Shu Yu knew that Gu Zheng was very good at cooking. He had known it since he was a student.
Later, Gu Zheng made omelettes, and she had eaten Gu Zheng's omelettes and knew the taste. Later, Gu Zheng participated in the Hangzhou Food Competition, and Gu Zheng won the championship.
At that time, in her opinion, Gu Zheng's cooking skills were very good and definitely reached the master level, but it was just that. She never expected that Gu Zheng would later win the championship in the National Food Competition.
And it is said that he is the most powerful champion and the champion with the highest gold content.
The first place in the country has a completely different meaning from the previous first place in the Hangzhou Competition, and the National Food Competition is the most recognized competition in the country. Gu Gu's competition for the first place is equivalent to making him the most famous person in the food world.
"I haven't hidden it. Haven't I always shown off my cooking skills before?"
Gu Zheng said with a smile, and Shu Yu was slightly startled. Gu Zheng was right. He had indeed not concealed his cooking skills and had even cooked for them before.
They didn't expect that Gu Zheng had such good cooking skills.
"How's your business going?"
Gu Zheng changed the subject. He had shown off his cooking skills before, but at that time he had not received the inheritance from Tiexian. Compared with his current cooking skills, there was a huge difference. Shu Yu would not know this, let alone
Will think of it.
"I have opened 150 direct-operated stores in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Sioux City, 70% of which are profitable, 20% of which are flat, and only 10% of which are at a loss, but all of them are profitable.
It’s a new store and it hasn’t made a name for itself yet, but I believe it will be profitable soon!”
When talking about his business, Shu Yu became more interested. This time it was Gu Zheng's turn to be surprised. Shu Yu's store had only been open for more than a year. He didn't expect that it had already opened so many stores. The most important thing was
It is a directly operated store.
A direct-operated store requires your own investment to open it, while a chain franchise allows you to collect money from others and let others open it in your own name. The meaning is completely different. Direct-operated stores require your own investment, while franchising means making money.
In more than a year, one hundred and fifty direct-operated stores were opened. Although the investment for such a small store is not large, it still costs at least two to three hundred thousand. If the store is larger, it will be even higher. This is equivalent to more than a year.
, Shu Yu has invested tens of millions.
Although Gu Zheng also made a lot of money, he was really different from Shu Yu. First, he got the old soup from the Sun family and made a better-tasting chicken blood soup. Later, he found several of the most delicious ones.
food.
Secondly, he also has the Chang family as a partner, which allows him to have no worries. Shu Yu makes small fast food, very cheap wontons. Lin Run is not as expensive as his chicken blood soup, and it is a small shop.
, it is really not easy to open so many directly operated stores under such circumstances.
Another point is that Shu Yu definitely did not rely on her parents. Gu Zheng knew this very well. If she had to rely on her parents, she would not have opened such a small shop by herself.
Shu Yu was definitely the first among their classmates to be able to do this by himself.
As for him, although he earned more than Shu Yu, he did not rely on himself. He had the cheating device of the Tie Xian Ling and the Chang family partners, and he finally earned so much. The two of them are different in nature.
"That's great, congratulations!"
Gu Zheng extended his thumb. His old classmate started his own career. He was also very happy, happy for Shu Yu.
"But I still can't compare with you. Guji Chicken Blood Soup has become a benchmark in the fast food industry, a benchmark that cannot be copied!"
Shu Yu was right this time. Many people want to make money like Guji Chicken Blood Soup. Unfortunately, they don't have the taste of Guji. Without that taste, they won't be able to attract customers.
The existence of Gu Ji once again proves the principle of winning by taste. Real food must be the best tasting.
"Let's go inside and talk!"
Gu Zheng pointed to the coffee shop next to them. They had been talking on the road, and many people had turned back to look at them. This was indeed not the place to talk.
"good!"
Shu Yu readily agreed. In the coffee shop, Gu Zheng also learned about Shu Yu's entrepreneurial journey over the past year.
Her current development is indeed good, but it is also very difficult. Shortly after Gu Zheng left, she began to prepare for a branch. Opening a branch requires money. She didn't have much money on hand, so she was thinking about financing.
She only had a small store, and it was not easy to get financing. Many people were unwilling to invest in her. Finally, a venture capital firm took a fancy to her business, but it only invested 500,000 yuan.
With half a million, he could only open two stores at most, which was not at all what Shu Yu expected.
