Eleven o'clock at five o'clock.

Li Jian's hot pot order is ready for the opening.

The new bright red carpet extends from the hotel dining area to the outside, and continues for more than ten meters after going out of the door, until it continues to the entrance of the escalator that comes up from the downstairs.

There are 12 pairs of 24 of them, and half-human high flower baskets made of Fulang, lilies, small birds and green leaves are placed on both sides of the red carpet outside the door. The red carpet that exits the escalator to the door of the restaurant is dressed up like a flower gallery.

On the red carpet, in addition to the left and right flower baskets, there are also several arches tied up by colorful balloons, which are decorated with ribbons, flowers, and lanterns like a fairy tale fairy palace.

On both sides of the gate are pasted festive couplets, the upper couplet is: Mo Xiaoyang is full in spring, the lower couplet is: you need to know that the flavor has three fresh, and the horizontal batch: full of friends.

Eleven o'clock sharp.

With the 10,000 firecrackers downstairs lit, the salute was fired 24 times, and the red silk hanging on the lintel of the hot pot restaurant was finally pulled down. The plaque that was previously covered by red silk was revealed, as well as the three black and gold characters of 'Taste Zhai' written on the plaque.

At this point, Li Jian's hot pot restaurant officially opened.

At this time, on both sides of the red carpet flower road from the hot pot restaurant to the exit of the escalator, at the interval of the flower basket, there were already five more pairs of young women, and these women were all hostesses invited by the etiquette company. It's not a student who is still in school, or a wild model who hasn't become popular.

Each person wore a red welcome ribbon diagonally on their chests, and their very ladylike palms were crossed on their abdomen, posing in a waiting posture. kept bending down and nodding to the guests who walked the red carpet, saying:

"Welcome to Taste Zhai!"

Ten women, facing each other in pairs, although they are not particularly beautiful, but the youthful brilliance, the pink cheongsam of Yishui, and the convex figure outlined by the cheongsam, and the snow-white ** exposed at the slits, still make these waitresses who are temporarily in charge of welcoming guests look eye-catching.

Especially when they are interspersed and standing in the middle of the flower basket, the flowers and beauties complement each other, which is quite a bit of 'human face peach blossoms reflect red'.

It also made the forcing of 'Taste Zhai' suddenly rise a few notches.

Flowers, red carpets, streamers, balloons, cheongsam beauties, and the constant sound of firecrackers downstairs set off this delicious restaurant that just opened today with a festive atmosphere.

However, as the boss, Li Jian's smile on his face was not sincere at all, not only very dull, but also a little bitter in his smile.

Li Jian was in a bad mood, not because the business was too poor and there were too few customers, so that his store was very deserted on the opening day. It's not that I'm worried that business will be bad in the future and I will lose money.

It's because of his leisurely days, which are coming to an end, at least for the next period of time, he must go around this store. It's not voluntary, it's purely because of the persecution from my mother.

"Bear with it! At least it's better than being caught by my mother all day long! It's a big deal, I'm nesting in the boss's lounge every day as an otaku. Although there is no all-virtual game five hundred years after the previous life, or even a holographic 3D game thirty years later, there is only 'masturbation' and the like, but it can only be played. ”

Thinking of the free life that ended here, Li Jian, who was unhappy in his heart, could only comfort himself like this.

……***……

To be honest, Li Jian's hot pot restaurant performed very badly on the opening day, and even dismal.

With a store of nearly 1,000 square meters and nearly 100 tables of all sizes, there are only a few or more than 100 people dining, and the attendance rate is not even 50%. And among the more than 100 diners, more than 90% are relatives and friends.

The two large tables in the innermost corner are Xue Qi, with Zhu Hui, Yao Bin, and more than 20 colleagues.

Next to Xue Qi's four large tables is his father Xue Zhiguo, with most of the staff of the hotel's housekeeping department, as well as some familiar colleagues from various departments such as the hotel office, the hotel's business and conference department, and more than 40 people.

The next three big tables are all the kindergarten teachers in my mother's kindergarten, as well as the school bus driver, cleaning aunt, security guard, maintenance electrician, all the staff are missing. There were also more than thirty people.

Even Xue Xiao, the eldest brother who is the deputy mayor of Niutang Town, a relatively remote town in Haizhou, called more than a dozen colleagues who had made good friends when he worked in the Binhai District Government, although he could not come in person.

Huaxia people love to join in the fun, especially when Huaxia new stores like to launch various discount measures. Generally speaking, it is no problem for a newly opened store to be full or even full during a discount promotion a few days ago.

Therefore, compared with the grand occasion when other restaurants first opened, Li Jian's taste is indeed a little miserable.

It's not that no one wants to come in, it's that most of the people who come in look at the menu and leave.

Without him, it's really expensive for the price on the menu!

The bottom of the clear soup pot and the bottom of the spicy pot are thirty-eight or forty-eight in other houses, but in the taste of the meal, the bottom of the clear soup pot is one hundred and eighty-eight, and the bottom of the spicy pot is two hundred and eighteen!

