For conscientious office workers, rural bases can be seen everywhere conveniently and quickly, which is the most suitable choice for working meals; For people who care about the quality of life, Chinese food in rural areas is healthy and hygienic, and both the elderly and children can find suitable choices.
But for those migrant workers who are struggling to survive and tighten their belts, the price of rural base is also rising in the continuous rise of prices. From the high cost performance of being close to the people in the past to the "high-priced consumption" in the mouth of the people today, it is hard to say that the reputation of rural bases has not changed.
With the development of rural bases in Chongqing to such a scale, enterprises quickly realized this problem and began to make changes, the most obvious action being reflected in the development of menus.
The most common form of rural restaurants is set meal, one or two meat dishes, a vegetarian dish, a bowl of tomato soup, and fragrant rice unique to rural areas to ensure that diners eat well and are full.
A set meal consisting of small fried meat, kung fu chicken legs, braised pork in Taiwan Province Province and other signature dishes. Deeply loved by the people, he was unmoved in these 20 years; New dishes that are not traditional in China, such as pickled rice noodles and grilled pork, have also gained a firm foothold in a short time, which makes the rural base see the public's acceptance of different dishes.
On this basis, the rural base pursued the victory and successively launched maocai, chafing dish and other dishes, which accurately grasped the preferences and tastes of Chongqing people and gained good response.
At the end of 2020, the rural base quietly launched a big move-putting small bowls of vegetables on the shelves. It is very similar to the small bowls of vegetables that are common on the streets of Chongqing. There are steamed meat, braised pork, boiled fish with sauerkraut, fried potatoes, cold salad and so on in a small bowl the size of a palm. The price of a small bowl of vegetables ranges from 3 yuan to 25 yuan.
As a foodie, Youpin immediately ordered several copies to taste. The taste can only be said to be unsatisfactory. With the blessing of weight and price, the cost performance is barely maintained at the upper-middle level.
According to feedback from netizens, in the major restaurants in rural bases, the form of small bowls of vegetables was not widely put on the shelves, and the restaurants you ate were later removed from the shelves.
Small bowls of vegetables could not be eaten, and then the rural base developed a menu of box lunch. On the trolley with heat preservation function, the variety of dishes is clear at a glance, very rich, about a dozen dishes.
The cheapest of these box lunches is a combination of one meat and one vegetable, as long as it is in 9.9 yuan, less than 10 yuan; The combination of two kinds of meat and one dish can be divided into 15 block 9 and 17 block 9. Different dishes have different prices.
The weight and taste of the dishes are of medium level. For office workers, such working meals are quite cost-effective, and they are all ready-made dishes, which can be eaten immediately after placing an order directly.
Whether it is a small bowl of vegetables or a box lunch, these two new forms of rural bases are very similar to their sub-brand Mr. Mi. Compared with traditional rural packages, small bowls of vegetables and buffet lunch boxes provide people with more choices and cheaper prices.
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people. For hardworking and down-to-earth Chongqing people, it is most important to eat enough. In the eyes of tourists, these new attempts by rural bases are not simply developing menus, but actually compromising with the people.
Even compared with the self-help box lunch on the street, this rural base still has advantages in scale, quality and cost performance, and the remarks of ordinary people that "it is better to eat box lunch in rural bases" will be shattered.
However, the form of small bowl dishes and buffet lunch boxes is not suitable for every village-based restaurant, so only some stores have such dishes on the shelves. Whether the future can continue remains to be seen.