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Chapter 203 Garfield's Pizzeria Takes Off!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!

Chapter [-] The Garfield Pizza Shop that Takes Off!

As early as Yao Ming's rookie season, averaging close to a double-double per game, overwhelmed O'Neal to become the starting center of the Western Conference All-Star, the league has been constantly weakening the proportion of international fans' votes.

Especially the voting share of Chinese fans. After all, Chinese fans accounted for more than half of the overseas votes in the NBA All-Star voting!
Although the popularity of the NBA in the world has continued to increase in recent years, the share of votes from Chinese fans has continued to decrease.

But it is still the bulk of the NBA's overseas voting.

Therefore, the voting algorithm of Chinese fans has been adjusted every year in recent years.

However, although the league has tried its best to adjust the proportion of votes from overseas fans, it can't hold back as the NBA's globalization strategy advances more and more smoothly.

After international fans pay more and more attention to the All-Star NBA, their enthusiasm for voting is also increasing.

Especially after the U.S. team's dominance in the world basketball has been declining in recent years, it has stimulated a large number of fans to join the NBA's annual voting contest!
This has also led to the fact that although the NBA continues to weaken the voting share of international fans every year, the voting share of overseas fans still accounts for more than 50% of the voting share of all NBA All-Stars.

And this year, it is because of the booming and successful NBA overseas preseason games.

Let more and more international fans begin to pay attention to the NBA, the world's number one basketball league!
Originally, the league actually realized that this year's All-Star voting will be very popular in the world after seeing the prosperity of this year's overseas preseason games.

Therefore, before the opening of the voting channel, the voting algorithm of overseas fans has been further compressed than in previous years!

But what the league didn't expect was that after suppressing the enthusiastic votes of overseas fans, the votes of fans in the United States went astray!

Speaking of it, I really can't blame the fans in the United States for not supporting domestic stars!
It is really that the domestic stars are a little disappointing this year!
In addition, this year just caught up with the NBA, and the data of many international players has exploded.

Not to mention Xu Lang and Yao Ming, the statistics of the two are impeccable in the hearts of fans in any region of the United States.

And Yi Jianlian is one of the Washington Five Tigers who hit close to 20+10 in his rookie season, although the number of votes has a certain bonus from the Chinese market and the Washington Five Tigers.

However, as a rookie player in the current NBA with waning insiders, Yi Jianlian has also been recognized by many American fans.

Moreover, compared to Xu Lang, a player with a flamboyant personality, Yi Jianlian's relatively low-key personality also makes American fans less repulsive to him.

Of course, without Xu Lang as a comparison player, Yi Jianlian's character might be a bit soft in the eyes of American fans!
Except for the data of Xu Lang's three Chinese players, which have been recognized by many American fans.

And Paul Gasol, who also led the Spanish team to the US team this year, also played the best average performance of his career.

Since the start of the regular season, Pau Gasol has averaged 37.6 points, 26.7 rebounds, 11.2 assists, 2.6 blocks and 1.9 steals in 0.7 minutes per game.

Although the Grizzlies' record this season has been on the verge of the playoffs, Paul Gasol's performance has indeed been recognized by many American fans.

And if it is said who is the best international player to play this year, some people may have different opinions.

But if we say who is the international player with the best statistics this year, it is undoubtedly the German national treasure player Dirk Nowitzki.

I don't know if it's because of the pressure of the World Championships that Dirk Nowitzki directly hit superstar-level data at the beginning of the season.

Dirk Noveth has averaged 38.7 minutes per game since the beginning of this season.

He averaged 31.2 points (second in the league), 10.8 rebounds (fifth in the league), 2.3 assists (third in the power forward position), 1.8 blocks, and 0.7 steals per game.

The total shooting rate is as high as 55.7%, the three-point shooting rate is as high as 38.6%, and the free throw shooting rate is as high as 82.3%.

This kind of data performance not only continuously improves Dirk Nowitzki's status in the hearts of international fans, but also in the hearts of American fans, Dirk Nowitzki's ranking in the power forward position has also begun to rise.

Until the day before the opening of the All-Star voting channel, Dirk Nowitzki came to No. 3 in the player power rankings and No. [-] in the power forward position. For the first time in his career, he overwhelmed Tim Duncan to become No. [-] in the league. Power Forward.

The data performance is excellent, and it has been recognized by a large number of American fans, coupled with the enthusiasm of international fans.

It is normal for Dirk Nowitzki and Xu Lang and other three Chinese players to directly dominate the All-Star voting this time!
In fact, according to normal, the American basketball world would not be directly dominated by international players. LeBron James, the leader of the new generation of American players touted by the league, and the four major points in the post-Jordan era, in the United States. Popularity is still very high.

But I can't stand these guys' front and rear feet, and there are various problems!

