The Goddess Shines on America

In this way, a new investment project was sent directly to the eyes, the acquisition of a sushi restaurant.

In fact, many businesses in Japan have a unique phenomenon, that is, although they are high-grade, well-known, and expensive, their scale is really small, and they are often portal stores that have been passed down from generation to generation. Let’s talk about this sushi. If we were to rank sushi restaurants all over Japan, the top five would all be a single restaurant in the country with a dozen or so seats, but each piece of sushi can buy tens of thousands of yen and there is a limit.

This, of course, is closely related to the spirit of craftsmanship. Looking around the world, when this spirit is mentioned, people will first think of Japan, and then Germany.

The so-called craftsman spirit, speaking from a macro perspective, is the concept of doing only one thing in a lifetime and doing it to the extreme. Alice vaguely remembers that the Central Bank of Korea made a statistics in 2008, and made statistics on century-old stores in 41 countries around the world: there are currently 5,586 old stores in the world that have been operating for more than 200 years. Among them, there are as many as 3146 traditional old stores in Japan.

In fact, Ishida Yahiko’s Hehui sushi restaurant opened around the Sino-Japanese War, and its history of a hundred years ago may be considered an exaggeration in the world, but in the small land of Japan, it is really not What an amazing existence. This point is comparable to the national tennis players who "won the Olympic championship but failed to win the National Games championship".

And in fact, for a project like a sushi restaurant, Alice really doesn't have a good development plan, after all, this is just an ordinary restaurant. If it's McDonald's, KFC, or even Yoshinoya or Xiabuxiabu, Alice can come up with some corresponding business policies, but if it's sushi...

"The chain problem is easy to say. It is also feasible to attract ordinary people instead of dignitaries as customers with sushi that is friendly to the people."

Still in the Crystal Building in Ginza, still in Hehui Sushi Restaurant on the 19th floor of the whole building, and still in its luxury private room specially prepared for VIP guests, Alice analyzed for President Ishida.

"Actually, to be honest, the catering industry has an advantage that almost all other industries cannot match. Ishida-san, do you know what it is?"

Right now, what makes Alice most happy is the superior-subordinate relationship in Japan. Although she is also a big shot, she is really just a little girl on the surface, and Ishida is also a successful businessman and company owner after all, but now she is chatting with herself respectfully. Such a scene is too difficult to enjoy in the United States.

"Advantage……"

In this way, after Ishida pondered for a while, he respectfully said: "Please enlighten me."

"It's just a need. People can stop going to movies, change computers, go to playgrounds, even reduce the number of trips, change to cheaper houses, and reduce the number of times they buy clothes, but they can't skip meals."

"Sushi may be mediocre in the world, but for the Japanese, it is your most daily food. No matter how poor or poor the people are, no matter how economically underdeveloped the people are, they will not refuse I went to eat at a cheap and friendly sushi restaurant. It can even be said that once the country ushers in a period of economic underdevelopment, cheap and friendly restaurants will make a lot of money because it attracts the original rich people. !"

Ishida kept thinking deeply, and nodded sincerely: "Yes, just as my father praised Mr. Sam Walton very much, the strategy of parity and chains has actually made Wal-Mart develop to the present level!"

"Well... it won't just rely on these two tactics to succeed."

Alice smiled and waved her hands, then touched her belly again: "By the way, it seems that I have eaten all the food for two people, Fazi, are you still full?"

"Eh? Eh!? Ah!"

"Well, I'm not full, so Ishida-san, before we continue to discuss investment matters, let's have a good meal. Then serve sushi for two, and I will pay the bill."

Once this meal is eaten, it takes a full two hours. During this period, Alice naturally discussed each other's future with Ishida in various ways in simple terms, and the dishes on the table continued to pass before everyone's eyes like a revolving lantern, almost never stopping.

The trick is to be full early, but no matter how much sushi the waiter brings, Alice can finish them all in two bites, and the chewing speed is super fast. At the same time, sushi rolls are all small and easy to eat. All kinds of fancy dishes, including Arctic shellfish, are all ingredients that focus on quality but not weight. The result was good. The lunch feast in the eyes of other Japanese people became the melon seeds when Alice chatted.

"Then, I'll buy the entire company for a total of four million dollars, occupying 75% of the shares, and the rest will still belong to you."

When lunch was eaten alive and turned into afternoon tea, Alice finally stopped ordering food, and the first negotiation with President Ishida also made preliminary progress. On a flat piece of A4 paper, Alice wrote a record.