The bottom of the seafood pot and the bottom of the mushroom pot are sixty or seventy, seventy or eighty that are more expensive than others, but in the taste of food, the price is as high as four hundred and eighty-eight!

The same name, the price is a few heads higher than others. This is also an exaggeration.

In addition to this, there are even more exaggerated!

The bottom of the cool and fire-dissipating medicinal pot, five hundred and eighty-eight!

The bottom of the medicinal diet pot to nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, six hundred and eighty-eight!

The bottom of the medicinal diet pot for strengthening kidney fitness, seven hundred and eighty-eight!

The most exaggerated thing is the bottom of a medicinal diet pot that 'nourishes yin and nourishes beauty', and the asking price is as high as 888!

How much is a shark fin soup? Not enough for the bottom of a pot here!

In addition to the bottom of the pot, the side dishes are also ridiculously expensive.

For example, special shrimp slippery and cuttlefish slippery are thirty or forty in other stores, and they can pour them well, and one serving will cost one hundred and eight.

It's a money grab!

Although you can come to the five-star hotel shopping-mall to eat, you have a little money in your pocket, but no matter how rich you are, you don't want to be a Kaizi and let people slaughter?

Therefore, it is no wonder that many people come in and look at the menu, and then look unhappy, and even get up and leave with a scolding.

Therefore, it is no wonder that on the first day of the opening of 'Taste Zhai', under such a lively atmosphere, under the discount promotion of up to 80% off, the business was still so deserted.

Even, when Li Jian was greeting guests at the door before, he heard the other restaurant owners in the neighborhood gloating and saying cool things.

"This young man thought that opening a restaurant was an easy task, but now he has learned a lesson, right? The pomp and circumstance of opening is quite large, and he dares to spend money on decoration and renting a restaurant. But no one comes to eat, no matter how big the pomp is, there is a fart? No matter how good the decoration is, the store is big, it is also a money-losing goods!"

……

On the first day of opening, there were only a few people seated, and it is estimated that many of them must be relatives and friends at home. It's going to be miserable in the future.

Unless his father's surname is Ma, and he is engaged in e-commerce or chat software, otherwise even if he has money, he will not be able to stand it if he loses money day by day. ”

……

"This kid is typically sick, and hot pot is a cheap thing. He opened a hot pot restaurant to a shopping mall affiliated to a five-star hotel, isn't it uncomfortable?

It's all rich people who come here, who eats such cheap things?

Not to mention that no one comes to eat, even if someone comes to eat, can the money earned be worth such an expensive store rent?"

"Cheap, who said it's cheap. You haven't been in it yet, it's expensive to die for. It's definitely more expensive than your stick barbecue. ”

"Really?"

"Why are you lying to you? This boss is a madman, the bottom of the pot is hundreds of dollars a piece, he thinks the consumption here is Vietnamese dong or Congolese francs?"

", that's crazy!"

……

"How long do you think this restaurant will last?"

"If you were smarter, you would close the door now, and you would definitely lose the least. If it is too axis, if the road goes to the dark, it is estimated that it will last a long time. When will the family be ruined, and when will it be closed!"

……

As a 'human witch', Li Jian's ears are very smart, even more intelligent than dog ears. Therefore, the cool words of several restaurant owners in the neighborhood are all listened to.

However, Li Jian was too lazy to worry about them, not to mention that Li Jian had absolute confidence, believing that his hot pot restaurant business could not be as long as they imagined, and he would lose as long as he wanted. Even if it's really a pure money-loser, Li Jian doesn't care.

First of all, Li Jian's original intention of opening the store was not to make money. It's purely to prevaricate my mother's endless blind date arrangement.

Secondly, Li Jian is not afraid of losing money at all.

Although Li Jian really doesn't have much money now, it is too easy for Li Jian to really want to make money.

In the simplest and most brutal way, Li Jian went out to rob the bank once, which was enough for the store to lose money for several months.

If Li Jian is more diligent and robs thirty or fifty banks a day, or goes to Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macao, which are rich and rich, to perform the feat of stealing thousands of houses at night, even if this store loses money for a lifetime.

Or Li Jian plays a bigger point, directly according to the Forbes rich list, from top to bottom, from top to bottom, if you intimidate and blackmail, even if the store loses for a thousand years, it will be no problem.

Of course, Li Jian can also directly find the state and organizations to blackmail, whether it is the US imperialist government, the Japanese government, the Arab royal family, or the major consortia, major families, or several major superpower organizations, all of them are very rich. Plucking a leg hair down is enough for Li Jian to squander.

Therefore, Li Jian's cynicism about several bosses around him was completely deaf to him. After welcoming the friends who needed to be welcomed into the store, I was still entangled in the relaxed life I was about to lose, and I walked into the store listlessly.

When Li Jian, who had completed the welcome mission, returned to the store, the relatives and friends who had invited him had already taken their seats. It occupies a small space in the innermost part of the dining area.

And Li Jian's next task is to make amends and thank all relatives and friends for their support.

Therefore, after entering the store, Li Jian did not stop, and walked straight to the innermost part of the dining area.

Thank you for the rewards of the three brothers, 'Rainbow Change', 'I Want to Return with the Wind', and 'M-750'.