The price offered by the landlord was on par with what Li Yan expected, and there was a problem in statistics in his sophomore year, which was to collect the rent of shops around Funing University and calculate the average price per square meter.

At that time, Li Yan's group found that the rent of the store was between 12 and 200 per square meter, presumably the normal university was similar, and the monthly rent of 30,000 yuan for a 200-square-meter store was within a reasonable range, which was neither cheap nor expensive.

Li Yan didn't speak for a while, making the landlord think that the price was too high, so he immediately took a step back and said: "If you feel pressured, the rent is allowed to be paid once a month, and you don't have to pay it all at once for a quarter." ”

"No, it's better to pay once a year, so as not to have to trouble once a month. Li Yan said bluntly.

The young woman was stunned for a few seconds, and asked uncertainly: "If you pay once a year, you will have to take out 360,000 yuan at once, are you sure?"

Li Yan nodded without hesitation: "The rent is not a problem, let me enter the store first, sign the contract if there is no problem, and I will pay immediately after signing." ”

I walked around the store twice, the area is indeed not small, it is estimated that it is a little more than two hundred square meters, but it is not much decorated.

Soon the two parties signed a contract, Li Yan rented the shop for two years, the rent was paid in two installments, and he had the right of first refusal to renew the lease after expiration.

After confirming that 360,000 yuan had arrived, the young woman realized that she had lost her eyes, and she was a little more enthusiastic about Li Yan, it was rare to meet such a well-talkative tenant, and she negotiated things in less than twenty minutes.

After getting the key, Li Yan made a call to Guo Tianhao and asked him to help contact a decoration team.

The first thing to do is to ensure hygiene, so that customers have an appetite, the store must be well designed, and it doesn't matter if you spend a little more money.

Knowing that Li Yan was going to open a restaurant, Guo Tianhao was surprised for a while, many things in the new company had not been implemented, and this product still had the energy to run a restaurant.

Surprised, he asked his subordinates to find a relatively good decoration team to do real estate business, and the network resources in this area are relatively broad.

Different from the luxurious real taste, Li Yan's idea is to make the fake taste antique, because several of his signature dishes are the palace banquet, so that diners can enjoy the taste of the ancient emperor.

To this end, he personally put pen to paper, wrote down the three big characters of "fake taste", and bought a piece of fine nanmu to carve into a plaque.

Li Yan's carpentry skills are inherited from the famous carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao, and it is natural to carve a plaque.

The decoration team introduced by Guo Tianhao was quite professional, and he gave a decoration plan within two days, although it burned money, but the effect made him very satisfied.

The leader of the decoration team is surnamed Yang, Li Yan looked at the decoration design and asked, "Master Yang, how many days do you estimate it will take to complete the decoration?"

Master Yang said with confidence: "It will definitely be completed within a week, you can rest assured." ”

Li Yan raised his eyebrows, this efficiency was much faster than he expected, and it was worthy of a professional team.

He didn't know much about decoration, so he didn't ask much, and he was relieved to hand it over to Master Yang's decoration team.

During the renovation period, Li Yan went to Bai Suyun's house several times, taught Ma Chengyan cooking skills, and taught him the practice of several palace dishes.

After tasting Li Yan's craftsmanship, Bai Suyun finally believed that this guy was not bragging, there was no gap without comparison, after eating the dishes made by Li Yan, and then tasting what her father made, the gap was quite obvious.

"Li Yan, you won't graduate from New Oriental, will you?" asked Bai Suyun very strangely.

Learning to cook is not a simple matter, some chefs have been in the kitchen for several years, and their cooking skills are still mediocre, Li Yan is only a few years old, and he is not a professional chef, but the cooking level is not worse than those hotel chefs, if it is passed out, how can those professional chefs live?

"Haha, New Oriental can't learn my craft. Li Yan said very proudly: "To tell you the truth, the few dishes I passed on to my uncle are all imperial meals eaten by the ancient emperors and concubines, and some of the practices have long been lost. ”

"The emperor's imperial meal?"

Ma Chengyan was taken aback, not to mention whether it was delicious or not, just this name could be passed out, and many people could be frightened.

In the name of imperial food, even if the price is a little more expensive, you have to spend money to taste it and enjoy the treatment of ancient emperors.

As soon as they heard that it was the emperor's dish, Bai Suyun and Ma Wenyuan's sisters and brothers ate more energetically, and they felt that the dishes became more fragrant!

After tasting the braised fish made by Ma Chengyan, Li Yan nodded and said, "Uncle has basically mastered the methods of several signature dishes now, and is fully capable of serving as the head chef, let's talk about the salary." ”

After a pause, Li Yan continued: "I give two plans, the first is a monthly salary of 15,000, if the restaurant is good after half a year, then 5% of the shares, the second is a monthly salary of 12,000, the monthly profit dividend of 5%, and the share system remains unchanged." ”

The two salary packages offered by Li Yan were very attractive, which made Ma Chengyan embarrassed to accept them.

