Owner: We have been hungry and know that life is not easy. There is a "free" ramen restaurant in Hexi, Nanjing
Recently, a reporter from Ziniu News found a unique noodle restaurant in Jianye District, Nanjing.
A notice is prominently posted at the entrance of this noodle restaurant: If you have no job, no income, or encounter difficulties in Nanjing due to the epidemic, you can enter the store and tell the clerk to have a "traditional beef noodle". .
After the reporter walked into the store curiously, he tried to order a "traditional beef noodle" from the waiter in a low voice. The busy clerk first stopped what he was doing and looked at the reporter to confirm, and immediately replied, "Okay."
When the clerk started to show the chef below, the reporter also stepped forward in time to show his identity and purpose.
"We are from Lanzhou and have been in Nanjing for 12 years. We have been to many places in these years, but we still feel the most comfortable in Nanjing." The owner of the noodle restaurant, Ma Salihai, is a young and lively person. He told reporters that although the noodle restaurant has just started It opened in Hexi not long ago, but this ramen brand has been operating in Nanjing for 17 years. “It is something that all our partners have unanimously decided to stick to. We have also had enough food to eat a bowl of ramen for free. At that time, now that I have opened a store, I hope to do something within my power.”
The reporter saw in the store that there was also a banner hanging in the hall: We are from Lanzhou, a city 1,712.1 kilometers away, and we have free noodles and meals.
"This is the exact distance from my home to this shop." Manager Ma explained with a smile that he came to Nanjing to work in 2010. After a year and a half, he started to run a ramen restaurant with his hard-earned savings. Now he has nearly run a noodle restaurant. 10 years.
According to the store manager Ma, the newly opened 6th branch of ramen in Hexi has been in operation for a month and a half, and has received a total of 13 customers who ordered free ramen.
"Our head office has been open for 17 years near the Hongshan Zoo, and we have always had this free ramen service. Among the people who eat noodles are migrant workers and people with suitcases, we will not ask or verify whether they are If they are really in trouble, as long as they order, we will go down for them.”
Manager Ma told Ziniu News reporter: "Our partner team has experienced more or less difficult times. When one of the partners worked in Guangdong earlier, he could not afford to eat because of arrears of wages, and he could only eat for two days. The last meal. After opening the store, we were determined. If we encounter such a person, we will at least let him have a full stomach when we come to the store. "
Perhaps because of a similar experience, the store manager Ma revealed that during the training of new employees, he placed special emphasis on taking care of some special customers as much as possible. "We emphasized to the waiter that sometimes it is understandable to have feelings for customers who are troublesome but pay. But customers who eat free noodles must be greeted with a smile, otherwise people will be embarrassed to eat when they see their faces. If you are busy with things at hand, you should stop and let others eat them first.”
During the meal at the noodle restaurant, Ziniu News reporter noticed that there was not much customer traffic in the two-story store. Manager Ma explained that the business had been affected by the epidemic.
"Our new store is still losing money, and we are still discussing with the landlord whether the rent can be reduced, otherwise it may not last long." When it comes to business, the store manager Ma is rarely serious, but he still told reporters "As long as the store is open for one day, there will always be free ramen."
The reporter noticed that the poster posted at the door also had this sentence at the end: I hope that in the days when you are able, remember to help those in need around you.
"That's the biggest meaning of what we do," Ma said.
Intern Xie Xiaoxuan
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News Trainee Reporter
Chen Ran Da Yue