Chapter 455: Dividends for Family
Not only Jiang Xiangbei thought the profit was not low, others also thought so, and some even thought that doubling it was a bit high!
After all, they are a hot pot restaurant. There is no need to use firewood to make a fire, or use oil, salt, sauce, vinegar or other seasonings. You just need to wash and cut the dishes and it can be served. The base of the pot is charged extra, and the kitchen staff do not get paid like the chefs. Of course, it is great to double the salary.
Jiang Xiangbei continued, "We buy beef and mutton in whole pieces. For Su Mu and Ling Yi, selling the whole piece, including the fur and offal, saves trouble and avoids waste.
For us, since the bones can be used to make soup base and spicy hot pot offal, it is more cost-effective to buy the whole head than to buy them individually;
Spread out evenly, the profit from a serving of beef and mutton can be as much as double! And beef and mutton are the best sellers, and they are the most ordered by customers at Tonglu Hotpot!
Hearing the doubled profit, everyone except Shen Qing swallowed unconsciously.
The fact that the price of beef and mutton has quadrupled is not a problem, the problem is that they are selling the best!
This, this is completely different from their previous life experience.
Jiang Xiangbei's next words were like cold water poured into hot oil, causing a fizzing mess: "But this is not the best. The best is the cream egg cake. You have no idea how well it sells!
In just one month, the whole capital knew about this pastry. Every day before the shop opened, servants and maids would be waiting to buy freshly baked pastries to take home. Now, the sixteen people in the pastry shop were busy non-stop and could not keep up. Another reason was that there were many ladies and daughters in the wealthy families, and they would buy several portions at a time.
When it gets to the evening, we have to tell people that they don’t need to queue up, because even if they do, it will be too late to do it.
A butter egg cake costs two qian of silver, and the eggs, flour, and butter cost about fifty wen, which means the profit is three times!"
Everyone blinked and looked at Shen Qing in disbelief.
"Mom, is this true?"
"Sister-in-law, is the profit margin of cream egg cake so high? If I had known, I would have worked harder and made two more."
You can also earn more money.
"No wonder the Tonglu Hotpot branch gave up its largest kitchen to become a bakery. They really should give it the largest space!"
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Shen Qing was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and looked at the fourth brother with a stern look.
Jiang Xiangbei shuddered, and immediately straightened his expression, explaining quickly: "Mom said that the process of making cream egg cakes is very labor-intensive, and the labor cost accounts for a large proportion, and all the profits I just mentioned do not include rent and labor costs!
Rent is easy to calculate, but wages are difficult to calculate - the difficulty lies in how to determine the dividends.
Weilu Xiaozhu's monthly turnover is 7,800 taels. Excluding rent and labor costs, the profit is around 4,300 taels."
A simple conversion shows that everyone except Jiang Xiangdong knows how to make the profit, which is already more than half!
Although Jiang Xiangdong couldn't convert, he knew how to count. Four thousand three hundred taels of silver! This, this was more profitable than the soap and brush workshop at home!
No wonder my mother came to the capital and opened a food shop. It is indeed very profitable.
After hearing this, Shen Qing calculated: "The monthly rent is one hundred and twenty-five taels.
The wages were six hundred coins per person, and together with the bakery, there were forty-six people, for a total of twenty-seven taels and six coins.
The total of the two items is 152 taels and 6 qian, and after deducting this, the profit is about 415 taels."
Compared with several thousand taels of silver, twenty or so taels of wages are so little that they can almost be ignored.
In this dynasty, labor is the least valuable.
She made the decision, "From now on, if the profit is over 3,000, each person will receive a dividend of 8 coins, if the profit is over 4,000, each person will receive a dividend of one liang of silver, if the profit is over 5,000, each person will receive a dividend of one liang and half of silver, and so on."
Everyone nodded in agreement. It was basically impossible to get more than five thousand taels. If they could really reach that, then a dividend of one tael and five cents would be what they deserved.
Shen Qing added, "Each time we distribute dividends, we keep two cents of it. We give it to them along with their New Year's red envelopes before they go home at the end of the year to prevent them from losing it or being scammed. If anyone is willing to keep it with us and claim it when they go back at the end of the year, that's fine too."
Some people are willing to keep it for themselves. If they really have nothing left, they still have the monthly two cents and the New Year red envelopes, so they won’t be embarrassed to go back, and their family’s food supply is also guaranteed.
"Okay." Jiang Xiangbei wrote it down carefully in his notebook to prevent himself from forgetting or making mistakes.
After taking note, he asked again, "Mom, where is the spicy hot pot restaurant?"
The turnover for twenty days was 3,200 taels. Based on this, the monthly turnover was at most just over 4,000 but less than 5,000.
After deducting the cost, it is estimated to be less than three thousand. How is the dividend below three thousand taels determined?
Shen Qing pondered for a moment, and quickly made a decision. He said, "Beef tripe, duck intestines, goose intestines, and yellow throat are all offal. The cost is very low. These offal organs are troublesome to process and the selling price is also low.
Although I earn far less than Weilu Xiaozhu, I do as much work as them, or even more.
The standard for spicy hot pot shops has been lowered to eight cents per person for orders over 2,000 yuan, one ounce for orders over 3,000 yuan, and so on."
Dividends are meant to encourage people. If they are too little or too unfair, how can they be encouragement?
Besides, the shop is already making so much money, there is no need to save on the labor cost which is the hardest, most tiring and least expensive!
The more motivated they are and the harder they work, the better the business will be!
"Okay!" Jiang Xiangbei wrote it down carefully again.
At the same time, he kept in mind that he would learn from his mother in the future!
Shen Qing roughly calculated that the income was 5,700 taels!
She glanced around at the six people and said to the fourth one, "You've all worked hard this month. I'll give each of you one hundred taels as hard work compensation. You can use it to buy clothes and food."
Huo Bing was suddenly startled and reacted quickly, "Mom, no! Xiangdong and I came back late and didn't help at all. Besides, I've been staying at the Huo family all this time. How can I deserve this hard work fee?"
In the past, Jiang Xiangdong would have happily accepted it, but this time he felt that he really didn't deserve it.
He went to Bashu and spent several hundred taels of silver, and also took away thousands of taels of silver. All this was for Ah Bing, but Ah Bing was his wife, so wasn't it for his small family?
Now his younger brothers and sisters-in-law have helped their mother to build up the business. He has no credit and no hard work, so he is really anxious to share the money!
Guan Li felt that she was not worthy. She did some simple chores, and Xiang Xige did physical labor. According to the market conditions outside, they could only earn a little over one penny of silver a month. How could she take two hundred taels from her mother all of a sudden?
Jiang Yu thought that it was natural for her nephews to take the money. She was going to get married before the New Year, and any money her sister-in-law gave her would eventually be taken to someone else's home. One or two taels would be fine, but one hundred taels was absolutely not allowed.
Among all the people, only Jiang Xiangbei was waiting happily. He really wanted to have his own little treasury now!
Mother is so kind that she gave him one hundred taels of silver right away. You know, even if other children make a lot of money, they have to give it to the public, but their family's livelihood is all thought out by mother. They are only responsible for working, and mother still gives them so much silver!
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