My Age of Investment

"Come here."

Qiu Zhiyi came towards Xia Jingxing and Yang Niu with a pot of vegetables, his chubby face was full of smiles.

"Alright, alright, Brother Qiu, take a break, how can we finish so many dishes!"

Xia Jingxing looked at the seven or eight dishes on the table in front of him with a smile on his face, his index fingers wide open. Hunan Cuisine, Shandong Cuisine, Cantonese Soup... All of the major cuisines in the country are covered, and each cuisine has made one or two dishes. Although the style is simple, it is very delicate. It can be seen that Qiu Zhiyi has put a lot of effort into it.

A pot of fragrant sauerkraut fish was put on the table by Qiu Zhiyi.

"Jing Xing, you like to eat pickled fish from your hometown, so I will try to make one, you can try it."

Qiu Zhiyi sat down next to Xia Jingxing and raised his hand to signal Xia Jingxing to taste.

Xia Jingxing picked up the chopsticks, took a piece of fish, put it in his mouth, it was tender and delicious, and there was a spicy smell of wild pepper in his mouth.

"I haven't eaten such delicious pickled fish for a long time." Xia Jingxing gave Qiu Zhiyi a thumbs up.

Qiu Zhiyi smiled, "It's good for you to eat."

After saying that, Qiu Zhiyi got up and ran to the warehouse, rummaged through the boxes for a while, brought a bottle of Maotai, and had a drink with Xia Jingxing.

"I suggested that you develop an online ordering system before. How's it going?"

Xia Jingxing raised the small and delicate white wine glass, touched it with Qiu Zhiyi, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.

He rarely drinks so boldly. When socializing, he almost always sticks his lips and pretends. Only when he drinks with friends can he drink happily.

Just like Xia Jingxing, Qiu Zhiyi drank his glass of wine in one gulp, then hesitantly, exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and a blush rose on his face.

Putting down the wine glass, he looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile, and said slowly, "Last year, I found a few Stanford students to develop the system, and it has been officially put into use for more than half a year.

It is indeed much more convenient than before. It is convenient for customers to place orders, and it is also convenient for us to take orders. Now the takeaway business supports half of the turnover of our five stores. "

"Five stores?"

Xia Jingxing was a little surprised,

"Isn't it only three last year?"

Like a foodie, the foreign girl who kept putting food in her mouth muttered, "Your news is out of date, Brother Qiu's Lucky Restaurant is now an internet celebrity shop in the Bay Area, with hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook. Fans, business is very good, and there are voices online suggesting they move to the East Coast."

Xia Jingxing looked at Qiu Zhiyi with a humble smile on his face, "I still have to thank you, Jing Xing. Without your guidance, Lucky Restaurant would have opened five stores, maybe even one of them would be difficult to operate."

Qiu Zhiyi sincerely thanked Xia Jingxing, although the other party did not give him any financial help, but the guidance of a founder of a ten billion dollar enterprise is not more precious than money? In other words, money can't buy it.

Even his cousin who opened a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown envied him, saying that he was a fool and was a fool.

Xia Jingxing smiled, Qiu Zhiyi's restaurant was developing smoothly, and as a friend, he was also sincerely happy for the other party.

He and Qiu Zhiyi met on the plane. Before he made a fortune, the other party took the initiative to make friends, invite him to dinner, party together on weekends and so on.

When he became rich and famous, the other party never made any unreasonable demands, such as borrowing money, pulling investment, introducing resources... nothing at all.

Although overseas, there are often cases of Chinese people cheating on Chinese people, but there are also benevolent people like Qiu Zhiyi. For example, when they encountered the epidemic, many overseas Chinese and overseas students bought masks from overseas and sent them back to China.

Of course, most of these people are international students holding Chinese passports, overseas Chinese working overseas, not ABC Chinese born in the United States, nor Chinese who have changed their nationalities. Those people have nothing to do with China at all.

"Five stores have grown rapidly. What are your plans next?"

Qiu Zhiyi smiled, "I don't have too many plans, let's run the five stores first, and then talk about the next step."

"Don't chase after victory?"

Xia Jingxing took a piece of fried chicken with peppers and asked while chewing.

Qiu Zhiyi shook his head, "Not for now, it's only been more than a year since the first store opened, I plan to stabilize and consolidate our taste and service.

These are the foundation of a restaurant. Without these, no matter how many stores you open, you will be building houses on the beach, and you can easily be knocked down. "

The fact that Qiu Zhiyi was able to say such words was somewhat beyond Xia Jingxing's expectations, indicating that the other party was extremely rational and was not overwhelmed by the current achievements.

Thinking about it carefully, he didn't find it strange. In his impression, Qiu Zhiyi has always been a very rational and stable person.

In fact, Qiu Zhiyi did not take the initiative to brake, he also planned to give advice to the other party, practice his internal skills hard, lay a solid foundation and then expand.

Looking at all chain restaurants, in the first few years, there are almost only one store or a few stores, because the founders also need to grow and adapt with the company.

I have no experience at all, and I have never been at the helm of a large chain restaurant, so I quickly expanded dozens of stores, and there is a high probability that it will collapse.

Faster to open, faster to collapse.

"Have you ever thought about building a food delivery platform yourself, in addition to delivering food from Good Luck Restaurant, you also invite other restaurants to settle in and help them deliver food."

Xia Jingxing's words made Qiu Zhiyi frown, "How many people do we have to hire? In fact, our food delivery business is not very profitable because we have to hire a lot of delivery workers.

Sometimes the business is a little short, or the take-out orders received on the day are a little less, and they are in a daze in the store.

Later, Xiao Dong, an employee in the store, suggested that I hire some part-time college students and pay according to the amount of delivery orders, which finally reduced the cost a little. "

Xia Jingxing's eyes lit up, "Is this the suggestion made by the staff in your store? It's a good idea, there are dragons and crouching tigers in your store!"

"I'll ask her to come and talk to you!"

Qiu Zhiyi got up and left quickly. After a while, he pulled back an Asian girl with a round face and about the same age as Xia Jingxing.

"This is Xiao Dong, the manager of the takeaway business department of Good Luck Restaurant."

Following the boss's introduction, Dong Aizhi held out his hand to Xia Jingxing, "Mr. Xia, hello."

"Hello!"

Xia Jingxing shook his hand and pointed to the empty seat next to him, "Sit down and talk!"

Dong Aizhi was not polite and sat down directly.

Through chatting, Xia Jingxing learned that Dong Aizhi is an international student from mainland China at the nearby University of San Francisco. He just graduated this year. Since last year, the other party has started to work part-time at Lucky Restaurant. Because of his good performance, he has been promoted from the waitress to the food delivery department. Manager, responsible for the takeaway delivery business of five stores, and manage dozens of takeaway brothers.

"You thought of finding a college student to deliver food?"

Dong Aizhi nodded.

Xia Jingxing asked again, "You have been managing this takeaway delivery for a while, what do you think are the problems or deficiencies?"

Dong Aizhi glanced at Qiu Zhiyi, and the latter nodded, indicating that she did not need to be shy and said casually.

"First of all, the system is still too rudimentary. If there is a positioning function and a map route planning function, the delivery speed of food delivery can be accelerated, thereby improving the customer's consumption experience."

Xia Jingxing nodded, "Then do you have a solution?"

"Have!"

Dong Aizhi said with a smile: "Each takeaway delivery person is equipped with a PDA with built-in map and positioning functions."

Xia Jingxing didn't say anything, and after a long while he said quietly, "This cost is a bit high. What if the delivery staff rolls away our equipment and it's gone forever?"