rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 498 Soaring into the Sky

"I want it~ How can I not want it?"

"I don't lack anything right now~ I just lack talents!"

The ideal fried chicken at the beginning of the year is actually just a small plate.

But after Chen Li invested another two million US dollars, Ideal Fried Chicken gradually evolved from a small plate into a large-scale chain enterprise.

In this process, in addition to the prospects of the fried chicken industry, it also has a certain relationship with the talent training established by Chen Li in his early days.

At that time, there were far fewer branches of Ideal Fried Chicken, and the actual number of employees recruited even exceeded the number of employees required by the store.

But it was precisely because of this initial accumulation that after the Ideal Fried Chicken branches expanded rapidly, they did not encounter big problems in terms of human resources.

Many people may find it strange that they are just employees of a fried chicken shop, not just one person? What kind of training is needed?

But the problem actually lies here!

If what Chen Lili is doing is just a fried chicken shop, then the training of employees naturally does not need to be so strict.

There is no need for any training at all. You can just find a master to guide you after you start working.

But what Chen Xixi wants to build is a brand, a brand that can surpass those Western fast food brands.

Under such a premise, Chen Li is naturally more concerned about store decoration, operation, food safety and employee training.

However, the talent training established by Chen Li is only for ordinary employees.

As for management, although Ideal Fried Chicken has its own promotion mechanism, to be honest, this mechanism is not that perfect.

The plate of ideal fried chicken is too small. For most ordinary employees, being promoted to store manager is basically the end of it.

That is to say, the current establishment time of Ideal Fried Chicken is too short, so this problem is not so obvious.

In addition, the current salary package offered by Ideal Fried Chicken is relatively high, which gives it an upper hand in the competition in the same industry.

But the upper limit of the catering industry is still too low.

No~ to be precise, it should be that the limit for fried chicken restaurants is too low.

It is almost impossible for a truly capable and capable person to stay at Ideal Fried Chicken.

There is no way ~ Although Ideal Fried Chicken will also have some management positions for those who have the ability to be promoted, but there are too few.

And to be honest, most of the people who are willing to work in the catering service industry are people with little education.

Not to mention college students, there are not many people who have graduated from high school.

Of course, in the catering service industry, the requirements for cultural level are not that high, but if it is for management, there are still some requirements.

Since Chen Li started his own business, the biggest problem he has encountered has never been funding, but talent.

There is a popular saying these days: What is the most precious thing in the 21st century?

Talent~Talent is still talent!

A qualified manager, compared with an unqualified manager, brings a huge difference in benefits to the company itself.

This is also the reason why Chen Li was so keen on wielding a hoe before, but because the plate of ideal fried chicken was too small before, he couldn't attract any real talents at all.

But now the situation has obviously changed a lot.

With nearly two hundred branches, even two hundred bun shops, it is a huge industry.

And the most important point is that according to the current development speed of Ideal Fried Chicken, this industry is still expanding rapidly.

If Ideal Fried Chicken maintains its current expansion rate, it will only take three to five years for Ideal Fried Chicken to become the top fried chicken fast food restaurant in the country.

Yes~ Due to its business philosophy, Ideal Fried Chicken is completely incomparable to those Western fast food in terms of the size of a single store.

But the advantage of Ideal Fried Chicken is not at all, but the "quantity"!

This is a typical example of winning by quantity!

Moreover, it is precisely because of the operating model of Ideal Fried Chicken that it has avoided direct competition with those Western fast food companies that are currently strong.

It is precisely because of this buffer that Ideal Fried Chicken has avoided the danger of being suppressed by industry leaders.

As for the competitors of Ideal Fried Chicken, it is obvious that their operating philosophy is completely different from that of Ideal Fried Chicken.

At present, Ideal Fried Chicken is not trying to make money at all, but to seize the market.

Chen Li may not care about profits, but his competitors cannot.

This can be regarded as the blessing of Chen Li's rebirth. In these days, capital's emphasis on chain restaurants is far less intense than it was later.

But this is easier to understand. Domestic investment opportunities are everywhere these days. What is the real estate Internet? Which one is not more cost-effective than the catering industry?

