While Gu Qingjiu was looking at the data, she was mentally estimating the approximate passenger flow tomorrow, but saw Granny Jiang pushing the bowl in front of her:
"Xiaojiu, you can't just focus on work. You have done so much work today, and you have to eat well."
Gu Qingjiu felt the precious warmth of home from Granny Jiang, so she put down the roster and obediently achieved:
"Um."
…
After a while, Dong Fangzhou walked out of the kitchen silently. He was so tangled with his hands that he didn't know where to put them. To him, the Gu Qingjiu in front of him was so unfamiliar. Just by looking up at him, he would
Unconsciously frightened.
He raised his finger and pointed at the kitchen:
"The dishes and chopsticks have been put away, um...I'm done eating and will leave first..."
Seeing that Gu Qingjiu paid no attention to him, Dong Fangzhou felt embarrassed and left as if running away.
"Hey, let's go slowly!" Granny Jiang didn't know about the dispute between them, but she was kind to every guest. After watching Dong Fangzhou leave, she turned to Gu Qingjiu and asked Gu Qingjiu doubtfully:
"Xiaojiu, what are you and him doing..."
Sure enough, the spirit of Bagua knows no age.
"My high school teacher."
Gu Qingjiu concentrated on eating without raising her head, and then thought of a strange reason that best expressed their relationship.
"oh……"
Grandma Jiang looked at her and slowly responded, but she cursed in her heart——
Not quite.
If Gu Qingjiu knew what she was talking about in her heart at this time, she would definitely laugh out loud, because Granny Jiang thought:
"That young man has a sinister look on his face. He really doesn't look like a teacher."
The next day, the small restaurant successfully reopened, with the words "Taste of Hometown" hanging on the door.
Customers came one after another, and some even brought their relatives and friends. The small shop was extremely crowded, and there was even a long queue waiting for a meal outside the shop.
Fortunately, Gu Qingjiu did a review yesterday and analyzed the guests' favorite foods. This morning, he went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and had enough ingredients, so he was well prepared.
Gu Qingjiu has traveled through time and has naturally tasted many delicacies from other worlds. Many food recipes are not available in this world, which just adds to her blind box dishes.
Due to the busy business, Gu Qingjiu, after handing over the cooking methods to Granny Jiang, hired several waiters and cooks for the small restaurant. They were all recommended by Gu Mingxi and were trustworthy.
She took time out for another thing. The gangsters who came to cause trouble before must have also harassed other nearby stores. She went out to browse and found that many stores had for sale signs.
So she discussed with Granny Jiang to use part of the sales earned these days to buy other stores.
In just three days, the expansion of the original store and the construction of branch stores were in full swing.
Just when everything was on track, passenger traffic suddenly began to decline on the fourth day. Gu Qingjiu discovered this when he reviewed the data in the evening as usual.
So she asked the diners circumstantially and learned the details from the diners' mouths:
The food street in front of me has somehow started to launch blind box dishes, and both in terms of taste and price, they are cheaper than those in small restaurants.
But one of the diners mysteriously whispered to Gu Qingjiu that he himself was engaged in wholesale trade. The price of food in the food court has been falling. Now it is ridiculously cheap, even if you buy it at the cheapest wholesale price.
, you will also lose money if you sell it at this price.
"In my opinion, the materials it uses, tsk tsk..."
The middle-aged man's tone was full of doubts, and he meant that the ingredients used in this food court were not clean.
Gu Qingjiu's eyes turned, revealing some consideration.
——
In the Qin Group branch, Qin Shou was standing on a high floor overlooking the night view downstairs. On the table was the recent income of the food court, but they were all in deficit.
As soon as Liu Shiya walked into the house, she heard the dissatisfaction in Qin Shou's tone:
"Shiya, regarding the income of the food court in the past two days - have you read them all?"
"What's wrong?"
Liu Shiya's lowered eyes looked unusually soft. She brushed her hair around her ears and leaned over to pick up the list:
"...So that's what it is."
"What do you mean it's like this?!" Even though Qin Shou's expression softened slightly when he saw the other party's beautiful appearance, he was still angered by her words again:
"My dad asked me to come to the branch as an intern. I finally came up with the idea of a food court. Now it has only been three days and the financial deficit has been so serious... And the plan you mentioned before, is it really useful?"
"Only a financial deficit can prove that my plan is working." Liu Shiya secretly cursed Qin Shou as a short-sighted person, but now she still wants to use his power, so she can only coax him:
"Don't worry~ This is only temporary. Once you defeat that small restaurant through a price war, there will be no more competitors near the food court. At that time, it's not you who has the final say on how to set the price?
"
Qin Shou expressed doubts about her words:
"What you said...is true?"
"Why should I lie to you? Cousin," Liu Shiya put down the list and continued:
"Although the financial situation in the past two days has not been very good, this is only the first step. What's more, I have already secretly investigated. The customer flow of the restaurant during the day today is obviously not as good as the previous two days. This shows that some of them
The guests have been snatched away by us, and with time, they will be able to pack their bags and leave."
But Qin Shou still hesitated and said:
"But... it's only been a few days, and the deficit has already been like this. If we continue to carry on, I'm afraid that sooner or later, people at the head office will notice that there are such obvious loopholes in the company's finances."
"fool!"
Liu Shiya lamented in her heart why her teammates were all stupid people.
The branch's financial situation needs to be reported to the head office from time to time. The head office has long known about the deficit these days. However, Qin's father may also know that Qin Shou is preparing for the food street, so he thinks that the initial start-up needs to be started.
It didn't matter that he had some losses in funds, so he didn't reprimand him openly. However, during the days when Liu Shiya lived in the Qin family, Qin's father could often be seen occasionally beating Qin Shou to ask him to let go of work matters.
Be smarter.
The only one who can't see these things is Qin Shou himself.
But what Qin Shou said is right. This kind of loss-making matter cannot be postponed again and again. At the beginning, using some small means like this can still pry away those diners who are based on "which restaurant is cheaper", but it will take a long time
, the remaining diners who focus on eating in one restaurant will be hard to find.
However, since the net has been cast widely in the first step, the second step is to use some external force to add fuel to the flames so that the fish that refuse to swim can automatically swim into the net.
"Cousin, you are right~~ It seems that it is time to implement the second step of the plan."
