Because he hasn't paid attention recently, Zhou Fangyuan doesn't know what the progress of the Internet café is.

Although he expected that the renovation might be completed in the near future, how could he deduce the specific day, he was not a god, and he knew how to pinch his fingers. However, he was going to go to the Internet café to take a look when he was resting, but he didn't expect the third brother to take the initiative to find it.

The decoration of the Internet café was completed, and Zhou Fangyuan was also very happy.

But looking at the appearance of the third brother, he couldn't wait to open his doors tomorrow, so Zhou Fangyuan had to pour a basin of cold water on him.

"No, the opening of the business, we have to wait. ”

"Huh, what are you waiting for? Isn't it already renovated?"

The third brother's eyes widened and he looked at Zhou Fangyuan with a puzzled gaze.

"Yes, it's renovated, but are we just going to open for business? Don't we need to do any preparations? Don't we need to fire guns?"

Zhou Fangyuan covered his forehead and said helplessly.

"Why do you want to fire a gun?"

The third brother's eyes widened, and he couldn't understand Zhou Fangyuan's words at all.

Zhou Fangyuan looked at the other party and could only let out a long sigh, "Third brother, the current society is no longer a society where the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, no matter what you do, if you want to be big and do a good job, you still have to have the necessary publicity." We don't have the money to advertise in newspapers and TV stations, but we can advertise on the radio, and it only takes one sentence and it's not expensive. And we can also let our network administrators and cashiers go out and distribute flyers, it doesn't take too long, a week is good, too long is easy to lose interest. It just so happens that we can also use a week to let the smell of dust in the Internet café dissipate a little. These are all necessary processes, you want to open tomorrow, and how many people will know about our Internet café by then?

Zhou Fangyuan's series of questions directly made the third brother dumb.

And if you think about it, that's really the case.

"What's more, third brother, the Internet café industry, if you want to say that there is a threshold, there is indeed one. But in fact, the threshold is not high, as long as there is a little money, you can drive. If we can't become popular as quickly as possible, what if we are learned by other Internet cafes? Or what if someone else simply takes the lead? Didn't you go out for a walk a few days ago? Now that we know, there are more than a dozen Internet cafes under construction. Although the geographical location can't compare with us, and the scale can't compare with us, we can't be careless. If people can afford it, can we afford it?"

Zhou Fangyuan continued to persuade bitterly.

In fact, at this time, the third brother's position had been completely loosened, and now that Zhou Fangyuan said this, he subconsciously nodded.

He also came up with the information when he went out to investigate, and the result was also what he saw with his own eyes, and now that he thinks about it, it seems that this is really the case.

The third brother's head immediately sweated, and he reached out to wipe it, "Yes, it's still fat, you think about it thoughtfully, so what should we do next?" You say, I'll listen to you." ”

Of course, you have to listen to Zhou Fangyuan, after all, I haven't eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run, Zhou Fangyuan, who has experienced the bombardment of thousands of advertisements in later generations, is far from being comparable to people now. He knows better than people today the meaning of advertising, and knows better how much advantage a good advertisement can bring to him in peer competition.

So according to his request, in the next week, the Voice of Beitong Radio, which has the largest number of local listeners, will broadcast Zhou Fangyuan's advertisements for their Internet café in the morning, noon and evening every day. And the name of the Internet café is also named Kailing Internet Cafe. The name was given by the third brother, which means "triumphant" and "above all Internet cafes", and Zhou Fangyuan had no objection.

Other employees go out every day to hand out flyers, anyway, the location of the Internet café is in the downtown area, they don't even have to go too far, they can just go downstairs from their house.

At the same time, Zhou Fangyuan and they also hired two aunts who cleaned up, opened the windows every day to release the smell, supplemented by the air fresheners they bought, and after a week, the smell of raw earth in the Internet café decreased a lot. Although there are still ones, they are undoubtedly much lighter than a week ago.

Drinks and instant noodles are also placed behind the bar, and the games are all installed on the computer.

On the weekend, early in the morning, Zhou Fangyuan and the others gathered downstairs in the Yuanlong Building.

In front of them were firecrackers and firecrackers that had been set up for a long time, and a long banner had long been hung with the words "Warmly celebrate the official opening of the first Internet café in Beitong City".

At eight o'clock in the morning, firecrackers and fireworks were lit on time.

A crackling sound suddenly resounded through the streets, and small fireballs shot into the sky and then exploded in the air. Although you can't see beautiful colors like you can at night, even so, the loud noise still attracts the attention of an unknown number of people.

The sound of the cannon fire lasted less than half a minute, but by this time, more than a dozen people had already been attracted to it. There were more people walking this way, and Zhou Fangyuan and the third brother hurriedly brought these guests upstairs.

