rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 496 The Zhou family collapsed

If a company wants to become bigger and stronger, it will actually encounter many various problems.

But to be honest, Chen Li felt a little confused about the problems encountered by Ideal Fried Chicken.

In his previous life, Chen Li could always see some relevant news on the Internet and news media, saying that a certain restaurant had been using expired ingredients ~ gutter oil, etc. for a long time.

Generally speaking, these restaurants will do this to make more profits.

Therefore, driven by profits, the staff of these restaurants actively or passively violated food safety laws.

But regardless of whether these staff are active or passive, the owner of the restaurant must be the mastermind.

Because only with the approval of the boss can these staff members dare to do this blatantly.

But when it comes to Ideal Fried Chicken, it’s really weird.

We have clearly been told repeatedly that these staff should not do these illegal and taboo things for the sake of making profits, but many people still do it.

And what depresses Chen Li the most is that although the salary package he offers is definitely among the best in the industry, there are still some people who always want to take advantage of the loopholes and try to steal the company's profits.

There are various methods of harvesting wool, some of which even made Chen Li dumbfounded.

Changing ingredients and accessories for reselling, or even directly embezzling ingredients are all routine methods, but someone actually played tricks on the utility bills, which left Chen Li speechless.

If overpaying for water and electricity bills is considered clever, then calling for repairs on the freezer more than ten times within half a year is a sign of looking down on Chen Li's intelligence.

The reason given by the other party was that there was a problem with the wiring in the store, which caused frequent short circuits and other problems with the electricity in the fried chicken restaurant.

Because the problem was with the wiring in the store, the freezer was not covered by the warranty. Therefore, in half a year, the store's freezer repair costs amounted to more than 3,000 yuan.

This reason seems very ridiculous to Chen Li now, but in the past six months, it was not discovered.

Because there are often problems with the wiring in this store, the company also sent people to confirm this, and even later allocated a sum of money to renovate the wiring.

But when Chen Li's second uncle came, he quickly discovered something fishy based on some data.

Then after some investigation, I discovered that the brother-in-law of the manager of this fried chicken restaurant actually opened a home appliance repair business.

In the end, the truth was revealed. There was indeed a problem with the wiring in this store, but this problem was man-made.

After learning the truth, Chen Li had to sigh. If this person becomes greedy, he can do anything.

It's ridiculous to say that the business of this store is actually quite good. The store manager's monthly income exceeds 1,500 yuan, and on good days it can even exceed 2,000 yuan.

To be fair, this income was considered a good income in 1999, even in Yanjing.

Especially in the catering and service industries, this salary is definitely what most people want but cannot ask for.

But even with such a good job and such a high income, this guy was still not satisfied, so he directly engaged in such a thing.

This made Chen Li doubt himself for a while!

Because to be honest, Chen Li has never thought about exploiting his employees. Although he can't say he treats his employees the best, he can definitely be regarded as a very conscientious boss.

With a ten-hour working day, a much higher salary than other companies, and five social insurances and one housing fund that even many state-owned enterprises do not offer, it can almost be said to be a model in the catering industry these days.

Chen Li believes that he is worthy of his employees.

But even so, there are still people who keep making this kind of mistake, which in Chen Li's opinion is not worth the gain.

This made Chen Li once wonder if he was too kind to these employees.

To be honest, the biggest reason why Chen Li treats his employees this way is that in his previous life, Chen Li was just a worker.

Logically speaking, now that he has become the boss, he should stand on the opposite side of beating the workers.

However, Chen Li directly skipped the step of chasing "profit" because of his rebirth and the existence of the system.

Of course~Chen Li is not a saint, but his purpose is for the system's mall currency.

Currently, Chen Li's most stable source of currency in the mall is Ideal Fried Chicken.

The better Ideal Fried Chicken develops and the more branches it has, the greater the monetary income of Chen Li's mall will be.

Therefore, Chen Li doesn't expect much money from Ideal Fried Chicken at all. He would rather give his share of subsidies to his employees. He only hopes that his employees can make the Ideal Fried Chicken chain bigger and better.

powerful.

