Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 177
Hearing what Cao Zhiqiang said, Lou Xiaoe said with a slightly surprised face: "Hey, Xiao Cao, I didn't expect you to have a lot of ideas."

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang said with a chuckle, "To be honest, I've already enjoyed the reform bonus. Just recently, I only spent three months and earned 50 yuan, after tax."

After hearing this sentence again, Lou Xiaoe was really shocked: "What, you made 50 yuan in three months? What did you do to make it?"

"Of course it's right." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "But you may not be able to do my way of making money. I wrote poems, published a collection of poems, and then earned royalties."

"Poetry collection? Author fee?" Lou Xiao'e was taken aback again, "You mean, you made so much money by publishing books?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile, "That's why most people really can't learn my way of making money."

"That's true." Lou Xiao'e smiled, "Writing poems to earn manuscript fees depends on personal talent, and ordinary people really can't learn it."

"Hey, Aunt Lou seems to understand very well." Cao Zhiqiang said with a chuckle, "I know the market in our mainland very well."

"That's not true." Lou Xiao'e smiled, "Don't forget, I grew up here, and I went to Xiangjiang after I had no choice. But even if I went to Xiangjiang, I have been paying attention to the situation here, so here I don’t necessarily know less than you.”

"I see." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "So, Aunt Lou, are you really planning to come to the mainland to invest and make money?"

Lou Xiaoe was taken aback for a moment, then looked around subconsciously, and found that the place was very empty, there were not many people around, and no one was paying attention, so she nodded to Cao Zhiqiang.

"Yes, I do mean that."

Hearing what Lou Xiaoe said, Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "Auntie Lou, can you tell me why you plan to invest in the Mainland? What kind of project do you plan to invest in? If there is a suitable one, we may still cooperate."

"Cooperation?" Lou Xiao'e was taken aback, and looked at Cao Zhiqiang carefully again, "You want to cooperate with me? You came to see me specially for this reason?"

"That's not true." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "Aunt Lou, you really think too much."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang pondered for a while on purpose, and then said: "Actually, when I came to see you this time, I really just listened to my friend and wanted to come and see if you are the real Lou Xiao'e. full name."

"It's okay." Lou Xiao'e waved her hand, "Names are what people call you, so it's okay."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Aunt Lou, I really just came here this time to see if you are real. After all, I respect Uncle He very much, and of course I am very interested in the person he really likes.

So, the purpose of my coming here in the first place, for no other reason, is to make sure that you are really Aunt Lou, and I haven't thought about anything else.

However, after actually meeting you and hearing what you said, I have a new idea.

You see, it doesn't matter whether you grew up here or not, but your current identity is that of Xiangjiang people and a serious Hong Kong businessman.

And if you want to come here to invest in a project, you must find a reliable project.

How reliable?It is best to find a reliable person to cooperate with, especially to find some reliable leaders and departments.

Coincidentally, I just negotiated two projects with several big leaders, which are currently in progress.

I think, if you agree to join in and invest together, it may be very good, and you can cooperate and win-win, and you are guaranteed to make a lot of money! "

"Oh? Two projects?" Lou Xiaoe smiled, "What projects are there, let me tell you about them?"

Cao Zhiqiang raised his first finger: "The first project is the record company.

If you are willing, I plan to partner with you to open a China-Hong Kong joint venture record company in the Mainland to develop the music industry.

The music industry in the mainland is still quite primitive, and it is far behind Xiangjiang, but the market is very large, far from being comparable to a small place in Xiangjiang.

In Xiangjiang, as a singer, it is not bad if you can sell [-] records for an album.

But in mainland China, an album can easily sell 80 copies, which is still a day's sales.

Moreover, artists in mainland China have low requirements and low salaries, and they don't need to share, so record companies can get more income.

So, if we set up a record company in the mainland and create an artist industry, there is a lot to do. "

Upon hearing this, Lou Xiaoe frowned, then shook her head with a smile: "Sorry, I don't know much about this business, so forget it."

Finding that Lou Xiao'e was not interested, Cao Zhiqiang didn't force it, because he knew that talking about this issue at this time would only annoy her.

After all, if you talk lightly and deeply, Cao Zhiqiang is not a fool after all, and he has no ability to force Lou Xiaoe to lower his intelligence.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang raised his second finger: "You must be interested in the second project.

My second project is to open a chef training school! "

"Chef training school?" Lou Xiaoe was taken aback.

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Actually, when I talk about opening a chef training school, I'm giving myself credit.

Strictly speaking, I want to open a chef training class first, and then expand slowly.

When the scale is large, apply for the establishment of a private technical training school, mainly to train chefs and waiters.

Now in China, there is no school that specializes in training chefs. If you want to learn cooking skills, you have to follow the old tradition and learn from a master, and the master may not teach the truth.

Coupled with the relationship of those ten years, the country is now a proper food desert, let alone Xiangjiang, even worse than ten years ago.

Don't talk about anything else, let's just say that the capital of our capital is supposed to be the center of the country, so the food should be pretty good, right?
However, you should go out and have a look at the restaurants here. Except for a few high-end places that are only for the leaders, what good things can ordinary people eat?

