Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 505 There are other conditions, of course.

Author: Tang Juyi

Chapter 505 There are other conditions, of course.

"well said!"

Uncle Yi suddenly slapped the table and said loudly: "In life, you really shouldn't care too much, but you just want peace of mind!"

Having said this, Uncle Yi turned to look at Cao Zhiqiang and said with a pleased look on his face: "Qiangzi, what you said today should make you rich and get promoted!"

"That's good." Yu Li smiled and said, "If it weren't for Qiangzi being the big boss and the big leader now, the situation would be different."

Uncle Yi sighed and said, "I never expected that someone like you, Qiangzi, would appear in our courtyard.

It is said that the third uncle in our yard is the best at scheming. In my opinion, his schemes are all small schemes. Compared with you, Qiangzi, they are nothing. You are the one who has big schemes and a big heart."

"Yes, yes." Yan Jiecheng laughed quickly and said, "If you ask me, my dad's calculations are all petty calculations. He is just a scheming person and cannot be brought to the forefront. If you really want to talk about calculations, he has to be a hadron. Otherwise, how can he just do it?

It took less than a year of hard work to achieve today's climate. This must be a big plan."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Well, we are all neighbors in the same courtyard. We have known each other for so long, and no one knows who. So there is no need to say these things."

After a brief pause, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Yu Li: "Aunt Yu, you didn't come to me specifically just to talk about this, right? Is there anything else? Just say what you want, don't beat around the bush."

Yu Li frowned, looked at the others, and then laughed dryly and said: "Say, are you talking here?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "I'm not an outsider, just tell me."

Yu Li lowered her head, rolled her eyes, thought for a moment, and then sighed: "Okay, in this case, I'm not afraid of being embarrassed, so I can speak frankly."

Immediately afterwards, Yu Li raised her head and said sternly to Cao Zhiqiang: "Qiangzi, that's it. As for me, it wasn't that the performance of my unit was not good before, so I took a leave of absence without pay and planned to open a restaurant by myself and become a self-employed person.

Then, we invested all the money, borrowed here and there, and finally opened the restaurant.

As a result, it has been a long time since it was opened, and it has been losing money, with basically no customers coming.

But every day, water and electricity, rent, waiter wages, and various purchases are all indispensable.

Anyway, I just can't get in or out every day, and I lose money every day. It makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it.

Later, I discovered that the restaurant's business was not good, not because of the location, but because of the taste of the food, and there were other restaurants around that competed with us.

To be honest, the food in other restaurants is better than ours.

The price of the same dish is the same as ours, but the taste is better than ours. So whoever else cooks it will eat it elsewhere instead of ours.

Therefore, I came up with the idea that when opening a restaurant, you must have a good cook. Without a good cook, there will be no good food. Without good food, the customers will not come.

Therefore, I wanted to ask Shazhu for help, but I never thought about asking him to take charge of the dish. I knew I couldn't invite him, so I just thought of asking him to be his apprentice.

But who would have known that as soon as Shazhu heard my request, he directly told me that it would cost five hundred yuan a month, and he could only send me one cook, and he had to give me one month's wages in advance.

If Silly Zhu goes there, I will definitely give it to him without saying a word, but if he is just one of his apprentices, he wants me to pay him a salary of five hundred yuan a month, and he has to pay it in advance. How can this be done?

If his apprentice fails and has to fire him later, won't I lose a month's salary in vain?

I begged Shazhu to be accommodating and send someone to help me first, and then pay me the wages when the business is good.

If the business really picks up and I make money, I will definitely give you five hundred yuan.

But Silly Zhu just didn’t listen and insisted on giving it to me in advance. Isn’t this a rogue thing?”

"That's right!" Yan Jiecheng said, "How can wages be paid in advance? There is no reason for this. I think Silly Zhu is just cheating!"

Yu Li smiled and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "Then, when I was still begging Silly Zhu, Silly Zhu kicked me out, and then I saw Lou Xiao'e and He Xiao coming over. You said this was a big deal.

, it’s true.”

After shaking her head, Yu Li looked at Cao Zhiqiang again and said with a smile: "Zhiqiang, since Shazhu's heart is no longer with you, and you have a big family and a big business, and you are not afraid of Shazhu leaving, then what can you do?

Can't you lend me a chef?

