Chen Mo fanned the smoke and frowned somewhat depressedly.
He Jian, why did he have a problem with him? I didn't offend him.
"Sorry, sorry...this is my first time smoking a cigar..." He Jian stood up quickly and helped Chen Mo fan out the smoke.
"It's okay." Chen Mo said, taking out his phone and checking the time, and said, "How about going to eat hot pot? I haven't had hot pot in a long time."
"Okay. Let's go to Laoshu Feng. The super spicy base can only be eaten in my hometown." Bai Xiaoou snapped his fingers.
Luo Chen looked depressed: "I'm still at work."
"Go to the hammer class and follow Chairman Bai out for inspection." Chen Mo said with a smile.
"Come on, go tell the chef and ask him to work part-time for you." Bai Xiaoou picked up his big backpack.
The group of people went out to the restaurant and got into Chen Mo's pickup truck.
He Jian took a look at the car's interior: "Is this a Ford Raptor?"
"Ford F150, high configuration."
"This car costs four to five hundred thousand in China. But I heard that American cars are quite cheap..."
"The full payment is just over US$50,000, which is indeed much cheaper than in China." Chen Mo started the car and saw Bai Xiaoou opening his bag and taking out a thick pocket of cards...
"I almost forgot. This is the tbl dining card, given to you." Bai Xiaoou took out two thick stacks. There was a black magnetic stripe on the card, which was very similar to a bank card. There was the word 'tblppyi' on it.
tbl, t is Tangxia Yipin, b is Barberna, l is Wellen. ppyi is a financial payment company...
In the future, the chef academy to be built will also be named after tbl. At the same time, the restaurants owned by these three companies will also have the name tbl behind their brands.
The tbl restaurant card is the same as the chain supermarket card. If you have money on the card, you can spend it at any restaurant under the tbl alliance.
"so much?"
"Three hundred and twenty-three." Bai Xiaoou smiled bitterly. After taking out three black cards, he stuffed the other cards into the car cabinet: "These three black cards are for you, Chen Chen and Chen Xiao. Number 00000...
5. There is $1 million on this card. The other two cards have $100,000 each."
"So much!" Chen Mo was stunned for a moment: "How can I finish it all?"
"This is from Roger Garrison, to express my feelings and ask me to convey my apology to you and so on." Bai Xiaoou shrugged, very speechless: "You old dog, he is very bad."
Because of Garrison Investment Company’s controlling stake in Tangxia Yipin.
…
Without the control of Garrison Investment Company, the ticket to the Napa Valley project would not be in the hands of Tangxia Yipin Company.
Bai Xiaoou really felt sorry for Chen Mo about this matter, but he himself was also helpless...
If Garrison Investment Company wants to control Tangxia Yipin, it can actually choose to inject capital. As long as Bai Xiaoou nods, Chen Mo will definitely agree.
However, capital injection and the choice to acquire the shares of existing shareholders, through capital injection and holding, require third-party institutions to re-evaluate Tangxia Yipin...
Garrison Investment Company is eager to develop the Napa Valley project and cannot wait too long. It is simpler and cruder to acquire the shares of existing shareholders. And the one who has sacrificed the most is Chen Mo. No way, he is the largest shareholder in the company.
Through capital injection and holding, Garrison Investment Company will have to spend more money. From a long-term perspective, it is better to directly acquire existing shares... Tangxia Yipin now has sufficient cash and good profits. If it continues to inject capital into Tangxia Yipin, Chen Mo will take advantage.
These people.
Directly acquiring the shares held by Chen Mo and others, and using the tickets for the Napa project as a bargaining chip to control Tangxia Yipin, would be a bit uglier in terms of appearance.
"What a shameful apology." Chen Mo rolled his eyes: "Can the money on this card be cashed out?"
Bai Xiaoou spread his hands and said with a smile: "No. The tbl alliance now only issues 25 black cards, and you can enjoy a 20% discount at any restaurant under the tbl alliance. There is 1 million US dollars on the card. Even if you suddenly go bankrupt one day, this
I will definitely have no worries about food and drink for the rest of my life.”
"Go away, even if you go bankrupt, I can't go bankrupt." Chen Mo took the three black cards and put them in his pocket: "This card seems to require logging into some website to complete the information before it can be used?"
"This is a restaurant card jointly developed by ppyi Payment Company and Wells Fargo Bank. There is a website on the back of the card. You log in and enter your personal information to activate it, and then you can use it." Bai Xiaoou touched his chin. ppyi Payment Company was only a company established recently.
