Chapter 493: No Return on Investment
After breakfast, Zhou Anan got in the van of his father, who insisted on taking him to the city, and went to the Xinhua Bookstore across the pedestrian street.
When she had some free time, Zhou Anan read half a book in Xinhua Bookstore and found it a bit boring.
Zhou Anan took a walk on the pedestrian street and did not disturb her cousin who was busy.
Thinking of the two girls from her hometown who were "abandoned" in the cinema some time ago, Zhou Anan walked for more than half an hour to the cinema.
Compared to the deserted scene when it first opened, the Millennium Cinema now has quite a few customers even though it has just opened in the morning, most of whom are young boys and girls on their summer vacation.
Apart from a group of people gathered in front of the claw machine, the place with the most people was the snack area, and the three tellers looked busy.
After looking at the two part-time girls in work clothes, Zhou Anan walked over to the cashier and said to Lou, the personal trainer, "Give me a bottle of water."
"Okay, please wait a moment, Senior!"
He turned around skillfully and took a bottle of water. When he handed it over, Lou Shuqing shouted in surprise.
“Are you still getting used to it?”
Taking the mineral water, Zhou Anan smiled and said with concern.
It seems that Lou Private Tutor looks pretty good in this outfit.
However, at this age, Shu Na's advantages are more obvious.
"Very good, we all like this job, thank you senior."
Lou Shuqing naturally felt that the job that the senior arranged for them was a good one.
Not only is the salary high, but the benefits are also good.
In addition to being able to "dispose" of excess popcorn for free every day, sometimes they can also watch free movies during their rest days.
There is only one bad thing about it: it makes you fat more easily.
Shuna, who loves to eat, gained two kilograms in less than a month. She kept saying that she wanted to lose weight and she really did not hesitate to eat popcorn every day.
"That's good."
After saying hello to Shu Na, who had a slender figure and good looks, Zhou Anan went upstairs to the manager's office.
After looking at the revenue of the cinema in more than half a month after opening, Zhou Anan found that the behavior of some cinemas exchanging movie tickets to steal box office revenue is still worthy of some understanding.
In the 20 days since opening, Millennium Cinema has sold more than 250,000 movie tickets, of which the cinema can take about 53%, and after deducting various expenses, it only gets about 45%.
In 20 days, the company earned 112,000 yuan. After taking into account employee salaries and equipment depreciation, the net profit was less than 70,000 yuan, and taxes had to be paid.
This is because there are two blockbuster films this month. When there are no hit movies on weekdays, cinemas basically lose money every day they are open.
The investment in this cinema is no less than 5.6 million yuan, and it will take some time before it can make a profit.
Although the box office explosion period of movie theaters has not yet arrived, the profit is still too low.
The current supervision is not that strict. Some cinemas can exchange tickets for popular movies for tickets for movies that are about to be sold out and get higher commissions. This is the so-called box office stealing.
In this regard, "Charlotte's Troubles" produced by Blue Whale Entertainment did a good job. It had the endorsement of senior executives of major theater chains, "a hundred times the penalty for stealing", and hundreds of box office supervisors active in first-, second- and third-tier cities, effectively curbing the phenomenon of box office theft.
Of course, for movie theaters, there is another source of considerable income, which is snacks and drinks.
With an average daily turnover of over 3,000 and a profit of nearly 1,800, after deducting labor costs, it is not much different from the revenue from ticket sales.
But in the end, the payback period is still too long and it's not easy for everyone.
Fortunately, Zhou Anan bought this piece of land, and the future increase in land prices alone can make him feel at ease.
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
After closing the account book, Zhou Anan smiled and nodded to Manager Liu before leaving.
As long as the cinema operates normally, he basically won't interfere in its management, let alone give any instructions.
After staying in the snack area for a while and agreeing to Shu Na's request to treat her to a midnight snack when she was free, Zhou Anan walked out of the cinema. It was almost time for dinner.
If you are alone, of course you can just eat whatever you want.
"Hey, Mom..."
While eating at a fast food restaurant, Zhou Anan received a call from her mother and learned that there was a new 126-square-meter suite in the house.
The wedding house that his mother mentioned might belong to him in the future might be worth 3.5 million in the future.
