Practice makes perfect the fourth time you do anything.
The same goes for opening an Internet cafe.
Ximen Road Internet Cafe 4 is already the fourth Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao. It can be said that he has rich experience in all aspects, and he also has rich experience in various publicity before the opening.
Promotional leaflet, night package, 20% off discount for the first month of opening...
After going through this set of procedures, in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering across the road, although it may not be well known to everyone, it is still close.
As we all know, the grade of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is one or two grades lower than that of Navy University, Water Bird University and Water Bird University of Engineering.
There are no undergraduate majors in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, only college students here.
The learning atmosphere in the college is not as strong as those three universities.
If you open an Internet cafe near such a college, will the business be good?
Will many students be interested in coming online?
Before the official opening of the 4th Ximen Road Internet Cafe, to be honest, Xu Tongdao was a little worried.
Not much! Just a little bit to worry about.
He is worried that students from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are not as interested in emerging Internet cafes as students from the other three universities.
Until the official opening day, this day was also the Saturday he specially chose.
In the morning, before 8 o'clock, four boys came. As soon as they entered the door, they asked: "Boss, your place is opening today, right? Can you really get a 20% discount on this thing?"
The boy who asked the question was a handsome young man. When he asked, he held up a leaflet printed on white paper.
Comrade Xu smiled, "Yes! Welcome! Come! I'll turn on your phone! If you are the first to come, I will give you each a bottle of Coke! Please come in! Please come in quickly!"
…
This is just the beginning.
The arrival of these four people was like opening Pandora's box. Within about two hours, groups of boys and girls came online with flyers.
Uh, Pandora's Box shouldn't be used here?
Maybe!
But they all mean the same thing.
That’s it anyway.
Customers are coming like clouds, which can describe the morning of the first day of opening.
The students of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering used their practical actions today to dispel the little worries that Comrade Xu had in his heart.
They seem to be more interested in surfing the Internet than students from the Naval University, Water Bird University, and Water Bird Engineering University.
Before ten o'clock in the morning, Tongdao Xu's place was full.
After ten o'clock, people still come from time to time, but there are no computers for them to play on. Some people leave disappointed, while others watch others play curiously and wait for others to leave.
…
Around ten o'clock.
Chang Min, who went to the side entrance of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering early in the morning to set up a stall selling breakfast, rode a tricycle back to the small courtyard.
When she saw that the Internet cafe was packed with people, her eyes were full of surprise.
Then I subconsciously glanced at the sign hanging above the door of the main room - Ximen Road Internet Cafe.
"Internet cafe...is the business so good?"
She whispered to herself.
He was obviously shocked.
However, this seems to be just the beginning for her.
afternoon.
She was in the kitchen preparing the minced meat for tomorrow morning. Occasionally when she went out, she would subconsciously take a look inside the Internet cafe with the door open.
As a result, every time I saw it, it was packed with seats.
In front of the computers in the Internet cafe, young faces were all staring at the screen, while someone was learning to type on the keyboard with both hands.
Some people are wearing headphones, and their heads are moving bit by bit, like a chicken pecking at rice, but it doesn't look like they are dozing off.
Others were wearing headphones and staring at the movie playing on the computer screen, also intently watching it.
There was surprise and confusion in Changmin's eyes.
She was surprised that the business of this Internet cafe was so good. From morning to afternoon, it was always full.
And what she was puzzled about was - do computers really have that much magic power? Why do all these young people seem to be obsessed with it?
It seems like the game arcade that was all the rage a few years ago.
But it was a little different from her impression of the game arcade.
In her impression, every game arcade was very noisy, and every game arcade was always smoky. Some young people were always yelling and screaming inside, and they all looked like hooligans.
But this Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao... Although it is not very quiet inside, there are not many people talking in general. Most of them are doing their own things without disturbing each other.
…
At night, in the night sky, the moon has risen very high.
After running out of towels, Chang Min opened the kitchen door, put on her coat, and went out to buy a pack. After going out, she subconsciously glanced at the brightly lit Internet cafe.
It was still packed inside.
She was stunned at that time and couldn't believe her eyes.
Is the magic of this Internet cafe really that great?
It’s full in the morning, full in the afternoon, and still full in the evening?
Too exaggerated?
Is it free to play there?
Every crowded scene she saw today, added together, had a big impact on her.
She thought of running under the sunset that day...
wrong!
She was thinking of the Maolin Restaurant that her family opened before. Half a month ago, this was her family's Maolin Hotel. But why did her family have fewer and fewer students coming here every day when they opened a restaurant here?
Don't they all need to eat?
Is playing computer time more important than eating? Why didn't these people come when her family opened a restaurant? Now that there is an Internet cafe here, these people no longer come to visit during the day or night?
She was puzzled.
She didn't know that since the rise of Internet cafes, this era has entered a new era that is changing with each passing day.
For example, twenty years later, some of the capital giants that everyone is familiar with have rapidly grown and risen after the rise of the Internet.
For example, the Big Three of BAT.
Such as Apple, Huawei, Meituan, etc.
Before Comrade Xu was reborn, someone said: When the times abandon some people, they won't even say hello.
This is true!
The rise of the Internet, for most people, is silent, springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain, like the rising sun.
People of Chang Min's age generally had little interest or even aversion to Internet cafes when they first emerged.
They subconsciously believe that Internet cafes and game arcades are the same type of thing, and they are both harmful things. Not only do they not want to come into contact with them, they even educate and warn their children and family members not to go to Internet cafes.
Such a concept will not affect their lives in three or five years.
Ten years or eight years may not have much impact on their lives.
Twenty years later, when the Internet economy began to sweep across the land of China, people like them could not even use a smartphone.
Then, one day, they finally realize that times have changed and they seem to be unable to keep up with the times.
By then, time can no longer be turned back, and they are destined to never keep up with the times.
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It's about four o'clock in the morning.
Chang Min got up early, prepared to wash up, and then started making steamed buns, steamed buns, and shaomai. Otherwise, she would have nothing to sell today when it gets daybreak.
When she opened the kitchen door and came out with the washbasin to pour water, she turned her face, what did she see?
Through the window of the Internet cafe, she actually saw a dozen boys surfing the Internet in the dimly lit Internet cafe, sitting in front of the computer, staring at the computer.
At that moment, she was stunned, as if she had seen a ghost.