During the upstairs, there were a lot of posters on the wall next to the stairs. Basically, there is one every four or five meters, and the poster is based on the game cover, with the words "Welcome to Kailing Internet Cafe" written on it, and there is a preferential activity below.

This was also proposed by Zhou Fangyuan, in order to attract more people to enter the Internet café, he decided to carry out discount activities in the first half of the opening month. It only costs 5 yuan an hour to board the plane in the ordinary area. VIP area boarding, 7 yuan per hour. The couple's area is 10 yuan for one hour, and the card room is 12 yuan for one hour...... Don't think it's expensive, because that's already the price after the price reduction.

According to the price they set at the beginning, the ordinary area is 7 yuan, VIP 10 yuan, couples 15 yuan, and card room 20 yuan, and this price can be regarded as very expensive.

But to be honest, for this decoration, Zhou Fangyuan and they have put a lot of effort into it, especially the VIP area and more expensive areas, if the price difference cannot be reflected, then what is the point of partitioning?

As the first guests went up to the fourth floor and walked into the Internet café, the interior decoration immediately gave these people a refreshing feeling.

Needless to say, white tiles, in the era when many people still use cement floors in their own homes, tile paving does give people a feeling of tallness. There is also a suspended ceiling overhead, framed by a grid made of black wooden strips, and chandeliers are interspersed with these grids.

After a few steps inside, on the left-hand side is a large bar more than three meters long, and the shelves behind the bar are filled with various drinks and snacks. Two very beautiful little girls stood behind the bar, wearing black and white overalls, so that the single dogs who walked in couldn't take their eyes off it.

Looking at the computer storage area, there is a black desktop computer desk, neatly arranged in six rows, and there are ten computers in each row. Inside, the computers are divided into separate areas by glass partitions and wooden floors raised by 10 centimeters. From the outside, you can see that the seats inside are all sofas, and the computer screen seems to be a little larger and newer than the outside.

You can also see that there is a small bar in the inner area, and in the deepest part of the small area, there is an unfolding projection screen, which can be seen from a long distance.

There were still a lot of light boxes hanging on the walls around the entire Internet café, but now they were all open, and the lights inside illuminated the cover pictures of various games sprayed on the shells, and people were dazzled to see for a while.

When these people heard that it was 5 yuan an hour, some people thought it was so cheap, and it was cheaper than the smelly, dirty and small computer rooms outside. However, some people think it is very expensive, after all, the monthly salary of ordinary workers is only 100 yuan, and it costs 5 yuan for an hour of playing here, so it is not cost-effective.

The people who think it is expensive are people who have never entered an Internet café, so it is normal for them to think it is expensive.

Those who have played with computers in the computer room have already started to pay for it.

One-hour, two-hour, three-hour ...... The front of the bar was already busy, more than a dozen people surrounded the bar, and more and more people came around, so that the two little girls in the bar were a little busy. Fortunately, the training during this period has some effect, and on a computer specially used as a bar cashier, Sun Wenlu has used the time of ten days to write a simple charging software.

This software can manage 60 computers in the general area at the same time, recording their different boot times and costs. Bundled with it is also a simple membership system, which can manage the Internet access time of these 60 ordinary area computers, and when the time is up, the computer will send a reminder.

In addition, there is a member login window, or Internet café login window. Just like the Internet cafes of later generations, before logging in to the operating system desktop, a small window will appear that requires you to enter the account number and password, and you can log in as long as you enter the account and password.

For this membership system, Zhou Fangyuan also specially bought an IC card swiper and a hundred IC cards. The card is sprayed with the words of Kailing Internet café, and members can get a free IC card as long as they charge more than 100 yuan at one time, and if it is not enough, they need to add a deposit of 10 yuan. There is a string of numbers on the front of the membership card, which is the membership number. The membership password needs to be set up here at the bar, and you can only change it at the bar.

Ordinary players don't have so much trouble getting on the machine, and they can go online directly with a small ticket.

These things, in later generations, are basically the standard configuration of every Internet café, and even in the two years before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth, IC cards have all been eliminated, and all players, whether they are members or temporary cards, need to swipe their second-generation ID cards. However, now, the general computer room is manual timing, and there are very few people who can make this kind of scene, or even say that there is no such scene at all.

It's not that the technology can't be reached, but people don't think about it at all, and even many people who think about it think that it's too expensive and troublesome, so it's rare to see Internet cafes on the market that directly swipe the card.

However, with the passage of time, the scale of Internet cafes is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer possible to manage them well by manual labor alone, and the Internet café management system will really become popular at that time.

Of course, these two software are still very simple, and there are many loopholes, because everything has to start from scratch, and Sun Wenlu has no object to refer to. However, as he continued to update these systems, fix all the bugs and vulnerabilities, and make the software more functional, and finally integrate all these software, an Internet café management system will naturally come out.

In this regard, Zhou Fangyuan expressed great expectations.