It's not that there are no good cooks left, but those good cooks, such as Uncle He, are now either in state-run restaurants or in the cafeterias of various factories.

Even so, they still hide it and never teach the truth, and their apprentices are very few, and they are basically inherited from the family, or they are passed on from male to female.

Now, there are no good chefs who really have a high level of cooking, are really willing to teach their real skills, and are willing to make disciples.

In other words, it is not that there are no good cooks in the capital, but the number is too small, and there are too few apprentices to make a good reputation.

However, the times have changed. If we continue to be so self-sufficient and cherish ourselves, we will be eliminated by the market sooner or later.

If you have been in Xiangjiang, you should know that in modern society, the key is how to quickly and effectively realize your talents, and how to formalize and systematize them as soon as possible, so that you can truly become bigger and stronger for a long time.

If you continue to stick to your recipes and craftsmanship, and still play the trick of passing on males and not females, you will be swept into the garbage dump of history sooner or later.

Moreover, the culinary art is also an innovation, and the old things handed down from the ancestors may not all be good.

How to innovate?For example, there are more chefs, more exchanges, and keeping pace with the times.

So I came up with an idea, which is to open a culinary training class, openly recruit young people, and train them to be chefs.

I have found all the teachers who train chefs, it is Uncle He! "

"Silly Zhu?" Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but ask, "There's him in here?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "That's right, this so-called chef training school, no, let's call it a cooking training class.

Due to policy factors, this culinary art training class, for the time being, is still a restaurant on the surface, but this restaurant is a bit special, not a single one, but a chain of boats.

That is to say, I partnered with Uncle He to open a restaurant together, which on the surface looks like a normal restaurant business.

But in reality, the back kitchen of this restaurant is much larger than ordinary restaurants, at least four or five times larger.

In addition, my restaurant has more chefs than ordinary restaurants, at least four or five times more.

To be precise, this restaurant is actually a chef training center, or a culinary incubation center!

At that time, Uncle He will work as a chef in the back kitchen, teaching his apprentices while cooking.

When apprentices come to learn skills, they have to sign a serious contract, which is a serious teacher-student relationship.

The contract can be well stipulated that during the period of learning skills, there is no need to pay tuition fees, and it also includes food, lodging, and assigned work.

During the period of study, students must fully obey the arrangements of our headquarters, such as going to branch stores for internships and so on.

If they are successful in their studies, after passing the assessment, we will issue them a qualification certificate, which proves that they have graduated from our school and have been professionally recognized by our training class.

Then, as stated in the contract, after the chef graduated as a teacher, we have to be responsible for finding a job for him.

Where is the job?

He can go out to find a job by himself, or we can assign him a job.

It's just that if he works alone and goes out to find a job by himself, he will have to make up the tuition fees.

If he refuses, then he will not be issued a qualification certificate, and he will not be regarded as Uncle He's disciple. In the future, he will not be able to use the banner of Uncle He's apprentice, nor can he play the banner of our cooking training class. In addition, he will not be able to get our professional secret recipe .

And if we assign him a job, as long as he is obedient and has worked in the prescribed position for at least three years, he does not need to pay tuition fees.

With Uncle He in charge, there is no need to worry about the taste of the restaurant's food, nor the guests.

I plan to open the restaurant first, so as to make it famous, and then, I can use the reputation of our restaurant to open a branch.

As for branches, we don't open them ourselves, but find franchisees and partner with them.

At that time, others only need to pay for the storefront, and the decoration must be done according to our requirements.

If we pass the inspection, we can issue signboards and management. Of course, we will send chefs from our church to work there, and even send special personnel to support them at the beginning.

At that time, the franchise store only needs to pay a monthly franchise management fee and chef salary, and can be a shopkeeper without worrying about not being able to hire a good chef or customer source, just lying down and making money.

Of course, if the chef in our church wants to open his own shop, that's fine too.

If the chef trained by us wants to pay for the storefront and decorate it himself, then he only needs to pay a franchise fee in the future, and he does not need to pay the chef's salary, because he is the chef himself.

This is the so-called franchisee model.

In this mode, we can expand rapidly and start a food brand, and the unified management of the signboard is also convenient for the quality control of each branch.

For those franchisees, they save a lot of risk in opening a store, because they don't have to worry about not having good chefs or good dishes, and naturally they don't have to worry about not having a source of customers.

At the same time, they can also enjoy our brand blessing. For example, if we advertise, because it is a brand advertisement, their franchise stores can also get the blessing of advertising because they are all of the same brand and belong to the branch store model.

Also, we can also sell ingredients and recipes.

For example, we will research some special soup bases and seasonings, which can only be bought by franchise stores from our headquarters, and because the branch stores must have a chef from our headquarters, all of them have undergone professional training, and the quality control of dishes is also very important. Can be guaranteed.

To be more precise, it is standardization plus scale.

All franchise stores, in fact, have a partnership relationship with our headquarters.

That is to say, the franchisee pays, we provide technology and talent, and then the headquarters gives the franchisee a franchise certificate, and the two of us partner to start the business.

