Rebirth: Starting from the Cafeteria

Shen Rui said that he has opened several stores now, and personal communication products and office supplies are operated separately. He feels that in two years, he will have to make some choices.

He recently did some research and wanted to open a large communications product store.

"Your idea is not bad. The key is to have a suitable business location. If it is a lease, the contract must be carefully considered to avoid someone else coming to take advantage of the business after it picks up."

Du Shaojie has now recognized Shen Rui's abilities, and believes that he is indeed talented in business.

A communications products hypermarket is a good idea. It would be best if you can own your own property, but you must be more careful if you rent a property.

Shen Rui actually listened and nodded continuously.

Du Shaojie stayed in Shanghai for a while longer. Anyway, there was not much to do when he returned. He had to wait a little longer for the store in Shenzhen, and wait until the Shanghai store was completed.

"Wynn, prepare the car. I want to go out for a walk."

The construction of the private restaurant in Shanghai has already started. Apart from visiting the site from time to time, Du Shaojie doesn't have much else to do.

In addition to studying cooking, he also likes to go out for a walk. The city has developed very quickly in the past two years, and occasionally going out to the streets can also yield some gains.

"Pull over for a moment. It's quite lively ahead. Let's go take a look."

When passing by a department store, Du Shaojie was shocked by the scene before him.

The old department store is not very tall, only five stories high, but there is a small square in front of the building. At this moment, the square is crowded with people, more lively than a temple fair. There are police there to maintain order, perhaps to prevent any danger.

"Boss, you'd better not join in the fun. Look, there are too many people over there. If there's a stampede, it won't be a joke."

Wang Yongli had the duty to protect Du Shaojie. Looking at the crowds of people in the small square, he couldn't help but dissuade them.

No matter how strong they were, they were still useless in front of the black crowd. This is the reason why a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

"It's okay. Aren't there police officers over there maintaining order? I'll just watch from the outside and not push in."

Du Shaojie smiled and waved his hand, not taking Wang Yongli's words seriously.

So he walked forward and stopped at the periphery. He asked the person next to him and found out that it was a clearance sale at the department store, and the prices were incredibly low.

No wonder so many people are crowding here, it turns out they are here for the bargains.

He immediately lost interest. It seemed that the department store could no longer operate, so it was clearing out its inventory at a bargain price.

"Let's go."

Only after Du Shaojie got into the car did Wang Yongli and others breathe a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, the group went to the Bund, found a place to have a cup of coffee, and then returned to the old house.
Shortly after he came back, he received a call from Shen Rui.

Shen Rui said he would invite him to dinner in the evening as he wanted to discuss something with him.

"Don't go out to eat. Come to my place with Xiaoya and the kids tonight and I'll cook a few dishes for you. If you have anything to say, let's talk after dinner."

Du Shaojie didn't want to eat out. He wanted to cook some Huaiyang dishes today, so he called Shen Rui and his family to come over.

Shen Rui agreed, and after Xiaoya got off work, the family of three came to the old house.

Everyone enjoyed the meal very much. After eating and drinking, Xiaoya took the child away first, as the little one had to do his homework when he returned home.

"Brother, I've seen a place that I like. Although it's an old building, it's large enough and has convenient transportation. I want to buy it, but I don't have enough money. Are you interested?"

Du Shaojie had someone make a pot of good tea and sent it over. After Shen Rui took a sip of the tea, he went straight to the point.

Inspired by Du Shaojie, Shen Rui had recently been looking for a suitable place to open a hypermarket. He had a wide network of contacts in Shanghai, and after asking around, he actually found a good place.

It was an old department store that had suffered a great deal in recent years and was insolvent, so they were preparing to sell the property.

As Du Shaojie listened, the expression on his face became more and more strange, and he thought, this can't be such a coincidence?
"Where exactly?"

He couldn't help but ask, and Shen Rui immediately told him the specific address.

It was such a coincidence that the department store the other party was talking about was the one Du Shaojie saw when he was shopping today.

Although the location is not in the city center, it is not remote either, and is very suitable for a large hypermarket.

Du Shaojie pondered for a moment and decided to contact the owner of the department store first. If the price was right, it would be a good idea to buy it. He was not very interested in opening a large-scale supermarket, but he was not opposed to it.

The next day.

Du Shaojie and Shen Rui made an appointment to talk to the owner of the Bao Department Store.

The owner offered to sell the entire building for 5200 million yuan.

Du Shaojie thought the price was too high, so he called Xu Bo right after he left the property owner's office. Xu Bo had not been in Shanghai recently, but when he heard about this, he immediately agreed to come back as soon as possible.

Xu Bo has his own network of connections in Shanghai and can be of great help.

Only one day later, Xu Bo flew back to Shanghai. "Boss Du, Brother Dong and I are very interested in this project. Can we also participate in it?"

