Starting a Business in the 1980s with a Prepared Meals System

Someone asked Wu Meishi, "Boss, what did you put in the food? Why does it smell so good?"

Wu Meishi smiled. "MSG. I put in a lot of MSG."

After transmigrating to the 1980s, Wu Meishi also acquired a golden finger for starting a business: a System. She was ready to make her mark and go all out, only to discover that the System was a little strange.

It called itself a gourmet System, but it only had recipes for pre-made meals.

Wu Meishi said, "Good heavens! In a country as obsessed with food as China, you expect me to build a successful business on pre-made meals? Is this really not a hallucination brought on by eating too much cheap cafeteria food before getting food poisoning?"

A strange new restaurant opened on Tonglin Street. Everyone who passed within dozens of miles could smell its rich aroma. In the 1980s, people who had yet to try all kinds of spices found the scent especially captivating, and they would follow it right into the restaurant without even realizing it.

The restaurant had one distinctive feature: no matter what a customer ordered from the menu, the dish would be served within five minutes. People who were used to arriving an hour early just to order a meal were amazed.

Most remarkable of all, every dish tasted exceptionally delicious. The chef never made a mistake. No matter how many times you ordered a dish, it always tasted exactly the same, right down to the last detail.

With the pre-made meal System, Wu Meishi made a name for herself in the food industry of the 1980s. She went from a small eatery to a grand restaurant, then opened a nationwide chain and built factories...

She took pre-made meals all the way overseas, beating out McDonald's and KFC so people around the world could taste China's very own delicious pre-made food. (smile)

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