If you are willing to lend me a chef, I will definitely listen to you in everything, but just ask if the salary can be reduced.

Anyway, you’re not short of a hundred and eighty yuan, so I’ll just help you Aunt Yu, okay?”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly and shook his head gently.

"Ah, it can't be done?" Yu Li frowned and said, "Zhiqiang, can you just treat it as your Aunt Yu begging you? Please help me! You don't want to see us lose everything and end up closing down, right?"

Cao Zhiqiang laughed and said: "I didn't say I won't help you, I just think your horizons are too small. I'm just borrowing a cook, so what's the use?"

"It works, it works." Yan Jiecheng said with a smile, "As long as there are good cooks and good meals, customers will come and business will naturally improve. So why doesn't it work?"

"Shut up!" Yu Li glared at Yan Jiecheng, "Since Zhiqiang said that, he must have a better idea, so just shut up and listen honestly!"

After angrily complaining about her husband, Yu Li turned her head again and said to Cao Zhiqiang with a charming smile: "Zhiqiang, tell us, we are all listening."

Cao Zhiqiang then nodded and said with a smile: "When it comes to eating, we all pay attention to the color, aroma, and taste. Needless to say, we really pay attention to the chef's skills, but this color is not just the chef's skills."

After a pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "In fact, the dining environment is also very important. The British once conducted an experiment. A chef prepared a dish, divided it into two portions, and let two unsuspecting guests eat it.

One of the guests was in a very elegant and high-end environment, listening to the violin and eating this dish with exquisite tableware.

Another customer was eating his share of food using dirty cheap cutlery in a dirty little restaurant.

The two guests ate the same dish, but the environment and tableware were different. In the end, the two guests had different evaluations of the dish, and even felt that the dish tasted different.

It can be seen that the dining environment is very important. At least it can increase the taste of the meal and improve your own taste, and the price will naturally increase.

So, I think you might as well take this opportunity to close the door and renovate your humble restaurant first. At least paint the walls, change the tables, chairs and tableware, and the waiters should also wear beautiful uniforms.

, get a tape recorder by the way, and play some soothing piano music as background sound if you have nothing to do.

With these hardware conditions, build a beautiful neon sign, and then I will send you a cook. Only then will the business be successful."

Yu Li was stunned for a while and then said: "Oh, Zhiqiang, what you are talking about, how much will it cost? I have no money, I can't do this."

"Don't be afraid." Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, "If you have no money, I can lend you money."

"Borrow money?" Yu Li frowned, "How much to borrow? How much is the interest?"

Cao Zhiqiang thought for a while: "I've heard of your restaurant. The environment and environment are not bad. The flow of people is pretty good, so there's no need to change places.

The location is okay, the next step is decoration.

Well, you renovate that place inside and out, tidy up the facade, put up a neon sign, get some umbrellas outside, replace a batch of new tables, chairs, and benches, and customize a batch of employee uniforms and so on.

, In this case, I lend you 20,000 yuan, which should be more than enough."

"Twenty thousand yuan?" Yu Li opened her mouth wide, "That much? Just decoration?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Just buying an air conditioner costs more than 6,000 yuan, and it's autumn, and it won't be long before winter. You also need to buy a heating boiler, and 20,000 yuan is not much at all.

"

Yu Li frowned and said, "Twenty thousand yuan, how much is the interest?"

Cao Zhiqiang laughed: "Haha, we are all family members, so we don't need the interest. We can just pay it back within two years."

"No interest?" Yu Li's eyes widened, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"But it's a lot of pressure to pay it back in two years." Yan Jiecheng said, "Two years to pay back 20,000, oh, this, this is not easy to earn, how can we pay it off in two years."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Don't worry, as long as you follow my method, you can pay me back the 20,000 yuan in less than a year. The rest is yours, and you will make more and more money in the future."

"Really?" Yan Jiecheng's eyes widened.

"What's real or fake?" Yu Li glared at Yan Jiecheng, "Who is Zhiqiang? If people say he can, he must be able. Please stop saying a few words."

Speaking of this, Yu Li looked at Cao Zhiqiang again: "Okay, since you said so, then I definitely believe it, but for such a good thing as borrowing money without interest, are there any other conditions?"

"Other conditions, of course, are there." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded.

"What are the conditions?" Yu Li asked as expected.

