The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 103 Sales are booming

The first sale of tangerine peel tea received unprecedented praise.

Qin Huai cooked a big pot. He was not sure how many portions the pot could be divided into, but he was sure that there were not 1314 portions.

Of course, he had no intention of cooking a second pot. After all, the cafeteria’s main products were cheap fast food and expensive dim sum. Previously, they sold herbal tea, hand-made lemon tea, and the soup they served during this period were all sold casually and in small quantities.

If the taste is good, we will sell it. We usually sell it at half price and give it away for free. If it is not good, we will give it away for free. We can sell out all the food every day thanks to the strong support of our old customers.

Today, Qinhuai’s tangerine peel tea is still sold according to the old idea.

But soon, reality told him that some things cannot be sold casually.

Because it sold so well!
12 noon is the busiest time of the day for Yunzhong Canteen.

Unlike the busy morning when the restaurant is packed with customers but few people eat in, and also unlike the leisurely evening when nearby residents who are too lazy to cook bring their families to the restaurant to eat, chat and have tea parties, the Yunzhong Canteen is packed and every second counts at noon.

The precious lunch break makes nearby office workers want to use stopwatches to eat efficiently.

Sharing tables, waiting, and adding seats are common in the cafeteria. As long as the guests don't mind, a small table for four can even squeeze in seven people. The competition is even more intense than in a university cafeteria during military training.

At a time when every seat is precious, old men and women will not occupy seats in the cafeteria to leisurely eat and chat.

Everyone will be very considerate and chat during off-peak hours, waiting until the one-hour dining peak is over before coming in to sit and chat.

Many guests noticed that there were new items in the cafeteria today.

A new drink has been added, tangerine peel tea, which costs 15 yuan a bowl. Compared with the cheap set meal that includes one meat and two vegetables for 25 yuan, this price is simply outrageous.

But this tangerine peel tea was made by Master Qin.

Master Qin dares to sell it at this price and even puts tangerine peel tea on the menu. Tangerine peel tea must have something unique about it.

Many regular customers gritted their teeth and chose to trust Master Qin once.

The waiters at the food window skillfully added a small bowl of tangerine peel tea to their plates, and faced the shocked looks of the guests calmly explained: Yes, this is tangerine peel tea, this is the tangerine peel tea produced by our Master Qin!

After a brief shock, the regular customers resumed their normal meals.

For most regular customers who eat lunch at Yunzhong Canteen, eating lunch here is not only fresh, healthy, safe and cheap, but most importantly, it can also sweeten their miserable working life.
Cheap fast food does not stop them from eating expensive dim sum.

After working so hard for a long time, can’t you treat yourself to something good?

I can’t get the crab shell yellow, I can’t afford the Wu Ding Bao, I’ve never seen the white jade frost cake, and I still don’t know what the mung bean ice cream looks like, but I have to try the donkey rolls!

Cut it into big pieces! Don't let outsiders see it and think we can't afford it.

Unknown to Qin Huai, Yunzhong Canteen already has a large number of loyal customers of Donkey Rolls, and their philosophy of dining is to have at least one piece of Donkey Rolls.

Today, the followers of the Donkey Roll Sect chose to pair Donkey Roll with tangerine peel tea.

The tangerine peel tea is warm and the ingredients are substantial. The diners who are eating the donkey rolls feel warm in their hearts. They feel that all the frustration they have endured after working half a day has been cured by this small bowl of tangerine peel tea, and it is not so painful to earn the frustration fee.

Even the messages in the work group seem so...

Well, the messages in the work group still seem to make people want to quit.

After finishing their lunch at the speed of light, the followers of the Lvdagun Sect chose to pack a cup of tangerine peel tea and take it back to the company to drink as afternoon tea in the afternoon, while enthusiastically recommending it to their colleagues.

Even if you don’t like donkey rolls, you should at least drink tangerine peel tea!

What? You said this tangerine peel tea is tangerine peel, white fungus and lotus seed soup, don't worry about it, just drink it.

It was over at 1 p.m. After a hard day's work, Master Qin, who accidentally worked overtime for half an hour longer, had lunch with his colleagues.

Ouyang has his own separate kitchen, so he won’t be eating in the cafeteria today, so he’ll go home and have some snacks.

Chen An, Huang Xi, An Youyou who was not afraid to eat with the boss, and Qin Huai ate at the same table.

Chen An sat by the Qinhuai River, eating his meal absentmindedly and taking every opportunity to ask questions.

"Today, Grandma Ding told me that the egg cake is a bit hard and a little dry when chewed. I also want to make the egg cake soft, but it is impossible to make it very soft according to the current method." Chen An was very distressed.

Chen An felt that he had changed.

