The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 1895 Text

Text Chapter 1831

The author likes to go to places with a better environment in the mortal world. He has lived in the suburbs where he lives for more than 20 years. There are not many luxurious places around the place where he lives. That area is mainly residential areas and various living service facilities. The prosperity is far less than that of the wealthy areas in the city's development zones. However, the permanent population in the suburbs has reached hundreds of thousands, and the surrounding infrastructure is complete, such as There are restaurants, large and small supermarkets, chain shopping malls, hairdressers, gyms, food stores, medium and large parks, home appliance shopping malls, education and training institutions, etc. Unlike more than ten years ago, sometimes you want to buy something or watch something. Some commodities have to be brought into the city, but with development and construction, they can be consumed in the suburbs, where daily necessities and common things are readily available. Online shopping has become very developed in recent years. There are coupons and special offers in online malls. Most products purchased online are much cheaper than shopping in physical stores. After the purchase amount is reached, delivery fees are waived and shipping is free to your home.

The quality of life in the suburbs is far better than in the past, and consumer standards are not inferior to those of the same level in the city. From home, you can walk to the four-star hotel for half an hour. The hotel is considered one of the high-end places in the suburbs. It has been open for more than 20 years and covers a large area. The price of ordinary rooms has increased. To five or six hundred yuan, it turned out to be more than four hundred yuan, which is generally cheaper for group accommodation for conference accommodation and tourist group accommodation. Ten years ago, the author thought that hotel was quite high-end. In recent years, I have seen more and more worldly things, and the internal and external levels have improved. There are many places that are more luxurious than that hotel. I have been to them in the mortal world in these years. Relatively speaking, it already doesn't seem that superior. It’s really a good thing to see more of the world and increase your experience.

