Friday, Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the morning, the Internet café had not officially opened, but Zhao Xinzhao's network management and cashier had arrived.

The network management works in three shifts, with each person working eight hours a day and one day off per week.

When one person takes turns off, the other two work twelve hours a day.

In addition, Xu Yiyang and the seven of them also have work to be responsible, Xu Yiyang asked everyone to take turns every day to settle accounts and collect accounts, the income composition of Internet cafes is more complicated, in addition to Internet fees, there are also member recharge income, as well as Internet café snacks, drinks and cigarettes sales revenue.

When it comes to sales, it is necessary to verify the inventory, so everyone takes turns to reconcile the accounts every day, on the one hand, to ensure that the accounts are clear, and on the other hand, to prevent the network administrator or cashier from filling their pockets.

In addition, Xu Yiyang also made an appointment with the owner of the small restaurant next door for a cooperation plan, he asked the boss to make a menu of rice bowls, and when the time came, he stayed in the Internet café, and someone ordered food and told him that he was ready to send it to the guests.

However, this is not for him to solicit customers for nothing, the money for selling food is collected by the Internet café, and then the Internet café takes a 15% commission, a three-yuan rice bowl, the Internet café takes four cents and five, and if it sells 100 copies a day, the restaurant owner can have more than 200 more running water, and the Internet café can earn 45 yuan.

When he was in school, Xu Yiyang and the big guys began to publicize the New Century Internet Cafe everywhere.

Today happens to be Friday, and the Internet café officially opened at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, just in time for the peak of the weekend.

Everyone was so excited throughout the day that they didn't listen to the lecture much.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, just after class, everyone hurriedly met and went to the Internet café together.

A large number of students from China and Overseas heard that they had opened an Internet café, and they all rushed over to join in the fun.

Xu Yiyang promised everyone that on the first day of opening today, the Internet café will reward guests with a Chinese and overseas student ID card, only one yuan for one hour, and five yuan for the night.

Now, most of the Internet cafes around the school cost two to five to three yuan an hour, and those with a better environment are more expensive, and those with a poor environment are cheaper.

Like Xu Yiyang's Internet café, the environment is good, the machine is new, and three yuan an hour is the normal price.

If it is a membership, it is generally two dollars and five hours.

In 1999, in Zhonghai, an Internet café that costs two yuan an hour could not be found with a lantern.

However, the price of Internet cafes has also fallen rapidly, and it will be a matter of the next year, because Internet cafes are too profitable, so Internet cafes have sprung up more and more.

Xu Yiyang remembers that around 2001, Internet cafes in Quancheng were generally 51 hours a day, and some of the more dilapidated Internet cafes were simply reduced to one dollar an hour.

Because it is a new Internet café, the equipment is new, the environment is good, and the price is fair, so it is really attractive in this alley.

Xu Yiyang wanted to promote it in the school first, so he deliberately organized a preferential activity for Chinese and overseas students.

The price of one dollar and one hour is really cheap to have no friends, so the boys from China and overseas rushed over.

In addition to the first weekend reward, in the next month, members recharge 100 or get 25 free, according to the membership price of 2.5 yuan per hour, converted, 100 yuan can play for 50 hours, and only two yuan per hour.

If an Internet café with 100 machines has four or five hundred recharge members, the business of the Internet café will be full every day.

Therefore, Xu Yiyang also hopes to establish a stable membership group as soon as possible, so that in the future, the income of Internet cafes will be very stable, and the environment will be very stable, especially when most of the Internet cafes are college students, the atmosphere of Internet cafes will be much better than that of Internet cafes outside.

In order to enhance the user experience, Xu Yiyang has put effort into many places.

For example, in order to ensure the safety of customers' property in the Internet café, he has already installed several surveillance cameras in the room, with a hard disk video recorder to record and monitor 24 hours a day.

At the same time, the glass door at the entrance of the Internet café and on the wall inside are also pasted with eye-catching reminders: "Monitor at all times! Violations must be prosecuted!"

In addition, each table is also posted with a small slogan custom-made from a roadside advertising store: "Please pay attention to your personal belongings at any time, if there are criminals who lie that you have money dropped, please make sure that the other belongings on the table are safe before looking down!"

There are many cases of theft in Internet cafes, such as stealing mobile phones and wallets, and stealing bicycles outside.

Under normal circumstances, those who steal mobile phones and wallets use the routine of "buddy, you have lost your money", and the person who is on the computer looks down, sees a few dollars, and when he picks it up, he finds that the mobile phone is gone.

In fact, the moment he bowed his head, the mobile phone had already been taken away, and the person who took the mobile phone would immediately go out, and by the time the victim picked up the money, the person had already left the Internet café and disappeared.

Even, some thieves are not even willing to spend the cost of throwing money, here they say that your things have been dropped, and when you glance at it, the mobile phone is gone.

Therefore, Xu Yiyang has posted sufficient reminders on every computer desk, and there is a surveillance camera deterrent, which should have a good effect.

As for the outside of the door, two cameras are also installed at two angles, including the entrance of the Internet café and the streets on both sides, and eye-catching notices are also posted at the door of the Internet café.

It's easiest to lose your phone inside an Internet café, and it's easiest to lose a bicycle outside.

