【Chapter 880】 Restaurant Preparation (Subscription Requested!)
With the help of Morgan Lewis & Associates, Xiao Qiang, Ma Xiaotian and others took less than 3 weeks to complete the various transfer procedures of the winery, and put this super winery with a planting area of more than 2,000 acres under the name of 'Xiao's Winery'.
However, Xiao Qiang's work is not over, he has to plan the entire winery as a whole, planting new wine grapes, laying an irrigation system, and updating the equipment of the winery.
However, for Xiao Qiang, who was born in 87, he is now at the age of trying his best to prove himself, and he is working quite hard.
Xiao Qiang's presence in the 'Jinghu Group' has not been very strong, although he has the title of vice president of the group and is in charge of all the affairs of the planting industry, but in the eyes of the media, he has been living in the shadow of Xiao Feng.
In fact, before last year, the light of all the high-level leaders in the 'Jinghu Group' was overshadowed by Xiao Feng, and when it came to 'Jin Mu', the first reaction of the media and the public was Xiao Feng.
Although Xu Mengyao is the first CEO of the group, everyone values her identity as 'Mrs. Xiao Feng' more, so even if she single-handedly founded the almost perfect management system and incentive system of the 'Jinghu Group', people still think that she is insignificant.
Yang Hao, who succeeded Xu Mengyao, is even more suspicious, because of the relationship between him and Xiao Feng since he was a child, whether he is the director of the marketing department or Yaosheng is the executive president of the group, he is more questioned, thinking that this is the malaise of the family business. Even if he has accepted the affairs of the group for more than half a year, Yang Hao has not only made the development of the group as stable as ever, but also continuously expanded the scale and sales network of the group.
As for Xiao Qiang, Xiao Tao and Xiao Dazhi, although they are considered to be the troika of the 'Xiao Family Farm', they play more of the role of 'executors'. It is not valued.
'The Buddha fights for a stick of incense, and people fight for a breath'
Although the group was founded by Xiao Feng and played the most important role in it, Xiao Qiang may not regard Xiao Feng as a competitor and compete for power and profit, but the desire to be recognized by people is becoming stronger and stronger.
After getting married and having children, Xiao Qiang's mind went further. This is also understandable.
Since last year, Xiao Xiao was picked by Xiao Feng, jumped out of the system of 'Jinghu Group', and went to Haizhou to prepare for the establishment of 'Mengyao Coffee Chain', which quickly attracted widespread attention from the media.
The opening of the flagship store on the 88th floor of the International Financial Center has attracted wide attention from the national media, and has also made Xiao Xiao the most well-known beautiful CEO in the country.
In the past six months, 'Mengyao Coffee' has conquered cities in Haizhou, Beiping, Jinshan, Gusu, Jinling, Jinmen and Yangcheng, and opened 18 directly-operated chain stores in a row. It has been praised by the financial media as a model of high-end café chain cases in China.
Now, Xiao Xiao has initially gotten rid of the aura of 'Xiao clan people', and has confirmed his ability and charm with his ability and actions.
At the end of last year, Forbes magazine singled out Nini as one of the most powerful women in the Chinese business world, and also entered the Forbes list of rich women.
However, Xiao Qiang, Xiao Tao and others, although they have more shares of 'Jinghu Group'. He also has much more wealth than Xiao Xiao, and he is only with other clansmen. As a family, he entered the Forbes rich list.
The difference between the two reflects that Xiao Xiao's status in the public opinion and financial circles has far surpassed Xiao Qiang, which makes Xiao Qiang a little unacceptable.
The yellow-haired girl who followed behind her with snot back then can now be on her own, but she is still guarding the one-third of an acre of land in the 'Xiao Family Farm', which is really a little depressed.
Therefore. When Xiao Feng decided to hand over the purchase of a winery in Napa Valley to Xiao Qiang, he accepted it without hesitation.
Bidding farewell to his lactating wife and children, Xiao Qiang led the negotiation team selected by the group to fly to the United States and began the process of starting a business in the United States.
At this time, Xiao Qiang finally discovered the benefits of Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao forcing everyone to learn foreign languages. That is, after arriving in the United States, he is no longer deaf and blind.
