Zhou Chen looked at Tao Tao, who had a reserved smile on his face. He knew that Tao Tao was a carefree person, but he was still a good person, and he was the kind of person who was more loyal.
"Mr. Tao is joking, you are quite capable, but I know that you and Bao are always bare-pants brothers. If you are willing to take action, the proprietresses on the Yellow River Road will not dare to do anything to you."
Hearing Zhou Chen say this, Tao Tao's face seemed to burst into laughter.
He is a very face-saving and vain person. Zhou Chen is a celebrity and big boss on Huanghe Road and even Shanghai. Zhou Chen's praise makes him feel happier and more elated than any other person's praise.
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"I am not as capable as Mr. Zhou said. Although Bao and I are the best bare-pants brothers, I have never used his name to show off my power, because I, Tao Tao, am not that kind of person."
Huanghe Road has been particularly lively these days because a group of Huanghe Road proprietresses, led by Lu Meilin, decided to teach Zhizhenyuan Li Li a lesson.
A group of proprietresses gathered together to watch Zhizhenyuan's joke. They had already cut off the seafood from Zhizhenyuan, and were planning to tell the customers that they were full in the near future and let them go to Zhizhenyuan. As long as the guests went to Zhizhenyuan,
No matter what we do in Zhi Zhen Yuan, something will happen.
If Zhizhen Garden does not accept guests, one day is enough, but two or three days, or even longer, the popularity of Zhizhen Garden will soon be gone forever.
But if Zhizhenyuan wants to receive customers, they don't have a lot of ingredients, and they can't cook decent dishes at all. If they go to make trouble and order food at that time, once Zhizhenyuan can't serve food, their reputation will really be ruined.
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This trick of theirs has been tried many times on Huanghe Road. Many restaurants have been attacked by them in this way before, and some people have fought with them, but in the end they were defeated and could only leave Huanghe Road in despair.
It is precisely because they have tried this trick repeatedly that they decided to attack Zhizhen Garden so quickly after seeing it explode.
On this day, they calculated that the seafood inventory in Zhizhenyuan was no longer available, so Lu Meilin and the others began to take action. Several big hotels were preparing to join forces and accept less customers today.
Because they have been together for several years, they naturally understand that losing one or two days of turnover is nothing. As long as they can knock down the Zhizhen Garden, the lost turnover can be doubled quickly, so
The proprietresses among them can be considered to be on the same page.
Seeing that it was already past ten o'clock, Lu Meilin and others were ready to watch Zhizhenyuan's jokes, but what surprised them was that they suddenly saw Zhizhenyuan's kitchen team, led by the fat chef, leaving Zhizhenyuan.
garden.
Lu Meilin and the other proprietresses also knew a little bit about the inside story. When they saw the fat chef leaving with his team, Lu Meilin even shouted specially.
"Ah Fat, Ah Fat, isn't it almost noon? You don't have to go to work. Why did you take everyone away?"
The fat chef didn't know the internal situation of Zhizhenyuan at all, but he knew what Lu Meilin and others wanted to do, so he replied cheerfully.
"What kind of class do I work in? They don't want me anymore. I'm going to RiRi Xian."
Lu Meilin suddenly screamed loudly and strangely: "It's terrible, my dear, what should I do in Zhizhen Garden? The chef has also left, and I have to open the skylight tonight."
Then he loudly ordered his waiters: "Tonight, you stand at the door and tell the guests who come over that our Jin Meilin must be full. If they want to eat, they will go to Zhizhen Garden to wash the brains of this landlady.
We gangsters in the Yellow River cannot get by with just a face and two bills, you know?"
Several other hotel proprietresses also responded one after another and did the same thing as Lu Meilin, preparing to let the guests go to Zhizhenyuan for dinner.
The arrogant attitude of Lu Meilin and others made everyone in Zhizhenyuan very angry. They all received Zhizhenyuan's salary, and Zhizhenyuan's salary was the highest on the Yellow River Road, so no one worked here.
I hope that Zhizhenyuan will collapse. If Zhizhenyuan collapses, they will have to look for jobs again, but where else can the wages be higher than that of Zhizhenyuan?
On the second floor of Zhizhen Garden, Li Li and Manager Pan stood there, watching this scene quietly.
"Madam boss, if we just drive away the fat chef and the others, can the chef arrive tonight?"
Li Li said with a confident face: "Yes, thanks to Mr. Zhou's reminder, I realized that the thoughts of these people on the Yellow River Road had already discovered the snake and mouse of Fat Chef, so I had already figured it out a few days ago.
