"Boss, are you alright?"
"I think my blood pressure is a little high right now."
Should I take you to the hospital?
"It's not that I don't need to. If you let me beat you up, I think that will be enough."
"Oh... Boss, that's a different price."
Lin Chen slapped his forehead. Oh well, he'd already bought it.
Soon after, Star Technology issued an announcement regarding the acquisition of KFC's related businesses.
However, Lin Chen did not want to continue using the KFC brand, so he called Zhang Yiming over.
"Old Zhang, you took it upon yourself to buy KFC, and I've already deducted all of your bonus for this year."
"If you're not the boss, at least leave me some bonus. This year hasn't been easy for me either."
"Here's what we'll do: you go and do something for me. Once you've done it, I'll cross out everything about you from that little notebook."
Zhang Yiming's eyes lit up.
"Boss, whatever it is, just leave it to me. I'll do anything, even go through fire and water!"
"That's right. KFC is a foreign brand, which I don't like. However, we can leverage its brand influence to build our own new brand. Once our own brand has grown, we can sell KFC again."
"Boss, this is a great idea! We can use a hen to lay eggs, and then sell the hen later. We'll make a killing! So, what are we going to sell?"
"We also sell fried chicken and hamburgers, but we'll add some special features, such as hot pot-flavored fried chicken, or donkey meat sandwich-flavored hamburgers. For chicken rolls, we'll make a Peking duck roll."
Then in the evening, sell some grilled crayfish, and suddenly you've got everything you need.
"Wow, boss, what you said is making me a little hungry. So, what should we call our new brand?"
"Let's call it Fried Chicken Life."
A week later, several of Shanghai's busiest KFC locations simultaneously underwent renovations.
The original KFC business remained unchanged, except for the addition of two new ordering boards.
One is the well-known Heytea, and the other is something I've never seen before, called Fried Chicken Life.
It immediately attracted a lot of attention.
"Waiter, what is this?"
"Hello customer, this is our newly launched Chinese-style food brand, Fried Chicken Life. It has new flavors, so please give it a try."
"Fried chicken life? Let me see what delicious food they have: hot pot flavored fried chicken, mapo tofu flavored fried chicken, donkey meat sandwich flavored burgers, spicy crayfish flavored burgers, fried skewers, chicken frames..."
Wow, this looks just like a night market food street! I want to try some!
Once launched, Fried Chicken Life quickly attracted a large number of users to try it out, especially with the introduction of the concept of traditional Chinese style, which made the series a real hit.
And it quickly spread online.
"Ahhh, Lin Gou, I want to eat KFC like this too! Hurry up and renovate the KFC in Hangzhou as well!"
"Chongqing +1".
"Chengdu +1".
"Beijing +1".
...
Seeing the high demand online, Lin Chen also started looking for someone to make arrangements.
He originally wanted to find Fatty, but Fatty is currently busy with classes and taking care of his child at home, living a very happy life, so he didn't want to bother him.
When he graduates and the child is older, there will be more important tasks to be assigned to him.
So he handed the matter over to Zhang Xuhao, the founder of Ele.me and now the head of Meituan Waimai.
"No, Lin Chen, why don't you think of me when you have good things to do? You only think of me for this kind of errand-running job?"
"How can this not be a good thing?"
"Traveling on business every day, how can that be considered a good thing?"
"Think about it from a different perspective. You're experiencing the cultural differences of foot massage parlors across the country."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xuhao exclaimed, "Hey, you really are a genius!"
Thus, Zhang Xuhao began his journey.
In reality, he doesn't need to do anything specific. He just needs to go to a few top-tier cities, look at the stores with the highest sales, and figure out how to best transform them to set a benchmark, including subsequent advertising and promotion plans.
Then other stores can just copy these stores.
That day, Lin Chen was playing League of Legends in his office when his phone suddenly rang.
"Brother Lin, it's done!"
"Brother Jun, what's done!"
"Foldable screens! They actually made them! It's unbelievable!"
"You finished it so quickly?"
"Yes, Liu Zihong is simply a genius!"
"Wait here, I'll be right there."
Lin Chen secretly regretted losing such a good game and chose to shoot twenty, even though his score was 0/7/0.
Then he got up and went to Xiaomi Technology, where Liu Zihong was also there; he was there to report on the results.
Upon seeing Lin Chen approach, Liu Zihong couldn't help but speak.
"President Lin, that fried chicken is so delicious! Our department has been ordering it for late-night snacks lately."
"Haha, I'm glad you like it. I'll give you a membership card so you won't have to pay for meals."
"That's great? Thanks a lot then."
"No problem at all, no problem at all. By the way, did you bring the results of your foldable screen project?"
"Yes, I brought it. I came here today to report this achievement to General Manager Lei. It would be best if you could make a prototype to take a look."
Liu Zihong picked up the screen from Lei Jun's desk and handed it to Lin Chen.
Lin Chen took it, glanced at it, and confirmed that it was indeed the two screens stacked together. He then carefully opened it from the middle, and lo and behold, it actually worked! He then closed it again, and it was perfect.
"Wow, that's amazing! I didn't expect you to be able to do it in such a short time."
"Actually, I have to thank President Lin for this. Your words gave me a lot of inspiration and a very clear direction. With a direction, our research can be much more efficient."
"By the way, do you know if the Koreans have made any progress?"
"I'm not too sure about this either, as it involves trade secrets. However, as long as it hasn't been released yet, we have a chance to compete for the title of number one in the world, so I came here to find Mr. Lei right away."
"Brother Jun, we must strive for first place!"
"I know, brother. I'll assemble a team right away and try to develop a foldable screen phone as quickly as possible."
For the next period of time, all the top talents from various departments of Xiaomi were brought to Xiaomi Technology's old address, the 27th floor of Deji Building.
It just so happens that Liu Zihong's Royole Technology team is on the 26th floor.
The two teams formed a task force to tackle the foldable screen phone problem.
Furthermore, Lin Chen promised that if anyone could release a foldable phone before the Koreans, everyone would receive a generous bonus! At least a million!
Upon hearing this, everyone became excited. The minimum was one million! That was absolutely amazing!
Immediately, someone took out their phone and sent a message to their wife.
"Honey, I've been working overtime at the company these past few days, I won't be coming home!"
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