Chapter 47: "I'm Sorry, It's Full"
"Mr. Zhou, is it convenient, I'll invite you to dinner."
"Mr. Wu, so decent, why did you remember to invite me to dinner, is your fund rising again?"
"Well, don't mention the plaything...... I heard Zheng Fatzi say that there is a new herbal medicine restaurant on Wenyu Street, which tastes good, and I want you to accompany me to try it. ā
"Herb Restaurant? I know that my neighbor Lao Wang went to eat once, and he came back full of praise. He said the food was not only delicious, but also medicative. He used to have a nervous breakdown, and he always couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and guess what, after eating one of the qi-boosting soups there, he slept very soundly for several days. ā
"It's not just this, Director Feng of the National Taxation, you know, right? It's the one who always suffers from kidney loss, and after eating a return to the peony chicken, he......"
"Hee-hee-hee...... Go together, go together! ā
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In all corners of Chongqing, similar conversations continue to grow. At first, it was just Han Hongqi, Gao Shixin, and Cai Meilin who made some propaganda to their relatives and friends, and some people went to the medicinal food shop to eat it with half-believing thoughts, and continued to advertise it after they came back. In this way, the reputation of the medicinal food workshop spread throughout the city in less than a month.
In our big country of foodies, a restaurant with a distinctive character is undoubtedly the most popular. People with money and power have one-fifth of their time to spend on dinner every day, what Sichuan, Lu, Yuehuai, what Japanese, Korean, Thai and Italian, all kinds of cuisines have been tired of them, finding a restaurant with new ideas is simply more difficult than finding a reliable expert, countless secretaries and Ma Zai are digging out their hearts to understand the dynamics of the catering industry, in order to find a delicious meal for their boss in time.
In this case, a medicinal food workshop that tastes good and is under the banner of health preservation is born, how can it not attract everyone's attention. People who have mixed with a certain status, who do not have the rich disease of kidney deficiency and insomnia, but the dishes of this medicinal restaurant can have a therapeutic effect, and they are all Chinese medicinal materials, green and harmless and pure ecology, and everyone will naturally flock to it.
Of course, some people say that Chinese medicine has not been done in a double-blind way, and it is not as safe as Western medicine, so everyone should cherish life and stay away from traditional Chinese medicine. But there is no market for this kind of talk in the general public, you don't see that Wang Laoji's sales have long exceeded those drinks produced by foreign devils, and what "hate chemistry" advertisements can also lead the market, and even the construction of substations around the protest community can collect thousands of signatures, you tell them that double-blind real yĆ n, isn't it funny?
The business of the medicinal kitchen was booming without warning, and within a few days, the medicinal food workshop with more than a dozen private rooms was already hard to find, and even the few tables for two in the hall were lined up. The girl at the bar receives hundreds of reservation calls every day, and the most common thing she says is, "I'm sorry, it's full......"
Almost every day, there are people who lie at the door bitterly, begging the clerk to help them arrange a table position, and some people secretly stuff the red Grandpa Mao into the clerk's hands. Most of these clerks were waiters in Shi Peifeng's era, and they were a little at a loss for a while when they saw this kind of crowding formation. After a long time, they got used to it, and in the face of customers wearing scrapy suits and driving Mercedes-Benz BMW Audis, they were able to politely reply, "I'm sorry, it's full......"
Li Yu specially discussed with Xu Yingying whether to set up a nearby store and add some seats. Xu Yingying categorically rejected the proposal. She sued Li Yu that now this kind of business is called hunger marketing, and these dignitaries still eat it. The more positions that others can't book, once you book them, the more face you will have in front of customers. Conversely, if there are plenty of seats and anyone can eat, what's the point?
In addition to hunger marketing, Xu Yingying also set aside one of the only dozen private rooms in case of emergency. She asked Li Yu to deliver a message to Han Hongqi, Huang Jiping, Gao Shixin, Cai Meilin and others, saying that if these people had friends who wanted to eat at the medicinal food restaurant, they could give priority to booking a seat with their phone numbers. Don't look at such a small privilege, if you use it well, you can also bring rich contacts to the medicinal food workshop, which is far more beneficial than a private room.
Li Yu prides himself on being a very smart person, but as far as business is concerned, in front of Xu Yingying, he is ashamed of himself. When she was a student, Xu Yingying didn't want to be motivated, she relied on pretending to be crazy and cute all day long, and even the final graduation thesis was completed by Ge Jianyu for her, which made people feel that this girl was completely an embroidered pillow. But who would have thought that from the moment he planned the medicinal food workshop, Xu Yingying was extremely excited.
She gets up early and goes to bed late every day, and she has to do everything herself. When entertaining guests, she is more attentive than Sun Erniang; In the face of employees, she is more skilled than Song Jiang; When it comes to business matters, she is more clever than Wu......