There was a smile in her words, but Zhou Anan felt nothing in her heart. She was just impressed by her mother's high initiative.
Compared to the bunch of houses he bought yesterday, this one is just a drop in the bucket.
However, Zhou Anan is still very happy seeing that the family conditions are getting better and better.
At present, it seems that he doesn't have to do anything. After the quarry in his father's village expires, he doesn't have to worry about the direction of his family's economic development.
After strolling around for a while in the afternoon, Zhou Anan took the bus back home.
The first full day at home passed by, monotonous and boring.
On the third day after returning home, Zhou Anan was planning to stay at home all day, but he received an invitation from Hu Shangyi. Out of boredom, he agreed to go for dinner.
"Mr. Zhou, you are really hard to invite."
Seeing Zhou Anan come in, Hu Zehai, who had been chatting with his classmates in the box, smiled and joked.
In order to wait for this big shot among his classmates to be free, he discussed with a few boys and pushed the time of the class reunion to the end of July. Finally, he got the other party to come.
Class reunion is the best way to enhance friendship.
"I won't say any more. I'll drink three cups as punishment."
Zhou Anan poured three small cups of juice and drank them down in gulps, which just quenched her thirst.
"No, you must drink a penalty."
"I just took cold medicine and can't drink."
“…”
Zhou Anan, who was well prepared, dealt with the boys who were most active in making trouble in no time.
There are quite a few students present today. Of the more than 50 students originally, only a small half are absent. The three tables for twelve people are just enough to accommodate them.
After two years in college, we no longer have the passion we had when we graduated from high school. The so-called high school friendship has faded a little, and it is normal for some people to find excuses not to come.
Looking around, Wang Rong had not returned from Hangzhou, and Zhou Anan had not seen Xu Wenwen either. It seemed that the Hangzhou classmate reunion that she had proposed to Wang Rong last time had also come to nothing.
"Why, who are you looking for?"
Hu Zehai, who was sitting next to Zhou Anan, noticed the other's gaze and asked with a smile.
"I'm looking to see who's not here yet."
Regarding this point, Zhou Anan answered very frankly.
Anyway, he had no intentions towards the girls in his class.
"I was wondering who you were looking at. I heard recently that Wang Rong and Xu Wenwen got together. Is that true?"
Instead of continuing to tease the other person, Hu Zehai asked a gossip question.
This has been the biggest gossip among high school classmates over the past six months.
And from Xu Wenwen, everyone knew that Wang Rong had become the general manager of a milk tea company, with an annual income of hundreds of thousands, which simply blinded everyone's titanium eyes.
They had only seen people opening a milk tea shop and becoming a general manager in TV novels. Who would have thought that it would happen to them and to their high school classmate.
At their age, who is in the second half of their junior year, Wang Rong, who is only 21 years old, can be considered successful.
Therefore, his relationship with Xu Wenwen naturally attracted much attention.
“Not sure.”
Shaking her head, Zhou Anan had no intention of talking about Wang Rong's gossip, nor would she talk about Xu Wenwen's current appearance, let alone attracting girls' attention by talking about any hot topics.
Now, he just wanted to be a quiet handsome man and kill time while having a meal.
That's all.
"It's spread all over the class, Xu Wenwen also admitted it in the TT group, don't you know?"
“I haven’t been on TT for a long time.”
“…”
"By the way, which guys in our class have found girlfriends?"
“This…”
Occasionally chatting with the boys next to her about popular topics in college, and then joking with a few more active girls, Zhou Anan felt that time passed very quickly.
Although the girl Yingying Chengcheng also came tonight, she did not take the initiative to talk to Zhou Anan, and Zhou Anan was happy about it.
He has a girlfriend and needs to keep himself clean.
After dinner, Zhou Anan rejected the invitation from Hu Shangyi and others to go to KTV and drove to Wuzhou.
When Zhou Anan was drawn to the topic of girls by several people at the table, he thought of a confidante in Wuzhou. He wondered if she had returned from her hometown.
Of course, Zhou Anan was definitely not the one who went out of her way to see the little junior high school girl downstairs in Repulse Bay.
“Ding ding ding.”
On the way to Wuzhou, Zhou Anan received a phone call. She couldn't help but frowned and stepped on the accelerator a little harder.
(End of this chapter)
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