The Era of Hard Work

This woman was in her twenties, with a round face, wearing a navy blue white-collar suit with a small rectangular nameplate hanging on her left chest, she was obviously an employee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank rented Lao Du's shop, which was still being renovated.

The female staff member seemed a little surprised to see Lu Dong, and then showed a professional smile and greeted: "Hello, Lu Dong, I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Hello." Lu Dong remembered who she was, but didn't know her name.

In the past, when he went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the county to deposit and withdraw money, he was received by this female staff many times.

As for being able to call out his name, it's not surprising, after all, he issued a card with his real name.

The female staff were very impressed with Lu Dong. It's not that no one takes a lot of change to make deposits these days, but like Lu Dong, there are not many people who can take large amounts of change to make deposits many times in a row.

"You..." She pointed to the signboard of Lu's Mala Tang: "This shop belongs to you."

Lu Dong smiled politely: "We opened it in partnership with a friend."

Only then did the female staff member remember, and quickly introduced herself: "My name is Wang Wenwen, and we have met several times."

Lu Dong casually asked, "Are you transferred here?"

Wang Wenwen didn't seem to have any intentions, and said directly: "The family helped me do some activities, and I was transferred here to be the assistant to the president. Now I mainly supervise some things about the decoration."

Lu Dong said, "Congratulations."

The clerks at the window are basically contract workers. After this step, they may become regular workers.

According to rumors, the most difficult but also the easiest way for a bank contract worker to become a regular worker is to pull deposits.

Wang Wenwen still has professionalism, and said with a smile: "From now on, if you handle business, just come here."

Lu Dong also smiled: "Okay, save running errands."

Lu's catering company uses the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Lu Dong's remaining 50,000 yuan in emergency funds has also been kept in the ICBC's card.

After chatting with Lu Dong for a few words, Wang Wenwen went back to work as a supervisor.

Lu Dong received a call from Fang Yan. Fang Yan's application for supporting advertisements for him was approved, and the Evening News will publish a soft advertisement written by Fang Yan in a few days.

"Thank you, Sister Fang." Lu Dong thanked hurriedly.

If Fang Yan helped in the past, it was due to the help he had done, but now it should be Lu Chun.

Just as Lu Dong was about to put away his phone, the phone suddenly sounded a text message notification.

Although this Motorola mobile phone can send and receive text messages, this is the first time Lu Dong has received a text message, so he quickly clicked on it to read it. This time he is not winning an award, but has to pay for it!

"Your son was arrested by us for cohabiting with someone. Transfer 5,000 yuan to the XXX account as soon as possible, or you will file a case and leave a record! XXX Office, Police Officer Hao."

Lu Dong silently selected the text message and pressed the delete button.

This telecom fraud is really full of tricks, it seems that it is still simple and rude now.

Lu Dong was convinced that his phone number information was probably sold by someone.

Is there anyone in charge these days?

Ask Lu Chun another day.

Just after eleven o'clock, Lao Du entered the store with his panda eyes on his face. Lu Dong was curious: "Did you sleep well?"

Du Xiaobing took out one yuan and gave it to Fu Zhaoxia behind the cashier, took out a bottle of iced mineral water from the vertical freezer, downed half of the bottle in one gulp, and then said, "The provincial university dormitory has a phone call."

Lu Dong didn't understand, and looked at Du Xiaobing suspiciously.

"Someone kept calling me in the middle of the night." Du Xiaobing gritted his teeth in resentment: "I fell asleep after turning off the phone."

Lu Dong stood up and handed the apron to Du Xiaobing: "Go to work, work makes you sober."

Du Xiaobing went to the locker room to change.

After a short meeting, Xu Man and the temporary workers from the work-study program also came.

At 11:30 noon, the store started to become lively, and the flow of people continued to increase. Just like Lu Dong set up a stall in the market before, there were always students coming out to buy something to eat.

The well-known first-class universities in the five provinces have been moving here since last summer, and there will be no shortage of customers at the intersection shops.

Even in 2019, when e-commerce food delivery is extremely prosperous, this shop at the central intersection is still very popular.

Lv Dong knew a lot about the same industry because he was a copycat fried chicken shop. At that time, the largest No. 1 shop here was a KFC shop, which was said to have created a single-day turnover of more than 300,000 yuan and a single-hour sales volume of 50,000 yuan. record.

There will be no shortage of customers here, it depends on whether people can be attracted.

Lu Dong didn't go to the kitchen. There were not as many people this afternoon as last night. He was like an ordinary customer, walking upstairs and downstairs to see the specific situation.

Having undergone training and just starting the business, the people in the store basically follow the employee rules.

But it is not easy to implement in the long run.

First of all, he cannot relax his requirements.

The store has always maintained an occupancy rate of 70% to 80%, not at a certain point in time, but from more than 11% to more than 1 o'clock. When the occupancy rate was the lowest, it did not drop below 70%. In the future, 90% of the places will be filled with people.

Lu Dong paid special attention to a few tables. It is normal to turn tables five or six times in more than two hours.

In addition, as Song Na said last night, there are quite a few people who packed up and took away.

After two o'clock, the store was emptied of customers, and Lu Dong went to the cashier to check the statistics. The turnover at noon was over 3,000.

Just opened, the business is booming, as long as the momentum of the boom can keep six or seven points, the store will really explode.

