I remember learning from a senior team when I first entered the business. He said to the guests, "Our lunch at noon is the ninth largest cuisine in China-team cuisine." The guests laughed, and then I thought it was true. No matter where the domestic team meal is, as long as it is not special, the normal meal label and dishes are basically the same. Therefore, our tour guides often joke with guests, and team meals are life-sustaining meals.
When I first started as a tour guide, the meal label of the reception team was 15 yuan/person -20 yuan/person. It's been several years since 10, and the rice standard is still 15 yuan/person -20 yuan/person, which has hardly increased. In today's soaring prices, it is a miracle that the level of team meals can be so stable and firm.
Whenever guests say that team meals are not delicious. I just want to say that according to 200 yuan's standard, 10 people have a table, and 10 has one soup, so you can eat any staple food. How delicious can it be? Think for yourself, if two people randomly find a small shop, one person eats noodles and orders two cold dishes, it will cost tens of dollars.
Some friends may say, "You can raise the food label a little and make the food better." However, if the meal fee is increased, the cost will be higher and the tour fee will be higher accordingly. Many people will say when signing up, why is the same trip so expensive in your home?
Another friend said, "Even if you pay more money, your cooking is not delicious." This statement is biased. The chefs in the restaurant are regular chefs, as long as there are ingredients. I dare not say that I can make the standard of state banquet, but it is no problem to cook a delicious home-cooked meal.
So the team meal tastes bad. In the final analysis, the price is too low. The basic standard of team meal is to have a full stomach. After working for so many years, there are only a few times when guests react to group meals and don't have enough food.
One year, the escort took his caravan to a place in the south. A group of 50 people sat at five tables at noon. After arranging the guests' seats, the tour guide and I went to eat. No sooner had I sat down to eat two bites than an uncle in the regiment came to see me and said that there was no food to eat.
I followed him to the table and saw that the 10 plate on the table had been eaten up, leaving only half a basin of rice. And uncle with a bowl of rice, a face of depressed said, I eat white rice?
I asked him inexplicably, why didn't you eat food just now? He said he went to the toilet before serving, and there was no food on the table when he came back. I want to laugh and feel uncomfortable after listening to it. The appetite in the south is small, and everyone is hungry after playing all morning. Eating is like fighting. When a dish was served, it was robbed in an instant.
Go to the restaurant to add vegetables, the kitchen is too busy. I had no choice but to buy two packs of mustard tuber for my uncle to make do with. And tell him not to go to the toilet before the next meal, and go after the meal.
When this happens, our tour guide is very helpless. We also want our guests to eat well, live well and have a good time. A trip went well, but a smart woman can't cook without rice.
One year, I brought an overseas Chinese group. The standard of 80 per person for a meal. This meal label is relatively high in team meals, and the guests arranged along the way are quite satisfied, and both the restaurant environment and the weight of the dishes are impeccable. And I often have guests tell me that there are too many dishes to eat. It can be reduced appropriately, otherwise it will be wasted.
Later, after negotiation, it was reduced to 60 yuan/person. Every morning, I buy some fruits with the master and the tour leader and put them in the car. We can eat them together. Along the way, everyone in this team was very happy.
I always tell my guests that travel itself is a luxury, not a necessity. It is a high-quality lifestyle derived from our normal life needs. However, nowadays, traveling seems to have become a dirty lifestyle, and you can go out for a few days for hundreds or even dozens of dollars. This development is abnormal, abnormal.
On a trip, I saw some old people sitting in the rest area eating instant noodles and steamed bread. I didn't know that their tour fare did not include the tour fare until I asked. The tour guide collected money to arrange a group meal for 30 people, but they were unwilling to pay the money.
Asked where they came from, they said the name of a neighboring city not far from Henan. Come by car, 199 yuan, one person, four-day tour. Tickets are not included, and meals are not included. Look at these old people who are older than my parents, eating cold buns and biscuits. I have mixed feelings in my heart.
The six elements of tourism are food, shelter, transportation and entertainment. Eating comes first. The ancients said, "Food is the most important thing for people." So eating is very important. Especially when traveling, no matter what the taste is, you must be full, and you will have the strength to play when you are full.