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Chapter 671: The Mother Exploiting Her Daughter

After the New Year, there were indeed a few stores that wanted to close, including a fruit store and a braised food store.

The fruit store is larger, nearly 40 square meters, and the rent is also high. The braised food store is much smaller, only five or six square meters.

In fact, for Song Xia who sells snacks like this, it would be best for him to take over the braised food shop. The rent is low and he doesn't have to bear such a high cost. However, Song Xia still prefers the fruit shop.

It is about 30 square meters. After some renovation, not only will the kitchen be much bigger, but guests will also have a place to sit and eat. We can also put in a few more freezers and steamers, and sell soup in the winter and cold dishes in the summer.

The main thing is that soups and cold dishes are easy to make. They can be made all at once and just left there. When customers place an order, they can be served directly to the table, and they can still be sold at a reasonable price.

After careful consideration, Song Xia went to negotiate the transfer fee and rent with the owner and landlord of the original fruit shop.

Although this is an old town, the rent is not cheap, nearly ten thousand a month, and there is another one hundred thousand in transfer fee. Add to that the decoration, equipment, and hiring two waiters. Song Xia roughly estimated that it would conservatively cost two hundred thousand to open this store.

Tsk, if he hadn’t made some money in the stock market and had so many old customers, Song Xia might not have been sure he could run this store smoothly.

Give it a try. Once you have a store, you can add many products and extend the business hours a lot. Compared to setting up a street stall, the profit should not be bad.

The landlord seemed to be afraid that her business would not be doing well and she would continue to transfer the property, so he proactively proposed in the lease terms that the rent would not be increased for three years. After three years, the maximum increase could not exceed 6%.

This is also because the business of physical stores has been really bad in the past two years. It is better to rent it out than to leave it empty. For example, there is a large store of 100 square meters on the next street. Because a landlord raised the rent too much all of a sudden, the landlord was so angry that he refused to rent it. It has been vacant for more than half a year.

Although several other stores did not increase the rent, they were still unable to continue their business for various reasons. Sometimes they had two store owners in a year. When the tenants changed, wouldn't the store be vacant for a month or two?
In fact, Song Xia could have waited a little longer to rent this store. After the fruit store owner started to lose money on rent, she could have saved the transfer fee.

However, this street is more popular than the street next door. What if someone else takes a fancy to it? Plus, the landlord is very kind, so I just rented it.

After signing the contract, Song Xia started working on the decoration, which she directly contracted to a decoration company. She did not require it to be luxurious, only clean, tidy and quick.

As for tables, chairs, and kitchen utensils, she would go to the Home Life Plaza early in the morning for one-stop shopping, which did not delay her usual stall time at all. During the renovation period, through her publicity, customers also knew that the previous fruit shop had been taken over by her.

"Boss, you finally opened a store. I've been looking forward to it. Now I have a place to sit and I don't have to rush to eat on the way."

"Yes, I can buy some fried rice when I get off work at night, and I don't have to pack it up. I always think it tastes best when it's cooked right away."

“Will there be more new products after the new store opens?”

"And you don't have to order takeout at noon. You can eat directly in your store."

Song Xia kept smiling: "There will definitely be new products, and we will be open 24 hours a day. Stay tuned." When everyone heard that the business was open 24 hours a day, they became excited. In fact, there were many office workers around, and sometimes the business at noon was better than in the morning or evening. If lunch was added in the future, the turnover would definitely increase a lot.

"Boss, can you tell me what the new products are?"

"In winter, we will add some clay pot soups, and the snack categories will also include soup noodles, soup noodles and the like. At noon, we also have rice with rice, but because I am the only chef, there are not many types of rice with rice."

"That's enough! As long as you make it yourself!" The customers are really satisfied. You know, they will never get tired of the meat patties, porridge, soy milk, fried rice, etc., and if they add some soups, noodles and rice, and rotate them every day, it is enough to have different dishes for several days.

In fact, if it were somewhere else, they would have gotten tired of it if they ate at the same restaurant every day. But with the boss’s place, they would want it every day. If I hadn’t seen the boss make it with my own eyes, I would have thought she put something that shouldn’t have been there.

Song Xia calculated that, in fact, rice noodles and vermicelli are very easy to make. Just fry the toppings in advance, and when customers place an order, just blanch the rice noodles and vermicelli. The hired employees can make them. It may take more time to make rice with toppings, so at the beginning, she only planned to sell five kinds of rice with toppings, namely scrambled eggs with tomatoes, minced pork with sour beans, celery and dried tofu, beef with cumin, and stir-fried pork with farmers. These five are also the most commonly ordered by customers in those small stir-fry restaurants.

Moreover, these kinds of dishes can be fried quickly, and then customers can have a delicious meal with a bowl of rice and a bowl of clay pot soup.

Wei Zhu almost dropped his jaw when he found out that his mother had taken over such a big store. Even if the stall business was good in the past two months, could she have made so much money in just two months?
"How can you earn so much? Your father left some money before, and didn't you transfer a few months' salary? You lied to your brother about the lack of money so that he wouldn't spend it recklessly."

So this is ah!

"But with such a big store, won't it be stressful? Won't it be tiring?"

"There is definitely pressure, but if the store doesn't grow, how long will it take to buy a house in the provincial capital just by setting up a stall? If it's tiring, I can just hire two employees by then."

Wei Zhu was still worried: "Mom, why don't you hire an employee first? I can help with the work. Don't worry, I won't delay my studies."

"I told you to concentrate on your studies and I won't let you do it. Mom knows what I'm doing. It's okay. By the way, don't tell your brother about opening a store first, or he'll get carried away."

Wei Zhu nodded heavily: "Well, I won't tell you."

"It's rare that your brother can still work for so long. It seems that he was spoiled too much in the past. He is obviously very capable."

Wei Zhu prayed silently for his younger brother in his heart. From what his mother said, it seemed that she would find more things for his younger brother to do in the future.

"I have spoiled him for so many years so that he can succeed when he grows up. Now it is time for him to take responsibility."

At this time, Wei Deng didn't know that the job he agreed to temporarily would result in a lifelong job. After the Chinese New Year, the employees came back to work one after another, but because the customers had eaten too much meat and fish during the Chinese New Year, there were not many customers, and his work became easier.

Thinking about the salary that was about to be received, he already had a plan in his mind.