Even some traditional industries are far safer than chain restaurants.

Therefore, although some competitors appeared in the middle of the year for Ideal Fried Chicken, it is impossible for these competitors to shake the development strategy of Ideal Fried Chicken.

Let’s not talk about anything else~ Let’s talk about the source of ingredients for Ideal Fried Chicken. Whether it is the ingredients themselves or food safety, it is impossible for anyone to compare with Shennong Food from the system.

Even if Chen Li relies on the channel of Shennong Food, he can kill many competitors in an instant.

Moreover, Chen Li also discovered the most exaggerated thing.

That is, the raw materials of Shennong Food will not increase in price at all.

What is this concept?

Perhaps this is not an exaggeration at this point, but if it is five or even ten years later, when the cost of a fried chicken has risen to the price level at that time.

The cost of ideal fried chicken is still where it was in 1999.

To put it bluntly, even if Ideal Fried Chicken doesn't make any money, it can still make a lot of money just by relying on the inflation of the price level.

It's just that this problem forced Chen Li to plan to change the settlement model with Shennong Food, otherwise there would be a risk of the secret being revealed.

Of course, this is just a small problem, and it is very easy to solve. In the worst case, we can just build a separate enterprise to connect it later.

Anyway, the current ideal fried chicken has only one direction in principle: expansion~expansion~expansion!

However, in the rapid expansion of Ideal Fried Chicken, the importance of talents has become even more apparent.

At this time, Zhou Bowen, a former real estate businessman who had gone bankrupt, suddenly asked Chen Li if his company wanted more people.

This directly made Chen Li, who was originally planning to leave, want to immediately drag Zhou Bowen to meet the talents he was planning to recommend to him.

The first person Zhou Bowen recommended to Chen Li was Secretary Zhang who came to Ideal Fried Chicken to help out because of her pregnancy and then returned to the real estate company.

Speaking of Secretary Zhang, Chen Li was still a little depressed at first.

When this guy and Assistant Ren came to Ideal Fried Chicken to help, Chen Li invited them over and over again.

In the end, Chen Li poached Assistant Ren, but Chen Li couldn't poach Secretary Zhang.

To be honest ~ In fact, in the past, Chen Li admired the rather intellectual Secretary Zhang more than Ren, who has become Chen Li's right-hand assistant.

From a purely ability perspective, Secretary Zhang's abilities may not be as good as Assistant Ren's in some aspects, but she is more comprehensive.

Especially since he has been Zhou Bowen's secretary for many years, there is no doubt about his comprehensive ability.

Many people think that the position of a secretary is undoubtedly to help the boss bring tea and water, carry bags and drive, handle daily sundries, etc.

But in fact, it's just an ordinary secretary. If it's a bit too much, you can even remove the word "book" at the end.

This concept mainly comes from a bad trend in the current society. Many newly wealthy people always like to give their lovers or mistresses the title of secretary.

Note~ It is not that the secretary is the lover or mistress of these people, but that their lover or mistress is given the title of "secretary".

There seems to be no difference between the two, but in fact the difference is huge.

It is precisely because of this bad trend that public opinion always has an alternative color to the position of "secretary", especially secretaries of the opposite sex.

But what is the reality? The position of secretary goes hand in hand with the position of leadership. Only when there is leadership can there be a secretary.

What are the functions of a secretary?

It is a concrete manifestation of directly applying the leadership's instructions to actual things and objects through specific operations.

To put it bluntly, a secretary is a golden assistant who assists leaders in handling information and affairs.

As for this position, regardless of its level, except for those board secretaries, it is rarely an important position.

But in fact, secretaries are often regarded as the spokesperson of the leader by the employees below.

Especially in some government departments or state-owned enterprises, the position of secretary is even directly regarded by many people as the facade of the leader.

Many times, the secretary's attitude is even regarded as the leader's attitude by the people below.

Therefore, the importance of the position of secretary cannot be too high!

Of course, the concept of the position of secretary in private enterprises is different, because secretaries are actually subdivided into several types.

