Business (repair)
The food tasting session ended perfectly with the guests' praise. In her closing remarks, Elena once again thanked the guests for coming. At the same time, she did not forget to advertise her restaurant's spice powder, sauces, and yogurt, hoping to have a good start and sell a lot of products.
As soon as she stepped off the stage, Elena was surrounded by enthusiastic guests.
Elena's ears automatically filtered out social compliments and focused on extracting the real needs in their words.
They were all interested in spice powder.
It really is a pleasant surprise.
After this food tasting session, Elena thought they would book a table and order sauces from her, but she didn't expect that they would actually want spice powder.
Elena's eyes immediately brightened up, as if she had underestimated the spice powder. The value of spice powder was much higher than she thought.
Since they want it so much, okay, let’s do some hunger marketing.
Elena immediately decided on the next sales plan.
Since we're going for starvation marketing, we can't satisfy the buyer, so Elena put on a face of embarrassment: "I just mixed these two spice powders. I didn't know so many people would like them, so I only mixed a little..."
A little? Does that mean it's out of stock? How long do I have to wait?
These potential customers all showed anxious micro-expressions on their faces.
After a brief pause to whet their appetites, Elena bit her lip and said, "If you want, I'll go back and mix it tomorrow. However, I don't have many spice ingredients, so I may not be able to supply all of you..."
Elena's beautiful green eyes swept around the surroundings: "I can only provide 5 kilograms, 5 kilograms of each, and it will take ten days."
5 kg each, ten days later.
The amount is too little and the time is too long.
Potential customers began to consider.
The wealthy Mr. Woodrow acted decisively: "Okay, I'll order it now, Miss Viscount Field, how much are these two spices?" There was no need to think about it, if you want to grab them, you have to be quick.
Master Paul also quickly took action: "I'll make a reservation too."
After someone took the lead, others followed suit and asked to make reservations, especially the wealthy businessmen, who all expressed their desire to make reservations in a firm tone.
Seeing the ordering atmosphere become lively, Elena smiled brightly and said, "Okay, either is fine. Since you are all willing to wait, let's sign the contract now. As for the price, both types of spice powder are priced at 1 silver coin for 10 grams."
1 silver coin for 10 grams, which is more expensive than the top-grade spices sold in the Book Port market. The most expensive spice is 1 silver coin for 13 grams.
It’s so expensive.
Seeing someone frowning and disagreeing with the price, Elena slowly explained, "I know that in the market at Book Harbor, the most expensive spice is only 1 silver coin and 13 grams, and that's shipped from Frye Island thousands of miles away."
The frowning man nodded.
"But that price is for the raw materials, not the finished product," Elena said with a smile. "Everyone knows that the raw materials need to be properly ground and dried, which naturally consumes some weight. And a delicious spice powder can't be made with just the main ingredient. It must be mixed with other spices. So, 1 gram of raw material doesn't equal 1 gram of finished product. Just now, everyone tasted chili powder and cumin powder. At 1 silver coin for 10 grams, they're worth it."
Thinking back to the delicious food we just tasted, even those who want to bargain cannot deny their specialness. As new products, as new products with unique and addictive taste, they are indeed worth it.
"You buy the raw materials from the market, 1 silver coin equals 13 grams. After grinding and drying, it's definitely less than 13 grams. Then your chefs have to add salt and other spices, and mix them together to become the final spice powder. Aren't these salt and spices money?" Elena asked.
Everyone was silent.
Elena continued, "What I'm selling you is the already blended spice powder. If you consider the cost, 1 silver coin for 10 grams is definitely not expensive."
Everyone nodded in their hearts.
Since you have psychologically accepted the high price, you will not hesitate when placing an order and will buy it right away.
However, unlike the common buying sprees in novels and TV dramas, the guests present today were all people of status and position, and what they cared most about was decency, so the guests were polite and courteous to each other. There were a total of 10 kilograms of spice powder, you got a few hundred grams, he got a kilogram, and it was all divided according to their respective status.
After dividing the spice powder, the guests began to politely divide the sauces.
Among the customers, the one who was most active in placing orders was Mr. Woodrow. He bought all the sauces sold on the shelves of Miaoquyuan in one go. There were several kinds of sauces in total, and he placed orders for all of them, and bought dozens of jars of each.