Cao Zhiqiang said: "In this case, I will lend you money to decorate, send you the chefs we trained, and even give you some of our secret recipes. However, your restaurant has to change its name. As for what name to change, I haven't yet

Think about it and talk about it later.

In short, I plan to use your restaurant as a pilot to implement my Malatang chain store model."

"Mala Tang chain store model?" Yu Li frowned, "What do you mean?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Didn't I mention before that Shiweitian is not only a restaurant, but more like a restaurant training school to train my own chefs and waiters.

Of course, in addition, I can also use this to recruit some employees from the machinery factory and reduce the wage pressure on the machinery factory.

In short, I plan to open another specialty fast food restaurant that focuses on ordinary people besides food.

This kind of specialty fast food restaurant does not have customers ordering dishes and then chefs cooking them as in the past. Instead, they only make spicy hotpot, which is similar to hot pot.

For Malatang, you only need to have a fixed soup pot base, and then prepare various vegetables and meat.

When the guests come, they choose the ingredients they want to eat, weigh and calculate the money according to the type and quantity of the ingredients, then cook them with a special spicy hotpot base, and then serve them to the guests.

In this way, you don’t need too many chefs, nor do you need to have high cooking skills. You only need the Malatang base to be good enough, the seasonings to be good enough, the ingredients to be fresh, and the taste to be good enough, which can greatly reduce operating costs.

In addition, of course, you should also add some drinks such as milk tea. These are low-cost things that can make a lot of money.

As long as the taste is good, the price is moderate, and the dining environment is good, this kind of spicy hotpot will definitely become popular.

Once your pilot is successful and everyone recognizes Malatang, then I will open three, no, five stores of the same type in one go, with the same sign, the same business method, and the same food sold. Let’s just come to one

Group combat.

By then, this Malatang fast food restaurant will become a star restaurant. When everyone thinks of Malatang, they think of my store.

In this way, we can expand this industry and earn more money than ordinary restaurants."

"Sounds good." Yu Li smiled, "But if we let our restaurant serve as a pilot for you, are there any other requirements?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang smiled.

"Once you agree to my plan, your restaurant will become my franchise store. You can't use your own sign, you must use mine, and the decoration environment, employee uniforms, and business regulations must all be in accordance with my wishes.

In addition, you have to go to Shiweitian regularly to buy spicy hotpot base ingredients.

I won’t tell you the formula of the Malatang base. We can only produce it ourselves in advance. If you are short of ingredients, you can buy it from us. The purchase price can be easily negotiated, and it can be calculated in one month.

In addition, regardless of the fact that I personally loaned you money, the income from your Malatang fast food restaurant must be paid to us in proportion to a brand fee every month. The brand fee will not be much, but it is necessary.

Don’t think that you are suffering from this brand fee. In fact, you are not suffering at all.

Because after I open a few more chain stores, I will regularly use the brand name of the franchise chain to advertise in various channels, such as newspapers, radio stations, and even TV, etc.

Therefore, the brand fee you pay is equivalent to advertising fee.

The most important thing is that you can continue to use our exclusive formula only by paying the brand fee regularly, otherwise you cannot continue to use it.

Do you understand what I said?"

Yu Li blinked: "That is to say, for the restaurant we open with our own money, we have to listen to you for everything, the signboard is also yours, and we have to pay a management fee every month?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "Pay attention to my mouth shape, brand fee!"

"No matter what the fee is, you have to pay it every month anyway, in proportion to your income, right?" Yu Li asked.

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"Only if you agree to these conditions will you be willing to lend us money and our chef?" Yu Li asked again.

"Yes!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded again with a smile.

Yu Li frowned: "Can we think about it?"

"Think about it as you like." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "But don't take too long. If it takes too long and I have other options and someone else can help me open a Malatang pilot, then everything I said before will be invalid.

"

"Okay, I understand." Yu Li nodded seriously, "I will think about it as soon as possible and will definitely give you an answer as soon as possible.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Li stood up and said, "Well, if it's okay, we'll leave first and talk later."

After saying that, Yu Li winked at Yan Jiecheng, who quickly stood up.

Yu Li then continued to smile and nodded to Uncle Yi, Cao Jiajia, Cao Zhiqiang and Wu Qinghong respectively, then turned around and left in a hurry with Yan Jiecheng.

(End of chapter)