For example~work secretary, life secretary, etc.

Secretary Zhang is obviously one of the best working secretaries.

To be honest~ When Chen Li failed to recruit Secretary Zhang before, he actually secretly criticized the reason why he wanted to return to work in the real estate company.

Like many boring people, he even once wondered whether Secretary Zhang had something to do with Zhou Xiaoli's father.

However, in fact, Secretary Zhang was indeed promoted by Zhou Bowen, but the relationship between the two ended there.

The reason why Secretary Zhang stubbornly wanted to return to the real estate company that already had problems was that besides the lack of appeal of the ideal fried chicken at that time, the bigger reason was that she wanted to do something more to Zhou Bowen, the boss who promoted her single-handedly.

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But it's a pity~ Although Secretary Zhang's work ability is very strong, her ability can play almost a minimal role in the real estate company.

Now that the real estate company has collapsed, Secretary Zhang naturally has no job.

Although with her ability, it shouldn't be a problem to find another job.

Although it is not difficult to find a job, it is not so easy to find a suitable job.

Secretary Zhang is already in her thirties. It is not easy for a professional woman of her age to find a job.

It doesn't mean that she can't find a job, and the position that is willing to hire her cannot give her the salary and benefits she wants.

And other companies are unwilling to accept her for a position that satisfies her.

Especially her current work experience has always been in the position of secretary. Even though she is the secretary to the boss of a real estate company, her competitiveness in the same position is really too low.

Of course~ if things go by normal circumstances, Secretary Zhang may eventually bow to reality and have to choose a company with relatively better conditions to continue working.

However, although Zhou Bowen went bankrupt, he was still a good boss.

In fact, Zhou Bowen can definitely recommend Secretary Zhang to other better companies. Although he is now a bankrupt businessman, he still has face as an employee.

But compared to those companies, Zhou Bowen is undoubtedly more optimistic about Ideal Fried Chicken, which is currently developing rapidly.

In fact, to be precise, what Zhou Bowen is interested in is not the ideal fried chicken, but Chen Li.

It's a pity that he is just a bankrupt businessman now, and Chen Li's development is too rapid. Otherwise, he would really want to invest in this young man Chen Li.

Yes~investor!

This is not about those investors who engage in venture capital, but about investing in someone!

Just like how Lu Buwei invested in Yingzheng in ancient times, Lu Buwei eventually became a Marquis of Wenxin and Prime Minister of Qin from being a businessman and finally becoming a marquis and prime minister.

Of course, Zhou Bowen is not Lu Buwei, nor does he have the ability of Lu Buwei, nor can he have such big ideas as Lu Buwei.

He simply felt that this young man Chen Li would become a great person in the future.

And for such young people, if you invest in them in the early stage, the returns in the future will be huge beyond imagination.

It's just that Zhou Bowen never expected that before he could make any move towards Chen Li. As a result, Chen Li no longer needed anyone else to invest in him.

At the beginning, he foolishly wrote a check for one million dollars, hoping to form a good relationship with Chen Li, an interesting young man, but the other party just backhanded him with an investment of two million US dollars.

What shocked Zhou Bowen the most was that Chen Li was obviously a young man, but he was extremely sober when faced with huge wealth.

Hmm~ There is actually a bit of a misunderstanding here.

Because the thing that shocked Zhou Bowen was Chen Li's donation of more than 50 million US dollars to Project Hope.

But in this matter, Chen Li was actually forced.

However, Zhou Bowen naturally does not know the truth. From his perspective, Chen Li is a young man who regards money as dirt.

If it were in ancient times, Chen Li's behavior would definitely be the style of a wealthy family.

But in modern times, such young people often have two results.

First, he suffered a lot of blows in reality, and in the end he had to gradually become complicit.

Another possibility is that it will soar into the sky!

In fact, proportionally speaking, the former is the most likely, and it can even be said that 99.9% of people will end up like the former.

But it is obvious that Chen Li belongs to the latter.

That’s why Zhou Bowen is willing to recommend some of his capable men to Chen Li!

(End of chapter)