Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 99 Renren Takeaway Launches
On December 12st, at 1 am, Renren Waimai was officially launched.

Renren Waimai uses an independent domain name www.renrenwaimai.com, but users can log in directly using their Renren account without registration. They only need to fill in the delivery address and it will automatically match the surrounding business districts.

In order to cooperate with the launch of the food delivery service, Renren has tried its best and launched a set of matching titles and costumes.

"Order food through Renren Waimai ten times and get the title of 'Dry Foodie'."

"Order food through Renren Waimai 20 times and get the title of 'Fan Showoff Maniac'."

Order three times and you’ll get the full set of the “Dry Rice Bunny” set, which is a cute bunny holding a rice bowl in his hands and a satisfied expression on his face.

Nowadays, people who use Renren would feel embarrassed to go out and meet people without a title. In comparison, these titles and costumes are easy to obtain. After all, eating is a basic need.

For Chen Pingjiang, there is good news and bad news.

The good news is that the snow stopped, but the bad news is that it snowed all night long.

The sudden cold wave and blizzard disrupted the life rhythm of many people. Students without heating and air conditioning were freezing like dogs. They didn’t want to get up in the morning and would stay in bed for one more minute.

Some students with weak wills mustered up their courage to push open the dormitory door, but a gust of cold wind rushed into their sleeves and collars and froze them back.

It is not easy for the good students who actively attend classes. They walk out of the dormitory building and stagger forward in the snow.

"It's snowing, anyone want to have a snowball fight?"

"What's so strange about snowing? It's freezing cold, and I'm too lazy to even go out."

“Is the OP from Guangdong? Why are you so excited about the snow?”

"There is a genius in our dormitory who is still sleeping on a mat in such a cold day."

"I decided not to go out today. I will just stay in the dormitory and order some takeout from Tiantian later and make some achievements at the same time."

"Of course I want to order something from it, the free coupons are so tempting."

"There's even a Yuanfang supermarket on Tiantian Takeaway. Now I can even buy cotton shoes and quilts."

"..."

Under the guidance of the content department, "snow" and "takeout on Renren" became hot words on Renren.com for a while, and almost all topics revolved around these two hot words.

Compared with other nationwide websites, teachers and students on Renren.com have more common topics because they are in the same region and have the same identity.

"I just ordered a bunch of food from Renren Takeaway. I calculated that I saved more than ten dollars compared to buying it at the school supermarket. It's really good."

"Does anyone know whether to send it to the dormitory or to the dormitory manager? Waiting online, it's urgent."

"How about the dorm manager? It's only a few steps down the stairs, much better than running outside."

"I'm really drunk. Chen Pingjiang, come out and say that you look down on the college students of our Finance College. Why do other schools have distribution points, but our school doesn't?"

"Haha, I am dying of laughter. I don't think Mr. Chen should be blamed for this problem. Your crappy school is almost in the neighboring city. I wouldn't send you there if it were me."

"I just got the hot duck blood vermicelli and beef patty from the guy who started it. I can only say it's awesome."

Chen Pingjiang was hiding in the conference room, smoking a cigarette with the exhaust fan on. He couldn't go to the front line in person, so he could only sit at the headquarters and wait for real-time data.

He is not too optimistic about the data. After all, Renren Waimai directly skipped the group buying era, which is undoubtedly a huge test.

This is like the express delivery industry in later generations, where express delivery companies place the parcels of a certain area at post stations, and customers pick them up themselves or they can have door-to-door delivery like EMS and Shunfeng.

The difference is huge.

From the perspective of productivity, in 06 there were no smartphones and no 3G networks. Adopting a unified delivery station-style service could better save human resources. Also, considering that the delivery riders were all part-time college students, it was impossible for them to spend all their time on delivery.

But compared to the group buying model, the door-to-door takeaway model is more timely, has better service, and is more suitable for college students.

Because eating and drinking are the most basic needs, college students don’t care too much about daily necessities. Ordering at any time and having it delivered at any time is common in the modern world, but it was quite difficult in 06.

Without smartphones and mobile Internet, computers were not yet widely available in university dormitories. Chen Pingjiang spent a lot of effort to solve this problem. He constantly encouraged people in a dormitory to borrow computers from each other, and boys and girls in a class could also borrow computers from each other, which barely solved the problem of no channels for placing orders.

