Chapter 233 Center of gravity shift plan: restaurant brand chain
Everyone was waiting and watching, and Li Youqing tried his best to refuse. He even went to Zuoyou again to resign from the job, but was rejected directly.
"I really can't do it! I have never had the experience of coordinating such a large-scale event. What if I screw up?" After returning home, Xiao Nizi told Jiang Bei about the matter, with written words on her face
Full of unwillingness.
"I think it's good. Let's practice your business skills." Jiang Bei came up with the plan, and he must be talking to Erjing Film and Television.
"I don't need to practice this kind of business ability, I just need to act well and sing good songs." Li Youqing is still very precise about his positioning and knows what he wants.
"But if you can complete this event, you will definitely be appreciated by the company's senior management, which will definitely be helpful to your future acting career. And to take a step back, this is also a great opportunity for you to make connections."
Coordinating an anniversary celebration is equivalent to having a lot of power. Whether artists who want to participate in the anniversary celebration depends on the face of the person in charge, isn't this a good time to sell favors?
Upon hearing this, Li Youqing felt that it seemed to make some sense, but he was still not confident enough in himself. He rubbed his brows and said, "Although I say so, I still feel that I am not suitable."
"It's okay. You are the general person in charge. Your main job is to build a team. Just let the people below do the specific things." Jiang Bei patted his wife's hand and comforted her.
For this anniversary event, all directors currently contracted by Erjing Film and Television will join the battle and form a directing team under the command of Li Youqing.
So actually it is the director team that does the real work, she just has one vote to make the decision.
"That's it..."
Xiao Nizi subconsciously held the big hand with her backhand, her eyes full of worry. Because she had no experience, she had no bottom in her heart.
But worries are worries, and the task still has to go on.
In fact, as Jiang Bei said, although Li Youqing is the general person in charge of this anniversary celebration, she actually only needs to play the role of a leader who makes decisions, and specific matters will be executed by the directing team below.
For example, the selection of venues, performances, event arrangements, etc. will be initially discussed by the director team and then submitted to Li Youqing. She will then review and approve the plans based on their feasibility. If approved, it will enter the preparatory stage.
But just making a decision is actually very difficult, and sometimes when she thinks there is a problem with the plan, she has to find the director team for a second discussion and listen to everyone's opinions before making a decision.
So in the days from the end of July to the beginning of August, Xiao Nizi was very busy every day. She held various meetings, surveyed the site, and selected plans. She changed her previous leisurely state and was extremely busy.
In this state, how can she still think about things in the entertainment industry?
Even his father-in-law Li Qiangguo heard about Li Youqing's recent situation from his wife Wen Cui'e, and couldn't help but call Jiangbei to praise: "Beibei, your method is really good. It would be great if you can keep it up."
Li Qiangguo, like Jiang Bei, simply doesn't want Li Youqing to make a public appearance in the entertainment industry. The concept of Weng and his son-in-law is still relatively old. But he has no resistance to Li Youqing becoming a career-oriented strong woman. After all, people have to do this in life.
Find something meaningful to do instead of wasting your time every day.
"Dad, don't worry, Liangliang has recently come up with a clever plan, which may be able to completely make Youyou leave the entertainment industry." Jiang Bei said on the phone.
"Oh? Liangliang girl is so smart?" Li Qiangguo was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Except for gambling, she is probably the most capable person in the world."
This is Jiangbei's heartfelt recognition of Zhang Jiuliang.
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"You really don't know anything about the abilities of Ancheng Gambling King."
Next to an intersection on Weilan Road, Zhang Jiuliang and his brother stood looking at the closed Malatang shop, boasting full of it.
The reason came from Jiangbei's admiration that she could find such a bustling street store to take over, and this store was actually the same store where Jiangbei accidentally overheard Suixi talking to Ji Yingzi two years ago.
However, it is a pity that Malatang's operation may have had some problems in the past two years, resulting in continuous losses. Coupled with some other factors, this Malatang restaurant that he originally envied has closed down.
"Has the price been agreed upon? How much is the transfer fee?" Jiang Bei asked as he looked at the store.
"It's agreed that we won't pay a penny for the transfer fee. We just need to pay the remaining two years' rent." Liang Liang said with a smile.
