After chatting nonchalantly with the eldest sister Cao Jiajia for a while, the time soon came to two o'clock in the afternoon.

Once two o'clock arrives, the restaurant will no longer serve meals except for takeaways, but it will not force people to leave.

To put it simply, after two o'clock, the hotel will no longer provide services to guests dining in the hotel, but it does not kick you out immediately. You can still eat for another hour.

An hour later, at three o'clock, it officially closed and would not reopen until five o'clock in the evening.

If a customer lingers until three in the afternoon, the hotel will not force you to leave at that time, but will not provide you with anything, including a glass of water, and the waiter will take care of himself and start cleaning the tables.

At this time, the old Peiping people were very shameless. Generally speaking, if you do this, unless you are really shameless, you won't be able to stay.

If he was really shameless, He Yuzhu would not be spoiled by his temper.

Of course, according to Cao Jiajia, so far, no customer has been uncooperative and would not linger in the store at three in the afternoon.

Sure enough, from one to two o'clock, many people left voluntarily, leaving only a few guests who were here for the first time, were not familiar with the rules, and had not yet finished their meal. This also caused the hotel to become deserted immediately.

However, although dine-in and private room services have stopped, there is still an endless stream of people queuing up outside to buy takeout.

It's just that those who buy takeaways line up next to each other and form their own style. They don't stay in the dining room, but go directly to the kitchen to prepare meals, and many people bring their own lunch boxes.

There was a line of people queuing up to get food, and the restaurant suddenly turned into a big canteen.

It is said that this is also a scene of Shiweitian. After all, other private restaurants do not have this kind of queues to order food. Only Shiweitian has this kind of situation because it has opened a takeaway outlet.

Initially, Cao Jiajia was a little worried that those queuing up for takeout would affect the regular diners dining in the canteen. However, when she asked about it, she discovered that everyone was actually very warm-hearted and adaptable to this situation.

Because at this time, most factory canteens had this model, that is, a team of workers queued up to get their meals, and then they could go back to eat or sit down and eat directly in the canteen.

The difference between Shiweitian and those kinds of canteens is that people who have made meals cannot eat in the restaurant and can only take it home to eat. Moreover, many hard dishes and freshly fried dishes are not available in the takeaway place.

In addition, the takeaway meals are all ordinary big pot rice. Although the price is not cheap, it is relatively reasonable and is completely different from the recipes for dining in restaurants.

All kinds of differentiated treatment give diners in the restaurant a sense of superiority and the feeling of being a leader eating small dishes.

Yes, in this period, unit canteens were generally divided into lobby and small hall.

The lobby is a large room and the main body of the canteen, where ordinary employees gather to eat.

The small hall refers to a small room, usually called a side hall or a small stove, which is mainly a place where leading cadres eat.

Of course, in addition to this, the canteen also has private rooms, which are mainly used by real senior leaders to entertain guests, but the number of such private rooms is very small.

In other words, the workplace cafeteria is also divided into three, six, and nine grades, and there is no such thing as fair dining.

Let’s not talk about the private rooms of Shiweitian Hotel. Even the largest dine-in restaurant is incomparable to the lobby of the work canteen. At most, it can be compared with the Xiaotang or side hall of the work canteen.

The guests who originally came to eat didn't feel it yet, but when they saw many guests queuing up to get food, they could only pass by the lobby to go to the kitchen to get food. The food they bought was different from the food in the lobby, and they couldn't come to the lobby to eat.

People dining in the lobby feel like leaders.

After all, in an ordinary unit canteen, only leaders can go to the side hall to eat small dishes.

Isn't this situation similar to the feeling of a leader eating Xiao Zao?

As for going to a private room to eat, it goes without saying that it is a banquet hosted by senior leaders, and it also feels very immersive.

People these days are not particularly interested in making money in business, but their expectations of being a leader are definitely high.

Through this takeout method, Shiweitian actually makes everyone feel like a leader. This may be one of the reasons why Shiweitian has suddenly become popular recently.

Cao Jiajia couldn't see the secret behind this, but how could Cao Zhiqiang not see it?

He only came here twice, and he figured out the flavor through everyone's expressions and conversations.

The answer is very simple, there is no superiority without comparison.

This also made Cao Zhiqiang a little hesitant about whether to open a window.

Because the window is open, people buying takeout do not need to pass by the lobby and can buy directly outside.

This is convenient, but it will deprive those who dine in the canteen, especially the lobby, of the pleasure of contrast.

But if we let everyone continue to line up and pass by the hotel lobby and go directly to the back kitchen to buy takeout, it will indeed affect the business.

Moreover, this is just the beginning, no one has figured it out yet, and there is less trouble.

In the future, if this situation lasts for a long time, friction will inevitably occur.

After all, there are always people who are arrogant.

Suddenly, Cao Zhiqiang's eyes lit up and he had two good ideas.

