1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 96 Blockage
In Jinan, on a street about 200 meters away from the eighth building of the provincial government, an orange-and-white Mo Mo Bai Zha franchise store stands out among the old and dilapidated red brick houses.

Unlike the three stores used for demonstration at the beginning, the franchise store numbered NO: 56 is undoubtedly much larger in area... Although an area of ​​more than square meters can only be considered a small store in any era, it is already seriously exceeded compared to the three model stores of only square meters.

In fact, it is not just this store. From NO: 4 to the newly opened NO: 64, all the franchise stores are no less than 40 square meters, and the largest store is even more than 90 square meters, with no intention of catching up with the three model stores.

The reason is very simple. All the franchise stores of Momo Baizha were opened within the two months after Yang Mo withdrew from the management guidance group. Moreover, after "careful" consideration by the management guidance group, these 64 franchise stores were all seed stores opened by the families of the drilling company employees.

In the view of Jiao Shouqiang and others, Mo Mo Bai Zha is currently in its heyday, and given limited energy, they should naturally give priority to taking care of their own people when there is a good thing. Anyway, the greatest value of this project is to solve the employment problem of their family members.

As for those small bosses from other places who have a strong desire to join and call me every day for consultation... I don’t care about them!

Since the seed stores are all opened by family members, and the drilling company is a state-owned enterprise, its momentum must not be weak.

What can a mosquito shop of ten square meters do?
Change! Rent the whole store to me! Only when the store is bigger can the turnover be increased, and the family can make money!

The layout design is inconsistent with those three model stores. Does the layout need major changes?
Easy! Just turn it into a dine-in restaurant and set up a few rows of tables, chairs and benches inside the store. This is not a roasted sweet potato stall, so you can’t have people standing and waiting for food!
The store is big, and three people are not enough to staff it?
Add! If three people are not enough, add five people. If five people are not enough, add eight people. If the store is big, add more people. If the store is small, add less people. It can increase employment opportunities, which is a great thing!

What? You said the budget is over, and you can't raise that much money to open a franchise store?
Oh no! This is nothing. We are all family. If you have difficulties, the company will naturally consider it... Look, our business guidance team has applied for a sum of money from the company. As long as we fill out a form, we can immediately borrow 1 to 5 yuan from the company at a very low interest rate. When we make money, we can pay it back at the end of the year!

In short, under the core guiding ideology of "providing employment opportunities for family members", these franchise stores have been changed beyond recognition...and all these changes are not limited to the size of the store.

So, in just two months, some serious problems began to surface...

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Momobaba.NO: 56 franchise stores.

"Boss, give me 5 fish balls, 5 fish tofu, 2 skewers of gluten, 2 fried Spanish mackerel, 2 low-gluten pancakes, 2 large slices of tofu, a large squid... and two bottles of soda!"

Two well-dressed young women walked into the store and without even looking at the menu on the blackboard, they directly listed a list of dishes... It was obvious that they were old customers.

When people in later generations hear this, they will immediately realize that something is wrong... Why does this sound like ordering barbecue?

amount……

That’s right, under the wise decision of the management guidance team, Momo Baizha is now following the barbecue restaurant model, but unlike ordinary barbecue, they use the method of frying... Since the name is Momo Baizha, naturally anything can be fried!

"Hey~! Okay, little sister, just wait a moment, I'll fry it for you right away!"

A petite woman in her forties responded in Mandarin with a thick southwestern accent, and with a smile she took out two bottles of "Luobei Soda" produced in Linyi from the box and handed them over, then instructed two other women of similar age to prepare the ingredients.

It must be admitted that the service awareness of the people in the southwest is indeed stronger than that of the local people in Qi and Lu. No matter what they were like in the drilling company before, after becoming their own boss, these family members always have a smiling face.

Obviously, the people of Qilu, who are used to being treated roughly by state-owned restaurants, like this very much. After taking a sip of the soda handed over by the boss, a tall girl looked at her companion with a smug smile and said, "How about it? I said it was right to eat here... Although the food here is a little more expensive and the taste is a little spicy, the service is good... Eating here is much better than spending money and having to face other people's faces elsewhere, right?"

The female companion nodded: "Indeed, although the accent is a bit strange, I feel quite comfortable when someone laughs at me like that... But isn't Mo Mo Bai Zha very famous now? How come it's only half full at noon?"

The tall girl looked around and shrugged nonchalantly: "Who knows, maybe people can't eat spicy food, or maybe they think the prices here are a bit high, so there are not many people here today... When this store first opened more than half a month ago, it was packed with people."

The female companion nodded as if she understood, took a sip of the Luobei soda that was full of the flavor of essence, and never touched it again... It was hot now, and the soda was a little warm. The temperature stimulated it, and when she drank the low-quality essence mixed with a little salty liquid, she always felt an indescribable weirdness.

Although she vaguely understood that the reason why Mo Mo Bai Zha replaced the original drink with this soda was actually to save a certain soda factory, she just didn't like it.

"Little sister, I'm sorry, we're out of Spanish mackerel and squid, and the tofu will take half an hour to be delivered... How about you guys change it? How about chicken feet and chicken wings? ... Or a portion of luncheon meat."

Just as the two girls were chatting quietly, the embarrassed voice of a middle-aged woman was heard... As if she felt that she was in the wrong, the woman, who was obviously the store manager, had a hint of embarrassment on her face.

Chicken feet and wing tips?

The two little girls frowned.

Due to differences in regional culture and times, these things may be popular in later generations or in the southern region, but in today's Qi and Lu, they are undoubtedly unpopular.

As for the luncheon meat... the tall woman was in a bad mood: "Forget about the luncheon meat. The last time I came to your store, I ordered this. The hairy pig skin in it almost made me sick!"