However, it is better to be able to open two than not to be able to open two. Relying on these 500,000 yuan and these three stores, the reputation of the three stores is very good, and the benefits are generated quickly, which makes the venture capital very satisfied.
An additional investment of five million was made.
Relying on these five million and later borrowing from the bank, Shu Yu completely developed her Yushan Wonton business to the current scale of 150. Because she developed so fast, she still has negative equity.
I owe a lot of money to the bank.
However, the overall profitability of all her stores is very good. Catering is a profitable business. 70% of her stores are now profitable, and more than 50% of them can fully recover their costs within a year. The rest are based on the current
With the development, the investment will be repaid within two years at the latest.
Among those 30% that are unprofitable, most of them are newly opened and have not yet reached profitability. Only three of them have been in a state of loss due to wrong location selection, but the losses are not much. Shu Yu can fully sustain it.
Because the venture capital invested relatively early, after several capital increases, the venture capital still held 30% of the shares, so Shu Yu only had 70% of the equity, and the company no longer belonged to her alone.
The venture capital also wanted to continue to invest and increase its shareholding, but was rejected by Shu Yu. Now it has expanded. You can't get fat in one go. You have to digest everything you have now, stabilize it, and then expand in the future.
"Why not join a chain franchise? This way you can be much more relaxed and make more money!"
Gu Zheng casually asked, direct operation requires one's own investment, chain franchise not only does not require any money, but also charges franchise fees, and then provides supply of goods and can make a fortune, no matter how you look at it, the franchise model is more cost-effective.
Shu Yu shook his head: "Many people want to join, but I refuse. I don't plan to follow the franchise model in the future. I will do everything directly. Franchising is more profitable, but the forest is big and bad birds are easy to appear. There are only one or two franchise stores."
It will destroy my brand. My most valuable thing now is my brand, which must be protected!"
"In addition, the really good and top companies don't use the franchise model, they are all directly operated by themselves, which makes it easier to control!"
Shu Yu considered the franchise model at first, but it was not famous and no one was willing to join. Now that she is famous, she feels the benefits of direct operation and no longer considers joining.
It is better to develop slowly and maintain your own brand. Gu Zheng agrees with this. Many people want to join his Guji Chicken Blood Soup, but he has never agreed.
It is very happy to meet old friends in a foreign country, let alone meet old classmates in a foreign country.
Gu Zheng and Shu Yu had dinner together before leaving. They made an appointment to go to the food festival together. Gu Zheng was a special guest at the food festival and they were going to make delicious food. Shu Yu also said that he must go and taste it.
Back home, Gu Ming hadn't gotten off work yet, so Gu Zheng simply took out the ingredients from the prehistoric space and prepared to make a more delicious dinner.
He cooked yesterday, but he used ingredients here. The ingredients used by Gu Ming were not bad, but they were only above the low-grade, not much inferior, and none that reached the ordinary level.
The ingredients provided by Gu Zheng are above ordinary, and the texture and taste will be better.
When Gu Ming came back, Gu Zheng had just finished cooking. Gu Zheng cooked four dishes and Gu Ming ate them all. This meal finally made Gu Ming understand why those people said that Gu Zheng was the first this time.
The highest gold content.
After changing the ingredients, the food made is really extraordinary.
He would never be able to make such delicious food by himself. Gu Ming praised Gu Zheng very much, which made Gu Zheng very proud. Unfortunately, being too proud is not good. After the praise, Gu Ming changed the subject and asked Gu Zheng
Strive to provide him with these better ingredients.
Fortunately, Gu Ming didn't want much. If he wanted more, Gu Zheng couldn't help it. These good ingredients were all saved by Gu Zheng's hard work, and he didn't have much himself.
Fortunately, what Gu Ming wants are popular ingredients, and some of them are ingredients that Gu Zheng can improve. He can provide a lot of such ingredients.
Even if Gu Ming doesn't want it, Gu Zheng will leave a part of it to him. After all, this is his father and the person he is closest to at the moment.
At the same time, in a small town in England, the leader of the five Indians was kneeling on the ground, looking at a mirror in front of him.
What appeared in the mirror was a whirlpool. Facing this whirlpool, the Indian leader did not dare to raise his head.
"Can he really absorb your power?"
A dull voice came from the mirror, and the leading Indian nodded hurriedly: "Yes, Master, Titak's power was once absorbed by him, but then he returned it!"
