He Wenlin had planned to open a cake shop a long time ago.
Ten years later, the two major brands, Moudu and Mouxi, which are ubiquitous on the streets, are not even present now.
He Wenlin certainly wants to seize the market first!
He Wenlin has even registered a brand called Master He.
A name doesn't need to be fancy; it just needs to be easy to remember.
Soon, He's parents and grandmother all knew that He Wenlin had spent 20,000 yuan a year to rent the location at the supermarket entrance.
The whole family went to see it together again.
"The place is fairly big, but 20,000 yuan a year isn't cheap," Mr. He said. "What are you going to use it for? Selling fast food here probably isn't suitable."
“I plan to sell cakes,” He Wenlin said. “I’ll sell room temperature cakes, like the sponge cakes we usually eat. I can make more varieties, and the factory will make them overnight and deliver them early in the morning.”
"You know how to do it?" Dad asked.
He Wenlin said, "We can hire someone to do it. I'm the boss, how can I do everything myself?"
Mr. He: "Then we need to hire a technician, buy equipment, and most importantly, where are we going to find a technician?"
Xia Lijuan interjected, "Linlin said she's going to a cooking school to find a chef."
Mr. He frowned: "We don't know anyone's background or anything. Can we really trust them? I think it would be better to sell wolf tooth potatoes and sizzling tofu, and maybe some frozen products on the side. People like wolf tooth potatoes and sizzling tofu, so we should be able to sell those too. Didn't you say you wanted to rent a shop to sell those?"
“I don’t think this place is suitable for selling the items you mentioned. If we’re opening a shop or factory, how many people who know us well would let us use their products? Besides, even if they are acquaintances, relatives, or friends, they can’t necessarily be trusted.”
In this world, there are plenty of relatives and friends who laugh at your lack and resent your abundance!
Moreover, it's not easy to manage when you have many relatives and friends.
Aunt He asked, "Do you already have connections?"
“This kind of business doesn’t require any connections, all you need is money,” He Wenlin said. “However, opening this cake shop will require a significant investment.”
The store needs a cash register, electronic scale, display cases, and refrigerated display cases, which will cost at least 30,000 yuan!
We also need to rent a place for production, and production requires buying ovens, various tray molds, freezers, refrigerators, stainless steel tables, etc., which will cost another 20,000 to 30,000 yuan!
With basic renovations and rent, the initial investment for this shop will be at least 100,000 yuan!
However, the profit margin for pastries is very high.
In particular, He Wenlin directly established a central factory, where production was carried out and vehicles were arranged to deliver goods to the stores in a unified manner. The stores could be rented smaller, saving on rent, and the production equipment was also shared among multiple stores, saving money on equipment.
The new factory isn't ready yet, and even if it is, the food factory will move there first. The cake shop is currently the only one, so He Wenlin plans to rent a cake production facility near where she lives now for easier management and inspection.
When He Wenlin asked to rent a house, He's mother said, "I don't think we need to rent a house anymore. Our shop on the first floor and the house on the second floor in Caijiang Village are under renovation. We can move in soon. We can use the place we are renting now for production. We can just leave the living room empty. This will save us on rent. We can make do for a month or two."
He Wenlin thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "No, it won't be done in a month or two, and we can't move in right away after the renovation, because formaldehyde can cause cancer."
The shops on the first floor are for installing water and electricity and painting, which is relatively simple and is the first thing we do. After the renovation is completed and the space is left empty for a while, we can move in at the end of June.
However, we'll be living on the second floor ourselves, so decorating it would be more troublesome. We'd also need to buy new furniture, and once it's finished, it'll be vacant for at least three months. We could move in around National Day (October 1st). All in all, it'll take quite a while. We'll just rent a place again for a year. By this time next year, the food factory will definitely be fully completed, and then we can move the cake production there too.
"We'll listen to Linlin." It was rare for He's father to raise any objections; instead, he supported He Wenlin.
He said, "Renting a house doesn't cost much. Don't be so stingy. If we use the house we live in now for production, it will be very inconvenient for us. It will definitely affect our rest. There are too many things in the house, and too many people will come in. It will still be inconvenient. Who knows if there are any dishonest people?"
Aunt He didn't say anything more, and simply said, "Okay, then we'll do as you say."
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At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone returned to the Caijiang Village fast food restaurant.
He Wenlin and her father went out to look at houses, and they were really lucky. They ran into Liu Meihua, the former owner of Meihua Garment Factory.
Liu Meihua sold the factory; to be precise, she sold everything in her factory to the Bosi Garment Factory.
She and her employees now work at the Persian silk factory.
"Sister Meihua, has that factory you rented been rented out yet?" He Wenlin thought that place would be very suitable for producing cakes.
"You want to rent a factory?" Liu Meihua was surprised, then smiled and said, "Boss He is so capable, it's not surprising that he wants to have a branch factory. I just ran into the landlord, and I heard that it hasn't been rented out yet. If you want to rent, I can take you to find the landlord and you can talk to him yourselves."
"It really is you." He Wenlin said, slightly excited. "But... won't this interfere with your business?"
"What could a laborer like me possibly have to do? Come on, I'll take you there."
Mr. He asked, "How much was the rent for that place before?"
“I used to rent for 7,000 a year, but I heard from the landlord that the rent is going to go up a bit now.”
Mr. He gasped, “So expensive! We only pay a little over 200 yuan a month to rent a place. The factory doesn’t look very big, so it must cost 600 yuan a month.”
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