How hard can it be to run a breakfast restaurant?

I have been working as a breakfast worker for more than a year. The reason why I stopped doing it was not because I didn’t make any money, but because it was too hard! Next, I will talk in detail about how hard it is to make breakfast. I hope that people who want to make breakfast will think twice before doing it, especially young people. I suggest you choose carefully.

The main reason why my wife, my wife, and my dad choose to make breakfast is because the threshold for breakfast is lower than in other industries. My wife and I are ordinary people without special skills, high education, or big funds. We work for others, earn too little, and are controlled by others. My dad is quite old and has a hard time finding a job outside. If he makes breakfast, he can at least use his spare energy to help us.

Just a few years ago, a relative at home cooked breakfast, so the technical problems of making breakfast were solved, such as the recipes for various steamed bun fillings, how to order tofu, how to fry fried dough sticks, and how to make noodles soft. Hardness etc. Although we mastered the method, during the actual operation, the three of us couldn't handle the interview, and in the end we had to hire an experienced interviewer to help us.

Since we didn’t have enough funds at the time, we bought second-hand equipment such as tables and chairs, soymilk machines, large tin cans, and sealing machines, thus saving some money. Including rent, installation of exhaust equipment and various pots and pans, the total investment is less than 100,000 yuan. The cost aspect is not stressful. The most difficult thing is to get up early.

At the beginning, because I was not very skilled in techniques, I got up at 2:30 every morning to work, making buns with five kinds of fillings, making soy milk, boiling milk, frying fried dough sticks, making leek boxes, boiling tea eggs, Cooking three kinds of porridge, etc., I was busy non-stop until five or six in the morning, when customers began to come to dine one after another.

The peak period was from 7 to 8 o'clock in the morning. At that time, there were not as many people using WeChat as now. Some customers took 50 yuan or 100 yuan. It was also a waste of time to change. The key is to have enough change. The rush hour will be over after 8:30, but there will still be many people who don't go to work coming to buy breakfast.

There were almost no customers until about ten o'clock in the morning. Since the business was not very good when we first opened the store, we did not take a break at noon. We mainly sold pies at noon, and a small number of customers bought breakfast for lunch. Food. After the group of people withdrew at noon, we began to "clear the area." Wash dishes, sweep the floor, and clean various tools. When you become proficient in it later, just do a little bit as long as there is no one around, and try not to pile them all together. This can reduce the burden on yourself in advance.

After closing the door, around one or two o'clock in the afternoon, I sleep for more than an hour, then get up and continue working to prepare for the next day's work. At that time, except for white flour, soybean oil, and meat, which were given by the merchants, the rest of the dishes had to be picked up by themselves. Especially vegetables, you can pick them yourself and they are fresh and cheap.

We didn’t have a car at the time, so my dad rode an electric bike back and forth. After bringing the vegetables back, I started to wash and pick them, then use a stuffing grinder to mince them, then mix the meat fillings, and finally put the various bun fillings in the refrigerator and make them directly the next morning. The noodles should also be delivered in advance. If it is found that the noodles are ready the next morning, there is no need to rush.

In short, what can be prepared tonight must not be postponed until the next day. It will be at least five or six o'clock after finishing this series of work. Since the store was too small, there was no place to sleep, so we went home for dinner after closing time. Of the three meals a day, only dinner is a good meal. I eat leftover breakfast in the morning and at noon, and I eat whichever one has more leftover.

It’s almost seven o’clock after dinner. At this time, I don’t have the energy to do anything else. I just want to rest, look at my phone for a while, then simply wash up and get ready to go to bed. , I basically go to bed around nine o'clock. After all, I have to get up very early the next morning, and occasionally I have insomnia, so I have to get up on time.

You cannot set the alarm on your mobile phone twice in the morning, because if you set it twice, you will probably oversleep. As our experience continues to grow and our techniques gradually become more proficient, we no longer need to get up at 2:30, but basically get up at 3:10. We have no time to wash up and are too lazy to wash up.

My home is not far from the store, and it only takes seven or eight minutes by electric bike.

Start working on time at 3:30, and then continue to repeat the work. The most difficult thing is to get up early every morning. When I get up every morning, I feel groggy. Even when I get to the store, there is no obvious relief. I have to keep working. The sleepiness will pass after about five o'clock.

