Chapter 179 - Negotiate the design and processing of the great clams

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The opening hours of Dingxiangyuan Malatang have been extended to eight hours a day.

After the notice was posted, regular customers were very happy and praised it as a good move, so that they could be much more flexible in their choice of meal times.

After the extension of time, the store is still full of customers, and the increase in turnover is naturally expected. According to preliminary calculations, the net profit in a single day reached 3,500 or 600 yuan, and according to this calculation, the net profit in a month will exceed 100,000 yuan. For a small shop, it's already quite impressive, but it also seems to have reached its limit.

Aunt Wu is old, in order to avoid being overworked, Jiang Yichen specially told her that as her shareholder and store manager, she can be more relaxed, and she doesn't have to commute with the clerks below every day, just do a good job of management. It's not the time when it first opened, you have to do it yourself.

Regarding the future development of Dingxiangyuan, Jiang Yichen also considered it. Malatang food is very popular, and the market prospect is very broad, and it is really not good to be limited to such a small store.

When the conditions are met, find a larger store, it doesn't matter if the location is biased, anyway, the old customer base is already strong enough. However, the business area must be spacious, at least two or three hundred square meters, and the two-story business area with a large backyard should be moved to the head office, and the original branch should be on the line.

As for Su Xiaojia's arrangement, it is still according to the idea of a few days ago, out of satisfaction with her hobbies, and let her run a small marine handicraft shop in the future. But there's no rush on this, we have to wait until the previous business is done.

Su Xiaojia has been processing large clams for a period of time. In her spare time, she visited some of the city's handicrafts and tourist souvenir shops. Finally, I fell in love with a shop called "Zhuyuan Pavilion".

This is a time-honored brand with a large area, mainly dealing in shellfish, coral and pearl handicrafts, after observing the displays in the store, Su Xiaojia feels that the shell carving works here have a unique design style and exquisite workmanship, and people can't put it down at a glance.

After she took a fancy to it, she checked the relevant information of "Zhuyuan Pavilion" on the Internet, and then took her grandmother to negotiate with her.

That's when I got it. This "Zhuyuan Pavilion" is strong, belongs to the business model of the front shop and the back factory, the backyard of the façade room is its processing workshop, and there are several shell carving craftsmen in the industry in Lingjiang City.

At Su Xiaojia's request, the store manager took the grandparents and grandchildren to visit the processing workshop behind.

Subsequently, Su Xiaojia explained his intention to the manager and told him that he had a large clams with a length of one meter and four that he wanted to take here for processing.

current market. Such a huge clams shell is very rare, the manager surnamed Li suddenly became interested, so he drove in the car and took a designer to the backyard warehouse of Dingxiang Garden together with Su Xiaojia's ancestors and grandchildren.

Under the light, when he saw this huge volume, delicate texture, and complete appearance of the large clams shell. couldn't help but light up in his eyes, and immediately bid 120,000 yuan to buy it.

But Su Xiaojia shook her head and refused, and grandma Tong Guò told him that this material was not intended to be sold, but to be a treasure of the town store in the future.

Manager Li persuaded several times. Still rejected, I had to sigh regretfully. Let the designer measure it. Take a photo and prepare to take it back to do the schematic design.

As for the requirements for design style, Su Xiaojia wrote on the paper that she doesn't like the cumbersome, cliché, and cookie-cutter carving schemes on the market, such as hundreds of arhats, peacocks opening the screen, eight immortals crossing the sea, dragons and phoenixes and other themes, because that violates the natural characteristics of the clams shell itself, and can be used on any other material.

It is necessary to give full play to the natural texture characteristics of the clam material itself and combine it with the beauty of the form, and the overall shape can be simpler. But be sure to highlight what sets this piece apart from the rest.

Manager Li handed over this question to the middle-aged designer around him.

The middle-aged designer didn't talk at first, and after he bent down and carefully inspected all aspects of the big clams shell, he commented:

"This big clams are rare, I haven't seen them for some years, the best shell carving materials. The shape of its blank is already very vivid, the curve of the wave mouth is graceful and stretched, thick and generous, the furrows of the shell are sparse and dense, and the whole is full of spirituality and freshness. The texture is white and delicate, and of course, there are some attachments that must be completely removed before you can see the whole picture. There are relatively few defects, well, there are a few noticeable flaws here. Overall, the condition is quite good. ”

At this point, he paused slightly, and pointed to a small crack in the mouth of the wave of the clam's shell. In fact, there are traces left by the big guy clamping the diver Jiang Yichen's calf last time, and the latter used a sharp stone as a wedge to smash it.

"We just need to take advantage of the situation, remove the chaff, and highlight its own characteristics, this little girl is right, there is no need to add those cumbersome and complicated artificial elements." The designer continues to explain his point of view.

Over the years, there has been a crooked trend in the handicraft industry, which is also driven by economic interests, that is, to make everything extremely cumbersome and bells and whistles, as if this is not the only way to reflect the value of the work and make the buyer feel decent.

In fact, as a handicraft, the heavier the man-made traces are to cover up the characteristics of the raw materials themselves, the more contrary to the real art. There are too many vulgar works on the current market, and a lot of good materials are wasted, which is sad.

As a senior designer, I am deeply touched by this, but the atmosphere is like this, and I am helpless.

The designer's words made Su Xiaojia very happy, and she cast a grateful look at the other party. At the same time, I feel that this is a good designer with a conscience, and he did not fool customers into taking the cumbersome style route because of commercial interests in order to earn high processing fees.

Manager Li thought about it after hearing this, and felt that it was very reasonable, so he nodded a few times in agreement.

Next, the two sides discussed the issue of processing fees, and Manager Li said that the accurate number can only be calculated after the design plan is confirmed by Party A. But since it is a simple style, it will not be too expensive, and it is estimated that it will be 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, and it will definitely let the best shell carving master in the store make zuò.

Su Xiaojia then made one last request, saying that she also likes the shell carving process, and if the time comes to send this clams to the processing factory, she wants to follow along to learn and give the carving master a hand.

Manager Li smiled when he heard this, and then agreed to her request, the shell carving process mainly depends on the operator's personal aesthetic and technical ability, and it does not need to be kept secret.

After Manager Li and the designer left, Su Xiaojia informed Jiang Yichen of the news by text message, and the latter quickly replied, saying that this matter would be handled by her with full authority, and at most let him take a look at it when the plan came out. (To be continued.)