In a familiar place, doing familiar work, Zhu Yinghui suddenly felt a surge of confidence and was eager to try his hand at it.
Maybe I can earn more at the Shanghai Fast Food Association than at Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, since I work eight hours a day! With the base salary, earning a hundred or so yuan isn't unreasonable!
Beep beep beep!
Two meals from Want Want Fast Food Restaurant and Moore Studio.
"Yipinxiang Fast Food Restaurant, Building 2, Room 304, Sunshine Residential Area, one serving."
'Happy Fast Food Restaurant'
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In a short while, Zhu Yinghui's phone received five or six new order notifications.
Wow, that's a good number of orders! It's no less than Xu's Fast Food!
Zhu Yinghui rode his bicycle to pick up a meal from Want Want Fast Food Restaurant.
The first takeout order was completed smoothly and was delivered in just over six minutes.
The second takeout order took eight minutes to find because it was inside the residential area.
The third order. It took five minutes.
In the end, it took 30 minutes to deliver five orders, earning 3.5 yuan.
Half an hour costs 3.5 yuan, an hour costs 7 yuan, and eight hours would be 56 yuan. Adding the base salary of 20 yuan, that's 76 yuan.
Zhu Yinghui had barely caught his breath and hadn't even finished calculating the accounts when he saw three more messages on his phone—three more orders.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Zhu Yinghui got on his bicycle and set off to pick up his next meal at a fast food restaurant.
On the way to pick up the food, I happened to run into Lao Han and his roommate riding ahead of me. The two of them were chatting and laughing and seemed to be riding very easily towards the foreign trade company.
Zhu Yinghui remembered that the foreign trade company's order, plus the one from the company next door, totaled thirty-eight boxed meals. This trip would earn Lao Han and his partner nineteen yuan, averaging eight yuan and fifty cents per person, and would take about thirteen minutes!
After doing this calculation, Zhu Yinghui suddenly felt that the orders he had were rather uninteresting.
But you have to work a full eight hours to get that base salary of twenty yuan. If you run away now, you'll lose a lot of money!
For the first time, I realized how hard it is to earn money, and that being a delivery rider isn't so easy.
Gritting his teeth and braving the scorching sun, Zhu Yinghui shuttled through the streets and alleys near the Shanghai Library. With each order he delivered, he cursed himself in his heart.
'I told you not to leave the house without your keys, not to charge your phone before bed, and to go out to buy breakfast at 8 a.m.'
I'll be staying home at 7:50 tomorrow morning, staring at my phone and not going anywhere!
I absolutely must snag a delivery rider spot at Xu's Fast Food Restaurant!
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