Internet card online payment company is also an Internet company invested by Roger Garrison: "In addition to three black cards, there are five gold cards and 15 silver cards in my pocket. There is 10,000 US dollars in the gold card.
Knives, you can enjoy a 10% discount from the Catering Alliance. The silver card contains 5,000 U.S. dollars, and you can enjoy a 9.5% discount. You need to log in to the website and get excited before you can use these..."
"The remaining three hundred are ordinary recharged membership cards, each with a value of 1,000 US dollars. After spending over 5,000 US dollars, you can upgrade it to a premium membership card and enjoy a 99% discount. At the same time, each card has its own
The points method will be used, and there will be large-scale activities at the end of the year..."
Spend over $5,000?
Damn, this is unrealistic for ordinary people.
And I have this black card with 1 million US dollars in it. Is it going to last until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse and the Moon?
For example, at Dougson's Restaurant, the most expensive single dish seems to be the Brett Beef Tomahawk Steak, priced at US$700 per portion, which is enough for two or three people.
Under normal circumstances, you can order directly when entering the restaurant, and there is no need to reserve dishes in advance... For example, ordinary Wagyu beef, a Wagyu beef filet mignon is only more than 300 US dollars. When paired with other dishes, it is 400 US dollars for all-you-can-eat...
This is already a very high consumption.
However... many high-end restaurants allow you to reserve food, such as if you want to eat a few kilograms of top-quality caviar, white truffles, etc. on a whim.
Another example is if you want to have an authentic state banquet at Tangxia Yipin...
These are very expensive.
He Jian was holding a cigar in his mouth with a confused look on his face. What about a million, a hundred thousand... a beautiful knife?
Dining card?
Is it possible?
A series of doubts arose in He Jian's heart...
The two of them are talking to each other, are they showing off?
He Jian stared at Luo Chen...
Luo Chen chuckled and patted Bai Xiaoou on the shoulder: "The TBL dining card came out so quickly, but our restaurant hasn't labeled it yet."
"The signs will be issued soon." Bai Xiaoou said and took out a stack of white cards, more than a dozen of them: "These are ordinary recharge cards, each worth a thousand dollars, you can spend them. They are all issued by 'ppyi'
money……"
"Then let's have a big dinner tonight."
"These cards will not be effective until next month, in May."
"Does this card require special equipment?"
"Use Wells Fargo's POSS machine. There will be a notice tomorrow that the new POSS machine will be issued by the logistics department..."
Chen Mo looked at Bai Xiaoou's bulging schoolbag: "How many dining cards did you get back?"
Bai Xiaoou smiled with a smile on his face: "The first batch of white cards (ordinary membership cards) is 10,000 pieces, all of them are sent by ppyi payment company, and the money in them is also real money. I will risk my life today and don't take any."
, they robbed a bag with almost two thousand cards. Each of these cards contained a thousand dollars."
Chen Mo took a puff of his cigar, drove the car into the parking lot, got out of the car, and frowned: "You have a good relationship with Garrison?"
"An old guy, quite humorous." Bai Xiaoou smiled: "He was the one who created the ppyi payment company..."
ppyi Payment Company, a newly established financial payment company, is similar to Alipay in China and Paypal in the United States.
The first product launched by the company was the TBL card. Behind the ppyi payment company was Wall Street Capital represented by Kennett Investment Bank and Roger Garrison.
Kennett Investment Bank is a listed company, and Roger Garrison is one of the major shareholders of the bank...
Acquired Barbera Company, controlled Wellen Company, and later controlled Tangxia Yipin, as well as the Napa Valley project, built the TBL Chef Academy, and finally... ushered in the ppyi payment company.
Although the current layout is still small, this stall has already spread...
Americans are slow to accept new things. Chinese people have long been accustomed to mobile payment, but Americans still like to pay with credit cards...
TBL card is just a hastily launched project, their goal is to make online payments and even defeat Paypal payment.
Paypal payment, in terms of the total population of the United States, the user group of this payment system is very small. When the ppyi payment company appeared, it directly gave the TBL Alliance a gift of tens of millions of dollars, which is equivalent to advertising fees.
They are not losing money on this business. TBL Alliance and three catering groups. As far as the current data is concerned, the three companies have close to 6500 high, medium and low-end restaurants in the United States. That is nearly 600 advertising spaces. There is nothing more than this.
It’s a cost-effective business, and the restaurant will cooperate with the ppyi payment company to promote the consumer points card produced by their company.