Xu An took stock of his earnings over the past few days. It was the second week of setting up his stall, and with the earnings from the first week, the total net profit was 1,797.5 yuan.
Without the promise of 20,000 yuan, the income itself would be acceptable.
Based on the current daily sales of 55 boxed meals, the total monthly income can reach 5,000 yuan.
Keep in mind that at that time, even college graduates only earned a little over two thousand yuan a month. For Xu An, an eighteen-year-old who had just finished the college entrance examination, earning five thousand yuan a month was quite remarkable.
However, Xu An felt that the 55 boxed meals provided were far from enough to reach the maximum income of 5,000 yuan per month.
Although the potential of the Bauhinia Garden construction site will only begin to be revealed when the first phase of pre-sale apartments is launched, the current sales of these twenty units are already the limit.
However, there is still great potential to be tapped at the Haishi Library construction site. Based on today's foot traffic, he is confident that even if the number of copies is increased to eighty, they will all sell out.
However, adding only eighty more servings would be difficult for me to do by myself, and hiring another person wouldn't be cost-effective.
Or, we could increase it to 120 servings.
Twenty copies for the Bauhinia Garden construction site, and one hundred copies for the Shanghai Library construction site!
It might be a bit risky, but if you take a gamble, you might just turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.
The biggest source of confidence for Xu An to make this decision was that the customer traffic at the Shanghai Library construction site was not limited to workers; nearby residents and office workers also came to buy boxed meals, and the latter two groups accounted for the majority of boxed meal purchases.
If we need to hire people, we'll have to ask Third Grandma for help.
Grandma San has been a blessed old woman for twenty years. Whenever a family in the surrounding area has a happy occasion, they will invite Grandma San to come and add to their good fortune.
Over time, Third Grandma became the most well-informed person in the surrounding area.
When it comes to finding help, Grandma San is always the best choice.
Also, although the compensation offered by Xu An was at the average level, the working hours were from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Given the same salary, people would prefer to find a job washing dishes, which can earn them eight or nine hundred a month and allow for a more regular lifestyle.
However, there is still one advantage: Xu An's side provides lunch, all you can eat.
After receiving Xu An's request, Third Grandma took out two thick notebooks from under the landline, which were filled with densely packed phone numbers.
"The conditions are quite suitable, but it's too far from Xujia Village. He has to get here at four o'clock to start work at five o'clock."
"This one seems like a good option, but he stutters a bit. Anzi is in business, so a stutterer isn't really suitable."
"This one has a terrible temper and is always causing trouble. No way."
"this,......"
I flipped through more than ten pages but still couldn't find a suitable one.
Third Grandma turned another page and carefully examined each name from top to bottom. When her finger landed in the middle, her somewhat cloudy eyes suddenly lit up.
Found her! This person is perfect in every way.
Xu An returned home and went into the storage room behind the kitchen to start searching.
He remembered that there was a big iron pot in his family when he was a child. After his parents passed away, it was left unused and was probably placed in the storage room.
If we want to increase the quantity, the small pot we have now won't be enough; we need to use a large iron pot to increase efficiency.
Beneath a pile of random things, Xu An found the old iron pot from his memory.
The old iron pot lay upside down on the ground, and the dim light in the storage room prevented Xu An from seeing its condition.
With great effort, he reached in, grabbed the handle of the old iron pot, and tried to pull it out.
Click.
The only thing that came out with the pot was the handle. When I looked at it in the sunlight, I saw that the handle was covered in rust and completely rusted through.
It seems this old iron pot isn't in very good condition.
First, remove the things blocking the top, then carefully lift the iron pot with both hands and carry it to the open space outside the storage room.
As soon as it was placed on the ground, a large piece of the side of the iron pot fell off, leaving a huge hole.
Well, this old iron pot is now ruined.
However, this search was fruitful. Xu An found the four-tiered steamer hanging above the storage room, and it was in pretty good condition.
Now that we have a steamer, we can start steaming dishes.
There's a blacksmith shop in Qianhai Town. It was already open when my grandmother married into the family, and it's now in its third generation. It's a true century-old brand.
The old blacksmith's son, who now runs the blacksmith shop, is forging ironware with his apprentice in the blazing boiler room.
Both men were bare-chested, wearing black aprons, and sweat dripped down their heads, leaving not a dry spot on their bodies.
"Uncle Blacksmith, I want to buy an iron pot, one meter in diameter. Do you have any?" Xu An shouted loudly into the house, standing at the door without going inside.
The old blacksmith glanced at Xu An but did not respond, continuing to forge the iron block.
The young man standing next to the old blacksmith heard the noise and came out, reaching down to take a few iron pots from the wall and placing them in front of Xu An.
"These two are both iron pots with a diameter of one meter. This one was made by my master, and it costs 350 yuan; this one was made by me, and it costs 220 yuan," the young man said, pointing to the two iron pots.
Xu An looked the two iron pots up and down, and seeing that they were not much different, asked, "Are the ingredients the same?"
After receiving an affirmative answer, Xu An decisively chose the iron pot worth 220 yuan.
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