He thought about the display window.

Yes, he thought about it, the takeout window should be opened, but the joy of comparison should also be retained.

The method is very simple. You only need to replace one wall of the lobby with a glass curtain wall, and then people ordering takeout must queue outside the glass curtain wall.

In this way, people who come to the restaurant to dine can see people queuing up to buy takeout through the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, which gives them a sense of superiority. However, because they are separated by a glass curtain wall, neither party can hear what they are saying, so there will be no confusion.

Pointless disputes.

Well, many restaurants in later generations, especially Western restaurants and cafeterias in large shopping malls, mostly have this design.

To put it simply, it is surrounded by a circle of glass walls, so that people dining inside can see outside, and the outside can also see inside.

However, as for later generations, this approach was mainly to attract outside customers, so that people who have not entered the restaurant can see the restaurant environment and food at a glance through the glass curtain wall. To say that the guests inside have a sense of superiority when eating, there is really no sense of superiority.

Already.

But in this period, glass-curtain wall restaurants are still very popular. Not only can they make people outside envy the dining environment inside, but they can also give people dining inside a sense of superiority.

Although it is necessary to demolish a wall, it seems to be a big project, and technical issues such as design and weighing are beyond the control of ordinary people. If the wall is smashed hard, the house will probably collapse.

But for people from the design institute, this is simply a piece of cake.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang knew that when the design institute renovated and renovated this courtyard house, it had strengthened the interior.

Therefore, if you only remove one wall on one side of the hall, or even two walls, and replace it with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it should be no problem.

After all, this courtyard along the street is not a high-rise building, it is only one floor, so it should not be difficult.

If I have to say something bad, it is that this is a big project. It is estimated that the hotel will be closed for a period of time during the renovation, which will cause losses for a period of time, including money and popularity.

But once the transformation is successful and a restaurant with a glass curtain wall appears, it is estimated that the money will be made back soon.

Okay, okay, this plan can be put on the agenda. It will be done this month. It must be completed within half a month.

And since we’re going to do something big, we might as well turn the outside into a pavilion.

In this way, in the summer, you can put some tables outside for barbecue.

In this way, barbecue, takeout, dine-in, and private rooms can definitely cater to diners from all walks of life!

Maybe you want to say, this kind of marketing method will be too complicated.

Not really.

Frankly speaking, although this courtyard house along the street has undergone a certain degree of renovation, there are still area restrictions and room type restrictions.

Coupled with the environment here, it is impossible for Shiweitian to be built into a high-end, high-end hotel.

Of course, it's not that you can't do it by force, but if you go to a high-end hotel like this during this period, you're basically losing money and making money.

The reason is very simple, that is, Chinese people are too poor and cannot afford consumption.

Even though this is the capital, if the really wealthy people in the capital want to eat high-end food, they have to go to large foreign-related hotels like Jianguo Hotel and Peking Hotel.

When overseas Chinese and foreigners come to Beijing to stay and eat, they usually stay in big hotels and rarely eat at roadside fly houses.

This situation is just like the reason why later generations of Chinese people who go to India usually eat in big hotels and rarely eat at Indian roadside stalls.

Without him, the sanitary conditions would be really poor.

Even though the dining environment of a specially renovated hotel like "Shiweitian" is better than that of an ordinary hotel canteen, it is absolutely incomparable to a foreign-related joint venture hotel like Jianguo Hotel.

At most, Shiweitian can be called a "specialty restaurant" and cannot be compared with a big hotel.

Maybe you have to say, if this is the case, why does it attract Japanese tourists to eat and admire it?

Is it true that the aroma of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley?

Of course not.

Foreigners are full of praise for the fact that food is heaven.

The reason is very simple, because they are all entrustment!

It's just that this care provider is relatively high-end. It's not a Chinese person pretending to be a care provider, but a serious foreign care provider.

In fact, to talk about this matter, we have to start with the sharp decline in Shiweitian's business.

I think back then, Cao Jiajia, the manager of Shiweitian, listened to his brother and big boss Cao Zhiqiang and removed the breakfast service, limited the time for lunch and dinner, and significantly increased the price of the meals. The effect was immediate.

The result is that the people who come to eat and enjoy the cool air and use the air conditioner no longer come, and so do the diners.

Without diners, there is no business. Although there is no need to pay rent, after all, the house belongs to Cao Zhiqiang personally, but water, electricity, and the wages of waiters and chefs must be paid.

This made Cao Jiajia extremely worried. She would call Cao Zhiqiang to complain and nag whenever she had nothing to do, which made Cao Zhiqiang extremely annoyed.

In fact, in Cao Zhiqiang's opinion, this is all temporary and will get better sooner or later as time goes by.

After all, He Yuzhu's cooking skills are on display there, and the location of Shiweitian is not bad, at least at the intersection of Wangfujing and Jinyu Hutong.
To be continued...