Without Alipay and WeChat Pay, users can only use the online banking payment methods of various banks. Users need to find the corresponding bank based on the bank card they hold and jump to the online banking payment interface of the bank to make payment.

Of course, the most convenient way is cash on delivery. The rider is the first payee. It is clear at a glance how much total amount of orders assigned to a certain rider and how much is actually receivable.

Delivery at any time is more troublesome, but the only advantage is that it is controllable.

Chen Pingjiang first recruited more than one hundred part-time delivery college students to cover Xianlin University Town, with an average of six to seven riders per university, working in shifts. But even so, subsequent recruitment work is still proceeding in full swing.

In addition, just equipping each rider with an electric vehicle, a blue jacket, and a blue helmet is a huge expense.

Fortunately, this is a university, and the delivery destinations are concentrated together for easy delivery. It is located in the suburbs with no traffic jams, and most merchants are concentrated in the commercial street in front of the school gate, which made it possible to do takeaway business in 06.

If this model goes beyond the school gate and enters the society, it will undoubtedly die a miserable death. It’s not that it can’t be done at all, but the delivery efficiency and personnel costs can drag down the company.

"The first order has appeared." Miao Bingwei's surprised voice came from the technical department, "Wow, this guy ordered something for a dormitory, so hurry up and send it to the rider."

By the same token, without mobile networks and smartphones, riders would not know who ordered what product from which store, so the delivery had to be transferred through text messages on Renren.

By 1 p.m., the 1265 colleges and universities in Xianlin University Town had placed a total of 80 orders, or almost orders per school.

Compared with the scale of tens of thousands of students in each university, this ratio is pitifully low. However, these 80 orders are based on dormitories, which usually accommodate five or six people, so there are about to orders in total.

When Chen Pingjiang saw this data, he felt relieved but also secretly sad.

In this era, Chen Pingjiang is very satisfied with the data he achieved in his debut. The pain is that even with an average commission of 15%, consumers bear the commission of the riders themselves, and Chen Pingjiang has to pay 1 yuan for each order. Six or seven thousand orders means six or seven thousand yuan. This is only at noon. If you include the night, the subsidy alone will cost yuan a day.

"I can't stand it. If I keep going like this, I'll be broke soon." Chen Pingjiang said with a bitter face.

It is absolutely true that the takeout industry is not something that ordinary people can afford to get involved in.

Half a day after Renren Waimai went online, each department had to review any problems found.

"Fortunately, the boss took into account the dormitory-based ordering model in advance. Otherwise, if one dormitory was counted as one order, the riders would be crying. Now the errand fee is paid according to a percentage of the order, and the riders are very happy."

"Of course not. If I can deliver five or six portions at a time and get the delivery fee for five or six portions directly, I'd like to go out and deliver food."

Everyone looked relaxed, the first game statistics were good and everyone was in the mood to chat.

However, at this time, an employee from the technical department ran to Miao Bingwei with a laptop and muttered for a long time. Everyone watched Miao Bingwei's face become more and more solemn.

"What's going on?" Chen Pingjiang asked.

Miao Bingwei smiled bitterly: "It has only been online for half a day and some shops have already started to fake orders."

"Ok?"

"How did you do it?"

Miao Bingwei gestured on the laptop screen, "This store is aware of the role of sales and good reviews, and cleverly avoided false purchases through social personnel, which would be easy for us to know. Instead, after receiving the order, they called the dormitory landline to ask the customer to cancel the order and place five or six new orders."

Gao Songbin asked in confusion: "Is this considered fake orders? I don't think so. The merchants are just taking advantage of our rules within a reasonable range."

"I think the focus of the controversy is not whether the orders were faked or not, but that splitting an order into six will occupy rider resources and bring unnecessary burdens to the riders. Our transportation capacity is already very tight."

"Whether it's one order or six, isn't the destination the same dormitory? How can you say it's a waste of rider resources?"

"But if our staff who forward order information to the riders are not careful, they will assign orders from the same dormitory to multiple riders. What could have been done by one rider now requires three or four riders!"

Chen Pingjiang listened to the debate in the conference room and finally arranged the shifts: "Although strictly speaking this is not considered fake orders, it definitely takes up rider resources. This situation is easy to solve. Forcibly set a minimum delivery fee for the store, and the technical department will integrate the orders from the same IP address."

　In order to reduce BUGs and strive for authenticity, I checked a lot of information. This chapter is too difficult to write
　　
　
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