"My brother-in-law was the one who started this. Wait a minute, I'll call him now and we can talk about it together."

Du Shaojie didn't mind bringing Xu Bo and Pang Weidong in. He knew that with Shen Rui's financial resources alone, he would not be able to buy the entire building.

Anyway, Pang Weidong and Xu Bo have too much money and don't know where to invest it, so investing in real estate is a good idea.

Subsequently.

The three met at Xu Bo's hotel, discussed for a long time, and finally reached an agreement.

As the initiator, Shen Rui retained 40% of the shares, Du Shaojie held 30%, and Pang Weidong and Xu Bo held a total of 30% of the shares.

After the internal matters were finalized, they went to find the owner of the department store again.

This time, everyone used their connections in advance, and the other party seemed much more sincere. After bargaining, the other party finally agreed to sell the entire building for 4600 million yuan.

There are still some details to be discussed, and both sides will send people to discuss them.

Du Shaojie and others immediately registered a company and completed all the procedures in a few days.

A week later.

The two parties signed a real estate purchase and sale contract, and the old department store changed hands and became the common asset of Du Shaojie, Shen Rui, Pang Weidong and Xu Bo.

Shen Rui didn't have that much money, so Du Shaojie helped him borrow some money from the bank to get through the difficult times.

The next thing is the decoration. Shen Rui will take care of these things, so the others don’t have to do it themselves.

To put it bluntly, a hypermarket is similar to a vegetable market. The hypermarket provides the venue, and companies and individuals of all sizes come in to do business and pay rent.

The store also needs to provide a series of services, including settlement services, after-sales services, and even mobilize part of the supply to supply goods to small and medium-sized merchants at wholesale prices.

Strong stores can negotiate terms with manufacturers. In short, the water here is very complicated.

However, Du Shaojie is the actual controller of [Huanyu Communications], so organizing the supply of goods is a simple matter. In the end, it is all about selling the goods and making the pie bigger together, and the rest is a matter of profit distribution.

Shen Rui no longer has to worry about it. He simply cut out the communications products part of his business and focused on office equipment, office supplies and consumables.

After the private restaurant [Deep in the White Clouds] was completed, the overall renovated supermarket was also successfully opened.

The previous investment promotion work went smoothly, and the occupancy rate reached over 9%.

Du Shaojie thinks this business is pretty good. Collecting rent can ensure sufficient cash flow. When the day comes when the hypermarket is no longer run, the price of this building will definitely increase significantly, so he will not lose money in any way.

After the private restaurant in Shanghai opened, Du Shaojie stayed there for another month. Seeing that the business had fully achieved the expected results, he returned to Guangzhou with Wang Yongli and others.

After a while, a private restaurant [Shenchu ​​Baiyun] was opened in Shenzhen, and this project came to an end.

[Deep in the White Clouds] will only maintain the scale of four stores in China in the future. After all, the investment is too huge and the consumption level is ridiculously high.

The operation of the Guangzhou and Beijing stores is getting better and better. According to comparative analysis, the revenue of one private restaurant store is roughly equivalent to that of 40 ordinary stores, and the profit is far greater.

After Du Shaojie returned to Guangzhou, he would often go to private restaurants to show off his cooking skills.

There's no way around it. He's too famous in many circles, and many prominent guests are proud to eat the dishes he cooks.

As it turns out, whether or not one can ask Mr. Du to do it personally has become one of the symbols of one's status.

Du Shaojie didn't want to offend anyone, so he naturally couldn't favor one over the other, so he just waited in line according to the old rules. He would only prepare banquets after a long time, and at most three tables a day, and he was too lazy to prepare more.

However, he would occasionally cook one or two dishes in the restaurant, and would make five or six servings of these dishes as gifts for the most expensive customers of the day.

Actually, he has been quite diligent during this period, but strangely, his cooking skills seem to be stuck at the ceiling and he can't improve any further.

Du Shaojie didn't care. After a while, he took advantage of the summer vacation to take Qi Yan and his daughter to Europe.

At present, there is still a big gap between China and some developed countries in Europe, and people often have beautiful imaginations about going abroad.

But soon after Qi Yan arrived, she discovered a very realistic problem. She was not used to Western food, and if she went to a local Chinese restaurant, well, in many cases, it was worse than eating Western food.

Du Shaojie doesn't have too high requirements for diet. He is the kind of person who can eat both fine grains and coarse grains.

After all, we are here for a trip and will be back in a few days, so we can just overcome the unfamiliarity with the food.

"Yanzi, I think if you develop it for a few more years, you can even open a training school abroad."

"What do you do? Teach foreigners how to cook Sichuan cuisine?"

"Why teach [Sichuan cuisine]? No! When the time comes, I will naturally teach them to speak Chinese. Maybe business will boom."

The family of three ate a French meal and chatted while eating. (End of this chapter)