After hesitating for a while, he said: "Forget about the shares, the monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan is already very high." ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said: "Now many companies have an equity incentive system, and our restaurant is no exception, as long as the restaurant's efficiency is good enough, not only you, the chef, will have shares, but also other employees." ”

After thinking about it, Ma Chengyan said: "Then I'll choose the first one." ”

He can imagine that with the imperial diet as a signboard, it will be difficult for Li Yan's restaurant not to be prosperous in the future, if he chooses the second plan, plus profit dividends, the income will be more considerable, but he really can't pull down that face.

"Li Yan, my younger brother wants to work part-time during the summer vacation, and when the restaurant opens, why don't you let him become a waiter?" Bai Suyun said.

Ma Wenyuan is still an adult, and she is wary that it is not safe for her younger brother to go out to work part-time, and it would be best if she could work in a restaurant.

"Brother Li Yan, I can do any dirty work, and I've done it all before!" Ma Wenyuan assured.

Li Yan laughed: "It's no problem, you have to recruit waiters anyway, what treatment other waiters have, I will also give you any treatment." ”

Coming out of Bai Suyun's house, Li Yan went to the storefront, every day he would go over to check the progress of the renovation, most of them had ended yesterday, and there was only some finishing work left today.

Sure enough, when Li Yan arrived, the ground was cleaned up, and the whole store looked brand new.

He specially customized a number of wooden tables and chairs, all of which were designed in an ancient style, and even the lamps on the wall were in the shape of lanterns, giving people the illusion of being in an ancient palace when they walked into the store.

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When the store began to be renovated, the manager of the real taste branch opposite had already paid attention to it, and after inquiring, he learned that it was going to be used to open a restaurant.

At first, he didn't take it to heart, he just thought that the person who opened the restaurant was stupid, and he was stupid enough to grab business with the real taste.

Founded more than 20 years ago, True Taste is a golden sign in the catering industry in Funing City, with an unshakable leading position, no one dares to challenge its leading position, and it is self-defeating to play against True Taste.

However, with the acceleration of the renovation progress, the store manager saw that the store opposite was fully decorated with characteristics, and a lot of money was smashed in, and he was slightly drumming in his heart.

Sensing a sense of threat, he immediately reported the situation.

As the saying goes, no coincidence is not a book, Zhou Qiming, who does not learn and has no skills, happened to be sent by his father to inspect the business situation of the store, and learned from the store manager that a restaurant was about to open opposite, and his heart was suddenly very unhappy.

"It's just tired of being alive, dare to provoke us, come with me to see which kind of fairy has the courage!" Zhou Qiming took the lead in walking over.

The store manager didn't want to cause trouble, but the eldest young master had passed, so he had no choice but to follow.

In the storefront, Li Yan was directing the porters to move the tables and chairs in.

"Come on, come on, be quick, be careful, these tables and chairs are custom-made at a high price, don't break them!"

"Lao Wang, hang this painting on the left wall. ”

"Lao Chen, you call and ask to see when the kitchenware will be delivered. ”

"Lao Zhang urged the work-study center, it will open tomorrow, and the waiters must be in place!"

One after another orders were issued, everyone was busy with their work, and it happened to be the weekend, and the three of Lao Wang were also called over by Li Yan to help.

With the help of three good friends, Li Yan's pressure has plummeted, and a lot of trivial work can be shared with them.

The only problem now is that there are not enough chefs, only Ma Chengyan.

Li Yan can also be a chef temporarily, but it is impossible for him to devote all his energy to the restaurant, so the chef still has to continue to recruit, otherwise only Ma Chengyan will be busy.

Seeing Zhou Qiming and the others walking quickly, looking unkind, Lao Wang hurriedly patted Li Yan's arm and signaled that he was looking for trouble to come to the door.

One of the reasons for opening this restaurant is to disgust the real taste, of course Li Yan will not be timid, Shi Shiran blocked in front of Zhou Qiming, and asked lightly: "What are you two doing?"

Zhou Qiming frowned, feeling that Li Yan was a little familiar, and he didn't quite remember where he had seen it.

Unable to recall, he had to give up and ask, "Are you the owner of this shop?"

"Yes, it's a contemptible person, what advice do you have?" Li Yan said with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

Snorting coldly, Zhou Qiming squinted his eyes and asked, "Don't you know that the opposite side is the True Taste Restaurant?"

Last time, Lao Zhang was beaten badly by Zhou Qiming's bodyguards, and now that he has the opportunity to get angry, of course he will not let it go, and he came out and sneered: "It's really ridiculous, just because your store is here, others can't open a restaurant nearby? Who do you think you are, Tianwang Laozi?"

Seeing Lao Zhang, Zhou Qiming finally had an impression, and suddenly realized that he pointed at Li Yan: "I remember, it's a few poor people, shouldn't this store be opened with my 100,000 compensation?"