The biological clock is seriously disrupted, probably because of getting up early for a long time, which makes me feel physically tired every day. Not only is I sleepy, but my work does not feel easy at all. It is a kind of forced labor. The thought of doing it endlessly and for a long time makes my head go crazy.

The quality of life has seriously declined compared to before the store opened. Every day, I only work and sleep, and I don’t eat well, with leftovers from breakfast and lunch. Although I can eat something delicious at night, I don’t want to do anything simple. I just want to rest for a while. In addition, I always wear work clothes and have no energy to go out to play or spend money.

After the business stabilizes, the daily sales will be close to 2,000 yuan, and a rough calculation of the profit will probably average around 55, which means that if you make a full purchase, you can earn up to 1,000 yuan. After excluding all expenses such as rent, water, electricity, and employment interview wages, there is at most 600-700 yuan left per day. It’s only 20,000 yuan a month, which seems like a lot, but it’s actually earned by the three of us sacrificing a lot of our bodies and time.

Not only that, less than a year after opening the store, the neighbor next door saw that our business was doing well and opened one, competing with you in all aspects, from category to price. In the later stage, we can only earn up to 500 yuan a day. It is really meaningless for three people to only earn 500 yuan a day, working from dawn to dusk.

The most difficult thing for me to overcome personally is getting up early. Waking up three hours early every day is definitely not something that can be avoided by sleeping for three hours in the afternoon. The whole person has been in a state of sub-health for a long time, especially my dad, who is old and has a bad heart, so I didn't dare to make him too tired. Finally, when the rent was about to expire in the second year, I cashed out the store.

My personal suggestion is that young people are not suitable for this job. If you have a stable job with a decent income, then don’t try it. As long as you are not a chain store, you will not be able to get rich. Of course, if you really have nothing to do or have a lot of people at home, you can try it.

Because making breakfast doesn’t require much investment or risk, you just have to work hard. As for what some people say about making breakfast without mixing stuffing, to be honest, it’s really not difficult, and the taste of breakfast is almost the same. I’ll repeat it again, the hardest thing is to wake up so early!

True story, there is a young couple selling rice rolls downstairs of the company, both born in the 1990s. He is very young. Because he loves to eat rice rolls, he often comes there and sometimes chats. In the beginning, a boy came out to sell rice rolls alone. He would set up a stall in front of the company at about 7 o'clock every morning. He was dressed very formally and had a live broadcast. He estimated that he would have to prepare ingredients, noodles and other things in the morning, which would take about four hours. Getting up at five o'clock is indispensable. Then when selling rice rolls, they are also cooked and sold immediately. The technique is very fast, constantly pouring the rice noodles, adding eggs, stirring, putting on the steamer, taking out the pot, adding ingredients, packing boxes, putting ingredients bags... As the business improves, There was a girl at the back. The boy was responsible for making rice rolls, and the girl was responsible for asking customers for their needs and packaging. They cooperated very well. In addition to selling at the company in the morning, they will go to another place in the afternoon and change places in the evening. Really hardworking and hardworking.

Therefore, I think it is really hard to run a breakfast shop. In fact, the most difficult thing is that you have to get up very early in the morning, and it is basically rain or shine. It takes a lot of perseverance.

In fact, no job is easy. Even if you see others looking relaxed on the surface, you have no way of knowing what kind of pressure they are under. Therefore, nothing in the world is easy, and of course nothing is difficult in the world. The most fearful thing is those who are thoughtful.

come on! ! !

It seems that I have the most say on this issue. I am a breakfast shop operator: the most common thing in the morning is to get up at three o'clock in the morning. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn, winter, or holidays, I always get up at the same time. When we play with ice in the winter and make fires in the summer, it is said that the sanitation workers are the first ones. In fact, when we got up, the sanitation workers were not even at work! In the morning, it was just like catching up with the battlefield. It was better to meet easy-to-talk customers, but when it came to difficult ones, the whole morning was his share. You can make money no matter what industry you are in. This is true. Those who make breakfast are really making hard-earned money. There are not a few people who make breakfast in our area who have died suddenly. They are really risking their lives for the economy! ! !