In fact, Chen Li has been learning from one person about the operation of the ideal fried chicken business, and that is Yu Xilai, a very famous entrepreneur in Henan Province in his previous life.

Because in his previous life, Chen Li discovered through some online information that the employees of Xilai Supermarket had a sense of belonging to the company that was the envy of countless entrepreneurs.

But Chen Li only scratched the surface. Moreover, Ideal Fried Chicken and Xilai Supermarket are not the same thing at all. It is normal for the results to be different.

In fact, there are many people who learned Yu Xilai's management model in his previous life, but I haven't heard of another Yu Xilai coming out.

Chen Li thought he could do it because he had rebirth and the help of the system, but it turned out that he was not from Xilai, and neither was Ideal Fried Chicken from Xilai Supermarket.

In fact, everything has two sides. Although chain companies can expand the company's profits, the difficulty of management will also increase.

Similarly, Ideal Fried Chicken treats its employees very well, but it is precisely because of this "goodness" that some people may go too far.

So Chen Li once suspected that there might be something wrong with his previous ideas.

To be honest, Chen Li's idea is actually a bit dangerous. He seems to be standing at a fork in the road.

On the left~ is the kind of entrepreneur with conscience and sense of responsibility that Chen Li dreams of!

On the right, there is the kind of capitalist that Chen Li hated in his previous life.

Originally, Chen Li was heading straight ahead towards his ideal entrepreneurial path, but he encountered various problems on this path, and it was not very profitable.

So when Chen Li encountered a problem again, he suddenly wanted to walk to the right.

After all, the road on the right not only doesn’t have so many problems, but it can also make a lot of money.

To be honest, Chen Li really almost went to the right road.

But this time, it was his second uncle who brought Chen Li back.

"Don't say it, although I have discovered that the company does have many problems during this period."

"But I think the company is indeed developing well now."

"When I visited the store as a customer before, I found that the vast majority of employees had a very positive impression of the company."

"Occasionally, I hear employees complaining about the company privately. It's all the negative emotions caused by being punished by the company for their own reasons."

"And the training center you set up is really useful."

"Take hygiene as an example. In fact, most stores do a good job, except for a few stores."

"The reason why these few stores have problems is largely related to the store manager's sense of responsibility."

"So I suggest that in the future, the company should not only train new employees, but also conduct secondary training for store managers."

Chen Guoqiang's words not only helped Chen Li come up with an idea, but his praise of the current situation of Ideal Fried Chicken also pulled Chen Li back from his previous thoughts.

Facts have proved that the human heart is made of flesh.

If the company treats its employees well, the employees will naturally have a sense of belonging to the company. This is actually the real "normal work".

On the contrary, those who have problems are actually only a minority.

After all, Ideal Fried Chicken is opening branches faster and faster, and it is now very close to the goal of 200 branches set by Chen Li at the beginning of the year.

In fact, if Ideal Fried Chicken didn't have relatively high requirements for new stores now, and Chen Li deliberately controlled the speed of opening stores, otherwise this goal might have been completed as early as last month.

The reason why Chen Li controlled the speed of opening stores was naturally because it was almost the end of the year and the company needed to withhold some cash.

On the one hand, it is to provide some benefits to employees, and on the other hand, it is to give an explanation to shareholders.

Speaking of which, Ideal Fried Chicken actually only has three shareholders, namely Chen Li, Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli who is studying in Germany.

In fact, according to the initial thinking, Ideal Fried Chicken is not planning to pay dividends this year.

And to be honest, with Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli's 4% shares each, even if they pay dividends, they won't get much money.

Because over the past year, most of the profits from Ideal Fried Chicken have been used to open new stores.

Moreover, Ideal Fried Chicken adopts an asset-heavy model, and many stores are purchased rather than rented.

So if Chen Li doesn't withhold it in advance, even if it is a dividend, it won't actually be very much.

However, under Chen Li's intentional control, Ideal Fried Chicken currently has a large amount of cash reserved, and Chen Li is keeping this money for Zhou Xiaoli.

Four months have passed since Chen Li last went to Germany with Zhou Xiaoli.