When he worked in other restaurants before, he never cared about customer reviews. As long as the boss didn't deduct his money, he was fine with it.

But now...

I can only say that the uncles and aunts in the community are so enthusiastic.

He hasn’t finished eating the pomelo that Grandma Ding stuffed into his mouth the day before yesterday. How can he be worthy of the pomelo if he can’t make a soft and delicious egg cake that suits the old lady’s taste!
"Then change the recipe." Qin Huai was very experienced in this matter. "If you think it's impossible to make it softer according to the current method, it means there's something wrong with the current method. Just change the method."

Chen An: ?
"For specific changes, you can refer to the sweet-scented osmanthus steamed cake I made, or the fermented rice steamed buns. If you think these two methods are too difficult... you can go online and learn how those soft little breads are made."

Chen An hesitated: "If I change it in these ways... will it still be egg cake?" Qin Huai pointed at the tangerine peel tea in front of Chen An: "What is this?"

“Chenpi tea.”

"So what is it actually?"

"Hmm... Tangerine peel, Tremella and lotus seed soup?"

"Look, but when I asked you, your first reaction was still to call it tangerine peel tea. Aren't the names of the things we sell decided by ourselves?" Qin Huai looked around. The sales of tangerine peel tea were very impressive. Basically, seven out of every ten diners ordered it. "Look, as long as you introduce this to the guests as tangerine peel tea, no one will raise any objections."

Chen An understood.

He found that his vision was still too narrow. No wonder he could only work in the cafeteria at his age, while his boss was already working for him at such a young age.

Eh, it seems like he also worked for himself when he was young.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Chen An continued to eat.

While eating, there was still soup at the corner of one's mouth. It was obvious that the waiter had not had time to wipe his mouth. He trotted over to Qin Huai and said, "Sister Xi, Master Qin, there was an order in the group ordering group just now, for a total of 36 cups of tangerine peel tea."

As soon as he finished speaking, another waiter ran over and said, "We just had 19 more cups!"

Seeing that the business had come, Chen An put down his chopsticks and said, "I'll go pack it up."

An Youyou was shocked by her colleague's work spirit of working overtime without even eating, and looked up blankly: "Then... I'll go and deliver it first?"

"Eat first." Qin Huai pressed Chen An down, "There's no rush."

There is really no need to rush.

By the time Chen An and An Youyou finished their meal, the number of cups of tangerine peel tea they had ordered for delivery had reached 171.

Qin Huai was so shocked that he immediately stopped the meal and asked Chen An to pack up and calculate how many cups there were and then cook them himself.

Fortunately, Zhao Rong had the foresight to soak a lot of ingredients in advance, and it turns out that age is the best.

Two hours later, Qin Huai discovered that Zhao Rong was not so foresighted either.

Zhao Rong had already brewed a pot of ingredients, but it was clearly not enough to make another pot of tangerine peel tea.

Because not only the group-buying group placed orders on DuangDuang, but some diners who somehow knew that Yunzhong Market sold tangerine peel tea and whose life was beyond the delivery distance asked runners to place group orders.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, there were more runners waiting for the tangerine peel tea to be served in the Yunzhong canteen than the old men and women sitting and chatting.

Qin Huai was stunned.

Today's soup is not very good.

No pot.

The canteen didn’t prepare that many big pots.

The pot is used to make tangerine peel tea.

Looks like it's time to order some bigger pots that can cook the kids.

"Brother, let me ask you something." Qin Huai, who had stopped teaching online for a day, leaned over the window and asked the errand boy who was sitting at table 9 waiting for the tangerine peel tea to be served, "Can you tell me where you called the errand boy?"

The errand boy replied readily: "You must be Master Qin, right? Doctor Qu asked you to."

"There's a note in her order saying it's your friend. If you ask, let me tell you."

"She said that she brought a few cups of tangerine peel tea back for her colleagues this morning, and they thought it tasted good. She wanted to support your canteen's business, so she placed an order and asked someone to buy some. I've already been here this morning, so you may not remember."

After saying that, the errand boy pointed to five or six people sitting and happily playing with their phones: "These are all bills from that hospital, some from inpatients, and some from doctors in the department."

"That big guy, my buddy, took the orthopedic order."

"Well, Huangmao, I had a chat with him about the orders he and I took together. He took the emergency department's orders, and I took the neurology department's orders. They were Doctor Qu's orders."

After he finished running errands, the young man smiled gratefully at Qin Huai: "Thank you, bro. It's rare to come across such a large order with so much money at once."

Qin Huai:......

Got it. Got to order a big pot for cooking kids now.

Tomorrow morning, make 1314 cups of tangerine peel tea.

(End of this chapter)