Jiangbei was a little surprised when he heard this: "There is no transfer fee?"
Liangliang nodded: "Yes, because the owner of this shop owes a lot of debt because he went to Macau to gamble, so he only mortgaged the store to people from Macau Casino. It just so happened that I
I know you, so you only need to pay the remaining rent to get the contract."
"You didn't play with this kind of thing, did you?" Jiang Bei's alertness rose and he stared at Liangliang and asked.
Gambling itself is a bad behavior. For example, Zhang Jiuliang, the so-called gambling king of Ancheng, even lost and went to beg under the overpass, let alone ordinary gamblers.
In fact, after the day he brought Liangliang home, Jiangbei restricted Liangliang in this regard and prohibited her from entering the casino to gamble.
Although Liangliang occasionally played cards and mahjong with others in the past few years, these were just petty fights, and Jiangbei didn't say anything. But if he really entered a casino, the nature would be different.
Liangliang put his hands in his pockets and looked like you were relieved: "Brother, you still don't understand me well enough. In fact, the truly superb gambling skills are not to win money in the casino, but to map this ability into all aspects of reality. Change
In a word, most people want to win money when they gamble, but I, Zhang Jiuliang, want to win life when I gamble."
"So that's why you keep losing money?"
"What I said is to give hope to gamblers who are on the verge of bankruptcy and prevent their families from being destroyed. I am a living Bodhisattva who saves people from water and fire."
Anseong's gambling king can always find countless high-sounding reasons for losing money, but the point is that there seems to be nothing wrong with them.
However, Jiangbei was too lazy to worry about these things. In fact, Liangliang was still very measured in this regard, and had no other problems except selling off his property.
Next, they visited the store under the leadership of the person responsible for looking after the store. Jiangbei was very satisfied with the total area of 300 square meters on the upper two floors.
The rent is a bit expensive, 750 per square meter, which means that you need to pay more than 200,000 per month in rent alone.
But in today's era of soaring housing prices, this rent is considered relatively reasonable.
"Let's go back to your sister-in-law to get money to open a shop."
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That night, Li Youqing went home and was busy with her notebook. As the person in charge of this anniversary celebration, she had to handle many things personally, so the workload was relatively heavy.
Liangliang sat on the sofa opposite with her legs crossed, staring at the Apple computer with bright eyes. When she couldn't help it anymore, the little girl would ask: "Sister-in-law, have you been using this computer for a long time?"
"It's not bad, a little more than three years." Li Youqing turned around without raising his head.
"That's a bit old! It must be very stuck to use, right?" Liangliang asked while picking her toes.
"No? I don't use this laptop to play games. It's very smooth for working. No, why do you ask?" Li Youqing looked up at the gambling king and asked doubtfully.
"No... I was just asking casually." Liangliang shook her head, moved her butt and turned her back, pretending to be nonchalant.
Li Youqing was quite busy, so he didn't pay too much attention and continued to work with his head down.
"It's time to eat."
At this time, Jiang Bei's shouts rang out in the kitchen. Du Wang quickly got up and rushed into the kitchen to help serve the dishes. Li Youqing also stopped working and got up to prepare for dinner.
Talking about things at the dinner table has become a family habit.
Jiangbei talked about opening a restaurant chain and hoped that his wife would provide the start-up capital.
Li Youqing took a sip of the soup and asked after hearing this: "Have you found a store? So fast? And where do you want to develop? Isn't it a bit too hasty?"
In her impression, it seemed that Jiangbei had never talked to her about catering. The last time she brought it up herself, it turned out that less than a month had passed and her husband had already found a store.
This speed...is actually a bit fast.
"It's not bad. In fact, I have been doing research in this area for the past two years. This time I happened to encounter a store with a good location. You know, it is difficult to find a store with a good location, so I thought
Why not rent it first to avoid the embarrassment of not being able to find a place when the time comes."
What Jiangbei said makes sense. In many cases, an important factor that determines the success of a restaurant is its location.
"Then where do you plan to develop? Or do you want to be a farmhouse?" Li Youqing agreed with what he said and continued to ask.
After all, the matter is related to her husband's entrepreneurial direction, and as a wife, she must care and understand it.
