At 5:30 pm on March 10th, with a nervous and excited heart, Liu Gen rode directly to Daxue Road after school. From a distance, he saw four flower baskets as high as one person placed at the entrance of Shiweitian.
Xiangzi didn't buy it with money.
There were more people walking into the shop than coming out, and few of them looked like students. Most of them looked like nearby residents, including the elderly and children.
There is a sign at the door, which says: 20% off during the trial opening period from March 10th to 17th.
There were three earthen pot ovens, with the finished products laid out in a glyph pattern at the door. Hao Qiang stood in the center, wearing an insulated glove on his left hand, and holding a one-meter-long stainless steel tongs special for turning the steamed buns in the oven in his right hand. He was so busy that sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Haha... Brother Gen, three hundred steamed buns were sold out in less than an hour!" Hao Qiang said with a smile when he saw Liu Gen.
"Who sent this flower basket?" Liu Gen didn't see the congratulatory message on the flower basket.
"Brother Xiangzi said that two of them were sent by the boss of his entertainment city in the past. He doesn't know who sent the other two." Hao Qiang replied, taking out the cooked buns with tongs.
It was placed neatly upright in a bamboo dustpan lined with white gauze. The hot and browned buns had an alluring aroma that made people want to take a bite.
Liu Gen picked up the steamed buns baked by Hao Qiang and walked into the shop. It was full of people, and there were two rows of people standing in front of the POS machine for ordering food.
According to the actual practice drill in advance, Niu Mao and the two waitresses, wearing masks and wearing disposable plastic gloves, prepared meals for the people who took the receipts, some of which were put on the plates and eaten in the store, and some of which were eaten in the store.
Take it away, the second chef is kneading the dough to make steamed buns.
Xiangzi took the freshly baked steamed bun from Liu Gen's hand and said with a smile: "Brother Gen, it's much different from what we expected. The steamed bun baked by Hao Qiang is the most popular."
"It's too crowded here, please open the shed outside and add more seats!" After Liu Gen finished speaking, he took out the steamed buns prepared by the second chef and handed them to Hao Qiang.
"Boss, we don't have enough manpower. I have to clean up the dishes and wash them all by myself, so I can't handle it at all!" the sister-in-law in charge of cleaning said to Liu Gen.
Liu Gen looked at some of the tables where the finished dishes and cutlery were placed, and said to his sister-in-law, "You go inside and wash them, and leave them to me here."
Liu Gen temporarily worked as a table cleaner. After clearing the dishes on the table, he also had to wipe them clean. There were used napkins everywhere on the floor and they had to be cleaned up. Only now did he realize that this job was not that easy.
One person is too busy.
There were two old people eating mutton steamed buns. Liu Gen smiled and asked: "Master and aunt, how does it taste?"
The old man chewed it in his mouth, said nothing, raised his thumb, and the old lady smacked her lips and said, "It's the same flavor we had when we traveled to the northwest."
"You two live near here?" Liu Gen asked again.
"I was passing by and saw an earthen pot baking steamed buns at the door, so I came in to have a taste." The aunt replied.
"If you like it, you can come here more often in the future." Liu Gen felt happy, it seemed that he was doing the right business.
"We are going to take some Roujiamo back later for the children to try." The uncle said, "The takeaways you use here use paper bags, which is very good, environmentally friendly and hygienic."
It was Chen Hao's idea to pack steamed buns in paper bags. The trademark, address and phone number of Shiweitian were printed on the paper bags, which was also a form of publicity.
What attracts people are the three large earthen jars that Hao Qiang is in charge of. Even if they don’t go into the shop to buy food, passers-by will stop and watch.
The oven that Liu Gen spent a lot of money to buy from his hometown has been put to great use, proving that the expensive freight is worth it. Hao Qiang, who was hired, is indeed a good hand. Not only can he bake buns well, but he is also very agile with his hands.
The first step is to let him train more steamed bun masters.
Just after six o'clock, the boys and girls from Class 1 and Class 2 all came to cheer, and those classmates who had been medicine men with Liu Gen also came to cheer for Brother Gen. Teammates from the football team also brought their
My girlfriends and classmates came, as well as the student union and the boys and girls who knew Yanagi.
Ouyang Xue and Qiu Ye, seeing so many people, started to help Liu Gen, cleaning the table and greeting the guests.
When Chen Hao rode over after school and saw Qiu Ye helping, he knew that Liu Gen and Qiu Ye knew each other, so he was not surprised.
But Qiu Ye was surprised when he saw Chen Hao coming to help.
"Brother Gen, why is he here too?" Qiu Ye looked at Chen Hao and asked Liu Gen quietly.
"Chen Hao is the financial director I hired." Liu Gen chuckled and said that Chen Hao was the 'director'.
"He..." Qiu Ye saw Chen Hao smiling at her, turned his face away, and went to work.
Liu Jun also came, and he helped Hao Qiang carry the baked buns in, and then brought out the cooked and unbaked buns.
Li Chengzai and the others sat around under the shed and ordered almost all the varieties in the store, as well as beer and drinks. Together with several girls in the class, they supported the scene for 'Brother Gen'.
Xiao Subai came with Mei Yingchun. Seeing that Liu Gen was too busy, she just said hello and did not find a seat. Instead, she lined up to buy some food and packed it up to take home.
Liu Gen quietly asked Ouyang Xue: "Ouyang, did you send a flower basket?"
