The most profitable business in the world has always been monopoly.
The checkpoints located around the exhibition hall, which were once criticized by the Women's Federation, have now become the monopoly umbrella for these transactions of the guesthouse.
Food and drinks from outside cannot be sold inside the exhibition hall, so foreign businessmen inside can only take care of Zhang Hongcheng's business and adapt to the prices he offers.
Zhang Hongcheng knew that in this kind of negotiation environment, both parties needed to demonstrate their strength, and no one would stand up and say "it's too expensive" regarding his price issue.
Many people think that guesthouses only make a little money, but the reality is far beyond their imagination.
McKinney's hamburgers and fries are very much to the taste of foreign businessmen, mainly because Bao Zhihui and Kou Shihong did not dare to use more ingredients.
The spiciness of the burgers is divided into two levels: non-spicy and mildly spicy.
This slightly spicy taste is truly slightly spicy and has been verified by Chu Miaohong.
After all, Zhang Hongcheng knew that she had lived in North America for a long time in her previous life and knew the level of spiciness that North Americans and Westerners could adapt to.
This slight spiciness made Chen Beilei feel bland, which meant that the spiciness was just right.
[Thanks to the book friends for providing some information about Westerners' spicy taste.]
Regarding the pricing of the food and tea provided at the guesthouse, everyone except Chu Miaohong felt that Zhang Hongcheng's prices were too scary.
Zhang Hongcheng was stubborn because the fat man visited too much in another time and space, and found out that the average annual salary in North America in this era was about 12,000 US dollars.
So, if we calculate the average salary, the average person can get about 6,000 US dollars a year, which is about 500 US dollars a month.
Therefore, for these foreign businessmen who can come across the ocean, it is obviously reasonable for such a large exhibition to sell a hamburger for three yuan (equivalent to two US dollars).
You ask about the cost?
Baidu told Fatty that these days a roujiamo costs only 30 to 50 cents, while the Chinese hamburgers that Zhang Hongcheng had people sell on the spot were half filled with vegetable leaves.
So a McDonald's hamburger costs no more than 15 cents.
Twenty times the gross profit!
This led to Chen Beilei and others speaking cautiously and softly when giving quotations to foreign businessmen and translators.
Foreign businessmen think this service attitude is good.
The business team staff and translators all looked at Chen Beilei and the others seriously and meaningfully.
----Young comrade, aren't you sharpening your knives too quickly?
Comrade, are there any special offers for our people? My monthly salary can't even cover your monthly bread...
Unfortunately, their black-hearted director had previously issued a strict order requiring that domestic and foreign people be treated equally.
Facts have proven that there is only a difference between the first time humans do something wrong and the countless times they do it.
This lucrative business had only been going on for the second day, but Chen Beilei, Lu Yan and their gang were already able to quote those extremely shady prices with a calm expression and full of energy.
Even though the gross profit margin of a serving of French fries is more than 40 times, they can still quote the price of one piece with a calm and sincere look.
The spicy fried chicken, which costs five dollars per serving, is actually in short supply (mainly because there is not enough raw material).
Hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken, rented warehouses and rented teahouses have made the guesthouse earn a lot of money.
But the most profitable business is the most inconspicuous one - orange soda.
When it arrived at Zhang Hongcheng's place, it was transformed into a cup of orange juice with one yuan.
It just so happens that this season is the peak of the autumn heat in the Flower City, and people doing business are hot and thirsty.
Sweet orange juice, which costs about 60 cents a cup, has become a lifeline for foreign businessmen. Some people even drink a cup every hour or so.
In fact, the exhibition hall is equipped with free tea and coffee, but few people are willing to patronize it.
The scariest thing is that orange soda is a unique business.
On just the first day of the Canton Fair, more than 4,000 bottles of soda that Zhang Hongcheng bought on credit from the soda company were sold out.
The organizing committee reacted very quickly and immediately instructed Zhang Hongcheng to increase the supply of orange soda, no, orange juice!
With the organizing committee's documents in hand, Huacheng Soda Factory attached great importance to it and organized key personnel to work overtime overnight to deliver a full 10,000 bottles of orange soda to Zhang Hongcheng before the Canton Fair opened the next day.
The reason why the soda factory attached so much importance to it was, firstly, because of the importance of the Canton Fair, and secondly, because the allocation price given by Zhang Hongcheng was the retail price of five cents per bottle!
Of course they didn't know that this guy was selling it for one dollar a bottle.
On the second day of the Canton Fair, as Zhang Hongcheng had expected, the prices of both open-air and attic teahouses were forced to rise.
And those 10,000 bottles of soda only lasted for half a day.
According to the total number of merchants at the Canton Fair, on average each person consumes about one bottle.
Zhang Hongcheng picked up the phone that the organizing committee had temporarily given him and called the soda factory.
"Another 30,000 bottles! Three hours, delivered before 1:30 pm. Can you handle that?"
The director of the soda factory wanted to cry after hearing this.
"Director Zhang, please let us go. Three hours, thirty thousand bottles! Even if you kill us, we can't do it..."
"The allocation price is 7%!"
"Seven points~~?!!!"
The factory director's voice was trembling.
"Mr. Diao Lei, I've done it! I'll contact the other soda factories right away!"
The factory manager hung up the phone and immediately called the second soda factory.
"Brother, deliver 10,000 bottles of orange soda to the Canton Fair in two hours!"
"I'm holding my mother Lei for two hours? Why don't you just go and die? I owe you this."
"Five cents a bottle!"
"Boss, I know you're the most upright and righteous! One minute less, and you'll take me home to make soup!"
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