"Does it have anything to do with you?" Li Yan put his hands around his chest, let out a long "oh", and said: "It really has something to do with you, because this is just my first step in dealing with the Zhou family, you watch with your eyes wide open, maybe it won't be long before the real business will be snatched up by me little by little." ”

It turned out to be a real taste, the store manager was shocked, he had already seen that the young master had a grudge against these people, and they were deliberately retaliating.

"A business that robs the real taste?"

Zhou Qiming didn't laugh angrily, in his opinion, there is no other restaurant that can affect the status of True Taste in the catering industry, Li Yan and others are just dreaming.

"Okay, I've watched you steal business, but I'd like to see how many customers you can steal. Zhou Qiming sneered: "If there are no guests on the opening day, I will come to the door and give you a few copper plates." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left in disdain, completely ignoring what Li Yan had just said.

Li Yan added a sentence later: "By the way, I almost forgot to tell you, my restaurant is called Fake Taste, isn't it very creative?"

Hearing this, Zhou Qiming suddenly stumbled under his feet, and his face became very ugly.

The real taste is an old signboard, Li Yan took a fake taste name, it was clearly with their Zhou family, and the guests would be interested when they saw this name.

Being so provoked, if this fake taste business is booming, then their Zhou family will become a big laughing stock in Funing City.

Back in the real taste store, Zhou Qiming said to the store manager with a gloomy face: "Keep an eye on this store for me, if there is any trouble, report to me immediately!"

"Don't worry, young master. The store manager nodded and comforted: "The other party is just grandstanding, our real taste is more than 20 years old, it is impossible to be suppressed by a new store." ”

"If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if, you can't let this store become bigger!" Zhou Qiming gritted his teeth, thinking about how to deal with it in his mind.

Seeing Zhou Qiming go away, Li Yan and the four of them returned to the store, except for the kitchen that had not yet been arranged, everything else had been basically perfected.

The time was too rushed, the waiters were all part-time college students, and some students from poorer families did not go back in the summer, Li Yan hired fifteen people through the college's work-study center, which could solve the urgent need.

In order to increase the momentum, he also sent invitations to Guo Tianhao and other celebrities, inviting them to attend the opening ceremony of the restaurant.

Not long after, Ma Chengyan came back in a van, and with him a large number of kitchen utensils, Li Yan beckoned people to move in together, all things were complete!

After making sure that everything was in place and that nothing was missing, he relaxed.

On the way back to Jinjiang Community, Li Yan received a call from Gu Tong, saying that the TV series "Love of People and Foxes" was officially launched the day after tomorrow, and there was a scene of Xiaobai in the first episode, so he took the little fox to the film and television center on time.

After signing the contract, Gu Tong showed the script to Li Yan, the protagonists are two well-known second-rate young actors, and there are also several familiar stars in the supporting roles.

The brain moved, Li Yan thought of the star effect, if he could invite the actors of the crew to attend the opening ceremony, he would have more face, and maybe he would be on the local news.

"Director Gu, that's the case, I opened a restaurant, here at the Normal University, it will officially open tomorrow, can you have the honor to invite the stars of the crew to have a show?" Li Yan tried to ask.

"This ...... I'll have to ask. Gu Tong groaned and said, "No matter whether others come or not, I will definitely be there to congratulate." ”

Li Yan can understand, after all, people are celebrities, and it is normal for them to be reluctant to come, so they can't be forced to participate, Gu Tong can help ask is already very face-saving.

Hanging up the phone, Gu Tong lowered her head in the room and pondered, although she had only met Li Yan once, she felt that Li Yan was a good person, and helping this favor should be regarded as a good fate.

After thinking it through, she called several of the leading and supporting roles in the crew to ask for their opinions.

Although she is an investor in TV dramas, she can't force actors to participate in some off-the-dinner activities, it's all up to her personal freedom.

As the heroine of the whole drama, hovering between the first and second lines, Jiang Ailing has always been dissatisfied with the status quo and longs to one day truly step into the ranks of first-line stars.

She is not very popular now, but she has developed the frame of a top superstar, even if Gu Tong is a representative of the investor, she doesn't pay much attention to it.

Therefore, when Gu Tong mentioned the opening of the restaurant, she refused without hesitation, without giving half face.

Just kidding, it's just the opening of a restaurant, and it's not the opening of a five-star hotel, and she wants to let her, a big star, attend the opening ceremony, isn't this advertising for free, so she doesn't do such a thankless stupid thing.

In this regard, Gu Tong didn't say anything and called another supporting actress.

Compared with the more famous Jiang Ailing, the female No. 3 Guo Yanqiu is just a newcomer who has just debuted, and she is not even a third-line, she was unknown before, and she can play the female No. 3 in "The Love of the Human Fox", all because of Gu Tong's appreciation of her.

If Guo Yanqiu is a maxima, Gu Tong is her Bole, so Guo Yanqiu is very grateful to her, and agreed without saying a word.

I called the seven or eight actors in the crew, and only two of them were available to participate, and the others politely declined for various reasons.

This was expected by Gu Tong, and two actors could be present, which could be regarded as worthy of Li Yan's trust.

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