A steaming bowl of spicy hot pot was soon served. Lin Yiran carried it to Lin Fu and handed him a pair of chopsticks: "Here, have a taste. This is my new creation. I'm going to call it spicy hot pot, but it's really just vegetables and meatballs cooked in a secret broth. It's delicious!"
Looking at the large bowl of colorful food in front of him, the pure white, thick, and fragrant broth looked delicious. Add to that the green vegetables, yellow corn, the translucent radishes soaked in the broth, and all sorts of small meatballs of unknown flavor, and he couldn't help but exclaim inwardly, "Wow, Miss Lin, you're too kind! All these ingredients must be very precious. I'll just taste it; you should try it."
Ever since he learned that Lin Yiran's food didn't contain any berserk energy, he felt like he was eating a CS4 long-range laser gun with a single bite of his chopsticks. He was so scared that he didn't dare touch his chopsticks.
However, Lin still didn't mind: "It's okay, you eat. I picked all these vegetables myself from the Forest of Hope, it didn't take much effort."
Then she casually asked, "By the way, Brother Lin, what are your plans for the future? Are you still going to sell barbecue?" If you are going to continue selling, you could consider having him join your franchise.
To Lin Yiran's surprise, she heard a surprising answer: "I'm not going to do this anymore." Lin Fu's mood became a little somber, and he sighed, "My wife said that this business is unstable and doesn't make much money, so she won't let me do it. I think she's right. In the past two years, selling barbecue has only covered our living expenses. We haven't saved a penny. It would be better to apply for a store manager position in a shopping mall. A store manager's monthly salary is around 50,000 Star Coins, which is more than enough for our whole family's expenses. And maybe we can even save some. So I'm planning to go to the shopping mall in the rich area to take a look."
At this point, he opened up: "To be honest, I hardly get any customers for my barbecue. Only my old buddies from my previous team come to patronize my business occasionally. I have very few regular customers."
"A serving of barbecue costs thirty star coins. Poor people can't afford it, and rich people don't even look at it. They prefer to eat nutritional supplements, since they can at least fill their stomachs a bit. Barbecue is something they only buy occasionally when they're craving something nice to eat. Business is really bad..."
Lin Yiran was clear about this. Due to the scarcity of food sources, in today's interstellar society, the popularity and consumption rate of nutritional supplements reached 99%, and they did not contain berserk energy. Inferior nutritional supplements at most lacked some important nutrients and had little impact on the human body. Of course, long-term consumption would definitely have an effect.
However, comparatively speaking, they all prefer to take nutritional supplements that are like gasoline.
Lin Yiran felt like vomiting just thinking about that taste!
Suddenly, the spicy hot pot in my bowl didn't taste good anymore.
Seeing Lin Fu's reaction, Lin Yiran didn't hesitate any longer and spoke frankly about what was on her mind: "Brother Lin, I'm short a store manager here, and I'm currently recruiting. But after thinking it over, I feel that outsiders might not be as dedicated as someone I know well, and I don't have any connections here either. So I was wondering if Brother Lin would be willing to come and help me out? To be the store manager of my store."
"Of course I'll pay you a salary, don't worry about that. It won't be less than what you get elsewhere, 60,000 star coins a month. The store manager will also get a 1% commission. Since my store is just starting out, this 1% is actually meant to attract partners."
"This is a long-term commitment, at least two years, with a contract. And there will definitely be branch stores in the future. In other words, no matter whether my store is profitable or not in the early stages, you can get 1% of the monthly turnover. You won't lose out. Of course, you might have to work harder when the branch stores open, but you will still be the store manager."
"Brother Lin, you can consider it. My salary is actually quite good... but only for the store manager position."
Lin Yiran finished speaking directly, and then Lin Fu looked at her with disbelief.
He was truly flattered and overwhelmed; he was taken aback by the conditions Lin Yiran had set.
A 1% commission on sales? People would be scrambling for a job with a monthly salary of 60,000 Star Coins. Such a great opportunity? Could it even be his turn?
Moreover, Lin Yiran's ingredients do not contain any violent energy. Business may not be very good at first, but it's only a matter of time before it becomes a big hit. Once the shop is open, won't the star coins flow in like a river? Won't she make a fortune?
Why should he do such a good thing?
Lin Yiran had her own considerations. Instead of spending time recruiting a new person, it would be better to find someone she knew to be the store manager. Moreover, Lin Fu was a decent person. When she first opened her stall and had no business, Lin Fu even helped promote it for her. Back then, the people who bought Lin Yiran's skewers were actually Lin Fu's brothers from the mercenary group.
Seeing that she was a young girl and it wasn't easy for her, Lin Fu secretly told his brothers when they came to his stall to buy his barbecue that they wanted to patronize his business.
This small act of kindness is something Lin Yiran will remember for a long time.
This also shows that Lin Fu is someone I can trust.
So when she first mentioned opening the shop the day before yesterday, she was already thinking about whether to recruit Lin Fu to be her manager. After all, he had been badly bullied because of her last time and had been lying in the hospital for so many days.
Even if she doesn't expect to live a life of luxury with him in the future, her salary absolutely cannot be lower than that of other store managers, which is why she proposed that 1% commission.
Lin Fu was so excited that he didn't know what to say. He was so focused on listening to Lin Yiran that he didn't even touch his chopsticks. It was only after Lin Yiran reminded him that he picked up a piece of radish and put it in his mouth.
It was an amazing feeling!
He then put down his chopsticks with a serious expression, his heart still unsettled. Looking at Lin Yiran, he said, "Young lady, listen to my advice. With your skills and the special nature of your ingredients, you could hire anyone you want. Why...why did you have to...hire a useless person like me?"
These were his true feelings, because ever since he was injured in the Forest of Hope, he could no longer use his mental power. In theory, he was no different from a cripple, only slightly better than those 'vegetative state' patients whose brains were shut down.
Sometimes he even felt that it would be better to just shut down his brain, so that his family could just give up on treatment.
Then he wouldn't have to drag his family down by taking expensive Anfu Shihai medicine every month.
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