Generally, thieves carry hydraulic scissors in their arms, no matter what lock can not resist more than ten seconds, and ride away after the lock is cut, and the time consumption is not more than one minute.

Xu Yiyang put the camera on the rack, and the thief would be a little jealous.

When the Internet café opened, there was no ribbon-cutting ceremony, and no one gave them flower baskets.

However, Xu Yiyang himself spent money to buy eight flower baskets and placed them on both sides of the gate, which looked festive on the one hand, and on the other hand, it could be more eye-catching.

Among the seven people, except for Xu Yiyang, they all had an extremely excited mood.

Because as Xu Yiyang said, this Internet café is everyone's industry, one-seventh of each person, and in the future, their tuition, living expenses, and even subsidizing their family expenses may have to be produced from this Internet café, so everyone looks at the Internet café like a parent taking care of their children.

Xu Yiyang doesn't care, the income of this Internet café is very small to him, and it belongs to the existence of greater significance than reality.

Standing at the door of the Internet café, under the gaze of many Chinese and overseas students, Xu Yiyang and Zhao Xin, as the two oldest people in the dormitory, set off the firecrackers together, crackling sounds, mixed with red firecracker skin, spread all over the ground.

After the thick white smoke cleared, everyone pulled the red rope together and tore off the red cloth covering the door, revealing the five big characters of "New Century Internet Cafe."

The Internet café is officially open.

As soon as the official opening was announced, the students filled all 90 machines.

Now it is in the reward stage, one dollar per hour on the machine, if you apply for a card, 100 yuan gets 125, and the Internet fee of one dollar and one hour is equivalent to a discount with a membership card, so many students choose to apply for a membership card.

A hundred yuan is not a lot of pressure for them, but the price is indeed a lot more favorable, and the new Internet café has good machinery and good environment, and the entire Zhongwai may not be able to find a better place than this environment within a radius of several kilometers, so everyone is naturally willing to come here to surf the Internet and play games in the future.

Moreover, the membership card on the machine is also simple and trouble-free, no need to find the network management to pay a deposit to turn on, find an empty machine to open, enter your membership card number and password when unlocking, play enough to click off the machine, the machine will be relocked.

From six o'clock to eight o'clock in the evening, more than 120 membership cards were sold in Internet cafes alone, and many people were still waiting to get on the machine.

The sales of snacks, drinks and cigarettes were also very good, and most of them didn't eat when they came, so the owner of the small restaurant next door also took a ride to buy more than 40 rice bowls, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut happily.

The weather is neither hot nor cold, there is no need to turn on the air conditioner, and the ventilation equipment in the Internet café is also powerful, so even if there are many smokers, it does not appear to be as smoky as other Internet cafes.

Moreover, because they are all college students, there are no social youth, so the atmosphere in the Internet café is also very good, and most of the people are playing CS, but it is rare to hear someone burst into foul language.

If there are many young people in the Internet café, once the LAN CS is played inside, there must be constant scolding.

Even many times, because of the contradictions in the game, it will lead to real PK.

Xu Yiyang also explained to the network manager and cashier, if someone in his Internet café makes trouble, no matter what the reason, call the police as soon as possible, even if it is just someone quarreling, the police must be called, otherwise if a stunned young man suddenly takes out a knife from his pocket and stabs someone, then it will be a big trouble.

Seeing that the business was not good, although Xu Yiyang and everyone did not even have a place to stand, they also felt a sense of accomplishment.

Xu Yiyang observed for a while and said to everyone: "By the way, everyone, even if we come to play by ourselves in the future, we will have to spend money, and we can choose to recharge our membership card by ourselves, but we must not add the balance to ourselves, otherwise our account will be messed up." ”

Everyone nodded.

Seeing that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I haven't bothered to have a meal together, so Xu Yiyang said to everyone: "Okay, there are network administrators and cashiers here, let's go have a good meal first, it's a holiday." ”

So, the seven of them found a hot pot restaurant and ate a hot pot meal happily.

At the dinner table, Xu Yiyang set a division of labor time to supervise the Internet café.

On Monday, Shen Lele on Tuesday, Li Yiming on Wednesday, Gu Peng on Thursday, Zhao Xin on Friday, Chen Meng on Saturday, and Zhang Junnan on Sunday.

On the day of their own responsibility, each person in charge should go to the Internet café before the morning class, in addition to looking at the operation, but also collect the Internet fee and retail income during the night package last night, and after taking inventory, keep the change for circulation, and bring the whole hundred money back to school;

Before 10 o'clock in the evening, I also have to go once, that is, I go twice a day and collect the payment twice.

After the collection of the two collections throughout the day is summarized, it is handed over to Xu Yiyang, and then Xu Yiyang registers and enters the account.

Xu Yiyang is going to buy a mini safe, quietly put it in the bedroom, and put the entire hundred cash recovered in the safe in the future, and go to the bank once a week to deposit, it is too troublesome to save every day.

Xu Yiyang speculated that the business of the Internet café will always be very good, and after this weekend and the price returns to normal, each machine should be able to contribute thirty or forty yuan a day to three yuan an hour during the day and ten yuan a night at night.

If calculated in this way, 90 machines, the flow of machine fees in one month should be 1120,000.

In addition to this, the revenue from various sales will also be more substantial, so the revenue situation should be slightly higher than previously expected.