At noon, after the delivery riders finished delivering meals at the entrance of the Haishi Library, Xu An did not rest. He walked two kilometers away to find a new place to stay.
Yes, that's right, he's looking for a new foothold; he plans to expand his food delivery range.
Although the Haishi Library area is the future CBD, the office buildings are currently concentrated within a 1.5-kilometer radius of the library, while the rest of the area consists of scattered shops.
Given the current size of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, it would be best to choose a new location.
Xu An's scouting location this time was a creative park, which mainly focuses on the design industry, with many individual studios and design companies with around 100 employees.
The creative park is very large. It took Xu An an hour to walk around the central axis. Based on the building density, there are probably hundreds of companies in the park.
It was lunchtime, and there were many people walking around the park.
Of course, there are even more roadside stalls outside the park; there are at least forty or fifty restaurants and roadside stalls combined.
Every stall was packed with people, and the restaurants were even more crowded.
Despite the fierce competition, Xu An is still very confident in his boxed lunches!
To expand the business scope, manpower and equipment must be increased, and the first thing that needs to be rectified is the kitchen.
The equipment in the kitchen is currently pieced together from various sources. Putting everything else aside, the three gas stoves are the first thing that needs to be rectified.
We need to replace it with a dedicated kitchen stove with a more powerful firepower, which will make cooking two or three times faster than it is now.
Secondly, there are rice steamers and noodle cookers.
As the name suggests, a rice steamer is used to steam rice, but in addition to steaming rice, it can also be used to steam some other dishes.
However, the rice steamer currently used in the store is second-hand, with only six trays, and can only steam enough rice for a maximum of ninety people at a time.
In order to cook enough rice before 10:30, Liang Dani had to keep rinsing, steaming, cooling, pouring it into the bucket, rinsing again, and steaming again as soon as she entered the house...
Even if each cooking session only takes half an hour, 700 servings of rice would have to be cooked eight times, which would take a full four hours. Liang Dani had to keep an eye on the rice cooker while working, which was very mentally taxing.
The noodle cooker is used for making soup, which takes longer. The 70-liter double-barrel noodle cooker has to cook three batches non-stop to barely meet the needs of the customers.
Even so, during peak hours, customers who arrive too late have to wait a while before they can get a drink.
Although there are many restaurants and hotels in the city, small fast food restaurants are usually run by husband and wife or family, and these kitchen equipment are rarely used by people who work purely by hand.
Larger restaurants and hotels also have them, but they don't easily go out of business. Even if they do, as long as a competitor takes over, these equipment won't end up in the second-hand market.
Xu An was incredibly lucky to find these items last time. This time, he went to several large secondhand shops in Shanghai and only found common kitchen gadgets like meat grinders and garlic presses.
In the end, I had to go to the electronics market and find a company that specializes in catering equipment.
A 24-tray rice steamer, a 90L double-tub noodle cooker, and three high-power cooktops...
The above equipment filled all four walls of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant's kitchen, leaving no space at all.
The result of this operation was a loss of 8400 yuan.
My wallet is empty.
Jiang Xiaoyan is a designer at a design company in the Red Brick Creative Park.
After working for two years since graduation, and having gone through the initial stage of spending money extravagantly, Jiang Xiaoyan has now learned to save money.
The first step to saving money is to bring your own lunch!
Every day after she gets off work, no matter how late it is, she makes a bento box and puts it in the refrigerator. She brings it to the office refrigerator the next morning, and then microwaves it for five minutes at noon before eating.
Eating out costs more than ten yuan, while making a hearty bento box yourself costs no more than ten yuan, and usually it only costs five or six yuan.
With just a little time and effort, you can save ten or eight yuan a day, which adds up to three hundred yuan a month and three thousand six hundred yuan a year—a whole month's salary saved!
However, the microwave stopped working when I was cooking lunch today. After reporting it to administration, the repairman they sent said he couldn't fix it.
Because several colleagues had previously complained about issues with using microwave ovens to heat food, the company decided not to purchase any new microwave ovens.
This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Jiang Xiaoyan!
She knew that the complaints the administration mentioned were just an excuse; the company was just being stingy and unwilling to buy another one. If she had said she would pay for a microwave oven herself and put it at the company, the company would definitely not have refused.
But that's impossible! We go to work to earn money, not to spend it!
Without a microwave, it means I can no longer bring my own lunch to the office and will have to eat out for lunch.
Thinking of the scorching sun outside and the long queues at shops everywhere...
To make matters worse, Jiang Xiaoyan is a short girl, and when she walks in a crowd, the smell of sweat and armpit odor hits you.
The more I think about it, the more desperate I feel. Why is God doing this to me?
It's 5:30, time to leave work.
Jiang Xiaoyan dragged her exhausted body and dejectedly walked out of the company and arrived at the entrance of the creative park.
At the entrance of the creative park, a man was handing out flyers. Jiang Xiaoyan reached out and took one as she passed by, then continued walking home dejectedly.
Why don't we stock up on a case of instant noodles and keep it in the office? We can just eat instant noodles for lunch from now on. It's time-saving, effortless, and worry-free, and we don't even have to wash dishes. It's a win-win situation!
But that's just wishful thinking. Eating instant noodles all the time would lead to malnutrition and ruin your health. It's really not that bad.
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