Master Woodrow is a wealthy shipping tycoon in Book Harbor. In addition to passenger and cargo transportation, his fleet also has independent trading business. The fleet managers will purchase goods from all over the place, trade them back and forth, and make a profit. All profitable goods cannot escape the fleet's purchase list, let alone Woodrow's eyes.
The sauces created by Viscountess Field were so unique that he was confident that he could sell them all over the ocean.
If Lady Viscount Field would grant him exclusive rights to sell these sauces...
Woodrow decided to leave later as he wanted to have a good talk with Viscountess Field.
Woodrow is smart, and others are not stupid either. There are a few people who have the same idea as Woodrow, and without exception, they are all wealthy businessmen.
They all smelled the scent of gold coins.
These wealthy businessmen would not let Woodrow take all the credit. They also demonstrated their strong financial resources to Elena through placing orders. They bought as much as Woodrow did.
Woodrow was waiting nearby and naturally heard the amount of their order, and immediately guessed what they were thinking.
Damn these stingy people who only know how to grab food but not lay eggs.
The distinguished guests said goodbye and left one after another, and in the end only a few wealthy people were left in the restaurant.
Woodrow took the lead and walked towards Elena with a smile on his face: "Miss Viscount Field, I have a mutually beneficial business that I would like to discuss with you. Are you interested in listening?"
Elena blinked her beautiful big eyes, with an innocent look on her face: "Of course I'm interested."
Woodrow took the lead again, and the other wealthy people immediately gave up their previous reserve and came forward to express that they all wanted to discuss business with Viscountess Field.
Elena never thought that one day she would be urged to do business like this. She was very happy. Real business is more interesting than the simulation business in the game. In the game, she always went to the NPC to do business, and the NPC would not take the initiative to find her.
"Of course, we can all talk." Elena suppressed her inner excitement and maintained her ladylike manners. "Everyone, please follow me to my office to discuss in detail."
In the office of the Miaoquyuan Restaurant, Elena sat opposite several wealthy people. Mahler, one of the restaurant's managers, held a large tray and served tea to the host and guests one by one. He was good at remembering the preferences of the master and mistress, what kind of tea they liked to drink, whether they wanted sugar or milk, and how much. He remembered everything. As soon as the host brought the guests to the office, he went to the kitchen to prepare it.
Elena picked up the tea and took a sip. Hmm, it was the sweetness she liked. She looked up at Mahler and gave him a satisfied look.
Mahler bowed happily and left.
"Miss Viscount Field," Woodrow spoke first. "The sauce you developed is unique and out of the ordinary. I'd like to work with you on a long-term basis. I have a large fleet that can sell your sauce to every country. I have great confidence in your sauce. It will surely become the most popular sauce, and you will earn a satisfactory return from this long-term partnership."
Elena nodded: "I believe in your ability, you are an excellent businessman."
Another wealthy man also smiled and said, "I own two restaurants in the capital, and I have connections with the purchasing officials of the royal palace. Miss Viscount Field, I can help you open up the market in the capital and let everyone know that your sauce is the best."
Elena also nodded: "I believe you too, your restaurant is very famous in the royal capital." In fact, she didn't know whether his restaurant was famous or not, she just used polite words to praise it, but it's always right to say more nice words.
Another wealthy man spoke up: "My caravan travels all over the country. Wherever the fleet cannot reach, my caravan can reach."
Elena also said: "Your caravan is extremely reliable and has an outstanding reputation."
Several wealthy people showed off their business empires and management capabilities.
Elena followed suit and praised them one by one.
After the show, the rich people began to secretly step on each other. They were not as concerned about decency as the nobles. In the face of gold coins, all decency had to give way.
So you insult me and I criticize you. Everyone is trying to improve themselves and suppress others, just wanting to get the agency rights alone.
As the host, Elena could only mediate: "How about this, we divide the empire into several regions, and each of you will be responsible for the agency rights of a region, how about that?"
Regional agency rights? Although they had never heard of this term, the wealthy people understood it after thinking about it. Dividing the market according to power and connections is also a common business practice.
Several wealthy people looked at each other and tacitly agreed to this method.
However, there are good and bad regions, so how should we classify them?
The wealthy people were caught up in a new round of negotiations, but this time it was their internal negotiations. They said goodbye to Elena and found another place to negotiate privately.
Elena is not in a hurry, she just needs to wait for the results.
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