Chapter 95 The B&B is open
Hua Mengmeng saw that Mr. Lin was interested. This modified Western food was exactly what she had recently come up with after consulting many people. It was a simple meal business plan that was fast, good, and economical. So she enthusiastically explained:
"Pure Western cuisine requires a dedicated chef. Since we mainly run a B&B, we have to budget carefully without sacrificing style. Simple meals only take the essence of Western cuisine and don't require so many processes and chefs. We streamline the dishes from the beginning.
Mr. Lin, please take a look at the menu. For this black pepper steak set meal, we use regular seared steak and sauce, plus some cooked broccoli and carrots. The flavors are tailored to Chinese tastes. The presentation should be attractive, and we'll serve it with bread or rice. Serious Western food goes to Western restaurants, not casual cafes. For those who want to try something new, the set meal includes this main course, plus borscht or mushroom soup, or a drink. The cost is low, and the price is very affordable.
Lin Ruoyan was reminded of a cafe restaurant on a certain island that was very popular in the real world twenty years ago. It was roughly the same style. The dining place was a bit more bourgeois, the tableware was a formal Western set, but the menu was basically all similar set meals.
She glanced at the menu Hua Mengmeng had prepared. There were about four or five set meals to choose from. They were similar in content to the black pepper steak set, and the prices were affordable, ranging from twenty to forty yuan. The dishes were listed in both Chinese and English. Pasta, seafood fried rice, pizza, and the like were all relatively easy to prepare, with pre-made ingredients and no culinary expertise required.
Among the three people Hua Mengmeng hired, there was a male chef who had just graduated from a culinary school. He could handle the job alone and could also make coffee when he had time.
The other two female employees mainly help with serving dishes at mealtimes and clean the rooms in the B&B during non-meal times. Since there are not many rooms in the B&B, these two people can also arrange to work in the morning and evening, and do not have to be in the hotel all the time.
Except for greeting and helping out when there are many guests, Hua Mengmeng usually surfs the Internet at the front desk of the B&B, answers and makes reservation calls, and provides travel consulting services to customers.
This position can actually be replaced. Hua Mengmeng plans to stay here as the store manager for a period of time, summarize the work processes that are more in line with the actual business situation, and prepare an employee manual. At that time, she can easily arrange the right people to do the right jobs and replicate the same business model to other stores.
Lin Ruoyan didn't expect Hua Mengmeng to think beyond the shop assistant's mindset and plan to run the B&B as a chain from the very beginning. She planned the staffing requirements and job descriptions for each shop in advance.
In addition, the B&B has added many distinctive logo designs, which is a simple stroke of a Siheyuan. The name of the B&B is "Siheyuan". This is the flagship store, and in the future it may be Siheyuan store number.
"This simple sketch of a courtyard house is very interesting. Who designed it?"
Hua Mengmeng said, "Director Zhao from the design department took time out to draw it. The designs for the door signs and menus were all created by colleagues in the design department."
Lin Ruoyan thought to herself, no wonder the design department was constantly working overtime. Besides their regular work, they were also roped in to do these small designs. If they'd hired a professional advertising company, they definitely wouldn't be doing it for free. Unfortunately, Hua Mengmeng had already made the decision without asking for permission. The design was indeed good, so they could only give the design department a bonus.
Thomas and the other three directors of the education group arrived in Beijing and had originally planned to stay in a five-star hotel. Instead, they were taken directly to the Siheyuan Hotel after getting off the plane.
Lunch wasn't a simple meal there, but was eaten in the banquet hall in the east wing of the courtyard. Lin Ruoyan specially dispatched the chef from the villa and her own chef, Ge Qingping, to work together to prepare a Chinese feast.
After dinner, they sat in a hall filled with antique furniture, sipping tea and chatting, and immediately the foreigners were captivated. When Thomas learned that he could stay in the courtyard house and experience the local life in depth, he almost jumped for joy, completely losing his old professor's calmness.
Lin Ruoyan took them to visit her own house, asked Hua Mengmeng to arrange rooms for the guests at the B&B to put down their luggage, and then took them to the nearby luxury house sales office.
The sales office's public area had long been renovated, and the sales staff, concierge, and others had all undergone a period of training. Today marked the first official reception. A sand table of the project had been set up, with space reserved for the kindergarten, allowing for a more intuitive sense of the project's overall style and atmosphere than would be possible with a blueprint.
In order to prepare for this formal external reception, Marketing Director Lu Gan made careful preparations for a long time and rehearsed several times.
These people said they were investigating kindergartens, but he knew how extensive the connections of international education groups were. The children who could afford international schools often had wealthy or prominent parents, and building good relationships with them would make it easy to obtain contact information for more clients in the future.
Lu Gan was deeply impressed. He heard that General Manager Lin had invested in a furniture factory while on a business trip to the south, and by the way, he had found such good customer resources. It was really amazing. He must seize the opportunity to establish a good relationship with him and must not let General Manager Lin down.
Thomas had felt the dignity of Chinese-style residences in the courtyard house. Now, when he came to the magnificent sales office and looked at the luxury housing projects with intricately carved stone facades, which displayed the exquisiteness of European classical style, he was even more confident in this luxury housing project.
Although the other people in the group marveled at the courtyard house, they were calmer than Thomas. After all, at that time, Country Z's economic development was still lagging behind that of developed countries in Europe and America. What kind of exquisite luxury homes could a developing country produce? A project that could imitate Xiangjiang City was already top-notch. This project in Beijing was only impressive in appearance, but how good could the actual living quality be?
At this time, Lu Gan took out a set of the latest promotional copy, which was a beautifully printed picture album. With his highly infectious explanation and Hua Mengmeng's authentic translation, he introduced the project using sales language.
This brochure is not a simple template of renderings and floor plans used in domestic real estate sales. Instead, the first few pages talk about the future of the area, the living experience and high-end services.
He has signed a framework agreement with a foreign property management company and will hire this company as the property management party for a luxury housing project in the future. The specific service agreement will have to wait until the project obtains a pre-sale certificate, but this does not prevent him from bragging about it in his sales copy.
Thomas and his team were surprised to hear that the internationally renowned property management company had signed a framework agreement with Lin's Real Estate and would provide services for this luxury housing project in the future, and changed some of their initial views.
To Chinese people, a community of 100,000 square meters may be a bit small, but in the eyes of many foreigners, a luxury housing project with one or two buildings is too much. This project is already very large and has hired such high-level property management, so it should not be underestimated.
They unconsciously listened to the project introduction with more attentiveness.
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