Ouyang Xue shook her head and replied: "No, I won't do that kind of superficial thing."
"Could it be a gift from Zhang Jian and the others?"
"No, if Zhang Jian and the others had given it to me, Cai Hua would have told me secretly." Ouyang Xue replied.
"It's strange, there are two flower baskets. I wonder who sent them?" Liu Gen said to himself.
"Why don't you ask the person who brought the flower basket?"
"When I arrived at the store, the flower baskets were already there."
"It doesn't matter who sent it, just put it on display." Ouyang Xue smiled: "Don't think about it and get to work quickly. I didn't expect you to be so popular. A lot of people came here."
Indeed, many people came to the shop at around ten o'clock in the evening, including boys and girls who came out for late-night snacks.
"Brother Gen, our first battle with Gao Jie! It's a good start!" Chen Hao and Liu Gen finally sat down and talked around ten o'clock: "I just checked from two POS machines. It was only one afternoon.
Our turnover exceeds 5,000 yuan!"
Liu Gen felt a little tired, but in a very happy mood: "Maybe this is because on the first day of opening, everyone crowded together to cheer. Maybe it won't be so good in the future."
"But I conservatively estimate that if breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks are taken together, the number will not be lower than this every day." Chen Hao stretched out his five fingers optimistically and said, "However, judging from today's hot scene,
, we still have to recruit people. I heard from Xiangzi that the Xiaolongbaozi shop next door also wants to be transferred. Next month, we can consider taking it over."
"We'll talk about it in a month." Liu Gen smiled: "I still don't believe that there will be a turnover of five thousand a day in the future. Teachers and students in the breakfast school rarely go out to eat. It can also be seen from other shops that at noon
There’s not much business, only dinner and late-night snacks are slightly better.”
Xiangzi walked over happily and sat down: "It was so good on the first day, Brother Gen, we can consider preparing a second branch!"
"Yes, Brother Gen, we can choose a location. I think opening one in Nanhai University Snack Street will be more popular than this store on Daxue Road." Chen Hao also thinks so.
"Don't worry, we'll talk about it in three months. Let's finish this store first. If we are too aggressive, our staff training and service will not be able to keep up, and we will be screwed up. Besides, we don't have that much money to expand now.
, it’s better to proceed slowly and slowly." Liu Gen always has a kind of worry, and he can’t explain why he always has an ominous premonition: "Xiangzi, except for the flower basket sent by Sister Hanmei, who sent the other two
?”
"I asked the two workers at the flower shop who delivered the flower baskets, and they didn't know either," Xiangzi replied.
"Which flower shop is it?"
"The one in front." Xiangzi said, pointing to the only flower shop on Daxue Road.
Liu Gen suddenly thought of Mei Yingchun. Could it be that she ordered the flower basket?
That night, Liu Gen, perhaps too tired, slept until half past six before getting up. When he rushed to school and went to the dormitory to change into training clothes, Xiangzi and Niu Du were no longer there. Knowing that the two went to work in the shop to sell breakfast, he
After changing clothes, go directly to team training.
He was thinking about the breakfast sales of the shop. After finishing the training, he did not go back to the dormitory, but came to the shop. As expected, not many students came for breakfast. Nearby residents and white-collar workers came to eat more, but the business was open.
The amount is less than five hundred yuan.
There were not many diners at noon. Students in the school rarely went out for lunch. After eating in the cafeteria, they went back to the dormitory to take a nap. After five o'clock, Food Genius officially welcomed a large number of diners.
It was a trial opening last night. Those students who came seemed to help Liu Gen promote it. There were quite a few students who came to eat, but not as many as last night. There were three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the turnover was just over 3,000 yuan.
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In the next few days, the difference was not very big, and the turnover fluctuated around 3,000 yuan.
It wasn't until more students came out for late-night snacks on weekends and Friday nights that things got a little better.
Early on Saturday morning, Liu Gen delivered the breakfast ordered by the team to more than 20 people. The standard was ten yuan per person, and they had an income of more than two hundred yuan, but the payment would not be settled until the end of the month.
On weekends, students like to sleep in, and usually don’t eat breakfast. They don’t get up until noon to have lunch. The shops on Daxue Road are slightly better. Not only is food the most important thing, there are also people in other shops. Come for dinner and late night snacks.
There are more people, but the daily turnover is less than 4,000 yuan, which is similar to Liu Gen's previous estimate.
Weekends are Liu Gen's busiest time. In addition to participating in team training in the morning, he also participates in autopsies in the afternoon. In the evening, he has the job given by Wen Hanmei to do, so he cannot help in the restaurant.
Ouyang Xue has come to help every dinner time since Shiweitian opened. She is the school beauty. With her in the store, she naturally attracts a lot of boys. Many of them are not just for eating meat buns and mutton steamed buns, but
It was just to look at her a few more times, and even to say a few words to her, so that I could lie in bed intoxicated with myself at night and have a great time.
Qiu Ye has never been to the shop since the first day he learned that Chen Hao was hired by Liu Gen.
Sweet Potato Brother Zhou Yongheng still lived in the shop every night. He would get up early in the morning to clean the house before Xiangzi and the others arrived. He would even help. It wasn't until someone drove by on University Avenue that he started doing his business.
This weekend, Liu Gen selected Manchester United's game into the betting games again. However, in this game, Manchester United encountered a weak team at home and away from home, and the odds were the same as last week.
This made Wen Hanmei very angry and called him to the entertainment city.