Chapter 301 Who will deliver the food?
Liu Mao was in charge of the Pearl Drinks, so Sang Yu didn't need to check on them every day. She gradually started to think about doing takeout.
Takeout is definitely necessary. Relying on the traffic of Qinghuan Street itself, the store’s monthly turnover and profit are fixed, and it can only get so much.
She tried to sell her milk tea at Zhong's Teahouse. After all, there could accommodate about 3,000 people. If only one percent of them were willing to buy milk tea, it would be a considerable income.
However, the opposite happened. There were so many people, they were highly focused, and they were only thinking about listening to the book... all these factors combined made those people have no intention of drinking milk tea at all.
In the end, even the dozen or so cups of milk tea she brought were barely sold out, let alone ordering or taking out.
Later, Sang Yu herself thought that if she put herself in the shoes of the man sitting inside, she probably wouldn't want to drink any milk tea either. After all... it was too inconvenient to get in and out.
Having a lot of people is not always a good thing, especially in an almost enclosed space.
Since there is no way out there, let's find another one.
Sang Yu has thought thoroughly about the process and requirements of takeout, and the only question left is who will deliver the takeout.
The takeout service in major restaurants and hotels is usually handled by the waiters in the shops. If there is takeout, they will deliver it; if not, they will help out as waiters in the shop.
But Sang Yu didn't plan to let the guys in his store deliver the takeout.
Firstly, she intended to train these people to rotate in the store so that they could become store managers in other stores in the future and bring the store's business model and systematic management over.
Secondly, you should know that part-time work is always more economical than full-time work.
There is no need to hire a special person to be responsible for the delivery. You can find multiple people to do it part-time, such as... the idle women and children in the city.
They often have more free time and fewer sources of income, so having them deliver light sweet drinks is both economical and considerate.
Just as Sang Yu initially learned, even in Lingnan City where every household has a house, not every family can live a rich life.
There are still children in the city who cannot afford to go to school and women who work as temporary helpers to earn some money to supplement their family income. As long as the right rules are set, they will be the best food delivery people.
That day, she first went to deliver today's new chapter to Zhong's Teahouse, and then walked slowly west along the street.
As the buildings in front of him gradually changed from carved beams and painted rafters to earthen walls and mud tiles, Sang Yu knew that he had arrived at the right place.
She was not in a hurry to go into some alley. After looking around, she moved towards a place where people gathered.
When I got closer, I saw people gathered in twos and threes, plucking chickens, each holding one. There were several unprocessed dead chickens soaking in the large basin in front of them.
Sang Yu squatted down beside her very naturally, then took out a chicken and helped pluck its feathers, as if this was the purpose of her coming here.
The women nearby didn't find it strange and continued their previous conversation.
One of them grumbled quietly, "The money we pay the restaurant for chickens and ducks has been getting less and less lately. Before, it was five cents per head, but now it's only four. How are we going to make ends meet?"
They have things to take care of at home, such as preparing two meals a day and taking care of children and the elderly. Only in the remaining spare time can they do odd jobs.
Plucking a chicken may seem simple, but the tiny feathers on the chicken are not that easy to clean; you have to pluck them carefully one by one.
If you can process eight or nine chickens in a day, you are considered to have extremely fast hands. Most people can only process six or seven chickens.
I don't earn much, but it's a good thing that I have some free time and can chat with my sisters to relieve boredom. It's better than working in a store all day and I can take care of my family at the same time, so it's not bad.
However, the amount of money given is getting less and less.
Another woman, carrying a swaddled baby on her back, quickly chimed in, "Who said that? I was saying we should slow down. It must be because we've handed in a lot of chickens recently, and the manager thinks we're making too much."
"Is it our fault that this was done quickly? In my opinion, it's clear that the supervisor deliberately deducted the money and embezzled it for himself."
The person who said this was a woman who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. She had her hair in a bun and a wooden hairpin in her hair. She had a hot temper.
"Well, I dare not say it. I'm afraid someone will gossip and complain to the manager." After hearing what she said, someone immediately shook his head at her in disapproval.
There are so many people around, and who knows if someone will go to complain to the shopkeeper because they can't stand seeing others doing well. Otherwise, even the four cents will have to be reduced further.
The originally chattering crowd suddenly quieted down, and everyone concentrated on plucking the chicken feathers in their hands without saying a word.
After listening to the whole thing, Sang Yu sucked her teeth. She thought she was cruel enough, but she didn't expect that there is always someone better than you.
The restaurant would charge more than a hundred or two hundred coins for half a roast chicken or boiled chicken, but they only gave four coins to the workers who were responsible for plucking the feathers. It was really unscrupulous.
If she had some concerns before, worried that the conditions she offered were not enough to attract these people, she is now full of confidence.
Since no one was talking at the moment, she took the opportunity to speak: "Ahem, ladies and gentlemen, I recently heard about a good job that pays much more than plucking chicken feathers."
If you have money but don't make it, you're a fool. If they weren't trying to supplement their family income, why would they come out to pluck chicken feathers in this weather?
Even though the water temperature in Lingnan is not freezing cold, it is still uncomfortable to have wet hands all the time.
Especially after soaking for a day, the skin becomes wrinkled and white, which makes me feel disgusted just by looking at it.
As soon as Sang Yu finished speaking, someone couldn't wait to ask, it was the man who had just angrily scolded the manager: "What job? How much is the salary?"
"Have you sisters ever heard of Suo Huan? This job is similar to Suo Huan, except..." Sang Yu stopped what she was doing and started talking about the requirements for takeout.
Takeout is indeed similar to ordering food, and even simpler. No need to go back to your door to collect the cutlery and food containers, you only need to make one trip, deliver the food, and leave.
It sounds exciting, but...
It was the same person who had just spoken to her. She asked, "How much is the pay for this order? Daily payment or monthly payment? How can we ensure our safety?"
Each question was quite sharp and to the point. Sang Yu couldn't help but look at her again. It was a waste of her talent to pluck feathers from a chicken here.
She had, of course, thought about these questions long before, and now she calmly answered them one by one: "Three cents per order, paid in the evening every day."
"As for safety, we'll only send you to the front door, not into the house. If you don't return to the store within half an hour, we'll report you to the police."
Security is indeed a difficult issue nowadays. There are no surveillance cameras or mobile phones, and most of the people delivering food are women and children. Once the other party has bad intentions, it is difficult to resist.
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