Ye Ning received a request yesterday that was urgent but also very expensive. After receiving the advance payment, she immediately got to work.
After finally completing the task, I checked the time and it was already 11 a.m. I had been working continuously for more than 24 hours.
It's only been half an hour since Xu's Fast Food Restaurant delivered the food. Ye Ning plans to take a shower, eat, and then go to sleep.
At 11:20, footsteps were heard outside the door, but they quickly disappeared;
At 11:30, it was quiet outside the door;
At 11:40, there was still no movement outside the door. Was it because there were too many orders to deliver today, so it was late?
...
As she waited, Ye Ning succumbed to overwhelming sleepiness and fell asleep on her desk.
When Ye Ning opened her eyes again, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon.
Oh no! My lunch is ruined!
I picked up my phone and saw no missed calls, and there were no new messages in the chat box of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant on QQ.
After walking to the gate and seeing through the peephole that no one was outside, Ye Ning quickly opened the door, peeked out, and looked around. There was no sign of Boxed Lunch outside.
At this moment, a terrible guess appeared in Ye Ning's mind—had Xu's Fast Food Restaurant forgotten his order?
To confirm her suspicions, Ye Ning opened the chat window of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.
"Boss, it's 2:30, why hasn't my lunchbox arrived yet?"
Xu An was registering orders for tomorrow when he saw a new message appear and clicked on it. His brain instantly went blank.
That's impossible! All of today's orders have been delivered!
I turned the notebook to the today's orders page and started looking from the first order all the way to the last order, but I really couldn't find Ye Ning's order.
I scrolled up the chat messages again to confirm that Ye Ning had placed an order yesterday.
This time, Xu An was completely bewildered; he had indeed overlooked Ye Ning's order.
Sorry, I forgot to register your order. Would you mind receiving a complimentary drink next time you order?
'……'
After realizing that his order had been missed, Ye Ning collapsed to the ground and roared to the sky.
ah!
Looks like I'll have to eat instant noodles today. I think there are two braised beef flavored ones left?
Ye Ning rummaged through drawers and found two buckets of instant noodles to make. She then opened the 1024 chat group to see what her friends were doing.
Scrolling up, I saw a photo of a boxed lunch, with a plate of twice-cooked pork taking up the majority of the photo.
Each slice of meat, with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, is evenly thick and glossy red, with a uniform caramel color. Green and red peppers and garlic leaves are scattered among them, adding to the flavor. Just looking at the photo, one can imagine the satisfaction it will bring after taking a bite.
If Ye Ning were an anime character, two streams of tears would probably be streaming down his face right now.
But he was a physical human being, and could only cry out in his heart—"My twice-cooked pork!"
Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.
Xu An looked at the six dots Ye Ning had sent and felt a bit overwhelmed.
With a large number of orders every day, registering them one by one is not only time-consuming, but also prone to omissions like the one in front of us.
Although this is the first time this has happened, it's hard to guarantee that it won't be the last.
Xu An's first thought was the "Eat It" app. If it were to be launched in Shanghai now, he could join it and let people who wanted to place orders place their orders directly through the app, so that no orders would be missed.
The idea had barely formed when Xu An rejected it.
Now, I'm seizing the opportunity before 'Let's Eat' expands to Shanghai to preemptively capture the market and grow stronger.
If "Let's Eat" has appeared in Shanghai, office workers will have more options and won't necessarily choose their own boxed lunches.
What other options are there?
Xu An's brain was racing, quickly reviewing all his experiences from his past life, searching for anything that could be helpful to his current situation.
Suddenly, a news report popped into Xu An's mind.
'Founder of Chibaola... Campus restaurants... Food ordering and delivery services... Order brochures and menus... Website registration... Online self-service ordering and order taking for customers and restaurants...'
Yes, that's it!
Xu An slapped his thigh hard, so hard that he winced in pain, leaving a bright red handprint on his thigh. Fortunately, his train of thought was not interrupted.
It's a webpage!
Design a website for Xu's Fast Food Restaurant!
Shortly after its creation, 'Let's Eat' launched a simple webpage for ordering and receiving orders.
No registration or account binding is required; just a few clicks and your address and phone number are all you need.
Unlike "Eat It" (a restaurant-related app), "Eat It" needs to process data from dozens or even hundreds of restaurants, which places high demands on servers and user interaction, requiring highly specialized technical personnel to solve this problem.
However, the webpage I want only needs three functions: uploading a menu, allowing users to select and fill in their phone number and address, and exporting data from the backend.
The demand is far less than that for "eating".
But another problem arises: it is now 2012, the year the Internet is beginning to emerge.
At that time, programmers were incredibly valuable and scarce. Even with money, it wasn't guaranteed that you could find a professional programmer to handle this problem.
Not to mention, Xu An had neither money nor connections, and he didn't know any of those computer gurus who hadn't yet made it big in his previous life.
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