Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Open for business tomorrow
Yesterday, Zhao Ruyue saw those students buying things and they paid without hesitation, which showed her the purchasing power of students.
She felt that her judgment of the town's consumer groups and spending power was somewhat biased, and that the positioning of her own store was not quite right.
All the attention was focused on the adults, and the students were ignored.
Judging with inherent thinking, we subconsciously believe that adults have no spare money and are reluctant to eat, so their children must be even poorer.
This way of thinking is actually wrong. There are parents who are stingy with their children and don't spend money on them, but they are actually a minority. Most parents would rather suffer a little themselves than not support their children.
Moreover, no matter what era or place, extremely poor people and extremely rich people are a minority, and ordinary people are the majority.
Children of ordinary people, even if their pocket money is not much, they still have pocket money.
Especially for junior high school students who live on the street but have to board at school, they need to bring rice from home to school every week and have it steamed in the canteen, but they also need to buy vegetables and meat from the school cafeteria.
As long as the family is not extremely poor and cannot even afford to eat.
Parents give food money to their junior high school boarding children every week, and some parents even give them some pocket money in addition to the food money.
Students have to buy some school supplies and pay some information fees from time to time, and they may even conceal the information and ask their parents for more.
All in all, they actually have quite a bit of money in their pockets. They certainly can't afford more expensive things, but they can still afford some good food.
If adults come across something delicious, they might consider the price-performance ratio. But children won’t think so much. As long as it tastes good enough, they will buy it.
Students are much more receptive to most new things than adults. If the things in her house are more innovative than those in other houses, they will definitely be more attractive to them.
Even if some people don’t have money at the moment, in order to eat the same things that their classmates have eaten, they will even save up some money from their food budget and buy them.
After the brief trial operation yesterday, Zhao Ruyue quickly discussed with Ning Shaoming to shift the focus of the business to students, but of course she would not ignore other customers.
After all, junior high school students can only wander around the streets every Friday afternoon and Sunday. When students cannot go out, there are market days, and we still have to rely on ordinary customers to make money.
At the dinner table in the evening, Zhao Ruyue was a little unhappy that her mother-in-law didn't come.
When the new house was being built, it would have been fine if she didn't come to help, but Wen Jujiu didn't ask her to do any heavy work.
She only needs to sit and pick vegetables, greet relatives, eat melon seeds and chat with them, and she won't even come?
Seeing that she was still nowhere to be seen before dinner time, Zhao Ruyue went to find Ning Shaoming: "Your mother hasn't come yet, why don't you go and see if she's not feeling well and can't come? If she can't come, bring her some food."
Ning Shaoming knew what was going on. It was just the old lady's usual method of forcing him to compromise.
"No need to go. She's probably angry about what happened last night."
Zhao Ruyue was speechless: "Just because of this? Why not just agree to her request? It won't cost much anyway."
Ning Shaoming said: "No, you agreed to her this time, what about next time?"
"We're only opening this once, why will there be a next time?"
"I'm talking about something else. If you don't believe me, just wait and see." Ning Shaoming put down the spatula and went out to call his son. "Xiaoqiu, go call grandma to come for dinner."
Ning Shaoming knew that he would get nothing if he went, so he had to send his son to call the people over.
Ning Shiqiu rode his bicycle back to the old house and soon came with his grandmother.
Huang Xiuhua thought that Ning Shaoming was bowing to her by asking his grandson to treat her to a meal.
As soon as she came, she started pointing fingers, saying this dish was not good, that table was not placed straight. In short, she would always find fault with anything done without her advice.
When he heard from his relatives that Ning Shaoming was going to sell fried rice noodles and mutton soup, he showed a disapproving expression and said, "How can you sell that? I've never seen anyone in town selling it. People don't even know what it is, so how can they sell it? In my opinion, you should learn from the shops in town that are doing well and sell the same things as them. Maybe you can make some money."
Obviously, Zhao Ruyue had packed some food and brought it back from the county town earlier and let her taste it. She also thought it was delicious at that time. She had known what Ning Shaoming and his wife were planning to sell and had never raised any other opinions. But today she had to criticize them.
Ning Shaoming gave Zhao Ruyue a wink: See, what did I just say?
If something doesn't go her way, she'll find fault with it. It was okay before, maybe because the whole family listened to her, so they didn't show it.
This situation is particularly serious after the family splits up.
Huang Xiuhua took advantage of the fact that all the relatives were there and asked Zhao Ruyue to buy some New Year's items for the family, just like she did on the day the family split up. She wanted to rely on her status as an elder to give some suggestions on the store they opened.
"You can't sell mutton soup. Mutton is much more expensive than pork. How can you make money? Don't lose all the money you earn from working. It's better to do the same as other shops in town and use pork shank bones to make soup."
She only knows that mutton soup is more expensive and pork bone soup is cheaper.
They don’t care at all that the pork bone soup cooked in the rice noodle shop is not sold alone, but is used to cook rice noodles and add base flavor to the rice noodles.
His mutton soup can be paired with fried rice noodles, or sold alone. The mutton soup that goes with fried rice noodles is given as a gift, as a means of attracting customers.
The mutton soup provided only contains chopped green onions, coriander and soup, but no mutton offal or mutton. The mutton offal and mutton are sold separately and are considered separate dishes.
They also have boiled rice noodles, but the soup base is also made with sheep heads and bones. The reason they use sheep is to differentiate themselves from other restaurants in town.
Also because sheep are more expensive than pork, customers feel that his rice noodles cost more. If they spend the same money, customers will feel that they are getting a better deal eating at his restaurant.