After thinking for a while, the tall woman said reluctantly: "Forget it, since we are here, give us some chicken feet and chicken wing tips as well."

Obviously, the people of Qi and Lu at that time did not know how to refuse.

When the middle-aged woman heard the woman's complaints about luncheon meat, she became even more embarrassed. After writing down the order, she hurried to the kitchen...

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More than half an hour later.

As the lunch rush ended and the last table of customers left the restaurant, several middle-aged women complained while cleaning up the tables.

“I don’t know if those damn leaders in the company have shit in their brains. We’ve told them several times that customers don’t like the Luobei soda and asked them to change it, but they just wouldn’t listen!” A woman dressed like an ordinary shop assistant was holding a few bottles of soda that she had only taken a few sips of, and she gulped them down into the sink in the kitchen.

The store manager sneered, "Even if you talk your mouth off, do you think they will change it? This soda was given by the general manager's office as a favor to the county... and you have the nerve to brag about it on the company radio... Ugh!"

A woman covered her nose and took out a smelly bag from the back kitchen: "I don't understand, does the company treat our stores as garbage disposal plants... They don't even know how to get us a few more good freezers, and they only know how to deliver goods all day long. If these seafood are not sold out within three days, they will all become smelly... How can we have the nerve to fry them and sell them to customers!"

Obviously, there was no shortage of mackerel and squid today, but they had gone smelly and it was embarrassing to serve them out.

Upon hearing this, the store manager sighed, looked at the seven or eight freezers that stretched from the kitchen to the edge of the hall, and said somewhat helplessly: "Now the company is buying leftovers everywhere in the name of reducing raw material costs... The cost of the goods is under control, but the variety is so great that it makes your scalp numb... Even if more freezers are purchased, if there are still one or two bags of forty or fifty kinds of raw materials, these seven or eight freezers will be full."

"The worst thing is that some things are easy to sell, while others are hard to sell. For example, the easy-to-sell items like fish balls can sell out half of the freezer in a day or two, but things like chicken feet have been here for more than half a month, and not even one bag has been sold... When they are thrown away bag by bag, it will be so painful to see them!"

After throwing away the garbage, the woman who had just thrown it away complained while washing her hands: "These things can be reported as damaged, why are you so upset? Instead of being upset about these things, you might as well be upset about our store's business!"

At this point, the woman shook off the water droplets on her hands and said with an unhappy look, "Look at our store. From the time we first opened, people lined up to eat, to now, half of the seats are not even occupied. How long has it been?"

"It's not that people are dissatisfied with our taste, nor that they are really afraid of spicy food, but that they spend money to eat, and they want to be comfortable... As a result, our service is OK, but we don't have what people want to eat, and for the sake of efficiency, we even try hard to promote food that people don't like!"

"Well, I admitted it the first time or twice for the sake of face, but if this happens again and again, which idiot would continue to come here to eat?"

The store manager was a little tired: "There's nothing we can do about this. Who says these freezers are not powerful enough? Once you put a lot of things in them, they can only maintain a temperature of about one or two degrees... Fish balls, fish tofu and gluten made from flour are okay, but seafood will go bad in two or three days in such hot weather... How can we sell other things if we don't push them!"

A woman who was a bit overweight interrupted, "Let's not talk about whether there is something fishy about the purchase of these freezers, but even if the equipment is not good, there are still ways to solve it... It's so simple, the company buys less things, allocates less raw materials, and puts less things in each freezer, so the temperature will drop... At the current rate, the money wasted on the spoiled ingredients every month can buy a new freezer. Is there anyone in the company who knows how to do the math?"

The woman washing her hands sneered, "Do you think those leaders understand this? They are working silently on the project while it is still cold in late spring. Those leaders who never touch water and stay in the office with fans all day have never thought about the fact that there are four seasons in a year and that food will go bad when the weather is hot."

"Besides, do you think that if you ask the company to buy less leftover ingredients, they will buy less?...Dream on!...You probably don't know how many favors the Industrial and Agricultural Science Department, the Service Brigade, and the General Manager's Office have received, how many reports they have written to seek credit, and how many times they have been praised?...Now nearly 20 local state-owned enterprises, big and small, are counting on them to survive. You want them to reduce their holdings? You will be the chief officer when they are evaluated for advanced status!?"

The fat woman was suddenly speechless. After all, she had worked in the drilling company for so many years, so she could naturally understand what her partner meant.

It's not that they don't know that the waste is serious, and they also know that this is not a solution... But what can they do? There are so many causes and effects involved, and they have to bite the bullet even if it means losing money.

But the problem is that those people don’t care about losing money. After all, their focus is not here, and what they seek is different;
But they can't just not care!

You know, although the company has various policy preferences, they are franchisees after all. They are franchisees who spend their own money to do business and are responsible for their own profits and losses!
Everyone knows that the company's preferential policies cannot last forever these days... Once the company's preferential policies on raw material loss reporting, rent, and revenue sharing change, how do you expect them to deal with the current situation of rapid customer loss?
No!

We can't just watch such a good hand being ruined!
I can't just watch the money my family has saved for so many years go down the drain!
We can't just sit and watch this golden road to wealth being turned into mud by those bastards!
I can't just watch my dream of becoming a boss shattered like this!

Female compatriots in the southwest region have always been very opinionated, and the family members of the drilling company are well-known in this small circle for their fearlessness.

After a moment of hesitation, the store manager took off her apron and threw it on the table: "No! We can't let this go on... Sisters, we can't just sit there and watch those bastards in the company who have shit in their heads waste our money... You guys help look after the store first, I'll take a ride back to the company and discuss things with some old sisters!"

Total total?

Upon hearing this, several other shop assistants quickly gathered around, their eyes full of excitement...

(End of this chapter)