushed in.
Well, she has a relatively rustic name, but this is also a sense of time. She was named like this in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
If she could have been born twenty years later and played zombie biochemical games, she would definitely feel like she was in a raccoon market.
The first customer in line was also a little at a loss. He was pushed by the crowd and walked to the counter naturally, with his eyes as if he was looking for a menu.
Liu Jianhong quickly gave up half of his body, raised his hand and pointed to the price tag light box behind him with his palm: "If you want to eat, please see here. If you have more people, please order food quickly. I'm very sorry."
Her actions have just been trained for half a month. The store manager and the "Human Resources Management" from the United States have emphasized that when giving instructions to customers, they must not point one finger, but use their palms to show the instructing them.
Her speaking speed and tone were also very humble, but her lines were really not that good.
However, this slightly inappropriate service has made customers even more nervous.
No one has ordered it, who knows what to eat?
"From this attitude, there are so many people, it's hard to ask each thing one by one... what to do?" The customer ranked first was a middle-aged man in his early 30s wearing glasses. He should have seen the world. Even so, he was so nervous that he sweated slightly on his forehead.
This is the cold winter in February, and the house is not on.
Who made this the first time in China to eat chain American fast food? The waiters and customers were sweating with nervousness.
Fortunately, the store manager named Zong was still more clever at this time. He immediately took out a few plates of samples and piled them on a temporary glass iron rack on the counter, and then began to take out the speaker to shout.
This store manager Zong is the distant nephew of Zong Qinghou, general manager of Red Bull (China).
Because Kentucky opened a store in a hurry, most of the management backbones and grassroots employees needed were born from Red Bull (China) or recommended internally, and were not recruited from the public. Therefore, Manager Zong naturally spoke inward and did not avoid relatives, so he asked a clever nephew who had not yet joined the management team at Red Bull to come here to be the store manager.
Manager Zong pointed to the iron rack covered with glass and shouted: "My comrades, I'm very sorry that there are so many people today. In order to ensure the smooth supply and let more people eat it faster, we will serve these meals today: original fried chicken set meal, hamburger set meal, and can also order original fried chicken, burger hamburger, and drinks. The rest of the side dishes are not provided.
The samples are all here. The fried chicken set menu is more worth 60 cents of lettuce salad and 80 cents of chicken soup mashed potatoes than the single-order fried chicken. There are also two small breads and a small cup of Gatorade, which is worth 1.5 yuan more than the single-order fried chicken.”
The man in glasses ranked first obviously belongs to the kind of foreign tourists who are face-loving but slightly short of money. He just wants to increase his life experience and show off his conversation. After listening to the introduction of Manager Zong, he breathed a little relieved and explained first:
"I... I actually had breakfast at Zhiweiguan. I wasn't too hungry. Qiantang's snacks were really good. I just came to try them... I wanted a piece of original fried chicken and a cup of Gatorade."
"A piece of original chicken and a cup of Gatorade, a total of two yuan. I will charge you ten yuan to find eight yuan." The waiter Liu Jianhong nervously repeated the training. Then he collected a big brotherhood and found the other party for eight yuan.
This great unity will be included in the museum in the future and marked. Because this is also done in the history of another time and space.
Due to the technical background of the times, there is no automatic cash register for making changes, nor is there a device for placing orders and receipts. It just says orally, it directly serves the meal based on memory.
The waiter who was responsible for cooking next to him had already wrapped a big chicken leg in a paper bag and made a small cup of Gatorade. He didn't even take a tray and handed it to the 30-year-old middle-aged man with glasses and made a gesture of inviting him.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, as if he was hesitating, "I only ordered such a little thing. Would it be too embarrassing to sit down and eat at a table?" However, the waiter invited him, so let's sit down.
He chose a low-key small table in the corner, and planned to make a seat if it was full after a while and other guests who had a big meal had no place to sit, he would get up and give in.
These days, there are no shameless money worshipers who shout "customers are God", so this is the current situation in the service industry. Consumers who spend less money can basically not be justified when they go to unfamiliar places.
