In order to give the company time to prepare, the results will not be postponed until the last day, but will be specially announced three or five days in advance.

So, with five days to go until the end of the month, a new report was released on the official website of Haishi, which detailed the results of the residents' vote for the 'Binary Lunch'.

[Nanyuan Community, 314 people participated in the vote, Harvest Farm: 52 votes, Splendid Hotel: 19 votes, Xu's Catering: 239 votes, invalid votes: 4 votes. Xu's Catering has obtained the right to supply 'two-yuan lunch' in Nanyuan Community. 】

[Nanshe area, the number of voters participating in the vote is 438, Harvest Farm Splendid Hotel Xu's Catering: 272 votes. Invalid vote: Xu's Catering obtained the right to supply the Nanshe area. 】

[Dongmei Garden.121 people.Harvest Farm 79 votes.Harvest Farm gets the right to supply.] 】

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A total of 179 communities participated in the voting activity, and the final result was that Xu's Catering won the supply rights of 116 communities, Harvest Farm won the supply rights of 43 communities, and Fairview Hotel only won the supply rights of 20 communities.

Xu An is not interested in how many communities the other two companies have won, and his mind is now full of the number '116'.

One hundred and sixteen communities, with a cumulative number of 23,100 servings, this number is the total amount of all orders of Xu's fast food so far!

In other words, Xu's fast food will have to double its production capacity to meet the demand for 'two-yuan lunches'.

Fortunately, Xu An was prepared, and after reading the official documents in detail, Xu An contacted Han Yuanpinghan, manager of Xinyang Commercial Kitchen Technology Co., Ltd., and purchased eight automatic stir-fry equipment in one go.

In addition to the purchase of equipment, the kitchen staff has also been expanded, and eight members of the Haishi Disabled Persons' Federation have been recruited to join Xu's Catering and become the official employees of Xu's Catering.

Looking at the neat and shiny automatic stir-fry equipment in the back kitchen, and then looking at the increasing number of chefs who are not proficient in cooking, they should be called 'equipment operators', Zhou Qi felt bored for no reason.

The annoyance in Zhou Qi's heart was not because of these devices, nor because of those members of the Disabled Persons' Federation, but because he felt that the skills he was proud of and relied on to survive were despised and trampled

The kitchen work of a group catering company like Xu's Catering is very boring, and now it has installed automatic stir-fry equipment, as long as this equipment can be operated, ordinary people can turn into 'chefs', Zhou Qi He suddenly found that his existence or not is no longer important to Xu's Catering.

A huge sense of loss enveloped his whole being, and he became silent unconsciously, as if he had never been such a person in the kitchen.

Such a huge change naturally couldn't escape Liu Daxi's eyes, but he attributed Zhou Qi's silence to too many members of the Disabled Persons' Federation in the back kitchen, which brought Zhou Qi a huge sense of depression, so he became silent.

"Master Zhou, let's go smoke a cigarette together?" Taking advantage of the free time at work, Liu Daxi took a box of cigarettes and a lighter, and issued an invitation to Zhou Qi to 'smoke together'.

"Ahh

Zhou Qi subconsciously looked at the place where the voice came from, and his thoughts were also detached from the silence, and after he reacted, he was about to find a reason to refuse, but Liu Daxi had already stepped forward and grabbed his arm.

Half-pushed, half-pushed, Zhou Qi and Liu Daxi came to a secret corner of Qianjie Road dedicated to smoking, a corner that was quite lively in the past, and there were only the two of them at this moment.

Click-hiss-whew————

A puff of white smoke came out of the nostrils of the two men, turning into two clouds floating in the air, and their faces loomed in the mist.

"Master Zhou, let's talk about it, what's wrong, do you feel uncomfortable or are there other reasons." When there were enough clouds and mist enveloping them, Liu Daxi finally spoke.

"What's uncomfortable, no." Through the obscuration of the clouds and mist, Zhou Qi said words against his will.

"No, with your dejected appearance, it is impossible not to!" Liu Daxi persuaded him: "Let's talk about it, there are only two of us here, and only I know the conversation here, and I won't tell anyone."

I don't know if it's because of Liu Daxi's persuasion, or because the nicotine in the cigarette paralyzes the nerves, or because the weather is very good today and this corner is very relaxing

When the cigarette was about to burn to his fingertips, Zhou Qi took a sharp puff, then threw the cigarette butt to the ground, the tip of the shoe crushed the starry red light, and after spitting out a long puff of smoke, Zhou Qi finally spoke.

"I just feel a little uncomfortable in my heart"

"Because of the new Disabled Persons' Federation?"

