Chapter 262: Each Has Its Advantages and Disadvantages
Although the backyard of the sugar water shop could be cleaned up and habitable, Sang Yu did not intend to move and let the whole family squeeze into a small house.
It's not like there's nowhere else to live that we have to squeeze in. The houses in Qingxi Village are no better than here, except that they're a little out of the way.
Since you don't plan to move here, then one problem after another will need to be solved.
Although the shops on Qinghuan Street opened a little later, they were not late until noon.
It is impossible for them to rush over from Qingxi Village early in the morning every day and then work hard all day to open for business before the normal time.
Even if he could make it in time, Sang Yu didn't want to torture himself like this.
It's okay to get up early and go to the city occasionally, but if you repeat the commuting and doing heavy physical labor every day, you will fall ill in no time, and the money you earn may not be enough to pay for your medical treatment.
Then hiring people became her best option, but it was easy to find a few people whose background she didn't know, but how to manage employees was a big problem.
The best way would definitely be to have someone from the family take turns living in the store to look after it, but Sang Yu thought more and decided that it would be better to just let Liu Mao come and be the store manager.
"You've seen the store, and the space is quite large. I was thinking of moving the skewers and oden here, and also selling a few other dishes."
Sang Yu can indeed make all kinds of desserts, drinks and even snacks, but everything must be done step by step and subtly.
It is a safe strategy to come up with a new snack every once in a while, let the market slowly accept it, and let people think of it when they think of snacks.
If you launch ten or so snacks at once, not to mention people who have never eaten them, even people who have tried them and think they taste good will probably find it difficult to remember their specific names.
What Sang Yu wanted was never to make a quick buck, but to slowly stabilize the market and build a good reputation, so that people in the entire Lingnan City would think of her shop when they mentioned snacks and desserts.
There are only so many ingredients on the market. No matter how innovative or researched and developed your product, as long as it is popular enough, there will always be people who will figure out the tricks and create imitations to compete.
By then, it will not only depend on taste, but also on brand effect.
As someone who had witnessed the milk tea war among hundreds of schools of thought in later generations, Sang Yu had intended to maintain this point a long time ago.
Since discovering konjac, she has been working to incorporate this inherently tasteless and adaptable ingredient into every snack.
The reason why Liu Mao was asked to bring skewers and oden to the new store was not just because Sang Yu was too busy to manage it.
If they really wanted to look after the store, she, Sang Yongjing and Sang Xingjia could take turns. Why bother looking for Liu Mao specifically?
The more important reason is that he is very familiar with skewers and oden, and has rich experience in sales.
Letting him be the store manager is equivalent to adding a few new products to the categories he sells on a daily basis, so that he can adapt faster.
Moreover, the two parties have a basis for cooperation. Sang Yu understands his personality and character, and knows his temperament, so he will not do anything tricky.
All in all, he is indeed the most suitable candidate.
No one knew how much she had thought about in such a short period of time. When Liu Mao heard that she was going to bring skewers and oden to sell, he was happy at first, but then frowned slightly.
He asked worriedly, "But...can skewers and oden be sold here?"
What kind of place is Qinghuan Street? What kind of people come and go? Would they appreciate skewers and oden? Wouldn't business actually decline instead of increase?
"Of course. No matter how noble and wealthy a person is, he is still a human being in the end."
Sang Yu didn't know where his worry came from. Chuanchuan and oden were not something that could not be put on the table. They had just been sold in the market before.
The food tastes good and is not eaten in a rough way. She has no worries about not being able to sell these two things. She can even specially get some expensive ingredients to meet the needs.
Fearing that he would be overly cautious, Sang Yu told him her plan: "I know you have a few good brothers helping you. You can continue to do business outside. I will provide the ingredients here and give you a share as usual."
When Liu Mao was hanging out in the gray area, he also met some people whose family situations were similar to his, and who did not want to live on the edge of a knife all their lives.
After he got on Sang Yu's bandwagon and his own situation improved, he intended to hire those people.
Because he had to give Sang Yu a share of the profits, he could only pay them from his own share of the profits.
He never told Sang Yu about this, but she found out some inside information from other sources.
After all, no matter how much you trust each other, when doing business together, you can't just give up completely.
Since she had said so, it would be too disrespectful for Liu Mao not to agree, so he agreed immediately.
"When will our store open? What will we mainly sell?" Liu Mao quickly put himself in the role and didn't ask at all what percentage of the profit he would get.
Sang Yu estimated in his mind and gave a rough date: "Let's set it for five days from now. As for the main business, it will still be sweet drinks like milk tea."
Although skewers and oden are delicious, their prices can't go much higher due to the limited ingredients. Sang Yu only plans to open a small counter similar to a convenience store in the store for grab-and-go sales.
The main business still has to be milk tea with fast service, wide variety and high profit, which can be easily mastered after a short training.
But the most important thing now is: "If I want to hire someone, where should I go? Should I go directly to a human trafficker?"
Liu Mao didn't understand her words for a moment: "Young lady, do you want to hire someone or buy a slave?"
If he hadn't mentioned it, Sang Yu would have almost forgotten that the middlemen these days are called "ya ren", and the job of a "ren ya ren" is to traffic in human beings.
"Which of these two is better?"
Sang Yu originally wanted to hire someone directly. After all, the small house in the backyard was piled with all kinds of sundries and supplies. Even if it was cleaned up, most people would not be willing to live there.
But thinking of the slaves locked in cages that she had seen before, she suddenly felt that buying them might be a good option.
"They both have their advantages and disadvantages."
As soon as he said this, Sang Yu rolled her eyes. How could she not know this?
"Most of the people we hire are locals in the city. They look good, work reliably, and don't need to worry about food and accommodation, but the wages are slightly higher. Most of the slaves we buy are from small countries in the surrounding areas. Some of them don't even speak Chinese, but they are hardworking and don't need wages."
Liu Mao tried his best to explain the pros and cons.
Sang Yu nodded slightly, understanding what he meant.
The living conditions of residents in Lingnan City are much better than those in villages outside the city. While the cost of living is high, the cost of employment is also high.
However, they basically have enough food to eat, warm clothes to wear, and their own houses, so they look much better.
As for the slaves... Sang Yu had seen them before. Although not all of them were as thin as Xiao Zhao, most of them were old, weak, sick, and skinny.
If you buy such a person, it would be difficult to keep him alive, let alone make him work. You might even have to pay a lot of medical expenses.
The only advantage of slaves is probably that you only need to pay once to buy them, and then you never have to spend a penny more, which is equivalent to a buyout system.
"Then let's hire someone." Sang Yu made a decision. She wanted to open a store to make money instead of opening a nursing home.
Buying slaves is cheap, but they can't work. Does she buy them to take care of them in their old age?
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