This also strengthened Xiao Qiang's idea of taking root in the United States, and in the future, Xiao Xin also got the United States when he was older, like his sister Nini and Brother Yu'er, he also learned several foreign languages, and his boss also had a bright face.
2,000 acres of wine plantations, wineries, cellars, and associated ancillary facilities are extremely expensive, with a total price tag of more than $600 million!
You know, Dream Ranch covers nearly 200,000 acres, but the purchase price is less than $500 million, and if it weren't for the more money that followed with a full irrigation system, Dream Farm would not be as valuable as this winery.
It can be seen that the price of wine estates in Napa Valley is so expensive that it is no longer a luxury for ordinary people!
If it weren't for the impact of last year's drought and the after-effects of the subprime mortgage crisis, Xiao Qiang would not have been able to buy a winery in a good location even if he waved a check.
According to the opinions of professionals, the 'Mirror Lake Group' will need to invest at least more than US$400 million in the current winery to build a full-fledged vineyard and expand the cellars and workshops to accommodate the production and storage of 1 million bottles of wine.
It is foreseeable that in the next few months, Xiao Qiang's work will be extremely busy!
To this end, Xiao Qiang used an offshore company to set up the 'Xiaoshi No. 2' winery company in Napa Valley, and began to recruit local workers to carry out a comprehensive renovation of the winery, and the bidding for a full-coverage irrigation system with a total price of more than 200 million US dollars also caused a huge sensation in Napa Valley and even the whole of California.
Like a great white shark smelling blood, many engineering companies have flocked to Napa Valley, looking for various opportunities to meet with Xiao Qiang and try to get this huge order.
At the same time, the news that a mysterious consortium from China has purchased more than 2,000 acres of vineyards in Napa Valley has also become one of the big news stories in California.
Because of trade secrets, the media could not find out Xiao Qiang's identity, and coupled with the confidential information of the offshore company, they didn't know that such a big deal was the same person as Xiao Feng, who was in Los Angeles some time ago.
Now, too, the media in the United States can only sigh. The Huaxia consortium is so rich that they are waving checks, as if they want to buy America down.
Thirty years ago, the Dongying people from the East were also like this, including the Empire State Building, Columbia Pictures, etc., all became the pockets of the Dongying people.
OK. The strong position of the American financial system, the Plaza Accord of '87 has sheared the wool of the Dongying people, and the Americans are a little relieved.
Nowadays, the Chinese people, who are more powerful, have attacked strongly, and the previous political, economic and even self-military blackmail methods are no longer useful, and the Americans can only watch the Chinese manufacturing spread to every corner of their lives, and watch the Chinese tycoons begin to occupy the land of the United States.
Speaking of which, it's still quite aggrieved!
Some time ago, Xiao Feng dropped $200 million in Los Angeles. The record for the largest single residential transaction in the history of American real estate has already amazed Americans.
Now, another mysterious Chinese consortium has spent a huge amount of $600 million to buy 2,000 acres of grape plantations in Napa Valley, which makes Lao Mei unable to complain.
In this regard, Lao Mei can only ridicule the Chinese people in the media as nouveau riche, and they don't know the long history of 'Napa Valley Red Wine', even if they buy the winery. It is not necessarily possible to breed top-quality red wines, so let's talk about ** in such words.
Especially after seeing that the new owner of the winery ordered the original Cabernet Sauvignon and White Zinfandel to be eradicated. All kinds of yin and yang weird public opinion is endless.
There were even many bored Americans who carried various slogans to the vicinity of the winery to protest, claiming that slogans such as 'let the Chinese people go back', saying that 'the Chinese people have tarnished the wine tradition of Napa Valley', etc., which is extremely ridiculous.
Xiao Qiang also heard Xiao Feng say that he knew that protest was the norm in American life. Sometimes it's a bit pitiful to watch these crowds of protesters staring at the California sunshine, and ask the employees to give them a little mineral water or something to quench their thirst.
The media in the United States, including the public, will not know that the consortium behind the purchase of Napa Valley Winery is the 'Jinghu Group', which has produced high-end red wines such as 'Xiao's wine', and they will not know that the eradication of the original Cabernet Sauvignon and other wine grapes is that Xiao Feng wants to replace all the top-quality wine grapes cultivated with space.
