As Xu An expected, the next day at noon, the banner that the Delicious Restaurant used to solicit customers at the construction site changed to: Delicious Restaurant, three dishes and one soup for eight yuan.

Xu An's solution was to add a main dish option: braised chicken and preserved vegetable meatloaf. When ordering, customers could choose one of the two.

Although the changes were minor, the effects were immediate.

Previously, the restaurant only had one main dish, so Xu An could only eat whatever was made, and they had no choice.

Now there's an extra main dish; those who don't like braised chicken can have preserved vegetable and pork patties, and vice versa, giving diners a new option.

A large group of workers were taken to the delicious restaurant. There were more people staying today than yesterday, and the restaurant was barely full.

Although Jin Dayong wasn't entirely satisfied with the customer flow, he knew that things had to be done step by step, and customers had to be won over gradually. He couldn't rush it.

After eating at the delicious restaurant, the workers felt it was pretty good and discussed whether they should come here to eat in the future.

It's just a matter of walking a hundred meters or so to get an extra tea egg. The food is no different from what you get at Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, so what difference does it make where you eat?

As they were discussing, they ran into Qiao Xingguo, who had just finished lunch at Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.

Qiao Xingguo was discussing today's meal with his wife with a satisfied expression.

"This braised chicken is really good today. Just the sauce alone, mixed with rice, is enough for me to eat a whole bowl."

"The potatoes in the braised chicken are also delicious, very flavorful and filling. But I think the preserved vegetable and pork patty is also delicious; it looks so good to see other people eating it."

The group of people who had just eaten at the Delicious Restaurant were a little confused when they heard Qiao Xingguo and his wife's conversation. Wait, didn't Xu's Fast Food Restaurant also serve preserved vegetable and meat patties today?

They've seen the flyer; today's dish is preserved vegetable and pork patty. What's with this braised chicken?

Several people quickly stepped forward and pulled Qiao Xingguo aside to ask him about the matter.

Qiao Xingguo knew from the direction the group was coming that they were going to the Delicious Restaurant, and he immediately became smug.

"You guys went to a delicious restaurant, didn't you know? Haha, Xu's Fast Food Restaurant has launched two meat dishes now. Today it's braised chicken and preserved vegetable meat patty. Choose one of the two."

Upon hearing this, the group was stunned. If they had known that Xu's Fast Food Restaurant served braised chicken, they would have come back here to eat after getting their tea eggs.

I deeply regret it!

The group immediately decided that they would first go to Xu's Fast Food Restaurant to see what kind of food they had before going to Delicious Restaurant to pick up their tea eggs!

Meanwhile, the front desk strategy was a great success, and the number of boxed meal orders increased by 1.5 times.

The surge in orders also brought another problem: the store was short-staffed.

Currently, we receive about 100 boxed meals per day, and it's barely manageable for three people to handle the deliveries.

Now the number of deliveries has increased to over 150, with three people responsible for each of the 150 deliveries. Forget about whether we can deliver them all; our car can't even hold them all!

It seems we need to change our business strategy; the first thing we need to do is replace the equipment!

The pedal tricycles need to be converted into electric tricycles, and then modified to include a canopy to protect them from the wind and rain, preventing the problem of not being able to go out on rainy days.

Secondly, the delivery boxes need to be improved. Previously, foam boxes were used instead, which is definitely not safe or appropriate.

Xu An commissioned ten takeout boxes, modeled after those used in later generations, to be made by a merchant. Each takeout box could hold up to fifteen meals.

The outer box is waterproof and washable, keeping it clean; the inner box has an insulation layer, so you don't have to worry about the lunch box getting cold no matter the season.

Finally, there was the large-scale recruitment of staff. Xu An entrusted this task to Lao Han, asking him to find students in the school who wanted to earn money part-time or experience working life.

After recruiting students, Lao Han will become the leader of this group of students and will receive an additional fixed salary of two hundred.

Given that the current model is based on phone or QQ ordering with cash on delivery, Xu An is also worried that unscrupulous individuals might abscond with the delivery box and the money received.

Therefore, people who come for part-time work need to hand over their ID cards at Xu's Fast Food Restaurant first. They will then receive a takeout box and an order for ten boxed meals. After the delivery is completed, they need to return to Xu's Fast Food Restaurant to settle their wages, return the takeout box, and then retrieve their ID cards.

The last problem is that Xu's Fast Food Restaurant is a 20-minute walk from the Shanghai Library construction site. If we take Xu's Fast Food Restaurant as the starting point, each part-time worker can only deliver once or twice a day at most, and lunch time will have already passed.

To solve this problem, the two newly purchased electric tricycles came in handy.

Every day after the boxed meals are prepared, they are transported by electric tricycles to the entrance of the Haishi Library construction site, where all delivery personnel pick up the meals for delivery.

In this way, as long as the part-time staff are quick and efficient, they can guarantee to deliver at least thirty orders in one noon.

In this way, Xu An no longer needs to worry about the rapid increase in order volume, and can even extend the delivery range by another 300 meters.

Old Han was incredibly helpful; he managed to bring Xu An five young men in just one afternoon. They were all students from the Shanghai Maritime Academy and had a good understanding of the surrounding terrain, which made it easier for them to get started.

At 11:30, Xu An and Xu Heping each got on an electric tricycle, followed by six riders. Each rider had a takeout box fixed to the back of their vehicle, with the words "Xu's Fast Food" printed on the top and sides of the box, making it look quite stylish.

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