"Yes and no." After Zhou Qi replied ambiguously, his eyes locked on Liu Daxi, trying to see the expression on his face through the clouds, and pretended to be relaxed and asked:

"Master Liu, do you have a sense of crisis, automatic stir-fry equipment + ordinary people = us chefs who have worked hard for many years to get a job. Isn't that a little unfair?"

"It's a little bit unfair indeed." Liu Daxi nodded slightly, sighed and said with a smile: "However, they are only 'chefs' when they use these equipment, and if they are separated from these equipment, they are nothing. But we're still chefs when we're out of the equipment, aren't we? ”

After another long silence, Liu Daxi spoke again: "Actually, for the members of the Disabled Persons' Federation, this is an extremely rare position, as long as you can know how to read, as long as there is no problem with your hands and feet, you can be qualified for this job. The boss is not harsh, the colleagues are quite friendly, the salary is also in place, and everyone is very happy."

"Ha" Zhou Qi laughed, and finally swallowed the sentence that had reached his throat, "So", took a new cigarette again and lit it.

"At my age, I am not a few years away from retirement, and I hope that the person who will take over my position in the future is a person like you, who is highly accepting and friendly to the members of the Disabled Persons' Federation, and it is difficult for them to find similar jobs except here."

Yes.!

Zhou Qi suddenly looked up at Liu Daxi, but there was too much smoke between the two, and only the corners of Liu Daxi's mouth could be seen vaguely.

"Master Liu, what you said, why do you mean that I want to force the palace?" Zhou Qi patted Liu Daxi's arm lightly, and said with a smile: "With Master Liu's physique, there is no problem in working for another ten or eight years, just abdicate and let Xian or something."

After that, Zhou Qi finally confided in his heart.

"I've always had a dream in my heart to open a restaurant that sells all the dishes that I developed and cooked. I love the happy expressions on my guests' faces as they eat my carefully prepared dishes

When I open a restaurant, I will also recruit some members of the Disabled Persons' Federation, but I will find the kind of people who are interested in cooking and have talent. I'm not going to harvest all the rotten vegetables."

"Stinky boy, you still want to teach people with such a little ability, don't teach people to the ravines. No, what did you just say, broken vegetables and rotten melons, you dislike the meaning that the boss found is a stinky chess basket, you kid is finished, hurry up and bribe me, otherwise I will report this to the boss! ”

"Aha, I didn't say anything, and you don't have any proof that I said something that wasn't. Hahahaha"

There was a bit of weakness in the laughter, obviously Liu Daxi didn't say anything, but Zhou Qi felt that his mood was inexplicably better.

When a new cigarette was about to run out, Liu Daxi suddenly asked: "Master Zhou, I think my skills are quite good, after work, do you want to learn from me?" ”

"Ah, Master Liu, are you going to teach me the art of pressing the bottom of the box?" Zhou Qi pretended to be surprised.

"What kind of dreams do you have in broad daylight" Liu Daxi raised his hand and slapped Zhou Qi's head, and said angrily: "I just want to correct those little problems in your cooking, I have been with me for so long, I haven't learned good things at all, but I have learned a lot."

"Master Liu, you didn't teach me at that time, can you learn secretly without a bunch of problems!"

"It's nonsense!"

The two laughed and snuffed out the cigarette butts in their hands, threw them on the ground, and walked in the direction of Xu's catering one after the other.

Leaving the fog created by the two of them, his vision suddenly became clear and wide, and a trace of hesitation appeared in Zhou Qi's eyes, which turned into a sigh after staying for a long time, and finally under the urging of Liu Daxi, Zhou Qi walked a few steps briskly and walked side by side with him, and returned to Xu's catering.

After going out and coming back, Zhou Qi's gloom on his face was swept away, and he joined the team of chatting again.

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"I just wanted to ask if the price is still negotiable. After all, the price is increased for no reason, and the dishes are still the same, and it is not easy for us to explain to the parents of the students."

"How can you say that, adding a dish. Side dishes, side dishes, more rice, no."

"In that case, let's do it at the end of this month."

"Oh, are you planning to change the new cooperation contract at the end of the month, I will prepare it in advance, how about coming to you tomorrow to re-sign?"

"Ah, no." The principal of Red Star Middle School groaned for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Let's end the cooperation at the end of this month, I found a new supplier"

After leaving Red Star Middle School, the faces of other suppliers in Zhuzhou City appeared in his mind one by one, and after playing it on a loop a few times, he still couldn't lock down the suspect, and finally could only curse secretly: "Shameful traitor!" ”

Jingle Bell – Jingle Bell ————

Almost as soon as the curse came out, the mobile phone rang at the same time, and the man took out his mobile phone and saw that it was a call from a familiar supplier.

