Based on feedback from He's father, He Wenlin revised the promotional activities for Caijiang Village Fast Food Restaurant.

When it comes to business, it's definitely better to adapt to local conditions and do things according to the actual situation.

He Wenlin checked the calendar. This year, Lunar New Year's Eve is January 23rd, and the Little New Year is January 17th. Generally speaking, factories start their holidays on the Little New Year, and if there is a delay, it will only be three or four days.

Today is November 13th, which means it's been almost two months.

At a rate of 5.8 yuan per person per day, that's roughly 350 yuan over two months.

He Wenlin directly set the voucher promotion as follows: buy a voucher worth 350 yuan, and receive a phone card worth 50 yuan, a free lunch, and a box of egg rolls as a gift.

It's roughly 13% off.

Because the phone card costs 45 yuan to purchase, and the egg rolls are produced in their own factory, the cost is only a few yuan.

However, there is one advantage to selling it this way: no one else can compete with us for business this year.

Next year, once my house is finished, I'll reopen the fast food restaurant and open a supermarket selling daily necessities. We'll then organize a joint promotion so that no one else can compete with us next year.

In reality, He Wenlin's profit margin is higher when she buys vouchers and gives them away as a bonus. However, if she gives away phone cards, customers won't think about coming to her store to make calls, which means she can save a considerable amount of money on phone expenses every month.

Without hesitation, He Wenlin prepared the vouchers in advance. Then, calculating the time, she asked Peng Wei to promote them at Hongda, while Peng Liang was in charge of the shirt factory.

He Wenlin was in charge of both the Bosi Factory and the Meihua Garment Processing Factory.

There are few workers at Mei Hua. After two days of hard work, not a single set of the 350 yuan vouchers was sold. Everyone felt that spending 350 yuan at once was too much and they felt bad about it.

The shirt factory, along with Hongda and Bosi factories, have a large number of employees, including many couples, spouses, and relatives and friends. Therefore, many people choose to buy a set together.

He Wenlin calculated that the three factories sold a total of 120 sets, generating 42,000 yuan in revenue!

From now on, until the end of the year, He Wenlin won't have to worry about Yihaodian's business.

She could shift her focus to the food factory.

“Here’s 42,000, plus the 17,000 you made from selling discounts at the No. 2 store a few days ago, that’s 59,000. I think we should use that to pay off the mortgage in Baijia Village,” Aunt He suggested. “Otherwise, we’re owing too much debt, and we’ll have to pay a lot of interest every year.”

Despite the family's heavy debt, only He Wenlin and He Wenjun seemed unaffected and could sleep soundly, while the three adults in the family suffered from insomnia.

He Wenlin said, "The interest rate on the mortgage is the lowest, so I'm not in a hurry to pay it back. I still need this money."

We initially borrowed over 400,000 yuan to buy cars, build factory buildings, and now we've invested a lot more in adding new equipment to the food factory. The money we borrowed back then is probably barely enough to cover all of that.

I originally planned to build a six-story building for our fast food restaurant, but we didn't have the money, so I initially told them we'd only build a three-story building. If we had enough funds, we would have built a six-story building in one go.

The first and second floors will be fully renovated, and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth floors will be simply renovated and rented out. We will live on the second floor ourselves, which will save us several thousand yuan in rent per year.

I need to set aside money for purchasing goods at the end of the year, so even though I have several hundred thousand yuan in hand, it's not easy to spend it all.

He Wenlin doesn't plan to complete the factory construction in Hengling all at once; if she did, the financial gap would be even greater.

He Wenlin continued, “Dad, Mom, Grandma, I know you’re worried because we have a lot of debt, but the banks should be the ones who are worried. We really do owe a lot, and they should be the ones who can’t sleep.”

The last time I saw a news report, a boss went bankrupt and owed the bank 600 million yuan. The bank was trembling with fear.

At this point, the bank is only hoping you'll make a comeback. If you want to know who cares about us the most, it's not relatives or friends, it's the bank!

"My goodness, six hundred million!" The whole family gasped in shock.

Aunt He counted on her fingers, wondering how many zeros were in six hundred million.

Grandma He exclaimed, "A man who dares to owe so much money must be quite capable."

That's right, they paid back 200 million in a year.

He Wenlin: "Based on the revenue of all our current businesses, several hundred thousand, we can pay it off in two years at most, so don't worry."

Let me start by mentioning our most important task right now.

First, Dad and Lin Fei must make Yihaodian a success. Just because we've sold vouchers and customers will inevitably come to our store to make purchases doesn't mean we should cut corners. We must consistently maintain the quality.

Now you can cook a lot of dishes, and you must ensure that there are no repetitions of any dishes for at least three days.

Building a good reputation is difficult, but ruining it takes only a moment. We need to do long-term business, so don't relax just because you think you have no competitors now.

Secondly, the fried dough twists and peach crisps from Baijia Village will soon be in production, and I plan to distribute them to Wankelai and Lianhua supermarkets in December.

From December until the Lantern Festival, a period of two and a half months, our food factory's target is 80,000 boxes each of egg rolls and peach shortbread, and 20,000 boxes of fried dough twists, with a turnover of 2.12 million yuan. So, my focus will be on those products going forward.

Mr. He exclaimed in surprise, "How many targets did you say? It was windy just now, I might not have heard you clearly."

Aunt He: "Linlin, did you miscalculate, or did I mishear?"

He Wenlin laughed and said, "You all heard me right, I was talking about a turnover of more than two million."

"More than two million!!!" Mr. He's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

He Wenlin took out a calculator: "Wankelai and Lianhua Supermarket together make five stores. From December to the Lantern Festival, that's 68 days. If we average 100 boxes of each product, peach shortbread and egg rolls, that's 34,000 boxes. I priced the peach shortbread at 6.3 yuan per kilogram, and each box contains 5 kilograms. That's more than 500,000 yuan."

But don't forget, besides these five supermarkets, we also have other customers who want to buy goods, such as Lingling, Mr. Chen, and Mr. Zhang. Their demand won't be low, and peach crisps and fried dough twists have a long shelf life. We'll also be closed for the Spring Festival, so they'll definitely want to stock up.

After hearing He Wenlin's calculations, He's parents felt that it might not be a bad idea.

My heart was pounding with excitement.

Even if only one-fifth of the goal is achieved, that's still a remarkable achievement.

More than two million, one-fifth of which is more than four hundred thousand, the profit is at least one hundred thousand.

Mr. He asked excitedly, "Then what do we need to do? How do we achieve this goal?"

He Wenlin felt that her father had made a lot of progress by asking this question.