Titak is the unlucky guy whose power was sucked away by Gu Zheng before.
"He also said that he is from Emei, let us tell you!"
The leading Indian continued to kneel and spoke softly. The vortex in the mirror kept shaking, but no sound came out.
"The plan is cancelled, please come back first!"
After a long time, the voice in the mirror said something, and the leading Indian immediately kowtowed and left the room. After he left, a faint sigh came from the mirror.
"Emei, I haven't been back for a long time!"
Gu Zheng got up early the next morning. The opening ceremony of the Lyon Food Festival was held today. As a special guest, he was going to attend today. The distance from Paris to Lyon was not close, and the high-speed train took more than an hour. He needed to get there early.
Set off.
Chang Le once said that he would pick him up on a private plane, but Gu Zheng refused. He just came to attend an event and didn't want to be so high-profile.
It wasn't until Lyon Gu Zheng came to realize that he had thought wrong before. Even if Chang Le sent him off on a private jet, he would not be high-profile. There are too many private jets here.
The Lyon Food Festival has become a fun place for European aristocrats in the past few years. Now it has become more serious. Not only European aristocrats, but also aristocrats and wealthy people from many other places have begun to participate.
The most typical ones are people from Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Several princes participated in this food festival. Not only did they have private planes, they also brought their pets. Some brought eagles, some brought pythons, and some even brought
Leopards and lions.
However, these pets are required to be kept in cages and are absolutely not allowed to be released, and police officers are specifically watching them.
Even so, they are very high-profile. There is a prince who has to walk on carpets from the moment he gets off the car. The place where he walks must be covered with carpets. A carpet that has been walked on once will never be walked on again, and it must be a high-end carpet.
In this way, he would walk thousands of meters of carpet a day.
There are many tricks of the Middle Eastern nobles, and there are also many tricks of these ancient European nobles. Some people used a car to pull a house directly. This is a real RV. Another person came with a cavalry of two hundred people, but his army
They are all dressed up as medieval knights, not modern armies.
Modern armies, even if they are nobles, cannot be brought out with such arrogance.
All in all, there are so many kinds of things here, there is nothing you can’t think of and nothing you can’t see. It makes Gu Zheng even sigh that it is an eye-opener. He never thought that people can play so many tricks.
"Hello Mr. Gu, my name is Hao Sen, and I also have a French name of La Rampe. I will be at your service this time!"
After Gu Zheng arrived at the food festival, a person came to pick him up soon. The person who picked him up was an Oriental face, but he had become a French citizen and was a French-Chinese.
"Hello!"
Gu Zheng stretched out his hand and shook it politely. Hao Sen looked about 25 or 26 years old. He was not tall, just over 1.7 meters tall, but he looked very energetic.
Gu Zheng had a good impression of him, and the reason was very simple. When he introduced himself, the first thing he introduced was his Chinese name. Whether it was because Gu Zheng came from China or not, Gu Zheng was very satisfied with his introduction like this.
This is different from the young man I met before, that is a scum who has forgotten his ancestors.
"On behalf of Sir Brown, thank you for coming to this event!"
Hao Sen took everything from Gu Zheng and said something else. Gu Zheng turned around in surprise: "Sir Brown, what's going on? Wasn't I directly invited by your organizing committee?"
"Sir Brown is one of the members of the organizing committee. It was he who invited you to participate, so you are both an invitation from the organizing committee and Sir Brown's distinguished guest!"
Hao Sen explained slowly, while Gu Zheng's eyes widened and he was quite speechless.
His invitation only contained the name of the organizing committee and never mentioned Sir Brown, but he didn't expect that such a person would appear here again.
And from what Hao Sen meant, it seemed that he was invited by Sir Brown. It was originally a public invitation, but suddenly it became a private invitation, which made Gu Zheng feel a little uncomfortable to accept it.
In fact, Gu Ming knew this a long time ago. The so-called organizing committee invitations are from the nobles themselves. Although he does not know which noble invites them, he understands that there must be a noble behind Gu Zheng.
The reason why Gu Ming didn't say anything was because he wanted Gu Zheng to experience it himself, so that he would be even more disgusted and would not participate in such activities in the future.
This Sir Brown is a Spanish nobleman, but he stays in France all year round. He is young, in his early thirties, and he inherited the title. His ancestors have been European nobles for hundreds of years.