Zhou Xiaoli is still in Germany, but something happened to her old father in China.

In fact, Zhou Bowen's real estate company had problems as early as the beginning of the year.

The reason is that the backer behind the Zhou family has lost power.

Although Zhou Bowen managed to persist for a whole year, he even almost brought Chen Li into the ditch.

Fortunately, Chen Li knew at that time that the real estate industry was too deep for him to grasp, so he did not pick up the slack.

After barely sustaining this year, the Zhou family's real estate company finally began to experience thunderstorms at the end of the year.

Speaking of which, the end of the year is definitely the time when real estate companies are most likely to have problems.

The reason is also very simple ~ because at the end of the year, both the project itself and the wages of workers have reached a time period that must be settled.

As we all know, the domestic real estate industry has a series of complex "contracting" systems.

It is obviously a simple "Party A and Party B" cooperation, but in actual operation, there may be multiple Party B.

Party A hands over the project to Party B, and after Party B gets the project, it hands a certain step in the project to the next Party B, and then the next Party B hands over the project to the next Party B.

But in this way, sometimes when there is a problem in one of these links, a big problem may arise.

But if the person who has this problem is Party A, then the problem will be even bigger.

Now, Party A, Zhou Bowen, has a problem, and there is a problem with both projects.

The core of the problem is also very simple, it is money!

However, it is not a small amount of money, and it cannot even be described as a "pen".

Anyway, the hole in the Zhou Real Estate Company cannot be filled by current Zhou Bowen, even Chen Li, who is a reborn person and system owner, cannot fill it.

Even if Chen Li's current net worth is at least tens of millions, even if he adds up all his net worth, he will not be able to make any waves in the real estate industry.

Whether it is real estate in 1999 or real estate more than 20 years later, what we are best at is leveraging a huge "property" with a small amount of capital!

Therefore, Zhou Bowen's actual net worth may not be as high as outsiders think, but the holes in the projects he handled are extremely huge.

Of course, if you want to fill these holes, you don't necessarily need to spend that much money.

In fact, if someone could give Zhou Bowen one or two small goals now, he might be able to achieve a comeback.

But the problem is that sometimes, what people see with their eyes is not necessarily the truth.

On the surface, Zhou Bowen's biggest problem now is lack of money, but in fact, what he lacks is really not that little money.

Hmm~ It’s a little too much to describe it with “a little” money~ but that’s what it means.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Bowen’s backer has fallen, and now others are trying to steal the meat from Zhou Bowen.

The biggest problem at present is that Zhou Bowen's competitors have blocked almost all the ways for Zhou Bowen to solve problems.

So ~ Zhou Bowen now faces two paths.

How about accepting reality and surrendering?

How about taking the money and absconding!

That’s right~ He’s absconding with the money!

They raised a large sum of money and emigrated with their family abroad. Although they cheated a lot of people, Zhou Bowen's family could still live a very relaxed life abroad.

In fact, these days, when many people encounter problems like Zhou Bowen, they will choose the latter.

After all, people are selfish!

But this time, Zhou Bowen did not choose the latter. Perhaps there was some reason that Chen Li didn't know, but Zhou Bowen finally chose the former.

He gave up!

Not only did he admit defeat, he even took the initiative to shoulder his share of responsibilities. Now he is looking for money everywhere and even selling off his property to try to fill the hole as much as possible.

Zhou Bowen also approached Chen Li, but unfortunately, Chen Li could not help him at all.

The only thing Chen Li can do is probably help Zhou Bowen take good care of his daughter Zhou Xiaoli!

Now that Zhou Bowen has fallen, as his daughter, Zhou Xiaoli will naturally be affected.

The biggest impact is probably on the financial resources of Miss Zhou, the daughter of a wealthy family.

Zhou Bowen originally deposited a large amount of money for Zhou Xiaoli, but something went wrong with that money in the end.

Therefore, whether as a friend or a partner, Chen Li felt that he should help Zhou Xiaoli.

Well, it can only be Zhou Xiaoli, not the entire Zhou family!

(End of chapter)