This Christmas, Lin Zi had a full time, and the reunion with many good friends also strengthened their friendship.

Many old immigrants and overseas Chinese abroad, even if some naturalized Chinese, it is difficult for them to have a sense of belonging here, it is nothing more than saving more and more money, but people are becoming more and more indifferent to each other.

In fact, in the past few years in the United States, Lin Zitan's heart has always been lonely, just like his immigration status, he has always been an expatriate.

But after so many years of blending with this big city and the surrounding environment, the cowardly and timid, even somewhat inferior Lin Zitan in the past, is gone, replaced by the mature, steady, optimistic, confident and strong man now.

Especially with the appearance of Emma and the birth of twins, his life has gradually reached unprecedented fulfillment.

If it weren't for the sudden epidemic, the idea of opening an instant noodle shop might not have been realized in his lifetime, but it was in this situation of the Great Depression in the United States that Lin Zitan once again grasped an opportunity to rise.

He polished the shops that could not be rented out one by one according to the current business model and decoration style of instant noodle shops, and constantly summed up experience from practice.

Striving to make every process meet the requirements of IE engineering, in order to achieve the maximum improvement of efficiency, all staff from Li Manrui's charity teaching class first carry out a complete pre-job training.

Running an instant noodle shop into a serious company model, and trying to do the best in employee benefits, make them feel that they don't have to be as comfortable as the job when they open a restaurant, except for those who are ambitious.

In order to meet the needs of different customers, the working hours of the new store have been extended from 6 hours to 8 hours, but overtime is definitely not allowed!

In order to avoid the increase in labor costs caused by cash transactions, Lin Zitan requires all stores to make online payments, unless individual dine-in customers have a special need to pay cash, otherwise 99.9% of orders are paid online.

Even if the restaurant opened for dine-in, all the small tables were set up with a pad, and Lin Zitan asked the technicians of the Internet company to develop a separate restaurant payment system, and customers could order food on the pad by themselves.

You can add or subtract anything, add any drink, but only if the order is finalized, you have to swipe the card before the order can be delivered to the kitchen.

Another way is to order food on the mobile app and eat directly at the restaurant, of course, the bill is tied to the customer's credit card, and the restaurant will not receive the order until the payment is made.

If a guest wants to dine-in, it depends on the flow of customers at that time, and if there are too many guests, it is recommended that they take it away.

The simple payment method saves at least one cashier's labor, and each restaurant except for two kitchen masters, the rest depends on the increase in the number of orders and the manpower of packaging and delivery.

In this way, even if the people inside don't know English, as long as they can understand the bilingual list set up by Lin Zitan, they can operate it, and this group of manpower can just select new immigrants or new students who are relatively quick to do it from Li Manrui's charity teaching class.

As the epidemic passed, Li Manrui's charity teaching class began to hold classes again, and many of the employees of Lin Zitan's branch were recruited from here, so Li Manrui's job responsibilities were added to help students find suitable workstations.

With the foundation of manpower and financial resources, it is very simple to open such a small restaurant, and Lin Zitan recruited some young people with language skills and management skills from the market to be the manager of the instant noodle shop.

In this way, instant noodle shops in the five districts of New York have opened one after another in the first month of the new year, and under the vigorous promotion of the head office, business is really good after opening, and it looks like it is booming and the future is promising.

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After New Year's Day, Lin Zitan's real estate industry also improved slightly, and the people of New York have been repaying the rent arrears one after another after months of relief and struggle.

As for the tenants who have been inactive in resuming work and are still unemployed, Lin Zitan was handed over to the court, and their rent was waived and his property was moved out within a time limit.

In the new year, many things have become different, the economy of the whole country has become devastated, many industries have come to a standstill after such a long period of tossing, and the unemployed have not improved much.

After Lin Zitan's original Apple shares were sold, there were only 100,000 shares of Guge and 100,000 shares of Amazon left, but with the advent of the resumption of work, the stock market in the United States has also been turbulent one after another, just like Eddie said, the more people who invest, seem to lose more.

Just as the Chinese New Year is approaching, Lin Zitan's two supermarkets have barely survived the turmoil of the epidemic, and many employees are glad that their health and wages have been saved.

But the largest supermarket that just opened not far from Lin Zitan's supermarket has been open during the epidemic, as if there have been a lot of problems, and there are several times when Lao Hei came in to rob and injured two cashiers.

In addition, because of the unfavorable protection, the employees were seriously infected with the epidemic, and were classified as the hardest hit areas, and finally they were directly seized by the ZF department, and they did not open until the end of the Chinese New Year.

Just when Lin Zitan and Emma were preparing to slowly withdraw from the No. 1 store after training the new store manager, and were only responsible for marketing and promotion behind the scenes, Frank, who had not seen him for a long time, suddenly ran over.

"What? Borrow our restaurant to make a movie? No...... What is there to shoot in our store, the place is too small. Lin Zitan hurriedly refused when he heard this.

"Hey, this is a good opportunity to promote your small restaurant, which tells a few shots of Yijun working as a cashier in a restaurant, you just need to cooperate for an hour or two, and it won't affect your business." Frank looked at the couple and said unhappily.

"Do you know how many orders we have to make in an hour or two now, and what if the shooting delays the customer's order?"

Emma resolutely stood on Lin Zitan's side, thinking that it was still unknown when the movie they made would be released, waiting for them to advertise, forget it!

"No, sister, an hour or two can delay a few dollars, and our crew can not do this money, besides, we also have a budget to compensate you, and we can't lose you!" Frank said with a squirrel.

"It's not about money, our store is open for 6 hours a day, if it's delayed for two hours, then the list behind it will be squeezed there, unless you shoot yours, we do ours, don't delay." Lin Zitan said with a smile.

"Okay, it's just a few shots anyway, I just fell in love with your little shop, or how many big restaurants lined up to find me, how could it be your turn!" Frank said disgustedly.

A few days later, Frank really came over with the crew and Zhuang Yijun, because he said in advance that he would not delay the normal business, so Zhuang Yijun had to be proficient in the content to be played here in advance.

In order to play it well, she deliberately wanted to learn cashier from Emma, who knew that after she came, she knew that this small store basically didn't use the cash register.

In the end, Emma had to teach her how to use the cash register, and the rest were the group performances of their crew and Zhuang Yijun themselves, simulating a busy plot of Zhuang Yijun busy serving guests for a while and running to pay for guests for a while.

The things that the group performers eat are all the things that Lin Zitan's store really provides, plus the store is already very busy, the photographer brother gave the busy kitchen master a few shots, and the takeaway sister keeps wrapping the takeaway, Zhuang Yijun is running around the restaurant alone, busy and busy, there is really a busy scene.

"Click" Director Frank gave an order, and the filming of the entire crew was finally completed, and there was a round of applause at the scene.

"Yijun, you did a good job!" Frank said with a smile at Zhuang Yijun, who was pretending to wipe his sweat.