The restaurant is in the area behind the lobby on the first floor of the hotel. On one side is the hotel's own coffee shop and Chinese restaurant. The Chinese restaurant is self-operated by the hotel, and its business area is much larger than the Neifu restaurant next to it. It may have been divided later. The restaurant will provide catering services for the hotel's conference meals and banquet meals. If there are not enough seats for the breakfast buffet in the cafe, the lobby of that restaurant will be open for dining. On the left side is the largest indoor swimming pool in the suburbs. The original price of a single swimming session is more than 100 yuan. Many people apply for frequency cards and annual passes, so the average price can be kept down. I have been going there in the past few months and I haven’t seen many people waiting in line at the swimming pool. There used to be a large number of students learning to swim, and parents had to wait in the aisle outside for the class to end. Maybe it was when there were no classes. So there are not many people there, but people who come for meetings or tour groups stay there, but I often see that the business of that hotel has been quite booming in the past few months. Behind the other side of the restaurant is a place for bathing and massage. The quality is no longer as good as some of the newly built bathhouses later, but the price of bathing and scrubbing is about 100 yuan at a preferential price. This price is relatively not expensive. , in the most common local public baths, bathing and scrubbing will cost thirty or forty yuan, and places with a slightly better environment will cost fifty or sixty yuan. The ticket price of some hot springs is only two hundred yuan, and they occasionally offer discounts. , attract consumption. I heard from my family that some mid-to-high-end bathhouses in my hometown usually cost RMB 100 to RMB 200. Some high-end hairdressers near the community where I live cost 60 to 70 RMB for a haircut. Some stores for mass consumption also cost 20 to 30 RMB. Ten, there are few that are too affordable. The hotel's local cuisine restaurant was definitely the most expensive restaurant in the entire suburb when it was in its heyday. It is said that the lobby used to be several hundred square meters, no less than the business area on the first floor of the Roast Duck Restaurant, but it was later reduced. The business space is only over 100 square meters in the lobby, and some private rooms are quite large and can seat dozens of people. That restaurant has multiple discount methods. The most common one is membership recharge. If you recharge more, there are roast duck gift boxes and organic grains. It opens at 11 noon. On the weekly discount day, you can only give it if you check out before 2 p.m. Discounts, that is, discounts are only available for three hours a week, and all seafood and drinks do not participate in that discount event. In the constellation month, for single-person dining discounts, if there are people traveling together, the discount will be shared equally and the discount level will be reduced. This is a somewhat strange setting. After recharging, the member's balance cannot enjoy other discounts. You must either pay extra or use the member's account balance to participate in other discounts. Unlike some stores, there are no restrictions on the consumption of members after recharging. Customers only need to agree to the consumption. , encourage more recharges. During the holidays, the store has a special promotion where you can recharge four times and get one free. After consumption, if you recharge four times the amount you spent, you will be exempted from the current consumption. However, once you recharge, the member's balance will not be used except for the use of If you consume at member prices, it will be difficult to participate in other activities, such as group buying packages and other coupons, which cannot use the member account balance. I have to say that the operator of that store is quite smart. There are various discounts to attract consumers, but there are various restrictions. It seems that you can get a lot of discounts, but the actual discounts are limited. For example, if you can recharge four times to get one free, it would be great if you can save three to four hundred yuan, but you have to recharge four times the amount of consumption on the day, which may cost one or two thousand. Such an activity is actually the same as a single recharge of two thousand yuan. Gifts given with money are similar to membership account balances, except that merchants allow small amounts of consumption, allowing customers with limited spending power to participate in the activity, and recharging a few hundred yuan is enough. The amount of recharge can be at the member price. The dishes are not all discounted, but some dishes are at the member price, and some dishes are only at the original price. For example, the Kung Pao Chicken in that restaurant costs 49 yuan, without discount. The membership price of some dishes is several yuan or ten yuan cheaper than the original price, depending on the specific dishes ordered. Many hotels in the suburbs recharge 5,000 yuan, and you can use the membership balance to pay member prices. The two roast duck restaurants both started with a top-up of 2,000 yuan. The roast duck restaurant that closed down many years ago made a lot of money before it closed. At that time, there was a campaign to get a water purifier for top-up, but it didn't last long. time, the store is closed. The author has mentioned this matter many times in the Star Lotus story, and will mention it again in the future. The manager of the roast duck restaurant and some of the waiters treated me well, often giving me coupons and welcoming me there. However, the merchant deceived consumers, which is illegal. For example, the hairdressing shop that has been open for more than ten years has always changed owners. It was once a relatively high-end beauty salon in the suburbs. In the end, it became infamous and ended miserably. As soon as the store celebration recharge event was completed, the shopkeeper ran away, leaving behind The employee in the beauty department was embarrassed when faced with the customer who wanted a refund. The clerk in the beauty department said that he was not the owner and could not refund the money. He said that the store was owned by the owner of the beauty department and was only rented to those people. With hairdressing, The place has changed operators several times. Unexpectedly, someone suddenly ran away with the money and reported it to the police, which made the people in the beauty department very embarrassed. I don’t know if there was any refund later. At that time, you could only transfer your membership balance to a hair salon run by someone else. If you were downgraded, you could use your membership balance. If you want to maintain the membership discount, you have to top up at another store. Maybe someone defends their rights. , you can get a certain refund. Think about that back then, some managers and directors of that hair salon said how powerful they were and how many shops they had opened in the area. It turned out that they were just rented, and some of the things they said were not the truth, but just lies and jokes. In many cases, you need to be wary of propaganda and sales pitches from strangers, and do not trust them easily. The society is very complex, and the actual situation may be very different from what is packaged. For a period of time, that hairdressing shop opened in a low-key manner with dim lights and curtains covering the glass windows. Later, it was renovated and turned into a beauty shop. The hairdressing department was removed and the relationship was removed. The lights of the shop were turned on again in the evening. The Roast Duck Restaurant on Hotel Street was really popular during the anniversary recharge last year, with customers queuing up to spend 2,000 yuan or more on recharge. The store doesn't care at all whether ordinary customers will recharge. Some customers want to recharge enamel pots and other gifts, and some people recharge just to get gifts and coupons. During this period, I went to that restaurant several times. Sometimes, when I went on weekends, the lobby was only half full, and even two-thirds of the tables were empty. This was not the case last year, and the business at that time was far away. Better than these past few months. Customers on the private floor felt that the quality of the signature dishes was average. They told the manager and waiters about this, but the manager ignored the customers' dissatisfaction and didn't care. Anyway, there were still a lot of customers. The restaurant owner had plenty of money and was temporarily concerned about the performance. Decline, maybe it doesn’t matter. It's just that this kind of business situation is not a good phenomenon. I read on the chat software about the roast duck set meal promotion of that restaurant. They are using low prices to attract consumers and invite people to dine and spend. I guess the operator is a little panicked. If the operation is deserted for a long time, the operation of a large hotel with several floors will The cost is very high. That hotel street has seen dozens of restaurants in the past twenty years. There are relatively few big restaurants that have been open and operating for nearly twenty years. I have been to several cafeterias and several restaurants many times. Most of them closed down due to a decrease in customers. This is a lesson. Let alone common restaurants, they are once famous restaurants and shops. If many consumers are dissatisfied, it is only a matter of time before some brands disappear. The author has been going to that mid-to-high-end Neifu restaurant in the past few months, and he can indeed get some discounts. When he was in the lobby, he saw some customers recharging their money many times. Among the customers in private rooms, there were no low-spending customers. If you get one or two thousand, if you use seafood dishes of hundreds of thousand per person, you will have a high consumption of 18,000 at a time. Why do some luxurious weddings or banquets cost millions just for catering? Because some soups cost hundreds of yuan a cup, and a dish of seafood costs thousands. It’s so expensive. Some celebrities’ ostentatious seafood dinners cost just a few dollars. The price of a table full of raw materials can already allow ordinary people to live without worries for a year. This is the price of raw materials purchased by oneself. If you spend a lot of money in a luxury hotel, it may be a high expenditure of six figures. It is said that some top-quality white truffles, black caviar, and soft-boiled abalone are available for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. For rare and purely wild seafood, you may spend millions, but you may not necessarily have genuine products. The output of some commodities is indeed very small, and they may have been enjoyed by the rich and powerful since ancient times. They don’t care how much money they spend, but they just want the experience and style of luxury quality.

If you can have an excellent quality life experience, of course it will be great. If not, you can live a good ordinary life, be content and happy, and be blessed and happy.

You should cherish what you have, strive to get and maintain what you really want, and believe that it will get better.