Chapter 16: Business is booming
The next day, it was still the construction site that arrived at 10:45, and there seemed to be a few people waiting at the gate of the construction site, including Qiao Guoxing.
Qiao Guoxing discussed with his daughter-in-law when he got off work at night, and decided that when he got off work at noon, he would buy a box lunch at the door and take it to the canteen.
Seeing a tall thin man riding a tricycle from a distance, followed by a sturdy young man, he knew that this was Xu An and they were coming.
Qiao Guoxing squinted his eyes vigorously, wanting to see the dishes of today's boxed lunch.
'Boiled pork slices, winter melon meatballs, braised tofu, overlord flower soup; $8 per serving. ’
Just looking at the name of the dish, the speed of saliva secretion in Qiao Guoxing's mouth accelerated.
As soon as Xu An parked the car, Qiao Guoxing rushed to the front of the car, opened the foam box, picked up a boxed lunch, and waited for Xu An to fill him with soup.
The rest of the workers gathered around, and two of them bought for the other workers, one took three and one took four.
The first foam box was more than half empty.
Since the beginning of this wave of people, Xu An is responsible for collecting money and delivering change, Xu Le handing over soup boxes, Xu Heping making soup, Xu Kang covering the lid, and the small assembly line is in order.
By the time Uncle Dongliang appeared with a group of workers, there were only eight lunches left, which were swept away by them, and a few people didn't buy them.
Today, Xu Anke made a full forty-five copies, thinking that he would sell them for a longer time, and he should be able to sell them out slowly, but he didn't think that it would be emptied in less than an hour.
The few people who didn't sell the lunch box complained a little, and Xu An gave one of them a overlord flower soup, and they left reluctantly.
Xu Dongliang was worried that if he didn't find someone to help, Xu An would not be able to do this business. Now that I have finally put my mind at ease when I see this situation, even if I don't have someone to help me, the business has been done.
Today's dish in the site canteen is still pasta, but the toppings have been replaced by meat sauce, which is a little more real than yesterday's toppings with only a few shredded meat.
Most workers don't have much of an opinion about the canteen, after all, it's free, and they just need to fill their stomachs.
As they buried their heads in eating noodles, they suddenly smelled the smell of meat.
The fresh and spicy smell attracted the attention of many people, looking around for the source of the smell, and finally their eyes stayed in the direction where Qiao Guoxing and his wife were.
The two of them lined up the lunch box they bought from Xu An on the table, and ate the meat sauce noodles in the cafeteria.
Seeing them feasting, everyone suddenly felt that the meat sauce noodles in their bowls were not fragrant.
Someone leaned over and sat next to Qiao Guoxing, patted Qiao Guoxing on the shoulder, and asked bluntly: "Brother, this box of lunch belongs to that family, the dishes are very rich, how much is a serving?" ”
Qiao Guoxing was straightforward, swallowed the food in his mouth and replied: "There is a stall at the gate of the factory, and this one only costs eight yuan." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pain in his toes, and looked down to see that it was his wife who stepped on his feet.
Qiao Guoxing looked at his wife with an innocent expression and asked, "What's wrong." ”
After the man left, his wife scolded in a low voice: "The small stall doesn't have a lot of boxed lunches, only thirty or forty." There are five or six hundred people on the construction site, and if there are more people who know, will you be able to buy them then? ”
"You think that the boss is a fool, and if the business is good, he will definitely do more to sell. Today's boxed lunch is a lot more than yesterday's, so I don't have to worry about not being able to buy it. Qiao Guoxing said with a smile.
"When the time comes, there will be more boxed lunches, and there will be so many dishes and so much meat. How many restaurants and fast food restaurants are large and affordable at the beginning, and when business is good, they start cutting corners. ”
This sentence made Qiao Guoxing fall into chagrin.
"It's all said, but you can't take it back." Qiao Guoxing secretly decided: "When he stops corners, we won't buy it." ”
Because of the large amount, the average cost is five cents less than yesterday, and the net profit of 40 lunches is 100 yuan.
Judging from the current sales, ten more copies will be sold tomorrow.
The next morning, I went to the bald Chen store and picked up 15 catties of meat, of which 7 catties were pork belly. The vegetables are potatoes and cabbage from the second uncle Xu Guoqiang's house.
What I wanted to do today was a full fifty boxed lunches, and Grandma Xu was lying on the rocking chair to help pick vegetables, so she hurried and arrived before eleven o'clock.
Some workers who got off work early waited at the door at 10:40, and they couldn't wait until 50 to come to Xu An. I thought he wouldn't be here today, so he went straight to the restaurant across the road to consume.
Qiao Xingguo was waiting in the shade of the tree after getting off work at half past ten, and it was not simple to wake up after two rounds of drowsiness Xu An was also muttering in his heart.
