Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 721 Filter Falling Off
At the same time that Zhang Xincheng's family was heading home under the scorching summer afternoon sun in Beijing, Carter, surrounded by the crowd, returned to the hotel where they stayed last night.

In the banquet hall on the second floor, the interlacing of toasting and chipping is indispensable.As the first Sino-foreign joint venture hotel in the capital, the positioning of Home Inns has already slipped unknowingly.
The foreign exchange in the 80s, even though it has been changed, is still under strict supervision compared to the future.Even if it is just an ordinary tourist, it must be a unit with the qualification to receive foreign guests and provide services to them under the leadership of the local foreign affairs office.If you don't have a qualified unit, you won't be able to connect and stay!

With the qualification to receive foreign guests, coupled with modern decoration and services, Home Inn has almost become the designated hotel for foreign tourists today.Foreigners who come and go frequently further enhance the brand value of the hotel on the side.
"Carter, you have seen it all. I don't need me here at all. This is the financial report for this quarter. Look."

After serving a cup of tea, in the office of the general manager of Home Inn Plus Zhongguancun, Carter’s senior sister, Melinda Custer, complained helplessly:

"The average daily occupancy rate is more than 95%, and the reservation for the banquet hall has been scheduled for a month. It has been like this since I came here, and it has hardly changed at all until today. I feel that the only value I have now is this foreign manager identity, because there will always be some guests like you who pop up out of nowhere, and we have no choice but to accept them."

"What about emmm Russell? Does he need help?"

As the saying goes, seeing is worth seeing, so I stayed here for one night and had another meal at noon.Carter did see people coming and going in the hotel. After thinking about the reason, Carter had to admit that Melinda was wasting time here.

As a general manager of a store, if the business is not good, you may need to use what you have learned to make a change.But the business has been very good, even if the dog is tied up in the general manager's office, in such a market environment with almost no competitors, its revenue will not decrease.
"Do you think it will be needed? Maybe in the future, but not now. This place is developing very fast. I remember that when I first came here half a year ago, the first private hotel appeared here, and the others are basically the stores of the municipal hotel company. Now this The number has broken ten."

After stroking the hair on her forehead, Melinda also found a seat and sat down:
"These small and small hotels can't threaten us at all now. The service standard is not good, the number of employees generally does not exceed 7, and there are no restaurants. But I always feel that if they are given a few more years of development, they may not be able to do so. That's when I need to come back."

"I know, and I can understand you. It's just that in the past six months, according to your observation, what do you think of Russell?"

"You don't trust him?"

Melinda's eyes suddenly widened
"It's better to trust him than you. After all, he had already graduated when I entered school. Moreover, when everyone is unwilling to come to China to develop, he is the only one who accepts, which is different from ours. I am also worried about him. ability, whether it can be maintained. I mean, in terms of personnel, there are quite a few local employees here, as well as local managers, they"

Carter rubbed his brows, expressing his concerns as vaguely as possible.

"You have been here for half a year, you should feel it? We enjoy preferential treatment everywhere in this land. Even if you accidentally bump into someone on the road, there is a high probability that the other party will apologize to you, but you should understand that all the preferential treatment , it’s not without price!”

"Someone advised you to invest here?"

"Yeah, at the dinner just now, this factory and that bureau all hope that I will continue to spend money here. If the conditions are right, I am not unwilling, but I don't like being chased and urged like this. They make me feel It's uncomfortable, but I can't say it directly, and even in some cases, I have to cooperate, but their actions worry me."

"Before I came here this time, I talked with two professors from Harvard Business School about the problems that international companies face when entering unfamiliar markets. Take this hotel as an example, all basic employees are locals, and all middle managers are locals. , They are naturally a faction, and the foreign management personnel who are airborne can easily be evacuated by the local. In the current situation, I can still mobilize it, but in a few years, with Russell's ability, once he does not pull out his own Team, I'm worried that my words are not even bullshit here!"

"At that time, they will say that the revenue is as much as it is. What's the use of me taking some shares?"

Getting up and going to the window, pulling it open, Carter lit a cigarette, frowning.

After calming down and throwing away the filter, Carter was too familiar with the land under his feet!

Carter actually doesn't dislike some officials thinking about their own money, after all, this is the situation. Don't worry about the money in your pocket, ghosts pretending to be grandchildren in front of you? !
But urging too urgently also gave birth to Carter's resentment.When that emotion comes up, some filters naturally drop.
And removing the filter is just a hidden danger from a business and management point of view.

"Especially in the next few years, or even ten years, it is impossible for me to set foot on this land again. So I need someone I trust to help me keep an eye on it."

"Sorry, my thoughts just now were a bit selfish."

"It's okay, I understand you. Give me some time and think about how to balance it. I'll give you an address, and you can find someone to send me a few sets of bedding."

"Mr. Black! Where are we going in the afternoon? Do you want to go to the non-staple food factory? Let me tell you, it smells like that."

"Hahaha, I have to go to school in the afternoon. It's hard work for Director Huang and Director Huang to wait. In this way, when I finish these things at hand, I will definitely go!"

"Mr. Black, we are cotton mills"

"us."

When Carter's figure appeared in the lobby on the first floor, he immediately became the focus of the crowd.Under the envious eyes of Yale students, Carter walked out of the hotel quickly and embarked on the next stop of the preaching tour.

With a smile on his face, he was busy until the evening.
When the convoy was about to return, Carter suddenly patted the shoulder of a man with a square face in the entourage:

"I invite you to dinner tonight, shall we chat?"

"I need to ask for instructions."

"I'm waiting for you"

"I'm not very good at cooking, so I asked someone to cook a hot pot, and we'll cook it ourselves later, can we get used to it?"

Stepping over the threshold one after the other, they walked into a courtyard.Carter turned and closed the door, with a sudden smile on his face:
"Are there any colleagues of yours outside? Those who are in charge of surveillance or something, do you want to invite them in to eat together?"

"No, I'm the only one coming."

I don't know whether the answer is true or not, and naturally, Carter shrugged noncommittally.
Looking at Carter's back, the man with a square face asked a much rarer question:
"How did you find out?"

(End of this chapter)