You can purchase goods through different channels according to different categories:

Farmer's market: fresh ingredients, such as pork belly, ribs, pork loin, triangular fish and other fresh products.

Frozen product market: beef, luncheon meat, crab sticks, shrimp dumplings, fish, seafood, etc. (Can establish long-term cooperation with suppliers)

Local vegetable wholesale market: vegetables (fresher ones are purchased at the morning market every day).

Long-term cooperation with slaughterhouses and suppliers: fresh tripe, goose intestines, duck intestines, beef, brains, tianglai, nose tendons, pork, duck blood and other fresh products

The above are The current purchasing methods and channels used in our hotpot restaurant operations.

The current catering industry has relatively high requirements for ingredients. If there are bad, ugly, or spoiled things, customers may not pay the bill.

If you go to the vegetable market to purchase goods and process them yourself, labor costs will increase a lot. Nowadays, many ingredients are processed by machines.

We usually choose a trading company that specializes in supplying goods, so that we can purchase corresponding goods according to the conditions of each store and be on call. The ingredients are also the most popular because of the large supply of traders. fresh. If you buy and process it yourself, sometimes you won’t be able to sell it, and the ingredients will become stale after being left for a few days.

Of course, if you need a large amount every day, you can also directly contact vegetable bases and farms to process it yourself. There is no middleman to make the difference, so the profit will be maximized, but it will require more time and energy. There will be more.