I felt very hard because I started to be busy at about three o'clock in the morning and continued until about ten o'clock in the morning. Opposite my house there was a young couple from out of town. Long steamed buns, pan-fried steamed buns, millet porridge, rice porridge, eight-treasure porridge, meat-vegetarian and peppery soup. When I got busy, even an eight or nine-year-old child was busy too. It was very, very hard.

I started After working in a breakfast shop for so many years, it is definitely hard work, but everything in the world has two sides, there is a bitter side, and there must be a happy side. If you want to make money with so many people coming to have breakfast, then your day I've got the money, and I'm very happy. And I found that not only do you have to get up early to open a breakfast shop, but also other businesses such as those who sell meat, sell vegetables, make tofu, make noodle and dumpling wrappers, etc., and those who make barbecue, and those who have late night snacks have to stay up until midnight or overnight. In fact, this is all physical hard work, but if you rely on your work to make a living, you will feel at ease and be open-minded. What a joy.

Making breakfast is really hard. I am the one who makes breakfast. I get up at 3:11 or 3:30 in the morning every day. No matter it is 35/C in summer or minus 8 degrees or minus 10 degrees in winter, I can't get up. Especially in the middle of winter, getting out of the hot bed is so refreshing!

After getting up, I clean up the side dishes, make steamed buns, vegetarian dumplings, pancakes, and fried vegetable steamed buns. When the guests come around 5.30, I am busy until about 9.30. I still have to clean up after the guests leave! After washing the pots, pans, and steamed buns, it’s 11 o’clock to 12 o’clock.

Cook at 12 o'clock, clean up after dinner, close the door at 2.30 and go home to rest. Rest until 7 p.m. to get up and sort out the meat fillings and vegetarian fillings for the next day, as well as the dough and meat fillings for steamed buns. There are seven kinds of vegetarian fillings, and some vegetarian fillings need to be fried. This is busy until about 11 o'clock. Anyway, those who make breakfast usually rest after 12 o'clock and get up at 3.30, alas! It’s really not a job for humans! That’s enough! I don’t care if I will never make breakfast again in my next life, and my children and grandchildren will never let them make breakfast again. It’s too tiring! The breakfast cook uses two words to describe "sleepy, tired" [small applause] [small applause] [small applause] [face covering] [face covering] [face covering]

Let me answer. My hometown is a small county in southwest Henan. Breakfast is basically staple food such as spicy soup, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and wozi noodles, plus millet porridge, eight-treasure porridge, mung bean porridge, soy milk and the like. My breakfast shop is located at the urban-rural fringe. I arrive at 3 a.m. in the summer and at 4 a.m. in the winter. Taking winter as an example, the work process: 1. First mix the fried dough sticks noodles (weigh the noodles, weigh the water, 1:0.7 for winter noodles and 1:0.8 for summer). This process takes about 10 minutes (at this time, the aunt who fried the fried dough sticks is in the cabbage box. ), and then you have to ask for noodles every 10 minutes, which means you need to ask for noodles 4 times. 2. Mix pancake juice, noodles, water, eggs and seasoning, it will take 5 minutes (I use an electric whisk to stir) 3. Tilo steamed noodles (the noodles are made the night before). 4. Make spicy soup and porridge. At this time, half an hour has passed, and then the electric pan is turned on to prepare the buns. At 50 minutes, the dough sticks are served, and the dough sticks are cooked for another 10 minutes. Then spread out the pancakes, kang vegetable box, and operate the three electric pancake ovens at the same time. In the winter, I was so busy that I was sweating. By 4:30, I had basically completed a quarter of the workload. Then I put out a few side dishes, which were free of charge. Mix shredded radish, shredded onion, shallots with tofu, etc., then take a brief rest and start eating. At this time, workers from the early morning shift were already arriving at the store to eat. After eating, they started to repeat the work process again, and it was basically finished around 10 o'clock.

PS The turnover of my store is basically maintained at around 1800, not counting holidays. There are about 7 people in the store. My wife mainly sells steamed buns at the cashier, one is a cook, one is a dishwasher, two waiters, and there are two of us in the kitchen. During peak periods A waiter helped prepare the meal. For the first time, Wukong replied, "If you don't like it, don't complain. This is my personal experience."

