Chapter 102: Direction of Development
In the end, there was no surprise at all, Lai Xiaohu was persuaded by Donald. In front of the veteran Donald, Lai Xiaohu is still too shallow after all.
But if you think about it, what Donald said did create another new thinking for Lai Xiaohu, who used to always position himself as a vegetable seller, but never thought about using his own vegetables to create greater value.
Now Donald has undoubtedly created a new idea for Lai Xiaohu, his own vegetables can be sold at a better price, so the meals made with his own vegetables can also be sold at a better price.
And luxury hotels are such a carrier, simply opening a hotel is really a bit overkill in Donald's opinion, and it doesn't fully use the value of Lai Xiaohu's vegetables.
If you want to open a hotel, just like Carlston now, in addition to making a lot of money from customers by selling those delicacies, it also directly drives the occupancy rate of the entire hotel.
How much is that? And Donald, who is well versed in the hotel business, knows that the profits generated by a hotel are far more than a simple hotel can match.
"I plan to open a five-star luxury hotel, bigger and more luxurious than Carlston. It's in Los Angeles. ”
Lai Xiaohu expressed his support, and even for a moment he thought about which street to open the hotel, "Okay, I think so too, we can open the hotel directly opposite Carlston." ”
Lai Xiaohu had already said that he would let the old Thompson beg him, and he said that he would do it, and he had planned to take the long-term confrontation route before, but now Donald made Lai Xiaohu think of a way to defeat the old Thompson in the shortest possible time.
"That's not good, is it?" Donald was a little surprised, although he knew that Lai Xiaohu must be very resentful of old Thompson, but he didn't expect the resentment to reach this point.
"When we open the hotel across from Carlston, we will provide the same service and the same food as them, and we will not be able to compete with them completely, and if we don't do it, we will lose both." Suddenly, Donald thought a little, "You're not going to pay him $300 million in liquidated damages, are you?" ”
"How is that possible," Lai Xiaohu exclaimed, that's $300 million, where can he get it, "but although I can't break the contract, I can provide better vegetables than Carlston." ”
"What?" Donald and Ivanka were shocked at the same time, "Better than the vegetables you served to Carlston?" How is this possible? ”
With a mysterious smile, Lai Xiaohu said, "There is nothing impossible with me. ”
Of course, Lai Xiaohu has this self-confidence, and now it has been a month since the space has been upgraded to the third level, but Lai Xiaohu has never started the cultivation or even experimentation of third-level vegetables, and has always exchanged the red energy crystal nucleus for white or black low-level crystal nuclei.
The biggest reason for this is, of course, that he was entangled in various things during this time, and he didn't have time to think about experimenting with third-level vegetables.
But now it's different, now all of Lai Xiaohu's business has basically become regular, and all of a sudden Lai Xiaohu has free up to see that he can plant third-level vegetables in his free time.
And it just so happened that Donald said that he opened a hotel, before Lai Xiaohu hadn't thought about who to sell the third-level vegetables to in the future, now I don't have to think about it, I don't sell anyone, so I keep it for myself.
The three of them discussed together for a whole day, and finally decided on the company's next move.
First of all, the three of them clarified the company's first task, expanding the scale of existing vegetable planting, and at the same time began to carry out cooperation negotiations with other star hotels in Los Angeles, and strive to make the entire Los Angeles star hotels use Lai Xiaohu's vegetables. After completely occupying the Los Angeles market, it began to radiate to other large cities in the United States, with Los Angeles as the center.
This is the most important task for the company in the coming period and will be the main source of income.
Of course, there is also a little bit of Lai Xiaohu's selfishness in this, and after a period of time, all the hotels in Los Angeles will use Lai Xiaohu's own vegetables, and then Carlston's business will definitely be greatly affected.
Lai Xiaohu signed a contract with Thompson Sr., but he never said that he would not sell vegetables to other people.
At the same time, the company's own hotel was also determined, and the hotel level was set at five stars.
Although there are now six-star and even seven-star hotels in the world, it is a bit too much investment for Lai Xiaohu and Donald to open a six-star or even seven-star hotel. And the first hotel is just the company's first experiment, five stars are enough.
In the future, if this five-star hotel is a big success, it is foreseeable that other hotels of Huamei Group will appear one after another in the future, and it is not impossible to find even a seven-star hotel at that time.
The size of the hotel will be built according to the size of Carlston, and strive to be bigger, taller, and more luxurious than Carlston, in short, both Lai Xiaohu and Donald will be able to compare with the elder Thompson in every aspect.
And the hotel's business strategy has also been determined, to drive accommodation with food. In this way, you can give full play to your strengths 100%.
At the same time, the construction of a vegetable planting base and the company's U.S. headquarters building also needs to be started, so it is impossible to let the company's employees work in this small villa in the future.
Now Donald has bought all the thousands of acres of farmland around the villa, waiting for Lai Xiaohu to plant it. And the company's building was identified by the three of them near the villa.
Didn't Donald already start building a planting base nearby, so build the company's building on the periphery of the planting base.
"It's estimated that the planting base and the company building will cost about $100 million in cash," Donald said, "and the hotel thing, it's very expensive to open a hotel in Los Angeles, and if you want to surpass Carlston, you need at least $200 million in investment, so the company will have tens of millions of dollars in cash left in the future, but it's enough to operate." ”
The next day, the three of them immediately took action, Ivanka played to her strengths and began to work as a corporate negotiator to seek cooperation with other hotels in Los Angeles, while Donald himself was in real estate, and the construction of the company building and the construction of the hotel was of course his own company. This is also the fact that the fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders.
No, he had already flown to New York early in the morning.
Lai Xiaohu began to prepare for his third vegetable planting.