In the afternoon, Lu Dong drove the cargo and took Du Xiaobing to buy goods in the Shilipu market.

Du Xiaobing was sitting on the co-pilot, maybe he didn't sleep well last night, and fell asleep after a while.

Recently, Lao Du spent all day in the store, and Lu Dong didn't know if he had gone to the Art Academy, and even if he did, he hadn't been there a few times.

After entering the market, Lu Dong saw that Lao Du was fast asleep, so he couldn't bear to call him, so he parked the car and went to ask for the goods by himself. He wanted a lot of goods, and they would help to load the car, and he didn't need to do it himself.

Leaving Shilipu, I went to Shengda Road to buy raw materials for milk tea, and finally came to the large yard near the science and technology market in the northern section of Shengda Road to look for Du Juan.

The Malatang restaurant opened, and another fried chicken restaurant had to prepare.

The chicken-related raw materials of the Shanzhai Fried Chicken Shop are easy to talk about, and Lu Dong can buy from Iron Rooster.

Moreover, the processing plant of Iron Rooster is expanding in scale. If the fried chicken shop here can develop, we can consider the processing plant of Iron Rooster as a long-term supplier.

The big yard was very busy, delivery trucks came and went, Lu Dong wanted to find a corner to park, and Du Xiaobing entered Du Juan's office first.

Du Juan looked at Du Xiaobing's dark circles, and frowned like Lu Zhenlin's thick eyebrows: "What did you do last night?"

Du Xiaobing hurriedly said: "Sister, my dear sister, don't make random guesses, okay? I'm tired. The store has been open for the past two days, and I'm very busy. I've been working all the time!"

Du Juan pinched her thick knuckles and asked, "Really?"

Anyway, ever since I met Ning Xue, I felt that if my cousin spends time with this woman, he will be ruined sooner or later.

Du Xiaobing was very helpless: "Lu Dong is here too, if you don't believe me, you can ask Lu Dong."

Compared to Du Xiaobing, Du Juan felt that Lu Dong was more reliable, and when Lu Dong entered the office, he immediately asked about it.

She didn't want to see her cousin encounter some inexplicable bad things because of a woman.

Lu Dong said: "Old Dut worked hard and worked late in the store last night."

Only then did Du Juan feel relieved, and asked instead: "What are you two doing here?"

Du Xiaobing found a place to sit down: "I asked Lu Dong to pull me here."

Lu Dongzheng said: "There is something I want to trouble Sister Du. The company we established will open a second store after the Malatang restaurant is stabilized. It is going to imitate the foreign fast food giants KFC and McDonald's and become a fried chicken and burger restaurant. .”

Du Juan put his broad palm on the table and said, "I don't know much about the catering industry, but can imitation work?"

Lu Dong once did it in the field, and said: "It can be done! When KFC and McDonald's are opened in the university town, there will be enough market space for imitation stores like ours."

"I don't understand catering." Du Juan didn't shy away from this point: "What do you want to buy?"

Of course, she would not refuse to buy goods from her and do business.

Lu Dong smiled and said: "Of course you need the cash register and the corresponding system. It's mainly kitchen utensils. Professional fryers are not easy to get. I've searched many places in the market, but I didn't find any for sale. Retrofitting is very troublesome."

Du Juan thought for a while and said, "I'll help you ask. I'll contact you if I have any news. Give me a list of what you need."

Lu Dong took out a copy of printing paper from his bag and handed it to Du Juan, which listed many specific appliances: such as hamburger machine, warming cabinet, French fries station, breading table, open fryer, ice cream machine and so on.

In another five or six years, these equipment will be very easy to buy, and many companies specializing in the manufacture of cooking utensils and machinery will be able to manufacture them.

These days, I have to think of a way.

Even in the provincial capital of Quannan, when Lu Dong was preparing a Malatang store some time ago, he ran all over large and small markets, and some of them were not sold at all.

The Dujuan people were very happy, mainly because it involved their own family members, picked up the phone and made a few calls, and quickly said to Lu Dong: "I asked, there are people in the south who make this, and I can help you buy it."

With Du Xiaobing around, Lu Dong wasn't worried, and said, "Sister Du, you can just ask for the price when the time comes."

Du Juan said directly: "I won't cheat you either, Lu Dong, just a little bit, if you open a branch, I will give priority to equipment."

"Okay!" Lu Dong replied, "Sister Du, we have nothing to do with each other. I also hope to continue to open a branch with your good words."

After getting professional kitchen utensils, it will be a fool's operation after opening. Lu Dong will write an operation guide, and then it will be produced according to the standard.

This is probably one of the biggest advantages of Western-style fast food. It is produced in a standardized model and has a relatively uniform taste.

Later, Lu Dong took Du Xiaobing to several places. Most of the raw materials were not difficult to find, including semi-finished French fries, which were sold in the market.

Now we can only open one store, and it is impossible to find a manufacturer to discuss special processing cooperation.

There will be more stores in the future, and these are all easy to say.

Then there is the packaging, you can find a food packaging processing factory for custom production, but you need to confirm the name of the store before that.

"Have you thought of a name yet?" Du Xiaobing felt that Lu Dong was useless in naming: "No, I'll give you one."

Lu Dong asked, "Have you thought about it?"

Du Xiaobing said seriously: "I heard that there is a Burger King overseas, how about we call it Burger King?"