There is a woman at the door of my unit, selling egg-filled cakes from a small cart. It has been sold for many years.

More than ten years ago, her daily turnover was more than 300 yuan. Because she often buys cakes, she is familiar with them. She said that she earned the house from selling cakes and built a three-story building. Everyone in her family regards her as the God of Wealth.

Just a little bit, too tired.

She gets up at three o'clock all year round, first makes the dough (if it's winter, she has to make the dough one day in advance), then cuts the potatoes into shreds and stir-fries them. It's coming. Cycling here from the nearby countryside. It's half an hour's drive and it's fine in the summer, but it's cold, dark and uncomfortable in the winter.

All kinds of chores come, and I usually work for three to four hours.

That’s the end of the day.

This kind of work is so tiring. She has done enough now, but is too tired. After making and selling the cakes one by one, I was almost dead from exhaustion. Then ride home.

I have been making breakfast for 6 years, roasting stuffed food. Only those who have experienced it personally will know how hard it is, but there is sweetness in the bitterness, and the income is still acceptable.

My wife and I get up on time at 3 o'clock in the morning every day. Of course, it depends on the alarm on your mobile phone. If you forget to set the time, it will definitely be late.

My head always feels dizzy when I wake up, my eyes are dry and my whole body feels weak. After arriving at the store, I knead the noodles first and then knead the noodles into a ball. Then use two fists to pound hard until it is very soft.

If you eat a lot of noodles, you will be sweating all over, and your hands and neck will be very sore.

Place the dough on a large panel, cover it with a clean white cloth, and heat it for a while before it is ready for use.

Then take the time to drink some water before starting to cut the meat. We all like to eat it here. The meat filling is cut by hand, which is thicker and tastes better than using a meat grinder.

Chop celery, cabbage, leeks, and tofu into 4 kinds of fillings. (Celery meat, cabbage meat, leek eggs, pure tofu).

Adjusting the stuffing is very important, it is related to whether the roasted food is delicious or not. I am very busy, and my wife is not idle either.

Use a machine to grind the soaked soybeans into a paste, then put them into a pot and pour some water over them, then boil them. It becomes a fragrant soy milk. If you grind it yourself, your customers will be willing to drink it.

Then cut the cucumber, radish, and cabbage into thin strips, mix them into delicious little pickles, and give them to the guests for free.

After all the preparations were done, the genius was revealed. He didn't dare to take a break, so he was ready to start burning.

I use a coal-burning earthen stove. The fire-roasted food cooked in this earthen stove is much more delicious than the one cooked in an electric stove. Many customers care about this.

From more than 5 o'clock to more than 8 o'clock. From now on, there were fewer and fewer people eating, so my wife and I took the time to put away the dishes and clean up.

I took the time to eat two dishes on fire and drank a few bowls of soy milk. After dinner, it was already past 9 o'clock.

At this time, to be honest, I really want to sit down, take a rest and then lie in bed. Even if I am just confused for 10 minutes, I will be very satisfied and I will be energetic when I get up.

No matter how hard you work at this time, you still have to be energetic and repeat the various tasks you did in the morning.

Because in order to earn more money, I have to bake vegetables for another 2 hours at noon. When there are no guests, I finish cleaning up the dishes and cleaning up, and it’s already past 2 o’clock.

I quickly went home and fell into bed, confused for about an hour. The ringtone of my cell phone woke me up again, so I drove my electric tricycle to buy vegetables and cut meat to prepare ingredients for the next morning.

It was already past 9 o'clock when I got home after shopping for groceries and finished eating. I only rested for about an hour this day and had time to eat two meals.

Making breakfast is really hard work. Sometimes when I look at my neighbors who work early in the evening and work eight hours a day, I feel so envious that I feel like quitting.

For the sake of money, I persisted because there are too many ways to use money. My wife and I can make a net profit of 5,600 yuan every day, which is worth it when you think about it.

In short, although making breakfast is hard and tiring, in terms of income, it is still possible. Not only is the threshold low, but it also does not require a high level of education.

It is most suitable for people who want to start a business but don’t have much capital, and the risk is almost zero. But the most important thing is to have a hard-working spirit and not be afraid of being laughed at by others.

Only in this way can we gain a firm foothold and make more profits.