That evening, Xu An sat on his bed reviewing the week's accounts.
Thirty servings on the first day, forty servings on the second day, and fifty servings on the following five days. Each serving sells for eight yuan, with an average cost of five yuan and fifty cents per serving and a net profit of two yuan and fifty cents per serving.
The total profit for this week is 800 yuan! After deducting the 30% that needs to be given to Xu Heping, there is still 560 yuan left.
Five hundred and sixty yuan a week, four weeks a month, that's two thousand two hundred and forty yuan.
Hiss~
That's terrifying; it's comparable to the income of an average office worker.
When Xu An laid out the money on the bed, Xu Kang and Xu Le's big, round eyes turned into starry eyes.
Wow, so much money!
How did my brother get so much money?
"Brother's in business now."
'Oh yeah, we did help my brother.'
The two girls looked at Xu An at the same time, raised their voices, and asked in their childish voices, "Brother, we helped out, so shouldn't we get some money?"
Xu An was somewhat surprised, wondering where these two little ones had learned to ask for money.
I pinched their little cheeks and suddenly realized they'd gained weight. Before, it was just baby fat, a kind of puffy plumpness, but now it felt real, they'd really gained weight.
It seems like the food has been better lately, and the nutrition has improved, which is why I've gained weight. That's great!
Xu An looked at his arms, which he hadn't noticed before, but now he saw that they had indeed become more muscular.
That's true. I have to cook fifty boxed meals every day, and just stir-frying the dishes is enough to keep me busy. Not to mention I have to ride a tricycle for two hours every day, carrying over a hundred kilograms of boxed meals and two children.
If I hadn't become much stronger after being reborn, I would have exhausted myself just from cooking.
What do you two want money for?
"I want to eat candy!"
"I want stickers! The stickers on the bald uncle's hands are so cool!"
"Okay, here's your paycheck. Thank you for helping your brother these past few days!"
Xu An took out two one-yuan bills and handed them to the two men. The two men took the money and smiled so broadly that their eyes were almost closed and their mouths were stretched to the back of their ears.
The two of them held onto the one yuan tightly until they went to sleep. Xu An tried several times but couldn't get the money out of their hands, so he just let them be.
I hope these two bills will still be intact when I wake up tomorrow morning.
Today's meal is still three dishes and one soup: braised chicken, stir-fried green beans, and fish-flavored eggs with corn, carrots, and pork rib soup.
Xu An noticed something was wrong as soon as he arrived at the construction site entrance at 10:45 sharp.
Across the street, Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant set up two long tables, and a promotional banner hung below the restaurant's sign.
"Value-for-Money Bento Series: Choose two out of five meat and vegetable dishes for eight yuan, plus a free soup. The first thirty customers will receive a free tiger-skin egg."
I've been setting up my stall here for a week now, and finally I have some competition! I just didn't expect the competitor to be the fast food restaurant across the street, instead of another small vendor like myself.
Xu Heping became agitated upon seeing the banner, and left with the words "I'll go take a look" before crossing the street to the entrance of the fast food restaurant.
The owner of Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant purchased low-priced meat from Anxin Food Processing Company. Although Lao Liu was backing her business, she was still worried.
She personally unpacks and repackages all the meat after it arrives at the store. The unpacked bags are placed in black bags under the cash register and then thrown into a trash can near her home after closing the store.
They even specifically instructed the chef to make the meat and vegetables sold at the store entrance taste stronger.
There was nothing unusual to begin with, and the heavy oil and salt masked it, making it even harder to notice anything wrong.
Although Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant's newly launched boxed meals have one less dish than Xu'an's, a storefront is always more reassuring than a small stall, and many workers have been attracted to Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant.
Xu Heping looked unwell when he returned.
"This fast food restaurant is crazy! All five dishes contain meat, and they're all dishes that go well with rice."
“Competition is normal in business. Fortunately, we didn’t expand blindly. We can still sell this much stock, it just takes a little longer,” Xu An comforted him.
Seeing that Xu Heping still looked unconvinced, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Have you forgotten what Uncle Dongliang said? There are more than twenty construction sites of all sizes in the city. If one doesn't work out, we'll go to another one. It's just a change of location."
Xu Heping was still resentful, but when workers came to sell boxed lunches, he had no choice but to put aside his emotions and get busy.
However, every time Xu Heping inadvertently saw that the long table opposite was full of people, he still felt very uncomfortable.
Today, we had competition from Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant. Normally, it would only take an hour to sell out, but today it took almost two hours to sell out, and we didn't close until after 1 a.m.
At least they've all been sold, but today is only the first day, and the situation tomorrow is uncertain. It's safer to reduce the quantity a bit. Let's make forty boxed meals tomorrow.
On his way to the wholesale market, Xu An was thinking about what dishes to cook tomorrow.
As the weather gets hotter, the workers' appetites aren't as good, so we need to make some dishes that can whet their appetites.
What kind of dishes can whet people's appetite? They are naturally spicy, numbing, and fragrant.
For meat dishes, let's have spicy chicken, and for two more dishes that go well with rice, let's have fish-flavored eggplant and wolf-tooth potatoes.
Since the dishes are all so heaty, we need a soup to cool us down and relieve the heat. Mung bean soup is the perfect choice.
We can start brewing it tonight, hang it in the well to freeze overnight, and it will taste even better when it's ice-cold.
After buying meat at Bald Chen's shop as usual and paying the bill, Bald Chen suddenly grabbed Xu An: "Don't you need a freezer?"
An old friend of mine who sells dried goods is getting old, and his children are no longer happy for him to continue running the business, so he's thinking of transferring ownership of the goods in the shop.
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