"I don't want to go back and think about it, so I won't come." ’
When it was fifty-eight minutes, Qiao Xingguo's daughter-in-law came out.
"What about the stall with a boxed lunch?"
"I haven't come yet, and I don't know if I'm coming."
"Wait another five minutes, or if you don't come, hurry to the cafeteria, otherwise there are too many people and I don't know how long we will have to wait in line."
Xu An did not live up to everyone's waiting, and appeared at eleven o'clock on the small three wheels, and there were still two little babies sitting on the small three wheels, followed by this young man on a bicycle.
Everyone first looked at the whiteboard tied to Xu An's car, today's dishes are: braised pork, wolf tooth potatoes, baby cabbage and mung bean soup.
Seeing that today's dish has braised pork, everyone is not calm, for fear of being one step later than others, and scrambling to pick up a boxed lunch.
Hold the lunch box in your hand, and then slowly wait for Xu Heping to serve them mung bean soup.
Although there were only five or six people in this wave, sixteen boxed lunches were sold.
After scrambling to deal with this wave, there was no more such a bunch of people snatching around.
Of the people who came out of the gate of the construction site, three or two out of ten chose Xu An's stall.
Some of them were regular customers who had eaten a boxed lunch at Xu An's stall two days ago, some were attracted by the workers who were eating a boxed lunch on the side to buy a try, and some were seduced by the smell of Qiao Xingguo and his wife eating a boxed lunch in the canteen yesterday.
Uncle Dongliang arrived half an hour later today than the previous two days, and when he came out, there were only three boxes of boxed lunches left on Xu An's stall.
"How many boxed lunches did you bring over today, and there are only a few boxes left so soon." Xu Dongliang thought that he was not too late, and he didn't think that there was much left.
"Fifty copies." Xu An joked to Xu Dongliang: "It's a little late today, and some workers went to buy food on the other side, otherwise you wouldn't have a box when you come out now." ”
"Bold enough, it's only the third day that you dare to make so many boxed lunches, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sell them?"
Xu An smiled: "Isn't this the courage given to me by my fellow workers." ”
"I think fifty copies is about the same amount, although there are those on the site who are willing to spend money, but more are not willing to spend money, and I am afraid that you will not be able to sell them by then." Xu Dongliang saw that Xu An seemed to want to increase the amount of the boxed lunch, so he reminded him at the right time.
Xu Dongliang is also from the countryside, and he knows that the cost of such a boxed lunch is not low, and if there are four or five boxes that cannot be sold, half of the profit will be lost.
"Got it." Xu An nodded in agreement.
Fifty lunches is almost the limit of his alone, and if he wants to increase the number of lunches, he will have to add someone to help, and the profits will be further diluted, and the current situation does not allow him to do this.
Qiao Guoxing walked happily to the cafeteria with a boxed lunch, and his daughter-in-law had already prepared her own lunch and sat at the table waiting for him. He handed the lunch box to his daughter-in-law, quickly walked to the dining rack, picked up a rice bowl and began to line up.
Although Xu An came a little late today and was slightly delayed, Qiao Guoxing still arrived before the peak of the queue.
He had just finished cooking when he turned his head and found that the table where his daughter-in-law was was full of people.
"Sister-in-law, open it and let's see what kind of food it is today, let us smell it and eat it."
"That's right, it's so fragrant across the box, wouldn't it be so fragrant when you open the lid."
"Sister-in-law, don't be so stingy, just take a look, smell the smell, there will be no shortage of meat."
"Go and go, if you want to see and smell it, buy one yourself, tie it around your neck and smell it all day, and no one cares about you."
Qiao Guoxing scolded and pushed everyone away and sat down at the table.
After a 'boo' from the crowd, some people left, and the remaining part remained unmoved, still standing in place waiting for them to uncover.
Qiao Guoxing's daughter-in-law quickly opened the lids of the three lunch boxes, and the aroma of braised water suddenly filled the canteen.
Qiao Guoxing raised his chopsticks, quickly caught a piece of braised pork, put it in his mouth, and commented while eating: "This braised pork is not bad today, it is real enough, and it feels like eating a large piece of meat and drinking wine." ”
Qiao Guoxing's daughter-in-law also picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in her mouth, chewed it twice, and couldn't help but sigh: "The braised pork is good, but I prefer the boiled pork slices yesterday, which are fragrant, salty and spicy, and have an appetite for me." ”
A few people standing nearby, with the fragrance of the braised pork, took a few big mouthfuls of noodles.
Eating noodles with this taste makes me feel like I'm eating meat myself.
The noodles are down, the stomach is full, but the stomach is hungry, they are hungry.