Wait until three years later, when the first batch of 'Xiaoshi No. 2' will be launched. It is the day when the American media and even the people as a whole will fall through the glasses!
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When Xiao Qiang was thinking hard about the development of the winery in Napa Valley, not far away, Xiao Feng was not idle in the 'Dream Ranch', after all, with the arrival of spring, the 'Dream Restaurant' located in the 'Dream Scenic Area' has also entered the countdown to opening.
Xing Wenjun, as the general manager of the restaurant, is still very effective, during this time he not only carried out the decoration of the restaurant, the purchase of equipment and the training of waiters in an orderly manner, but also single-handedly recruited the top chefs of eight major cuisines from China.
With these eight chefs and related assistants, the Chinese food system of 'Dream Restaurant' has been initially established, and it is already easy to receive ordinary customers.
In terms of Western cuisine, Mr. Ducater has also been very helpful, not only recruiting a group of talented Western chefs from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School, but also personally sending two of his own disciples to serve as Western chefs at the 'Dream Restaurant'.
Of course, Xiao Feng, the boss and executive chef, will not easily cook by himself, after all, there are only a few guests in the world who can let him cook by himself.
Xiao Feng's greater role is to provide the best ingredients, space and cooking creativity, and the specific operation is naturally handled by someone, which is actually the norm for most of the top restaurants in the world.
Even Ducats, who loves cooking, may not be able to serve all the customers of all its restaurants even if they stay in the kitchen all year round, let alone in their position, there are countless social affairs, industrial management and so on to deal with every day.
Therefore, Xiao Feng personally cooks and cooks, which is more of a publicity stunt!
The renovation of the restaurant is over, and the tourists who come to the scenic area to play have also noticed this, but they are somewhat regretful to be told that the restaurant will not officially open until April 18.
After all, according to the blueprint at the entrance of the restaurant, this is a top-notch restaurant that aims to be a 'three-Michelin-starred restaurant', selecting the world's best chefs, top-quality ingredients and beautiful tableware to create a world-class dining experience.
Some ordinary middle-class people don't know when they will be able to come to the 'Dream Scenic Spot' next time, only those local tyrants who are not bad for money have secretly decided in their hearts to wait until the restaurant opens, and then fly over to taste it.
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This time the restaurant opened, Xiao Feng naturally had already brewed a set of publicity plans, after all, the restaurant's target customers are some local tyrants and celebrities, and ordinary advertising alone cannot play a key role.
For such an expensive and small top-notch restaurant, word of mouth is obviously more important, so Xiao Feng decided to hold a grand banquet during the opening period, inviting the top rich, superstars and consortium elites from the United States and China.
As long as these guests come to the 'Dream Restaurant', they will definitely be full of praise for everything here, and in today's Internet era, the celebrity effect will be infinitely amplified, and the benefits to the 'Dream Restaurant' are self-evident.
Compared with the opening ceremony held in the last 'Dream Scenic Area', the scale of the banquet in the restaurant this time will be larger, and the crowd involved will expand from China to Europe and the United States, which will be a greater test for Xiao Feng.
But this time, Xiao Feng didn't have too much nervousness, and he wasn't necessarily too busy, because someone shared most of his work, and he only needed to play the role of 'master'.
Without him, after returning from Europe, Xiao Feng's previous housekeeper selection through the headhunting company was finally recognized by Xiao Feng, and since the beginning of April, the Xiao family has begun to have the existence of the character of 'housekeeper'.
When the news came back to China, the old lady was a little out of shape, holding the phone for a long time, and the glory of the former family was actually reproduced abroad, which also made him feel very relieved.
With the housekeeper and related staff, Xiao Feng's family has completely gotten rid of trivial daily affairs, and everyone can do what they like to do according to their own interests and hobbies, which also makes the 'Maple Leaf Castle' more laughter.
The current Xiao family is becoming more and more like a wealthy family! (To be continued......)
PS: PS: There are still 22 monthly passes to 100, I don't know if it will arrive tomorrow?