'Xu's Fast Food: Three dishes and a soup for eight yuan.'
Xu's Fast Food, why does this name sound so familiar?
After a moment's thought, Meng Huai remembered seeing the shop name there.
I saw it on a local TV station in Shanghai, in a program called "Visiting Fast Food Restaurants." It was a fast food restaurant that was officially rated as "excellent."
After the documentary aired, Xu's Fast Food Restaurant was included in the studio's filming schedule.
However, first there was a hotel promotion, and then the Star Restaurant offered too much money, so the schedule had to be postponed.
Wait for me! I'll film you next time! After all, if I don't film you now, I won't be able to ride the wave of popularity!
Qunxing Restaurant is positioned as a fast food restaurant targeting office workers, but the store's layout leans towards an artsy and bourgeois style, so it would actually be quite suitable to promote it on the first account.
The owner of the Stars Restaurant had prepared the fast food for the filming well in advance. Whether it was a bowl of vegetable noodles for six yuan or a three-piece platter set meal for twenty-eight yuan, the portions were generous and looked quite delicious and tempting.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the photographer picked up his camera and snapped a series of photos of the food on the table, while Meng Huai sat down at a nearby table with the owner and conducted a short interview with him.
After Meng Huai and his companion finished filming and left, the shop owner's wife came out of the kitchen, stood at the shop entrance watching their departing figures, and asked somewhat nervously, "Will this work? We paid quite a bit of money."
“It works, of course it works!” The owner got up and tidied up the dishes that had just been used for filming: “Remember this amount, it has to be this amount for the whole week. Once we become more famous and have more customers, we can gradually reduce the amount.”
"A whole week! This portion is enough for one and a half portions at other stores!" The proprietress was clearly a little distressed.
"You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub. We've already spent so much money, what's a little more?" The boss comforted us, "There are plenty of office workers here, there will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the future. Even with this volume, we can still make a profit, just a little less."
"When you open a business, who would complain about making too much money? Of course, the more money you make, the better!"
Shanghai Machinery and Equipment Expo Preparatory Group.
Gao Baolin arrived at eight o'clock in the morning and started working, continuing until ten o'clock, when her phone rang.
This is the alarm she set for herself to remind herself to notify all the major hotels to come and bid tomorrow.
Putting down her work, Gao Baolin opened her email and began composing a message, sending the notification to the hotel in the order listed in the documents.
Xiuli Hotel, Black Swan Hotel
When editing the emails to be sent to Xu's Fast Food Restaurant and Jinxiu Hotel, Gao Baolin paused for a moment. Instead of sending immediately, she chose to schedule the emails to be sent at 4 PM today.
Xu's Fast Food Restaurant.
Apart from the Shanghai Library and the Red Brick Creative Park, all the employees who had set up stalls at the entrances of other construction sites have returned to their shops and are exchanging news from the construction sites today.
Through their conversation, Xu An learned that several more boxed lunch stalls had appeared at the entrance of the construction site they were heading to today.
The names with the highest overlap are Jinxiu Hotel and Yipinxian Fast Food Restaurant, followed by Jinlong Fast Food and Fukelai Fast Food. The remaining stalls have all sorts of names.
With the popularity built up yesterday, Xu's Fast Food's sales are pretty good today.
Although the sales period was a little longer than yesterday, all the boxed meals I took out were sold out.
However, most of the newly added fast food restaurants are members of the Shanghai Fast Food Association, so it's hard to say whether the number of fast food stalls will continue to increase tomorrow. The portion sizes need to be controlled.
Another task was to find a suitable transit point near the Silver Star office building.
On his way back from the shopping mall construction site, Xu An took a detour to several streets he had looked at on the map the day before, to learn about the rent, size, and other information of the shops there.
The final conclusion is: goodbye!
Xu An saw a total of eight shops with "Prime Location for Rent" signs and called the numbers on them one by one to inquire.
The cheapest one is 37 square meters, with a monthly rent of 4,800 yuan; the most expensive one is a 23-square-meter shop located on a food street near the Yinxing office building, with a monthly rent of 7,600 yuan.
Keep in mind that the combined rent for Xu's Fast Food restaurants' three locations is less than 7,600 yuan!
The rental fee is less than what you'd pay for a dedicated delivery van. You could drive there and park in a designated parking space on the roadside. Parking there would only cost eight yuan per hour, or twenty-four yuan for three hours.
A cheaper minivan can be bought for around 10,000 to 8,000 yuan, and a used one is even cheaper. Considering the driver's monthly salary, the total cost is much more cost-effective than renting a shop.
Even replacing it with a refrigerated truck that can keep the temperature warm is more cost-effective than paying rent.
At least once you buy the car, it becomes your own asset, whereas once you pay rent, it's gone.
However, this idea is obviously unrealistic. If it's just a matter of moving and unloading goods for ten or twenty minutes, then everyone can understand.
But if you operate a business in a parking space, you'll either get caught by patrolling traffic police or reported by the public, and end up with a ticket.
Renting a shop but only using it for two or three hours a day seems a bit unfair to the high rent I've paid!
Are we just supposed to swallow our pride and spend four or five thousand yuan to rent a shop as a transit point?
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