Kobe's farce in 03, which is well-known in the United States, coupled with the notoriety of forcing away the team's meritorious player O'Neal and the other two players in the F-four members in the past two years.

It directly transformed Kobe Bryant from the Peter Pan in the hearts of American fans to a famous stabbing player!
It also affected Kobe's reputation in the United States and the world a lot.

Fortunately, in the past two years, with the passage of time, and Kobe relying on his scoring champions again and again and his super performance of 81 points in a single game, these influences have slowly weakened.

But obviously, Kobe's reputation in the United States this season has not yet returned to the level of his peak.

As for LeBron James, let alone, after being beaten like that by Xu Lang in the opening game.

It is already doomed that LeBron James' popularity this season will be greatly affected!

As for the other three players in the top four, their popularity began to decline due to various reasons!
Tracy McGrady is now considered to be the second in charge of the Rockets, Yao Ming's younger brother.

Carter also left Toronto to the Nets and became Kidd's deputy.

The 76ers led by Iverson have already gone for the No. [-] pick this season.

All of these have affected and declined the overall reputation of several players that the league is currently promoting.

In addition, the NBA championship teams in recent years are either the Pistons, a team called "all civilians", or the Spurs, a team that is very unpleasant among fans. .

All these factors have led to the fact that there really seems to be no particularly powerful super players in the United States.

In terms of fame, he can compete with Xu Lang, Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming, who have the bonus of the Chinese market and the title of Washington legend.

On the contrary, Dirk Nowitzki, who came to the top purely by his own data performance and ability to lead the team, ranks fourth in the All-Star ranking list, and is threatened by LeBron James from time to time.

Then, after the Chinese team won the World Championships this year, the basketball player who had a certain market in the American basketball world appeared again.

"Chinese players dominate American basketball."

"Although I don't want to admit it, there seems to be a certain disconnect in American basketball right now in players at every position."

"I think we need to limit the possibility of Chinese players entering the NBA."

"We can no longer train talent for the Chinese basketball world.

Xu Lang and others should be expelled from the NBA or their playing time should be limited. The NBA is the NBA of the United States. "

Obviously, these headlines are aimed at sales, and they are all mindless and stupid remarks.

But I can't stand the ignorant majority in the United States.

Then Xu Lang, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian began to receive resistance from a large number of American people.

Even radical fans in some places have started to hold some demonstrations to demand that the US government expel Xu Lang and the three of them.

Even some American people have begun to say that the Chinese in the United States are not good people.

And there are some people who were fooled and really went to trouble some Chinese Americans.

It's just that what many American people didn't expect was that their brainless action was specifically aimed at Chinese Americans in the United States this time.

However, the Chinese who had seldom united to do things in the United States suddenly united to form a union of ethnic minorities in the United States.

And the main target of this guild and the main body of joining the union are the Chinese in the United States, followed by some ethnic minorities who have seldom received enough attention in the United States!
Then politicians across the United States suddenly discovered that the proportion of Chinese in the United States in the middle class in the United States has reached a level second only to that of whites!
Even in some cities with a relatively large number of Chinese, this proportion is almost equal to that of the white population.

Then some American politicians seem to see new votes.

In fact, in the past, it was not that American politicians were eyeing the votes of the Chinese-American group.

It's just that because the group of Chinese Americans has not been integrated together before, it is difficult to form some centralized voting ability.

This has made many American politicians think that it is not too cost-effective to win Chinese votes after understanding and trying.

But it is different now. With this conflict, 70% of Chinese Americans have chosen to join the American Minority United Labor Union organized and led by Chinese Americans.

Moreover, compared with other ethnic minorities, Chinese Americans have an excellent feature, that is, as long as someone takes the lead, it is easy to form a centralized voting state

Of course, all of this is something for later, and it has nothing to do with Xu Lang now.

After all, Xu Lang himself does not have American citizenship, so it is impossible for him to participate in the US political election.

After the end of the game against the Rockets, the Eagles began to enter a short-term Christmas holiday
Speaking of the league's schedule for the Eagles, it's also weird.

The Eagles really don't know whether the league is good for them or bad for them.

If anything, from October to December, most of the Eagles' opponents are playoff teams.

But if it is bad, the Eagles were able to get a five-day long holiday without games on Christmas Day, a very important festival in the United States.

The five-day long vacation directly made many players of the Eagles choose to play and fly, and went home to spend Christmas with their families.

The same is true for Xu Lang. Of course, Xu Lang didn't go back to his home in China, but chose to fly directly to Washington, D.C., to spend this year's Christmas at his godmother's house.

Originally, Xu Lang still felt a little regretful that he might not be able to spend Christmas with his godmother this year, but who knows...

