first of all, you should look at which categories.

Fresh ingredients, such as pork belly, ribs, pork loin, triangle peak fish and other fresh goods go to the farmers' market.

Fat beef, lunch meat, cod, squid whiskers and crab sticks. Shrimp dumplings and so on go to the frozen product market.

beef omasum, duck intestines, goose intestines and yellow throat. Melaleuca belly is also in the frozen product market.

Anyway, there are vegetables in both the farmers' market and the frozen products market.

The local vegetable wholesale market makes centralized purchases every morning.

fresh products: fresh beef, goose intestines, duck intestines, brain flowers, ladders, nose tendons, pork, duck blood and other fresh products are selected and supplied daily by slaughterhouses and suppliers with long-term cooperation.

frozen goods: the frozen goods such as piranha, cod, hairtail, fat beef, chicken feet and duck feet are supplied by the supplier daily.

the above are the purchase methods and channels used in the operation of our hot pot restaurant at present.

Nowadays, the catering industry has higher requirements for ingredients. If there are bad, ugly and deteriorated things, customers may not pay the bill.

then where should we buy the goods?

If a hot pot restaurant owner goes to the vegetable market to purchase goods and process them himself, the labor cost will increase a lot. Now many ingredients are processed by machines.

We usually choose a trading company that specializes in supplying goods, so that we can buy the corresponding goods according to the situation of each store and be on call. The ingredients are the freshest because of the large supply of traders. If you buy it yourself and process it, sometimes you can't sell it. If you put it for a few more days, the ingredients will not be fresh.

Of course, if your own quantity is relatively large every day, you can also directly contact vegetable bases and farms to process it yourself, and there is no middleman to make the difference, so that the profit will be maximized, but you will invest more time and energy.