We spent a lot of money to hire several Hong Kong chefs from Guangdong Province and will arrive in Shanghai in the afternoon."
Manager Pan said with relief: "No wonder the boss lady fired the fat chef and the others today, but they are really disgusting. They took our money and colluded with outsiders to harm us."
Li Li said silently: "It seems that our Zhizhen Garden is really blocking the way of many people. They can't compete head-on, so they can only use this method."
Manager Pan said again with a worried look on his face: "Even if our chef can be in place before tonight, our kitchen is now out of stock, and many of our signature dishes are out of stock. If Lu Meilin and the others deliberately cause trouble, we still won't be able to function normally at night."
When it comes to business, we can’t just sell some simple dishes, right?”
Li Li said calmly: "Don't worry about the supply of goods. I have already made preparations. If I believe him correctly, we should be able to solve it before the guests come in the evening."
"Is the landlady talking about Mr. Zhou?"
She knew that Zhou Chen was the one her boss's wife talked about the most recently, and just now Li Li said it was Zhou Chen who reminded her, so she instinctively thought that Zhou Chen helped with the supply of goods.
Li Li shook her head. Zhou Chen had given her a big gift for free. Of course she couldn't ask Zhou Chen for help with such a trivial matter as the supply of goods.
She was looking for Mr. Bao. She had always wanted to do business with Mr. Bao. Moreover, Mr. Bao had been on the Yellow River Road for a long time and knew everything about it, so she went to Mr. Bao specifically for help.
The result of Mr. Bao's search also satisfied her, and the two parties hit it off immediately and reached a cooperation.
"But boss lady, it's almost eleven o'clock. Although evening is the most important, we can't open the door at noon, right?"
Li Li turned to look at her and asked: "You are the manager, what do you think we should do?"
Manager Pan thought for a while and replied decisively: "Anyway, there are not many customers at noon, so we might as well give up on noon and only open casual seating on the first and second floors. There are so many people in our store, although there is no chef, but after all
Someone can make some simple stir-fries, and the guests who are leaving the table won’t have too many requests, so I think it can be solved.”
"Just do as you say."
Li Li did not object. Although there were people on Huanghe Road at noon and evening, the passenger flow at night was several times that at noon. Most people came to Huanghe Road at night, especially businessmen. After all, drinking at night would not delay things.
It’s hard to say at noon.
Most of the people who come to eat at noon are in a hurry, so as long as it's not unpalatable, even if it's home-cooked, you can usually handle it.
At noon, I followed Manager Pan's method, and Zhizhenyuan managed to cope with it. Of course, the main reason was because it only opened for casual seating at noon, so there were relatively few customers.
However, you can handle it this way at noon, but not at night. As the best restaurant on the Yellow River Road, Zhizhenyuan has a huge customer flow. Now Lu Meilin and other proprietresses are deliberately targeting it. You don’t need to think about it to know that Zhizhenyuan at night
It must be full of guests.
If food can't be served by then, Zhizhenyuan's reputation will be really bad. If you want to continue to open on the Yellow River Road, it may not be that easy.
It is no exaggeration to say that the protagonist of the Yellow River Road tonight is definitely the Zhizhen Garden. At night, all eyes on the Yellow River Road will focus on the Zhizhen Garden.
Li Li joined forces with Mr. Bao and started a battle of wits and courage with a group of proprietresses on Huanghe Road headed by Lu Meilin.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, a bus drove to Huanghe Road. A group of people got out of the bus and quickly walked into Zhizhen Garden. The proprietress Li Li came out to greet them personally.
Opposite to Jin Meilin, Lu Meilin and other proprietresses had been paying attention to the movements of Zhizhenyuan, and they all frowned when they saw this scene.
After a while, a landlady ran back.
"I found out that the people who just entered Zhizhenyuan are the chef team invited by Li Li. Judging from their accents, they are from Guangdong Province. Zhizhenyuan said that those people are all from Hong Kong by that woman
The chef we invited.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Meilin and others' expressions became very ugly, and they started to quarrel.
"Let me just say, this Li Li is not simple. I think she must have started preparing for it a long time ago. Otherwise, where would she find a professional kitchen team in just a few hours?"
"This woman is so powerful and cruel. She continues to use Fatty and the others openly, but secretly she has already started looking for someone."
"What she has done is all immoral. If this woman is not removed, it will be difficult for all of us in the future."
