Chapter 6 Hot Pot Snacks Unlocked!
Upon hearing the system 996 reminder, Zhu Yu was stunned at first. After he came to his senses, he quickly opened the shop door and waved to the homeless merchant outside.
The wandering merchant seemed to have noticed what was happening here with Zhu Yu, and walked towards the hot pot restaurant.
His cloak swayed slightly with his movements, and the purse at his waist made a crisp jingling sound.
After getting closer, Zhu Yu still couldn't see the whole face of the wandering merchant. He was wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and the wide brim covered most of his face. His beard was scattered on his chin and cheeks.
Looking at the classic skin of the merchant in the game, Zhu Yu coughed lightly and stepped aside to let him enter the hot pot restaurant.
At the same time, Zhu Yu also called up his NPC panel.
Compared to players' personal panels, the information on this panel is surprisingly concise.
There is only one short line of text on it:
[Arctic Disaster NPC: Wandering Merchant]
After confirming that the information was correct, Zhu Yu closed the page, walked up to the merchant, and asked:
"Do you have any goods you can sell to me?"
The wandering merchant turned his head mechanically, his voice hoarse and stiff: "Players can purchase rare items, equipment or materials, and the goods are updated daily."
After saying this, he untied the canvas backpack on his back and waved his hand. Suddenly, a virtual inventory appeared in front of Zhu Yu's eyes.
The inventory bar suspended in the air was emitting a faint light, and inside it were various items - weapons and scrolls, potions in small glass bottles, treasure chests and materials, and some props with strange shapes. The price and description were also marked next to each item.
Zhu Yu was not dazzled by the dazzling array of goods in front of her. She calmly browsed through the prices and descriptions of all the items and finally chose a pair of snow boots.
This pair of boots is of blue quality and looks almost the same as ordinary boots, but it has a special effect added: speed +2 (lasts 3 hours).
Because this effect is directly related to the player's basic attributes, its price is set at 600 gold coins, which is slightly more expensive than other ordinary blue quality items.
But today's experience of going out to fight monsters made Zhu Yu deeply realize the difficulty of walking and running in the thick snow.
What if what she encountered in the morning was not an E-level boar monster that was only one level higher than her, but a stronger monster, she might even have trouble escaping.
So she happily bought the pair of snow boots.
Then Zhu Yu hesitated for a while, and spent another 2,500 gold coins to buy a silver treasure chest that no player should be able to obtain at present.
Fortunately, her sales today were good, which gave her enough confidence to go shopping.
After buying these two items, Zhu Yu stopped spending money and controlled his desire to consume.
After happily seeing the wandering merchant off, she closed the shop door contentedly and immediately put on new boots.
As expected, it was blue quality equipment. After putting it on, she felt a lot lighter. She even felt that running 800 meters in the snow was no problem for her.
But then again, she spent half a day studying the blue quality plush knitted hat that the game rewarded her with, but she didn't find anything special about it.
It seems that this knitted hat only provides warmth like other ordinary hats.
"When a game gives out rewards, can't it also include instructions for use?"
Zhu Yu muttered softly.
Forget it, let’s not worry about it for now. Anyway, we can figure out the function of the hat later.
Zhu Yu did not go back to the tent to rest after closing the door like he did yesterday. Instead, he walked straight to the bar and poured himself a bottle of pure milk.
She plans to treat herself to the new spicy hotpot!
Zhu Yu found a seat and sat down, operating the ordering panel skillfully.
As early as when she put the spicy hot pot on the shelves today, she found that with the unlocking of the new hot pot base, the originally monotonous 6 hot pot ingredients were also updated.
New meat dishes include: spicy beef, premium yellow throat, black chicken rolls, and classic lamb.
New vegetarian dishes include: bell rolls, bamboo shoots, tribute vegetables, and sweet potato skins
As the number of ingredients increased, the new ordering mechanism was also adjusted.
You can choose up to 10 portions of ingredients for one person, and 20 portions of ingredients for multiple people (currently there are not so many ingredients, so it is calculated based on the maximum number of ingredients). If you want to add extra ingredients, one more gold coin will be charged for every two portions.
Of course, this rule does not apply to the owner Zhu Yu, who directly ordered all the new dishes.
Soon, a steaming spicy beef oil soup appeared in the copper pot.
