More than half a month later, Sun Weihong, Cao Yue, Sun Dahai and Battelle arrived in Shanghai by plane.
They did not notify Han Shaobai and Ouyang Huihui to pick them up from the airport, but took a taxi from the airport to Hengshan Road.
Along the way, Cao Yue complained to Sun Weihong that she didn't ask anyone to pick her up at the airport, which was a shame.
Sun Weihong was not as flamboyant as Cao Yue. She explained in a low voice that Han Shaobai was doing experiments with his mentor recently, and the coffee shop was about to open, and Ouyang Huihui was already busy. Now she could do her best without bothering them.
Solve it.
Cao Yue mused on the side, saying that she was kind-hearted, and Han Shaobai would definitely be in charge of her at home in the future, while in the company she would let her subordinates take advantage of her.
Sun Weihong and Cao Yue grew up together. She didn't know her temper and didn't say much to her. She just lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled.
This is Cao Yue's first visit to Shanghai. As the largest and most developed city in China, it is still very attractive.
Seeing that Sun Weihong didn't answer anything, Cao Yue stopped dwelling on the topic. She cast her gaze out the car window, shouting and asking questions from time to time.
Although Sun Weihong has been studying in Shanghai for five years, she has been studying hard. She occasionally goes out and does activities around the university. She is really not familiar with Shanghai.
Fortunately, the driver was quite talkative and kept talking to Cao Yue in Shanghai version of Mandarin.
Sun Dahai was a little uncomfortable with Shanghai being free of traffic jams. A taxi was quickly called to Hengshan Road.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and Sun Dahai rushed to pay. Battelle was responsible for picking up the luggage in the trunk. Three Samsonite trolley suitcases of different colors were neatly stacked in the trunk.
"Wow! Wei Hong, this is our cafe? It's so beautiful!" Cao Yue, who was shouting all the way, seemed to be stimulated by the surprise in front of her again.
I saw a modern-style two-story building standing on the roadside. The designer boldly used brown glass as the main part of the exterior facade, supplemented by black frames. The clever combination of cold and warm tones gives people a fashionable and avant-garde yet warm feeling.
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On the front door is the Chinese and English logo of Sewijinghao Cafe Hengshan Road store. There is a semicircular sightseeing elevator on each side.
Sun Dahai did not know if this was the first time that the sightseeing elevator was used in a two-story independent commercial building (including the renovated roof platform, there are three floors in total).
However, when he placed an order with Otis Elevator (Hong Kong) Company, one could feel from their surprised tone that such a design is still very rare now.
You can imagine how eye-catching it will be when the cafe opens and the two sightseeing elevators are in operation.
Sun Dahai had seen the renderings of the coffee shop, which were hand-drawn versions. At that time, there were no computer versions of the renderings. The designer's painting skills were very deep, and the renderings were beautiful, which made Sun Dahai very satisfied.
But Sun Dahai still has doubts about how much actual effect it can achieve. However, when he came to see it on the spot today, it almost exceeded Sun Dahai's best psychological expectations.
There were many pedestrians watching on the roadside, and there were even cars and bicycles stopping specially to point at the cafe.
There is a big sign standing at the door of the coffee shop, which reads: Suijinghao Coffee Shop Hengshan Road Branch will grandly open at 9 o'clock in the morning on September 26, 1983. Please come.
Standing next to them were two waitresses with charming smiles. They were wearing black short-sleeved shirts, black pleated skirts, black lace-up leather shoes, hats, collars and aprons, all in brown, exactly the same as the overall style of the cafe.
They were introducing the situation of the cafe to the people around them, and there were two security guards behind them to help maintain order.
Cao Yue took Sun Weihong's hand and rushed over in a hurry.
At this moment, Ouyang Huihuizheng, Dai Wenpeng and two male waiters came out. When she saw Cao Yue and Sun Weihong, she shouted happily: "Sister Weihong, sister Xiaoyue, you are here."
"Hello, little boss." Dai Wenpeng's sharp eyes saw Sun Dahai and hurriedly came up to say hello. Then he helped Battelle carry his luggage.
He is an employee who builds the future, and he is here just to help. When he sees the real boss Sun Dahai, of course he has to come up and sell it well.
When Battelle was in Xiangjiang, he followed Sun Dahai. Dai Wenpeng naturally knew him. The two chatted and laughed and went in first with their luggage.
Ouyang Huihui brought people out to distribute free coffee to people passing by. Ouyang Huihui planned to continue doing this kind of promotion a week before the opening, three times a day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once in the evening.
There are still three days before she graduates, which is her busiest time. The training for chefs and waiters has just ended, and now everyone is in the running-in stage.
Fortunately, most of the middle-level managers, chefs, and baristas of the cafe were recruited by her from Xiangjiang and have rich experience. Therefore, the preparations for the opening of the cafe are busy but not chaotic, and are proceeding in an orderly manner.
She recruited ordinary waiters directly from the local area, all with junior high school education or above. Because the labor cost in mainland China is now very low, Ouyang Huihui, with Sun Weihong's consent, deliberately recruited a lot of more people, and the fittest were eliminated, so as to prepare for the future.
Open branches and reserve staff.
They have been intensively training for nearly two months since July. The teachers are several people Ouyang Huihui hired from Xiangjiang to serve as floor managers.
The coffee shop is open every day from nine in the morning to one in the morning, and is open for 16 hours a day. All employees are divided into three shifts, each working eight hours, day shift, night shift plus rest, a cycle of three days.
Sun Weihong initially disagreed with this working time. She believed that after nine o'clock in the evening, there were almost no customers, so there was no need to open the business sixteen hours a day.
Later, it was Ouyang Huihui who succeeded in her ideological work by cultivating employees' working and resting habits, cultivating night markets, and establishing the service characteristics of coffee shops.
Sun Dahai actually agrees with this very much. A service-oriented company must be innovative and unique. As long as you persist in working like this for a year, the reputation of the coffee shop will be established.
The number of employees recruited by the coffee shop is quite large, dozens of them. Among them, there are more than 30 employees from Xiangjiang and domestic employees with dormitory requirements.
Fortunately, Dai Wenpeng thought of this when negotiating with the government on investment. He reminded Ouyang Huihui to treat this as an investment condition and asked the government to help solve it.
It is very simple for the government to deal with such matters. They simply transformed a nearby small match factory that had been out of operation for several years and turned it into a dormitory area for the employees of the coffee shop.
The dormitory area is divided into double rooms and quadruple rooms, with a total of more than 60 beds, which fully meets the needs of the coffee shop.
However, the toilets, bathrooms and kitchens in the dormitory area were all shared, which made Xiangjiang employees a little dissatisfied. Later, Ouyang Huihui added a little living allowance to Xiangjiang employees, which made them accept it and work with peace of mind.