Ishida sat aside, obviously very excited.

The reason is simple, the right time and the right place for his storefront to be in trouble, so that he had to sell his great-grandfather's family store, which is undoubtedly very frustrating. But at the same time, when the entire store was sold for 4 million dollars, such a price that he could fully accept, it was undoubtedly another unexpected joy for him to own a quarter of the shares that were gifted. !

"You are so kind, Alice-san."

Seeing that Alice wrote the documents neatly and beautifully in both Japanese and English, Ishida said: "After buying the store, not only will I still be given the shares, but also a full quarter of the shares. This is really, this is really... "

"Well, it's a win-win cooperation."

Alice smiled indifferently and said, "Don't forget, Ishida-san, I am not your local catering tycoon in Japan. Even if I bought all of your stores, don't you still have to let someone run them? Then tell me, who do you want to look for?" Can you feel more at ease in running the business than letting you, who are the founders of the company, run it?"

After simply writing this document, she handed it to Ishida for his signature, and at the same time began to write another: "As for the future business policy, I will give you a business plan in a few days, but at this moment, I will share with you It’s also good to dictate, don’t you think?”

Ishida was slowly writing his signature, and was taken aback when he heard this: "You figured it out now?"

"Well, it's very simple. First of all, sushi restaurants in your country should have such a type of conveyor belt sushi?"

When Ishida heard this, his eyebrows raised immediately: "Ah, that's right, this is indeed a more friendly way of doing business! Is this what you want to talk about?"

Almost every Japanese has heard of the conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Although its official development is only 30 years old, its origin can be traced back a long time ago.

According to legend, in the Edo period of Japan, such a method of tasting noodles began to appear: using bamboo slices to drain mountain spring water into a circular stone trough, and then put the noodles into the stone trough. This is the famous "flowing water cold noodles". The noodles turn in the stone trough along the flowing water. It is indeed not easy to pick up the noodles accurately with chopsticks, but it is undoubtedly a fun way to eat. One of the prototypes of conveyor belt sushi.

To say that the conveyor belt sushi restaurant officially appeared, it was a sushi restaurant operator at the beginning of this century, Shiraishi Yoshiaki's Genroku Sushi. That was after World War II, when there was a labor shortage across the country, the sushi restaurant that Shiraishi was running at that time was also facing a shortage of manpower. But later, when he saw the beer bottle conveyor belt of Asahi Brewery, he had an idea and applied this concept to sushi restaurants. After five full years of development, Shiraishi finally opened the first revolving sushi restaurant in Osaka in 1958, that is, Genroku Sushi, which became famous all over the country!

"The issue of the conveyor belt is easy to talk about. I also know a little bit about the sushi restaurant industry."

In her mind, she was thinking about her experience when she went to various conveyor belt sushi restaurants in her previous life, and Alice plagiarized unceremoniously: "As many people have discussed, the ideal speed of the sushi conveyor belt is eight centimeters per second. This ensures the safety of the transportation process and at the same time takes care of the passenger flow. At this point, let’s follow this method.”

"Eight centimeters per second..."

However, Ishida was somewhat puzzled. As many people have discussed? Although I have never run a conveyor belt sushi business, I can still be regarded as a person in the industry. Have many people discussed the issue of eight centimeters? Why don't you have any impression on yourself?

"And then, most conveyor belt sushi restaurants have a single conveyor belt, with all the customers side by side. This method is fine for singles and couples, but it is too inconvenient for guests in groups. So, we Add tables at a suitable place next to it, and each table can seat up to... six people. In this way, the length of the conveyor belt can also be reduced under the condition of serving the same number of customers."

Is it really?

After all, Ishida felt a little confused because he had never operated conveyor belt sushi before. Are these data a bit too accurate? But after all, he is also considered a person in the industry, and he thought about the situation for a moment... It seems that this is really the case?

"Furthermore, just like Genroku Sushi did, let the conveyor belt flow in a clockwise direction, so that most right-handed customers can hold the chopsticks with their right hand while lifting the plate on the conveyor belt with their left hand."

This Ishida can confirm that the conveyor belt of Genroku Sushi is indeed in this direction.

While speaking, both papers were signed. Of course, this is not a contract after all. Looking at the English and Japanese fonts on his copy, Ishida sighed with emotion, then raised his head and asked, "Then Alice-san, since you bought our Hehui, do you plan to change the name?"

Alice blinked her eyes, picked up the juice and took a sip: "If your old father allows it, let's call it Helu, it hasn't changed too much, has it?"