As for Li Yiran, he had already bought a plane ticket and went back to China to reunite with his parents.

It's not that Li Yiran is homesick, or loves her family, but mainly for the sake of being able to study in the United States. One of the various unequal agreements signed between Li Yiran and her parents is that she only needs to have more than two If you are on vacation for more than a week, you must go home.

"Lang, here, here."

Xu Lang, who had just landed, immediately saw the pick-up book at the gate of the airport.

Speaking of the recent period of time, I have been busy and full.

After Xu Lang, Yi Jianlian and others played their worth in the NBA.

The fame of Garfield's Pizza in the United States began to rise continuously.

This also allowed the chain of Garfield's Pizza stores to gradually open in every state in the United States.

Of course, the rapid and stable expansion of Garfield's Pizzeria is also inseparable from the continuous capital injection from Xu Lang and others.

It's just that because of the continuous capital injection of Xu Lang and others, the capital itself is not rich enough, and it can't keep up with the capital injection speed of Xu Lang and other original shareholders.

In the end, in order not to waste these shares in his hands, Ben moved out of his father without hesitation.

He took out 10% of his own shares and sold them to his father, directly earning a capital of tens of millions of dollars.

The reduction in share capital, coupled with sufficient capital, made it impossible for Garfield's Pizza Restaurant to lose too much capital injection during the period of substantial expansion in the early stage.

As a result, Ben barely kept his shareholding ratio, and so far still owns 10% of the entire Garfield Pizza Shop.

Of course, the choice of introducing his father to Garfield's pizzeria was also approved by Xu Lang and the others.

At the same time, with the addition of Uncle Li, who owns many Chinese restaurants in the United States, the plan of Chinese food entering the United States that Xu Lang and Ben originally wanted to plan was restarted.

Uncle Li uses his rich cooking experience and strong team background.

Helped Garfield's Pizza to develop several American versions of Chinese snacks that can be produced quickly and accepted by the American people.

And I don't know if it's because Uncle Li's improvement is really good, or because of the relatively simple American food culture.

These Chinese snacks were immediately loved by a large number of American people after they were produced by Garfield's Pizza.

This also caused a wave of Chinese snacks in the American food industry!

It's just that although Garfield's Pizzerias are opening all over the United States, they are booming and have a huge momentum.

However, due to the initial large-scale expansion, Garfield's Pizza has not yet shown any signs of profitability.

Not only is there no profit, Xu Lang has already invested almost 2000 million US dollars in this pizza shop chain project.

This is still in the later stage of expansion, especially after Uncle Li joined, the expansion method of the entire pizzeria has changed from the previous model of self-buy, self-build, and self-use to a model of half-buying and half-renting.

Otherwise, Xu Lang felt that he might lose all the income he obtained from crazy money sucking in the past six months, and all of it would be sucked up by this project!

It's also because Garfield's Pizzeria has expanded so much.

As a result, only Xu Lang and Uncle Li still have enough funds to keep up with the expansion of the pizzeria.

This also led to the fact that Yi Jianlian and Brandon Roy's shares in this project began to shorten like Ben.

However, compared to Ben Kuai who couldn't even keep a tenth of the shares, Yi Jianlian and Yi Jianlian are much better off!

Until recently, with the expansion of Garfield's Pizza, it has slowly leveled off.

The shareholding ratio of each shareholder team gradually leveled off.

In the end, the shares of Yi Jianlian and Brandon Roy both dropped to only 17%!
And Xu Lang, who has been keeping up with the investment recently.

The proportion of shares in this project has been increased to 35%.

Relying on Ben's 10% of the shares, Uncle Li, who entered the project, increased his shareholding to 21% after continuous capital investment during this period of time, directly becoming the second largest shareholder in the project .

Of course, although Yi Jianlian and Brandon Roy's shareholding ratio is constantly declining.

But they didn't suffer. With the entry of Uncle Li, he not only brought a large amount of funds and a rich research team, but also brought a large number of professional management personnel related to restaurant opening.

This also allowed Ben to slowly get rid of more and more tedious affairs.

At the same time, the expansion and operation of the entire Garfield Pizzeria has become more and more formal.

And although the shares of Ben, Brandon Roy, and Yi Jianlian are constantly decreasing, the value of their shares after this decrease is now more valuable than their shares before!
Just now Garfield's Pizzeria has built, bought, or rented nearly 300 stores across the United States, which are already worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

And after Garfield's expansion slowed.

Garfield's Pizzeria is also about to start showing some profits in January of 07.

According to Ben's calculations, based on the average revenue of Garfield's Pizza restaurants in various places in the past few months, the total profit of all Garfield's Pizza restaurants in the United States in January was at least 1 million US dollars.

And this is when nearly 1/3 of the stores have not yet been fully put into business.

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