"Just 1.5 yuan per chicken leg? A cup of juice is 50 cents? You can buy more than one pound of braised pork by yourself. The imported ones in the United States are expensive. What taste is the smell of it? It smells so fragrant. What kind of seasoning is it? I haven't smelled it before."
The middle-aged man with glasses sighed, and sat down and started eating.
The customers behind were actually staring at his interactions with the waitress, taking the opportunity to greedily look at the light box marked with the menu price. After planning in mind, ordering the meals much faster.
"I want a fried chicken set meal, and order a burger alone!" The second one was a fat man who seemed to be unkempt, but actually took advantage of the situation.
"The fried chicken set meal is two pieces of fried chicken, four yuan; the burger is ordered for two yuan and five yuan, and you will receive a total of six yuan and five yuan." Liu Jianhong retelled and then served.
Seeing the fat man spending nearly five kilograms of pork in the state-owned vegetable market outside and buying a rich set meal, the people behind him gradually lost their psychological burden.
And after looking at these precedents, everyone settled the accounts:
It costs three dollars to just add two pieces of fried chicken, while the chicken soup and mashed potatoes are said to be the original price of 80 cents, lettuce salad 60 cents, small bread 20 cents per small bun, and a cup of Gatorade or Pepsi is five cents...
By this calculation, all the items in the fried chicken set meal are worth 5.3 yuan, while the set meal is only sold for 4 yuan, so buying a set meal is a waste of money! The more you buy, the more you earn!
Of course, the premise is that you have a budget of three pounds of pork and can afford a set meal of 4 yuan.
If you just tighten your belt and grit your teeth and taste it, and the total budget is limited, then just order a piece of fried **.
“I want a burger set.”
"Just one piece of fried chicken..."
A ten-hour battle began.
The front desk received more than a thousand people in one morning, and the number of people queuing increased. At the peak of lunch in 12, the kitchen was already busy.
"Quick, hurry up and prepare for stocks!"
"Didn't you ask the city's agricultural and animal husbandry company to prepare enough chickens to kill?"
"If there is notice, they are prepared and will be shipped here soon."
Fortunately, Gu Ao knew that these things were attractive, so he took care of the operator in advance and made sufficient supply chain preparations and prepared stocks for "to be hosted at least 5,000 people today", so that the first store in Beijing almost closed in history was not in a dilemma.
Moreover, the recipes of this KFC at the same time in history have also changed slightly - in history, the one in Beijing was copied and copied directly according to the American recipe, and the original fried chicken was first fried chicken breast.
However, Mina initially used fried chicken legs and fried full wings as fried chicken, so the early supply chain pressure would be much less, so there was no need to get too much chicken to take chicken breasts.
If you do this in the United States, you will be complained about because Americans think chicken breasts are the best and the most expensive, while chicken legs and chicken wings are relatively spicy. If you use chicken wings to top the chicken breasts, Americans think you are cutting corners.
But Chinese people have no such concern at all. Chinese people have never thought that chicken breasts are better than chicken legs and chicken wings. No one complains about you when you do this.
Obviously, Mina's store is more down-to-earth than the same period in history and is more in line with China's national conditions. This is a fine-tuning of business strategies that can only be made by deeply understanding the spleen and stomach of the Chinese.
"The evening rush hour has passed, and in the afternoon of lunch rush hour, I received two thousand people, and the first hour of the evening rush hour was more than one thousand. It was only 7 o'clock that there were more than 4,000 customers, and it may be open all night today."
At 7 o'clock in the evening, Mina was in the private room of Qiantang Restaurant opposite, holding the report she had just delivered, and sighed to Gu Ao.
But Gu Ao was not surprised at all, and seemed to have thought this should be the case.
"Stop looking at that, let's see how the news broadcast was filmed first." He said, and walked over and turned on the TV in the private room with his own hands.
This private room is already the best private room in Qiantang Restaurant. Unfortunately, the TV used is still a knob and there is not even a remote control. Gu Ao had to walk over to adjust the channel by himself.
I don’t know how to buy a Han Le or Sony TV with a remote control, alas.
Set a small goal first, such as remembering in 1 second: Shukeju
Chapter completed!