Chapter 295 Is it just to earn this month's 20th
The waiter taking the order picked up two bamboo skewers with red-dyed ends and continued, "Okay, you want two cups of bubble tea. Do you want to adjust the sweetness? Full or half sugar? Dine in or take away?"
"Well, let's just use all sugar. I want to take it away." The young woman thought about the milk tea she had drunk before and felt that the sweetness was what she liked, so she didn't make any changes.
"Okay, that's two cups of full-sugar pearl milk tea. Buy two get one free for the first three days of the new store opening. That's three cups in total, forty cents."
The young woman handed over a piece of silver directly. The clerk cut off a small piece and weighed it, then cut off a tiny bit more to make up the total weight and returned the remaining part.
Then he handed the other person a small wooden sign with '001' written on it and said with a smile, "You are guest number 001. You can find a seat first. When your number is called, raise your hand and it will be brought to you."
The service attitude and ordering method in this store are different from other places. The young woman found it a bit novel and sat down at random.
The waiting time was not long, and soon three cups of pearl milk tea in covered bamboo tubes were brought up by the kitchen.
"Customer No. 001, please tell me who is customer No. 001?" The guy holding the tray was calling out numbers and looking around in the store.
The young woman heard the familiar number, remembered what she had just heard, and raised her hand slightly to signal. The waiter immediately caught the signal and walked over with the tray.
The waiter first checked the number plate with her, and then took out the milk tea and placed it on the young woman's table one by one.
"Sir, your three cups of full-sugar pearl milk tea have been served. Please enjoy."
Each of the three cups of milk tea has a simple handle made of straw rope, and a reed straw is tied next to it. It is obvious that the needs of the customers have been carefully considered.
The young woman had a better impression of the store, so she left gracefully with her milk tea and continued listening to the story of "Journey to the West".
The price of pearl milk tea seems a bit expensive in ordinary markets, but it is commonplace in Qinghuan Street where rich people gather.
What’s more, there was a buy-two-get-one-free promotion for the grand opening, and the pearl drink business was so booming that some people were overwhelmed.
Fortunately, Sang Yu had anticipated this and when he saw that there was a shortage of manpower at the front, he immediately arranged for the Sang father and son to go over and help.
Unlike the store employees, they did not receive systematic training and did not know the specific procedures and lines of speech. They only delivered drinks between the kitchen and the lobby.
With two more people helping out, the lobby, which had seemed a bit messy, gradually returned to order, ensuring that every customer received had a good experience.
There were many customers coming and going, and the bustling pearl drink business did not return to normal until early noon.
This was also within Sang Yu's expectations. She had roughly estimated that Qinghuan Street had two peak passenger flow points every day.
One is from 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning, and the other is from 15:00 to 11:00 in the afternoon.
These two peak traffic points are also the peak traffic points for their pearl drinks.
By noon, there were almost no new customers entering the store, only a few people sitting in the lobby drinking sweet drinks.
Leaving three people to watch the store in the front, Sang Yu winked at Liu Mao and asked everyone to go to the backyard together.
One person was left in the kitchen, and the remaining three waiters were asked to go and rest and eat first. Sang Yu, Liu Mao, and the Sang family father and son sat in the backyard together and began to count the bamboo sticks.
At first, she wanted to imitate the barbecue restaurants of later generations, where customers would place their orders directly and have the waiter write a note and pass it to the kitchen for serving.
But she soon realized that not everyone could read, so she used bamboo sticks instead.
Each drink was given a unique color. Due to the limited number of colors, Arabic numerals were engraved on bamboo sticks, and each color and number represented a drink.
In this way, as long as she teaches the shop assistants to recognize numbers and then matches the colors of the numbers on the bamboo sticks with the drinks, she can easily solve the problem of ordering.
This is also one of the main reasons why she asked seven employees to report to the store every day. They need to learn.
Counting the bamboo sticks is relatively simple. On the first day of opening, the pearl drink store with pearl milk tea as its selling point will naturally sell mostly pearl milk tea. All you have to do is pick out the bamboo sticks of other colors.
The four of them worked together and quickly sorted and counted the total number.
"We sold 123 cups of pearl milk tea, and 71 cups of other drinks, which is..."
Sang Yongjing was counting on his fingers, but before he could finish counting one, two, three, four, and five, Sang Yu figured out the result in his head.
"Twenty-one cups of pearl milk tea, and the other drinks cost around fifteen cents on average, so the total is three thousand five hundred and twenty-five cents."
"Wow! So much!" Now that she had come up with the result, Sang Yongjing naturally stopped calculating slowly and just marveled at the huge amount.
"It seems like a lot at first glance, but it actually doesn't meet my expectations." Sang Yu's tone was a little disappointed.
The morning turnover is three taels and five cents, which is seven taels of silver a day, and two hundred and ten taels a month. It will take less than five months to earn enough to cover the cost of this shop.
Isn’t it good to think about it this way?
But Sang Yu knew in his heart that the high sales today were due to the reputation that pearl milk tea had previously accumulated at Zhongjia Restaurant, the buy-two-get-one-free promotion at the opening, and people's curiosity about seeing new things.
A combination of various reasons has led to today's booming scene.
Without saying too much, after the opening event is over, the store's daily turnover is estimated to drop sharply. It would be considered lucky if it could achieve a daily turnover of four taels of silver.
Even though the beverage shop has a profit of nearly 60% and even though the shop does not require rent, she still has to bear the cost of purchasing goods, the salaries of the waiters, and the dividends to Zhong Xueru.
After deducting all the other things, she could only get about twenty taels in the last month.
At first glance, it seems like a lot, but she worked so hard to open the store and promote "Journey to the West", was it just to earn twenty taels a month?
People grow up, and similarly, as they grow up, their desires will become bigger and bigger.
When she first arrived in Lingnan, she only wanted to build a house so that her family could have enough food and clothing.
After the house was built, she thought about earning more money so that everyone in the family could get better and better, realize her dreams and find spiritual sustenance.
Now that the store was officially open, she felt that twenty taels of silver a month was too little and she wanted to earn more.
Although he wants more and more, Sang Yu never feels ashamed of it. He even thinks that people should enlarge their goals little by little, and then achieve them step by step with their feet on the ground.
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