Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 245 The Noodle Shop Opens
"What? You guys want to open your own shop?"

Big Brother Guang and Xianglan called the Second Brother and Kang Qirui to the patio garden respectively. After Big Brother Guang made some tea, he confessed the purpose of calling everyone out this time. After hearing this, the Second Brother asked in shock.

Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan looked at each other, and finally Da Lao Guang answered: "A Zong, you know that the two of us can't help with the current situation of the tea restaurant company. We can only do some work in the store. So Xiang Lan and I thought about opening a store by ourselves. You know we are under a lot of pressure."

The second brother wanted to say something, but Kang Qirui pulled him back and shook his head. Then he turned around and encouraged the eldest brother Guang and Xianglan: "It's good for you two to go out and try your luck. In this way, you can keep the shares of the tea restaurant as a way out."

Kang Qirui was very supportive of Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan opening a restaurant. He had planned to let Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan run the restaurant from the beginning. However, after the restaurant won awards and became famous, it embarked on the rapid development of chain franchising and began to move towards computerized office and process management, which made Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan, two computer illiterate people, no longer suitable.

"Yeah, that's what we mean." Xianglan nodded and said happily.

Seeing Kang Qirui said so, the second brother stopped objecting. "Have you found a store yet? If not, I can help you find one." The second brother asked with concern. He had always respected the eldest brother very much. He was used to finding stores, so he asked.

"Thank you, Uncle, but we've already found it." Xianglan thanked him and then said, "It's near our house. Turn right and then left after you go out the door, and walk through two alleys."

"You found it even though it was so hard to find? That's awesome, sister-in-law." Kang Qirui said with a smile and nodded.

"Actually, it's a place owned by my fellow villager. He wasn't doing well in business there. But there was still one month left on the lease, so I took over," said Xianglan.

Kang Qirui frowned after hearing this, "Just one month's lease? Have you asked the landlord to renew the contract?" What can you do with just one month's lease? Kang Qirui looked at Xianglan with a puzzled look on his face.

"One month is not good enough?" Xianglan was quite proud. She said, "If I do a good job, we can continue to renew the contract with the landlord. If I don't do a good job, it's only one month's lease, and the compensation is not much."

"Yeah, I think one month is good." Big Brother Guang also had the same idea.

Kang Qirui and Er Lao were dumbfounded, not understanding what was going on in their minds. Kang Qirui helplessly said to them, "Big Brother and Sister-in-law, if you guys are right, then when you go to negotiate the renewal, why would the landlord still rent to you? Can't he make it himself? Is there any difference between the noodles in your noodle shop and those in other shops? OK, even if your noodles are very unique, do you think the landlord will raise the rent for you?"

Why are many shop owners unwilling to rent for a long time? Why do many shop owners want the lease to be as long as possible? It is because the more popular your shop is, the higher the increase the landlord will ask for when you renew the lease. And you often cannot refuse but can only accept. Few bosses will choose to move unless it is absolutely necessary.

Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan looked at each other, they really hadn't considered this issue. "But if we renew the lease now, if it doesn't happen by then, won't we lose a lot?" Da Lao Guang said worriedly.

"There's nothing we can do. This is the cost that you have to bear when opening a shop." Er Lao, an old businessman, spoke from his own experience. "Otherwise, even if you do a good business, it will be useless. When the landlord raises the rent, it means you are working for the landlord." Finally, under the persuasion of Er Lao and Kang Qirui, Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan contacted the landlord to extend the lease for one year. The one-year lease put a lot of pressure on Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan. They all knew that they could only succeed this time and could not fail. Just one week later, Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan's noodle shop officially opened. In order to save costs, they did not do any decoration. They just opened for business with a simple storefront. And A Rong, the noodle chef who was originally Xiang Lan's fellow villager, was also retained by them, which saved the time of recruiting people.

"We are opening a new store, 20% off for all items, welcome, please come in." On the opening day, Xianglan also offered a 20% discount, and business was pretty good for a while. When they counted the accounts in the evening, they made more than 200 yuan on the first day. Xianglan and Da Laoguang were both very happy, feeling that they had taken the first step towards success.

"I heard from my fellow villagers that he only made 350 yuan on his busiest day. We made more than 200 yuan on the first day of opening, which is pretty good." Xianglan said happily.

Big Brother Guang nodded happily, and then he did some calculations, "If I can make more than 200 yuan a day, then I can make more than 6,000 yuan a month. Huh? Only 6,000? Not even as much as what we made in a month working in a tea restaurant before."

Xianglan doesn't think so. "This is only our first day. Business will get better and better in the future. Maybe we can make 500 yuan a day. Then we can make 15,000 yuan a month, which is twice the income of working in a tea restaurant."

Although Da Lao Guang was not as optimistic as Xianglan, he also nodded in agreement because he did not want to spoil his wife's fun. The two of them went out early and came back late every day to take care of the noodle shop.

"Boss and sister-in-law, your shop has been open for a month, how is business?" On the evening after the boss's noodle shop had been open for a whole month, Kang Qirui waited for them to come back and asked. The second boss also looked curious.

"Business is pretty good and quite stable. Now I can basically make around 400 yuan a day." Xianglan said so, and Big Boss Guang also laughed and said, "You don't know, Xianglan's soup base is so popular, many people come to eat noodles every day, just like a regular canteen."

"According to what you said, business is so good, how come you only make 400 yuan?" Er Lao asked puzzledly. At Ru Hao Tea Restaurant, one can make about 4 yuan for a bowl of noodles. 400 yuan means sales of less than 100 bowls a day?
"It's like this, the most important thing for a noodle shop is the soup base. Our soup base is made of real ingredients, so we don't make much money from a bowl of noodles." Xianglan explained that the main feature of their shop is the rich, sweet and real soup base. It is different from those soup bases made of MSG, so they don't make much money from a bowl of noodles.

The second brother didn't comment on this, but Kang Qirui thought it was pretty good. There aren't many shops selling real food these days. In his previous life, he remembered a shop selling real food that was very popular. There was always a long queue, and it could sell about a thousand bowls a day.

"What about your employee? Can he handle it alone?" Kang Qirui asked again.

"You mean Arong? He is quite hardworking. If our business gets better in the future, it will be difficult to hire someone like him." The boss just praised him.

But Xianglan said, "Recently he is always alone in the kitchen after get off work, and I don't know what he is doing."

(End of this chapter)