A friend who is engaged in catering told me that the self-help hot pot with a dozen yuan seems very cheap, but in fact it's all routine. Ordinary people can't eat it back at all, so naturally it won't go out of business.

There is a shop downstairs in our community, and this shop can be used for catering, so there are many restaurants. Because I live alone, dinner and other things are often solved in these restaurants. Then one day, a store began to decorate, and the brand was hung with a buffet hot pot of 18 yuan, which made me look forward to it. Because this year, it costs more than ten yuan to eat noodles casually, 18 yuan.

Later, the store finally opened. When I looked outside the door, it was not very big. It was a revolving self-help small hotpot. Everyone was in a row. There was a conveyor belt on the table, and various ingredients were placed on the conveyor belt. The food kept running. In front of anyone, I just took what I wanted, so I decided to try it. When I arrived at the store, the waiter asked me a few people. I said one person, and then he told me that the total * * * was 23 yuan. I asked him if it was 18 yuan for self-help. He replied that there was nothing wrong with living for 18 yuan, but the money for the bottom of the pot and small materials was an extra 5 yuan. I added 5 yuan as soon as I thought about it, and the total was 23 yuan, which was not expensive, so I went in to eat.

when I got to my seat, the waiter brought me a small pot. There were electromagnetic oven pits on the table one by one. I put the pot on, and the pot slowly boiled. I mixed a bowl of small ingredients, and then began to prepare the ingredients. In fact, there are quite a lot of ingredients in this hot pot, including all kinds of vegetables, mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes and other kinds of meatballs, which are the kind of meatballs that we eat spicy spicy pot. Then there are staple foods such as noodles and instant noodles, which are basically available, but I didn't see any meat. The only meat I saw was bacon and ham. It's really uncomfortable to eat hot pot without meat, so I asked the waiter why there was no meat. Don't tell me that the meat was added separately. Beef and mutton were all 11 yuan a plate, so I added a plate of mutton.

Mutton is a small dish, with a total of about six or seven slices, so I put it in the pot, and then searched for ingredients from the conveyor belt. First, I added some hot pot balls, and then I added some Flammulina velutipes, ham, eggs and vegetables. The small pot was not full, so it was basically full. After cooking for a while, I began to eat it. To be honest, it tasted like mala Tang. The bottom of the pot was quite salty, so I became thirsty after eating for a while, so I spent another 4 yuan to buy a bottle of drink. After eating for a while, I ate a piece of noodles, finished eating the noodles, and I was basically full. Finally, I calculated the meal, self-help hot pot was 18 yuan, small materials were added to the bottom of the pot, 5 yuan was added, a plate of mutton was 11 yuan, and a bottle of drink, 4 yuan, always spent 37 yuan, which seemed not cheap.

Later, I thought about it. I went out to eat a bowl of casserole rice noodles with meat and meatballs and drinks, which seemed to be much cheaper than that in 37 yuan, but it felt similar to this self-help hot pot. After all, I couldn't eat many meatballs and so on. In the end, I still had to rely on noodles to get full. Because eating meatballs and vegetables alone was not enough, it was really not so cost-effective. Later, I asked a friend who was engaged in catering.

At present, the forms of self-help chafing dishes of more than 11 yuan are relatively uniform, which are basically revolving chafing dishes of conveyor belt type, that is, each person takes a bite of small chafing dish, and then the food keeps flowing on the traditional belt. If you want to eat anything, you can wait until the food reaches you, and then add it. In general, the bottom of the pot and seasoning are charged extra, but it is still more cost-effective in theory because of the types of ingredients.

First, the cost of ingredients is low. Like this self-help small hot pot with a price of more than 11 yuan, the cost of ingredients is very low, basically some cheap vegetables, and some hot pot balls. Moreover, these hot pot balls are not high-quality hot pot balls, but all of them are low-end balls, which can be bought in a big bag for more than 11 yuan, so the cost is very low. Moreover, the food with the highest cost is basically eggs, and as for noodles, the cost is also very low.

second, there are many charging items. Although the price tag is only a dozen yuan, the charge for this self-help hot pot is definitely more than a dozen yuan. Just like I went to eat, it is 18 yuan to simply eat these things, but the bottom of the pot and small ingredients are charged. Then, because there are only some cheap things in the ingredients, there is no meat and seafood, so if you want to eat, you have to pay for it yourself. The price of paying for it alone is not low, it is more expensive than normal hot pot restaurants, and it is like drinks. There is also a single charge, because there are small ingredients at the bottom of the pot that are salty, so everyone basically needs drinks. In addition, if some customers have leftover food, they need to pay a certain fine, which is another extra income.

thirdly, the loss of ingredients is low. Compared with the traditional self-help hot pot, this rotary self-help hot pot has lower material loss, because in the traditional self-help hot pot, guests take things directly from the freezer, so it is easy to take too much and can't eat. The waste is more serious, and once pollution occurs, it will waste a lot of food. However, this self-help hot pot, because it is constantly flowing, will not add too much every time. And sometimes when you meet something you like to eat, you can't add it right away, and you have to wait for the conveyor belt, so the loss of food will be reduced, and the cost will naturally be reduced by a large amount.

fourth, the cost of labor rent is low. You don't need to have a large area to open this self-help small hot pot with more than ten yuan, because everyone is around the conveyor belt, so the number of guests who can do it will increase. Originally, you can only make a table, but now you can sit a lot of people, which will reduce the demand for area and the cost of rent will naturally drop. In addition, because this kind of small hot pot with conveyor belt is self-service, only one person needs to be responsible for adding dishes and serving, and not too many people need to serve, so the labor cost is also reduced a lot, so even if the price is very low, you can make money.

it's not impossible to eat a buffet hot pot with a price of more than ten yuan, but imagine that since the price is so low, we can't say that the contents are bad, only that the food inside is relatively cheap, so we must cook it when eating, otherwise there may be the risk of diarrhea, and don't be deceived by the simple cheap price. There are still many routines in it, including the bottom of the pot and various other expenses, which must be increased. Therefore, if you want to eat, you should go with a simple attitude of eating. Don't always think about losing money. You know, if everyone goes back to the basics, no one will do this industry.

There is no denying that this self-help hot pot restaurant with a price of more than ten yuan on the street is really affordable, but there are indeed many routines in it. You should pay attention when eating, and don't be routine. In fact, everything is always cheap, and it is impossible to drop pies in the sky, so you can't always hold a mentality of taking advantage, always trying to take advantage, and you can only suffer in the end.