"What could I be busy with? Just wandering around aimlessly." Wan Qiqi found a seat, placed the ledger on the table, flipped through a couple of pages, and looked up to ask, "Brother Liu, have you checked the delivery accounts?"
"Yes." Liu Ji closed the door, bowed to the two employers, and said, "The total cost of these food delivery boxes was 165 taels. The delivery wages, accumulated from the start date to yesterday, totaled 1 tael and 240 cash."
Wan Qiqi and Zhu Chengye both nodded. The wages for five people were acceptable, not too high, but the expenses for things like lunch boxes were high.
Seeing this, Liu Ji continued, "The delivery orders bring us a profit of 245 taels, but after deducting the costs of food boxes and the like, we can still make a small profit."
That being said, in reality, after more than ten days, they only earned less than 100 taels, so there wasn't much profit to be made.
However, this income is from sources outside the restaurant's internal operations; it's neither good nor bad.
Wan Qiqi turned to Zhu Chengye and said, "The delivery business is basically stable. As long as nothing goes wrong, there is still some profit to be made, so we can continue doing it."
Zhu Chengye nodded and handed the ledger to Wan Qiqi.
The two exchanged ledgers and began to look through them.
Liu Ji stood aside, his eyes lowered, waiting for the two shopkeepers to ask questions.
Zhu Chengye said, "The profit in January was over a thousand taels, but the profit for the whole of February was less than a thousand taels. The difference in the data is quite large."
Wan Qiqi nodded, knowing that it was caused by the membership issue.
In January, a month of twenty days, there were more than a thousand taels. However, in February, the entire month, there were still less than a thousand taels. This was indeed a bit poor.
Liu Ji glanced at the two managers and continued, "Managers, the profits for March might be a bit short. Delivery is included in March, and in the competition with the other side, we barely broke even..."
Wan Qiqi felt that breaking even was already quite good, considering that Bafanglaike had lost several hundred taels of silver upon opening.
However, the two restaurants are not comparable. The other restaurant has so many branches that it makes a profit, so it doesn't need this much, but they only have this one restaurant.
The three sat and discussed for a while, and finally decided to reduce expenses and avoid unnecessary spending in order to ensure the restaurant's profitability.
After explaining the accounts, Liu Ji left the study.
Wan Qiqi listened to the footsteps fading away before saying in a deep voice, "Brother Zhu, Liu Ji is quite capable at reconciling accounts."
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