All franchise stores need to be under the unified management of the headquarters to ensure the same signboard, same decoration, same dishes, similar taste, and consistent management. It must give people a sense of formality. All stores must look high-end and elegant.

In this model, franchisees can make money with less risk, and we can quickly expand the scale, which is a win-win model.

Of course, the premise of doing this is that the dishes in our headquarters must have special dishes that cannot be prepared by other restaurants.

Our dishes must be delicious in color, flavor, quality control, and formal management, and we must make sure that there are no other restaurants.

In addition, for our franchisees, we must prefer lack of abuse, we must find reliable franchisees, and we must not find unreliable people.

Are you interested in such franchise chain business? "

"Franchise chain?" Lou Xiaoe's eyes lit up, "This is a bit interesting."

"It's more than interesting." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "In addition to the special dishes, you also have to have a really good chef.

Now it's not that there are no good chefs in the city, but those good chefs are often arrogant and unwilling to work with others.

But Uncle He is different, he has excellent cooking skills, and he is the descendant of Tan family cuisine. He knows all four major cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong and Huaihe, and he is especially good at Sichuan cuisine.

With Uncle He joining in, some secret recipes I got, and of course my funds, this business will definitely succeed. "

After a short pause, Cao Zhiqiang said: "To be honest, I wanted to do it myself, but if you are willing to join the group, then I can count you in."

"This." Lou Xiao'e thought for a while, "That's good, but if you say that rashly, I still have to think about it."

Speaking of this, Lou Xiaoe looked up at Cao Zhiqiang: "Do you have a detailed plan?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Professional, as expected from Xiangjiang!"

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang nodded and said: "Don't worry, if you are interested, I will give you a detailed plan tomorrow. Not only that, I can also take you to see the restaurant that will be shortened soon.

To be honest, I bought a restaurant, no, I bought a house for a cooking training class, and the renovation is in progress, and it will be ready soon.

If you are willing to join the gang, you must hurry up.

At that time, after you officially enter the occupancy, I will buy all the adjacent houses, expand the scale from the beginning, and the decoration can be done better.

I believe that if we work together, we will be able to build a real catering group and become the largest hotpot chain store in the country! "

"Of course that's the best." Lou Xiao'e smiled slightly, "By the way, can you show me the collection of poems you published?"

"No problem." Cao Zhiqiang said, "When I send you the proposal tomorrow, I will also send it with my poetry collection."

"That would be the best." Lou Xiaoe nodded with a smile.

After finishing speaking, Lou Xiaoe thought for a while and said, "Well, it's too late today, come here to find me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

Speaking of this, Lou Xiaoe asked Cao Zhiqiang if he had paper and pens, and Cao Zhiqiang quickly took out a small notebook and a ballpoint pen.

Lou Xiaoe wrote down a room number on a piece of paper in the small book, and then handed it to Cao Zhiqiang: "This is my room number. You can come here to find me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. I have seen your room number then." Let’s talk about the plan.”

Cao Zhiqiang looked at it, put away the notebook, and said to Lou Xiaoe: "Don't worry, I will be there on time tomorrow."

"That's good." Lou Xiao'e nodded, then suddenly smiled, and said to Cao Zhiqiang, "I didn't expect that such a character as you would appear in that courtyard. It's really rare."

"It's nothing to me." Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, "This is a good time, which gives me the opportunity to be a trend-setter. If I catch up with the time when you left, my brain will be useless."

Lou Xiaoe was taken aback for a moment, and then nodded very sighingly: "That's right, that era... Hey, don't mention it, it's all over."

"You really don't want to visit the courtyard, and you really don't want to meet Uncle He?" Cao Zhiqiang asked suddenly.

"Forget it, I won't go." Lou Xiao'e shook her head, "Going there rashly now will only embarrass both of us.

If... well, let's talk about it next time.

In short, since I, Lou Xiao'e, am back, I will go to him sooner or later.

Also please keep it a secret for me, don't tell him I'm coming. "

"Don't worry about it." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "I promise not to say anything."

Lou Xiaoe nodded, and then said embarrassingly: "Well, can you really not give me our family heirloom secretly? Don't worry, I will tell Shazhu later that it's okay."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "Aunt Lou, you are embarrassing me.

Yes, the family heirloom may have originally belonged to you, but you gave it to Uncle He, which is a kind of gift. Because of emotion and reason, it now belongs to Uncle He.

If I take it away rashly, I will take it without warning, that is a thief!

Even if it is given to you secretly.

So, if you really want to go back, you should ask Uncle He in person.

Don't worry, the things you took are still there, and you haven't lost them! "

Lou Xiao'e was stunned for a moment, and then smiled dumbly: "That's true. That's fine, I won't make things difficult for you, I will go with Sha Zhu later."

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang chuckled.

"Alright then." Lou Xiao'e stood up, "Since that's the case, let's stop here today.

To be honest, I am really tired today, I want to go back and rest first.

Come to me tomorrow, let's talk about it, okay? "

"Okay." Cao Zhiqiang also stood up, "Then Aunt Lou, go back and rest, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Lou Xiaoe nodded with a smile.

(End of this chapter)