Sometimes higher costs are not without benefits.
But Huang Xiuhua didn't understand. She just wanted her son to listen to her. She talked to relatives for a long time while eating, and then went back to the matter of finding the Taoist priest and the fortune teller.
Ning Shaoming was at the men's table, and Zhao Ruyue was at the women's table. Eating at the same table with her was really annoying because of the nagging.
In the end, I could only mechanically repeat one thing: I have no say in this matter, you have to talk to my man, he is in charge of this matter.
Some relatives who were as superstitious as Huang Xiuhua actually turned around and told Ning Shaoming about it.
Ning Shaoming didn't want to compromise, so he could only pretend to be serious in playing finger-guessing games and drinking with others, pretending not to hear what they said, otherwise it would be inappropriate to quarrel in front of relatives and friends.
Huang Xiuhua did not achieve her goal. She went back to her old house with a belly full of meat and vegetables and a lot of anger. She just thought that as a family member, she had to help clean up the dishes and table after the meal so that she could return them tomorrow.
In the past, she had to explain everything in front of her daughters-in-law and explain what the old rules should be.
It is an old custom for family members, or even close relatives, to invite guests for a drink and after the meal, other close relatives to stay and help clean up. This time, the old custom is no longer followed.
When someone asked her about it, she could just say that she was not feeling well.
Zhao Ruyue was also convinced. If she had known earlier, she would have asked her son to bring some food to her old house during mealtime and just tell people that she was not feeling well. She wouldn't have to endure her nagging.
However, as long as they don't care, ignore, or are not affected by these things, it's actually not a big deal except that they are a bit annoying.
The most important thing is to open the store tomorrow.
They originally didn't want to open so soon, but since they had already sold things yesterday, they couldn't rest for too long, so as not to miss the business opportunity.
After all, hot dog buns are not something that is difficult to imitate, so we have to make money quickly before others follow suit.
Tomorrow happens to be Sunday, the day when junior high school students go back to school. Many students have the most money at this time. If they miss it, they will have to wait another week.
After I packed my things and tidied myself up, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
The two children have been helping out with things within their ability during the day and are quite tired.
After I gave them a bath at around eight o'clock, they were so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes and fell asleep early.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming were very tired after a busy day, but they couldn't sleep yet because they had to discuss the store's menu and the ingredients to buy for tomorrow.
Dried rice noodles and dry rice vermicelli can be bought in advance and stored at home. They have already bought them, but they need to get up early tomorrow to soak the dry noodles.
The fresh rice noodles have also been pre-ordered and will be delivered from the rice noodle workshop tomorrow. They just need to check whether the quality is up to standard.
I don’t need a whole sheep at the moment, so I’ll buy one from the mutton stall in town.
The first few days were a trial sale, and they planned to buy half a sheep first, add some sheep offal and sheep bones, and see how it sold. If it was not enough, they would add more.
My family can’t afford a freezer right now, so we’d rather have less meat than more, otherwise it will become unusable after being left out overnight.
The pork and pork offal were ordered from Ning Shaoming's elder sister. She will deliver them tomorrow, and I will also help clean up the pork offal in advance.
If it were someone else's family, they wouldn't be so thoughtful.
In addition to bean sprouts and onions, the other side dishes for fried rice noodles are just one more green leafy vegetable. Buy whatever is cheap.
However, when they divided up the property, there were still quite a few vegetables in the vegetable plot they got, including chopped green onions, coriander, lettuce, celery, and spinach, so they didn't need to buy them for the time being.
The flour was added at the last minute. The stock at home was used up yesterday. I will buy some in town tomorrow to make up for it. After the dry rice noodles and dry rice vermicelli at home are used up, I will go to the county town to wholesale them at a cheaper price.
There are also some sausages, which were originally bought for the children to eat and play with, but they were almost used up yesterday.
Zhao Ruyue wrote this and turned to ask Ning Shaoming: "Do you want to replace the ham sausage with a hot dog sausage?"
Ning Shaoming was the first one to get up in the morning. He was so sleepy that his brain was a little slow and he didn't react: "What hot dog?"
"It's the kind you bought for me when we went to the park together in Pengcheng. It's sold at 1.5 yuan per piece at the entrance of the park."
"The grilled sausage costs 1.5 yuan a piece, the cost is..."
Zhao Ruyue got up and went out to soak a towel with cold water, wrung out the water, then came in and rubbed it on his face.
Ning Shaoming finally regained some clarity of mind: "Oh, that kind of hot dog sausage, others sell it at a high price, but the wholesale cost is actually not high. However, it is not available in town, so we have to go to the county town for wholesale. We can change it later when we go to wholesale flour and dry rice noodles."
He paused and said, "Actually, there's no need to change. You can add one more and let the customers choose. Don't children like grilled sausages? Then you can buy grilled sausages separately. What do you think?"
Zhao Ruyue nodded: "I think it's okay. How about buying more sausages tomorrow and selling them separately?"
Ning Shaoming hesitated a little: "I'm afraid it's too late. The oven at home is too small, and it's hard enough to bake steamed buns."
Speaking of baking steamed buns, Zhao Ruyue actually has a concern: "We bake them on a small oven made by the girl next door. It's too easy for others to learn it."
If no one is watching, others might actually think that the steamed buns, which are made into the shape of bread and baked until golden brown and look almost the same as bread, are bread.
No one in the town knows how to make bread, and not many people saw Ning Shaoming baking steamed buns yesterday.
This is equivalent to invisibly adding a non-existent technical threshold to competitors, and this thing may not be so easy to learn and sell.
They can also keep this exclusive business in town for a little longer.
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