Hearing this, Jiang Bei shook his head and said: "Facts have proved that farmhouses are not feasible. After two years of various investigations and Liangliang's opinions, I finally chose to become a hot pot brand chain."
"Hot pot is indeed good, but the competition is a bit fierce, and the market should have matured long ago. Isn't it a bit late for you to enter now?" Li Youqing asked with a frown.
"Sister-in-law, what kind of industry is not under great pressure of competition these days? Even when a roadside snack vendor pushes a cart, he has to check if there are others within a five-kilometer radius. The golden era of thirty years ago is long gone.
Now we can only choose to struggle in the thorns and strive to stand out." Liang Liang gnawed on the chicken legs and shook his head as he said.
"That's true, but if you want a hot pot restaurant to stand firm in the market, you have to have your own characteristics that are different from other types of hot pot in order to attract diners!"
Although Li Youqing is not in business, his little head is still very smart and he accurately found out the key to the problem.
After hearing this, Jiang Bei looked at Du Wang calmly and asked thoughtfully: "Then where do you think I should start to make our hot pot brand unique and be remembered and attracted by diners?"
them?"
"You don't have any ideas?" Li Youqing asked.
Jiang Bei shook his head blankly.
"Then you dare to open a store? Aren't you waiting to lose money!" Li Youqing raised his eyebrows instantly and slapped the table: "No, you must find out the characteristics of the hot pot brand, otherwise the organization has the right to refuse to fund you."
With Li Youqing's words, the hot pot brand that was about to start operation was immediately terminated. But the good news is that Li Youqing seemed to have begun to pay attention to this matter, and devoted part of his mind to understanding the hot pot market in the catering industry.
This is what Jiangbei wants to see.
Gradually shift Li Youqing's focus in this way so that she has no time to take care of things in the entertainment industry. When her popularity drops over time, she will naturally withdraw from the entertainment industry.
However, Jiangbei is indeed making serious plans for the hot pot chain brand plan in the catering industry, because it is related to the future development direction of his family.
In particular, the gambling king said something that deeply touched his heart.
"If we want my sister-in-law to quit the entertainment industry, we must find a corresponding career direction for her. Instead of your brother waiting for her to leave the entertainment industry and later help you manage the catering business, it is better to let her participate directly now.
This way is holding back her progress in the entertainment industry."
It is easy for people to think about things when they are idle.
When people are busy, they don't have time to think about other things.
This principle is very simple and very practical.
So after a brief discussion that night, Jiangbei began to seriously combine the differences between the Azure Star Huaguo hot pot market and his previous life, trying to find some novel ideas to open up the market.
Naturally, he would definitely not let Li Youqing go during this process. He would find a plan to discuss with him every day, constantly arousing his interest.
But the effect was not very good.
"I plan to work on the taste, that is, the hot pot base. Do you think it is feasible?"
"Actually, I think most hot pot bases are pretty much the same. Unless the base you prepare is several levels higher than the other, the effect won't be very good."
"Then we should work on the environment?"
"Which hot pot restaurant has the worst environment now? They are all in first-tier cities. The monthly rent for a hot pot restaurant is a lot of money. Who can afford the renovation money?"
"Then I really can't think of any special features." Jiang Bei had a 'nothing can be done' attitude.
"Think again, I believe you can do it." Li Youqing held Jiang Bei's face and encouraged him.
"Can't you help me?" Jiang Bei asked.
"Oh, Beibei, I'm very busy too! Now I have to be responsible for preparing for the anniversary celebration every day. After the celebration is over, I will definitely have to start filming movies and TV series, event endorsements, etc. It's hard to spend a lot of time taking care of it.
It's on your side, so you have to learn to do many things independently." Li Youqing explained earnestly.
have to!
Even though Xiao Nizi doesn't give money, she still manages things very clearly and separates the couple's careers to prevent them from affecting each other.
In other words, Li Youqing will not participate in Jiangbei's plan, but Jiangbei's plan must be approved by her before he will use the money to start a business.
Xiao Nizi is so arrogant that she is really difficult to deal with.
However, whether the plan is planned or not is not the point. The point is that if the wife does not plan to participate, it will not be in line with the original steps.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang had a clever plan and patched it up right away.
"Brother, it's time to play the 'friends out of nothing' card."