Chef Cao is not only not short of money now, but is richer than ever before.
Every time Chef Cao buys seafood, he always arrives at the time when his uncle's fishing boat arrives at the port. First, he buys all the catch that can be used by the restaurant from his uncle's boat, and the bill is calculated as wide as possible.
Now, Chef Cao is settling the bill with the second mate on the fishing boat.
The second mate is also from Shajiao Village and is a distant relative of his uncle. He also serves as the ship's accountant and is responsible for settling accounts.
After paying the bill, Chef Cao and Sun Dahai waved goodbye to their uncle, got in the pickup truck, and headed to the seafood market to purchase other food.
It wasn't until they left that my uncle took command of the crew and began to receive other customers and sell the remaining catch on the boat.
Customers like Chef Cao are the best customers in the eyes of fishermen, especially for small fishing boats that go out to sea to fish.
Fishing at sea is not the same as shipping goods from a farm. Every time you go out to sea, you have to look for the main target based on the season, climate and ocean current conditions, and rely on the experience of the captain.
Every time they catch at least half of their catch, it depends on God's arrangement.
Just like this time, a few crew members were bored after setting off the net, so they used sea fishing rods to fish. Unexpectedly, they caught a ten-pound rat spot, handled it properly, and brought it back alive.
Such a fish can be sold for several hundred Hong Kong dollars, and the crew member didn't even spend half an hour in total.
The small quantity of single items, mixed varieties, and varying quality are the characteristics of small fishing boats. This uncertainty makes big restaurants and restaurants a headache.
Especially when meeting large customers to hold a banquet, there are usually at least ten tables. The customer's price is very generous, which is a good opportunity for the restaurant to serve high-end seafood.
Small fishing boats can usually carry one or two high-end products, but the quantity is too small, so the main dishes on each table at the banquet cannot be different. If you really do this, it will be a conflict and trouble.
Chef Cao's private restaurant has no such scruples at all. The degree of freedom in private cuisine itself is very high.
There was an example of a four-table meal at Cao Ji's Private Restaurant, with four main dishes, and whoever arrived first would choose first.
A boatload of catches, the high-end ones were picked up by Chef Cao, leaving the mid- to low-end catches, which happen to be the favorites of small and medium-sized restaurants. The fishermen can quickly clear the catch and go home to rest.
Chef Cao and the others came to the seafood market and bought conch and several kinds of shellfish. Then they finished their shopping and packed up for home.
In the evening, Sun Dahai hosted a banquet for his team on the twentieth floor.
Those present included Qiao Hongwei, Wu Dawei, Zhou Haibing, legal advisers Cao Yong, Huang Feifei, Yu Kaihao and reserve member Qiao Wanting, who also attended.
Today, Ren Kuang had a night shooting assignment and did not come.
Because Sun Dahai was the chef for the dinner, everyone changed their schedule for the evening. They had dinner first and then talked about work after dinner.
Anyway, the dinner is mainly about seafood, and people here are not very good at drinking white wine. At most, everyone can drink some white wine to have fun, so that drinking will not cause trouble.
The high-end fish is exceptional and you really get what you pay for.
The steamed rat slices made by Sun Dahai are very popular. The meat is delicate and delicious. There is about a pound of fish fillet. After a few chopsticks, only the soup is left on the plate.
Sun Dahai was so surprised that he didn't get it. (There were four tables in the restaurant on the fifth floor that had this dish, but Sun Dahai only got one-fifth of it.)
Fortunately, the soy sauce is big enough, and the braised soy sauce is just as delicious. Especially the soy sauce itself contains slight toxins. After eating, the mouth and tongue will feel numb, and people will become tipsy. It feels like risking your life to eat puffer fish.
There is also a dish of flame conch, which is delicious and chewy, and is really the best choice to accompany wine. Unfortunately, they don't drink white wine, which kind of ruins this delicacy.
July is a good season for eating shellfish, so Sun Dahai naturally made a lot of them. After a while, the table was filled with large and small colorful shells, all of which were eaten.
After the meal, everyone worked together to clean up the mess, then sat in the living room and officially started the meeting.
First, several people report the current work progress separately.
Qiao Hongwei is responsible for company registration and is currently paying close attention to the agency process, waiting for approval from the place of registration.
According to the staff of the agency, because the various information they provided are clear and the procedures are complete, it is expected that all registration work will be completed in advance next week.
Wu Dawei, with the cooperation of Zhou Haibing and Cao Yong, basically completed the acquisition negotiations with Wilkinson Company.
Establishment Future Investment Company (under registration) will acquire Wilkinson Trading Company at a price of one pound, and undertakes to take over all the assets, personnel, creditor's rights and debt relationships of the original company, and guarantees that the number of layoffs will not exceed 20% of the company's headcount.
The last article is purely official. There are now less than twenty people left in the company, including Zhou Haibing and a dozen of the company's backbones he mobilized and left behind.
The acquisition contract will be signed the day after tomorrow, that is, on Saturday. At that time, Qiao Hongwei will attend and sign the contract as the general manager of the Future Investment Company.
After review, Wilkinson Trading Company's current net assets are negative 260,000 pounds. There is not much pressure to repay the loan this year, and there are still two trade contracts to be fulfilled.
Huang Feifei and Yu Kaihao were not idle either.
In the past few days, in order to set up two companies that will be established in the future, they have rented a four-bedroom and two-bedroom apartment for commercial and residential use as an office space, which will be officially opened next week.
The house is located on Queensway on Hong Kong Island, close to Queen's Road, not far from Cao Yong's law firm. The location is very advantageous, and of course the rent is also high.
The house is not big, less than 2,000 feet, or about 150 to 60 square meters.
Huang Feifei also recruited several administrative and financial personnel to staff the two companies, finally making the establishment of the two future companies look like a real company.
The office area is arranged as follows: the small hall is the office area of the investment company, and the lobby is the office area of the holding company.
The rooms are Qiao Hongwei's general manager's office; Zhou Haibing's financial room (shared by financial staff); and the investment operation room.
The last room was assigned to Yu Kaihao and became his office and the office space of four companies including the Sun Family Fund.
Sun Family Fund, Sun Investment Company, Shiweitian Natural Food Co., Ltd., and Decoration Life Flower Ceramics Co., Ltd. were all established last year.
They adhered to the fine tradition of shell companies to save costs. They only rented a desk in a remote office building in Xiangjiang, applied for four telephones (each company must have an independent office phone), and hired a high school student.
The young girl who had just graduated worked as an operator and fulfilled the minimum requirements set by the Hong Kong government for the company.
Now that she has her own office space, Huang Feifei didn't even spend money on renting a desk. She directly changed her registration information and moved all four companies' office locations here. The operator had performed well for more than a year, so everything went smoothly
He was promoted to administrative clerk and was stationed in the company.
Yu Kaihao is also very miserable.
It turns out that Hao Hao, a solicitor specializing in economics, was deceived by his friend Cao Yong into joining the Sun Family Foundation and became the minister of justice in name only.
He took two assistants and sat in Xiangjiang, handling various chores for several companies all day long.
Unlike Huang Feifei and Wu Dawei, he works in mainland China.
For more than a year, he didn't even have an office and worked at his home every day.
Although Yu Kaihao's income is about the same as before, he is probably feeling extremely aggrieved.
Now that she has rented an office, Huang Feifei quickly discussed with Sun Dahai and allocated a room to him to soothe his hurt heart.
However, this is not his independent office. There are two assistants and the former operator who work in the same room as him.