The dishes in the medicinal food workshop are indeed expensive, and they are breathtakingly expensive. A bowl of chicken soup for 2,000 yuan and a fried vegetable for 300 yuan are simply more profitable than robbing a bank. But what is this for those bosses who make big deals? What they are afraid of is that they will not be able to spend the money, and they are worried that inviting customers to eat a meal of less than 10,000 yuan is not enough to show their sincerity. The medicinal food workshop is aimed at such a group, too expensive? Less than 50 meters out of the medicinal food workshop, there is a Chenghuang Temple snack, 300 yuan is enough for all the employees of a medium-sized company to have a dinner, who told you not to go?
Imitations also quickly appeared, and on Wenyu Street alone, there were already two restaurants with signs such as "new ancestral Chinese medicine stewed chicken", which also attracted many working-class people to try the new. For a time, the entire Yuhai City set off a craze for eating medicinal diets, and all kinds of medicinal diets emerged in endlessly. However, according to the folk food tasting, the medicinal diet launched by any restaurant is not as authentic as the Hundred Herb Diet, and both the taste and the curative effect are unsatisfactory. After the results of this appraisal were spread on the Internet, the fame of the Hundred Herbal Kitchen became a few points greater, and it quickly became one of the forefront of the catering industry in Yuhai City.
The outrageous profits, coupled with the endless flow of customers, have rapidly increased the turnover of the medicinal food workshop from tens of thousands of yuan per day to three or four hundred thousand. Xu Yingying's happiest thing every day is to open the company's account in the middle of the night and count the digits of the company's profits. On the day when the company's profit exceeded 5 million, she covered her face and cried.
"What's the matter, what TV series are you watching again?"
Ge Jianyu, who had been sleeping a little dazed, was awakened by this strange voice and muttered a question.
Xu Yingying left the computer and threw himself into Ge Jianyu's arms, tears on his face wetting Ge Jianyu's cheeks.
"What's going on, what's wrong?"
Ge Jianyu felt that something was wrong, in the past, Xu Yingying was often startled, and the crying and laughter changed so quickly that the Sichuan opera actors could leave in shame. But this time the situation was obviously different, Xu Yingying's tears were hot, as if flowing from his heart.
"Jianyu, you say, if you have money, will you become bad?"
Xu Yingying raised his head, looked at Ge Jianyu and asked.
"How is this possible?" Ge Jianyu subconsciously asked, "How can I have money?" ā
When she heard the first half of the sentence, a trace of joy flashed on Xu Yingying's face, but the next half of the sentence annoyed her all of a sudden. She picked up her little pink fist and slammed it on Ge Jianyu's fat chest:
"Are you saying that you will become bad when you have money! I'll make you bad! I'll make you bad! ā
"What the hell is going on? In the middle of the night, you're sick! Ge Jianyu sat up quickly, and if he didn't get up, he would have to let Xu Yingying beat him to death. Xu Yingying is busy running a medicinal restaurant these days, and at the same time, he also took the time to learn a few boxing techniques from Li Yu, and it is not good to evaluate the effect of the enemy, and it really hurts to hit Ge Jianyu.
"Come and see, what is this!" Xu Yingying dragged Ge Jianyu to the computer, pointed to a column on the account table, and asked Ge Jianyu.
ā5172490.36ā¦ā¦ What do you mean? Ge Jianyu hadn't fully woken up yet, and he didn't understand the meaning of the string of numbers at all.
"This is the gross profit of the medicinal food workshop so far, a total of 5.17 million. We have a 20% stake, which means that we have 20% of the money, which is ...... 1,034,498, you know, Ge Jianyu, you are a millionaire now! Xu Yingying desperately lowered his voice and shouted excitedly.
"Million ......" Ge Jianyu only felt a buzz in his head, and his thinking was a little confused, and he desperately hugged Xu Yingying's waist to vent his inner excitement.
"Yingying, are you not mistaken, the medicinal food workshop has only been open for more than a month, and you have earned more than 5 million?"
"Haha, Jianyu, you don't know how hot the business of our medicinal food shop is, every day when we eat, all the luxury cars are parked at the door, which is more advanced than the cars parked at the door of Hongbaozhai. Those people order food, they don't look at the price at all, and when they swipe the card, they don't care about 120,000 at all......"
"In this way, we only had 20% of the shares, did we lose money? I knew it was ...... like this."
"What do you say?" Xu Yingying's eyes rolled and glared at Ge Jianyu and said, "Just this 20% of the shares, or Li Yu gave it to us, do you think Li Yu really lacks our 100,000 yuan?" Our medicinal food workshop can have such a good business, relying on Li Yu's medicinal food prescriptions, which are the most valuable things, more than 100 100,000. We have already taken advantage of Li Yu, you still dare to talk nonsense here! ā
"Uh......" Ge Jianyu wilted, he thought that when Xu Yingying wanted to buy shares, he still obstructed it in every way, and finally reached a behind-the-scenes agreement with Li Yu, and the 100,000 yuan of capital contribution was only symbolically taken out, and it was not really used. Looking back now, I really owe Li Yu a great favor.