"You're right, this woman must be driven off Yellow River Road."
"…………"
Several boss ladies were shouting and cursing, but they knew very well in their hearts that the main reason why they could unite together was because Zhizhenyuan was so powerful. When it came, it directly squeezed all their business.
That's why we have to unite to target Zhizhenyuan and Li Li.
"Okay, stop arguing."
Lu Meilin shouted impatiently. She was the eldest among these people, so her words had some weight.
"Anyway, I don't care what you do, I have to drive this woman out of the Yellow River Road. The Yellow River Road is the Yellow River Road for all of us. If someone doesn't follow the rules, he must be taught a lesson. This woman Li Li
She is just a wolf, if we don’t teach her a lesson, we don’t know how arrogant she will be in the future.”
"Yes, drive her out of Huanghe Road."
The other boss ladies all agreed. Anyway, Lu Meilin is carrying a gun in front, and they can just shout from behind. There is nothing to be afraid of.
"So what if she finds a chef? Without anything, what can she cook? We have already told the people around us that no one will sell to Zhizhenyuan. To say the least, even if someone doesn't have a good eye,
, If you want to make money, I have also asked people to guard the back door of Zhizhen Garden to ensure that not even a big king snake can enter the kitchen."
As dinner time came, Lu Meilin arrogantly led a group of proprietresses on the Yellow River Road into the Zhizhen Garden and entered the private room, which they had reserved long ago.
They just sat there for a while and then started slapping the table.
"Where are the people? Where is your landlady? Are there any others? They are all hanging out on the Yellow River Road, and the landlady doesn't come to say hello?"
While roaring, Li Li led people into the private room.
"I'm sorry to be held back by some old friends. Welcome to the Zhenyuan. Let me toast you all first."
As she spoke, she prepared to pour the wine.
But Lu Meilin shook her head and said, "If there are no side dishes, what kind of wine can I drink?"
Facing the aggressive Lu Meilin, Li Li smiled slightly and asked: "Boss lady, do you have any taboos?"
Several boss ladies looked at each other, and finally looked at Lu Meilin in unison.
"Meilin, is there anything you don't want to eat?"
Lu Meilin said with disdain: "As a side dish with wine, I only eat king snake."
"Yes, king snake."
"We are here to eat the king snake. If there is no king snake, what can we eat?"
"We're going to eat the king snake."
At the beginning with Lu Meilin, several of the shop ladies started chirping and said nothing else, they wanted to eat the king snake.
Li Li smiled and said, "No problem, I'll let the kitchen prepare it."
These proprietresses were all sure that there would be no king snakes in the Zhizhen Garden today, so they all began to jeer.
"Lady boss, then we will reserve a seat for you and wait for you to come back and drink old wine."
"no problem."
Li Li smiled calmly, then gave instructions to the waiter and left the private room.
Her attitude made Lu Meilin and other proprietresses very unhappy, and they started talking in unfriendly ways.
About half an hour later, under the impatient shouts of Lu Meilin and others, Li Li returned to the private room again, and brought several waiters with her.
"Sorry, I'm late. Let's start serving the dishes now. Serving the cold dishes first is the proper procedure and the etiquette of hospitality. The hot dishes will be here soon."
Although she greeted her with a smile, none of the proprietresses in the private room smiled at her.
Lu Meilin even threatened: "I'm telling you, don't waste time with me. If I don't see the king snake today, don't blame me for destroying your Zhizhen Garden."
"Yes, smash it."
"It will definitely be smashed."
"Be careful. If we can't get out the king snake, why can we open a restaurant?"
Li Li said calmly: "Although I don't take these two dishes so seriously, as long as the guests want to eat them, they won't disappoint everyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, Manager Pan walked in with the waiters. Each waiter dragged a plate in his hand and walked behind each proprietress.
"Our boss lady told me that this dish is more labor-intensive to prepare at Zhenyuan, so it took a while. Everyone has been waiting for a long time before serving."
The waiter placed the plate on the table, opened it and lit it with a lighter.
"Fire King Snake."
Then he placed another dish in the center of the table and explained: "Eat three lobsters, the first one, please."
When Lu Meilin and others saw these two dishes, their expressions turned very ugly. Suddenly, their eyes turned to Lu Meilin.
Lu Meilin was holding a toothpick in her mouth, her face was gloomy as if she was about to drip. She could no longer control her emotions. She slammed the table and stood up, overturning the king snake plate in front of her. Several others
The proprietresses all followed the same example, and they all started to act against each other.