"Lao Tian, come to the Zhuzhou Hotel, everyone is here, hurry up!"

"Good! I'll be there soon! ”

Lao Tian hung up the phone, stopped a taxi and went directly to the Zhuzhou Hotel, hurriedly came to the box booked by his companions, opened the box door, and his eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the box one by one, no one was missing, everyone was here.

Without waiting for Lao Tian to sit down, one of them asked, "Lao Tian, didn't you say that the principal of Red Star Middle School was looking for you, how was the talk?" ”

"What's the matter, the talk has collapsed!" Lao Tianbian sat down while talking angrily, picked up the teacup and drank the tea, and said angrily: "In this box, someone has become a traitor!" ”

"Traitor, what traitor? What's going on? ”

Under the continuous questioning of everyone, Lao Tian completely recounted what had just happened in Red Star Middle School, and shouted again: "If it is not a traitor, how can this situation be explained?" ”

"The talks on my side also collapsed, and the same thing I gave was that the cooperation was canceled"

"Me too, saying I'm working with other suppliers."

"Me too"

“.”

After everyone in the box finished talking one by one, everyone immediately looked at each other.

The large and small suppliers in Zhuzhou City are here, if everyone is rejected, who is the supplier who won the cooperation of these schools?

"It's hard to make it happen, there is a newly established group catering company in Zhuzhou City. Or is it that group catering companies from other cities have settled in Zhuzhou City. Either way, I've never heard of it! ”

Then everyone gave full play to their personal connections, and after calling one after another, they soon got accurate news that there was really a new group catering company settled in Zhuzhou City!

Xu's catering, it turned out to be you! It turned out that you snatched our cooperation order! It's really a foreign monk who is good at chanting! What a skill!

"We, what should we do? Do you want to turn around and admit defeat? One of the suppliers said with some uneasiness: "The price of eight yuan is actually quite good, the profit part is not low, and it is still a big order that saves worry and effort."

"Soft and soft. Does it work to be soft now! Today's interview is probably the last chance for us! Lao Tian gritted his teeth and said: "Now our enemy is Xu's catering, as long as we bring it down, won't those schools have to come back to us obediently!" ”

"So, what are we going to do?" When everyone heard this, they asked again and again as if they had found the backbone of the Lord.

"How." Lao Tian suddenly laughed evilly, and said with a haze in his eyes: "Let's let this Xu's restaurant know together what a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake. When you come to our territory, you have to coil if you are a dragon! If it's a tiger, lie down for us! ”

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In this wave of expansion, the kitchen recruited four new people, Xu's Fast Food and Xu's Lo-mei each set up a management team, and the design, bidding, administration and other departments each added 1~2 employees, and the total number of employees of Xu's Catering exceeded 100!

According to the relevant regulations, the average office area needs to reach three square meters per person, and because Liu Daxi and other employees are kitchen staff and do not need to work in the office, they were reluctantly settled.

But now after recruiting a new batch of people, let alone the big office, even the employees have been arranged in the small meeting, and Xu An's office has been cleaned up, giving up half of the position to Lu Shengnan

Although it is possible to wait until the factory is built and convert the rooms on the first floor into offices, Xu's Fast Food is now in a stage of rapid development, and at the current rate of development, even if the first floor is converted into an office, it still cannot accommodate the increasing number of employees

It's not a long-term solution, it's better to plan ahead!

With the completion and opening of Xu's catering headquarters, there are many more businesses on the way forward, but there are still a lot of idle plots, and the price of both leasing and selling has not increased much.

And most importantly, now you have money in your own hands . As long as the plot is bought, the contract is signed, and the real estate certificate is in hand, you can take the real estate certificate to the bank for mortgage, how much money goes in and how much money comes out.

It will not affect the cash flow of Xu's Catering, nor will it affect the construction of Xu's Catering factory, branch expansion, cold chain fleet formation, and the construction of offshore hot springs

After thinking about it, Xu An walked out of the store unconsciously, looked sideways in the direction where Lijie Real Estate Agency was located, and the figure of the intermediary brother appeared in Xu An's mind.

Although the last time I worked with the agent, it was quite pleasant, and if it weren't for the landlord of the furniture store, it would have been a perfect cooperation.

Moreover, even after Xu An's promised commission disappeared because something went wrong, the intermediary brother was still busy running back and forth without the slightest slackness.

In addition, the most familiar with the situation of the shops on Qianjie Road is none other than the Lijie Real Estate Agency whose stores are on this road

Since you still want the plot here, the intermediary brother is a very good choice

Why don't you go talk to the agent guy?

(End of chapter)