The spicy hotpot base has four levels of spiciness: mild, medium, hot and super spicy.
Zhu Yu can't eat spicy food, so she only chose slightly spicy.
The red oil was boiling in the pot, giving her a spicy scent.
Zhu Yu put the ingredients into the pot while checking today's sales.
On the first day of official business, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the hot pot restaurant system would automatically help her settle the bill.
The settlement information was divided into two sections: online and offline. She had just expanded the hot pot restaurant and shelter yesterday, and she also picked up some materials from killing monsters in the morning, so today's currency unit was gold coins.
【Online income details】:
"Clear Soup Base (single serving)": 1,500 servings sold, earning 3,000 gold coins + 15 gold coins for additional ingredients.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (single serving)": 1,200 servings sold, earning 7,200 gold coins + 6 additional gold coins for ingredients.
"Clear Soup Base (Multiple Servings)": 250 servings sold, earning 2,500 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (Multiple Servings)": 200 servings sold, earning 7,000 gold coins.
【Online expenditure details】:
"Clear Soup Base (single serving)": Purchase 1,500 servings in total, spending 1,500 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (single serving)": A total of 1,200 servings were purchased, spending 6,000 gold coins.
"Clear Soup Base (Multiple Servings)": Purchase 250 servings in total, spending 1,500 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (Multiple Servings)": Purchased 200 servings in total, spending 6,000 gold coins.
[Online net income]: 4721 gold coins
[Offline income details]:
"Clear Soup Base (single serving)": 4 servings were sold, earning 8 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (single serving)": 7 servings were sold, earning 42 gold coins + 14 gold coins for additional ingredients.
"Clear Soup Base (Multiple Servings)": Sold 3 servings in total, earning 30 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (Multiple Servings)": 4 servings were sold, earning 140 gold coins.
[Offline expenditure details]:
"Clear Soup Base (single serving)": Purchase 4 servings in total, spending 4 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (single serving)": purchased 7 servings in total, spending 35 gold coins.
"Clear Soup Base (Multiple Servings)": Purchased 3 servings in total, spending 18 gold coins.
"Spicy Beef Oil Hot Pot Base (Multiple Servings)": Purchased 4 servings in total, spending 120 gold coins.
[Offline net income]: 53 gold coins
[Total net income of hot pot restaurant]: 4774 gold coins
Looking at this detailed settlement bill, Zhu Yu was thoughtful.
Even with her current minimum price, the profits are still considerable.
But if she was a merchant obsessed with money, and saw these numbers and simply raised prices to earn more gold coins, then there would definitely be problems.
She always kept in mind that her goal was not to make a lot of money in this place, but to ensure that at least 30% of the players could survive.
With this in mind, Zhu Yu decided not to adjust the price for the time being and stick to the route of small profits but quick turnover.
After all, the price is not the most important thing; the sales volume of hot pot is the key to her successful survival in the game.
Although her main source of income is currently online food delivery, the game has set a limit on the number of food deliveries. Even if she limits the supply to each player, she still cannot ensure that all players can purchase hot pot online.
So she must attract more players to shop in offline stores.
As the 996 system had reminded her before, if she only focused on online traffic, that would be putting the cart before the horse.
Therefore, after seeing that the shabu-shabu hotpot could not be purchased online, Zhu Yu felt relieved.
The price of a double-flavored hotpot is the sum of the prices of two arbitrarily selected hotpot bases, and its additional effects are also the superposition of the two.
Although no players have ordered the yucca hotpot offline today, Zhu Yu believes that as time goes by, there will definitely be players who go to offline stores specifically to experience the yucca hotpot.
It would be nice if they could add some special foods that are unique to offline stores. Now, the attraction is far from enough with just a hot pot and a small bar with a few drinks.
Zhu Yu put down his chopsticks, took a sip of milk to relieve the spiciness, and a look of slight sadness appeared on his face.
Suddenly, she noticed a small red dot appeared on the message reminder panel.
She clicked it and a system message popped up immediately.
[Congratulations! The hot pot restaurant is officially open for business on the first day, and more than 10 tables of hot pot have been successfully sold offline! ]
[Offline hot pot restaurant menu has been updated! ]
[You have unlocked offline hot pot snacks: "Small Crispy Pork", "Brown Sugar Rice Cake", "Wolf Tooth Potatoes", "Crispy Fried Milk"! ]
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