I've been possessed by a culinary genius, and I've turned Shaxian snacks into a rip-off!

After the core members of the anti-gang alliance finished their secret meeting at the door, they sneaked away. As they left, Yu Shen turned back and shouted to Li Zhibai, "Boss, we're back tomorrow!"

Li Zhibai gave an OK sign towards the door, but in his heart he was happily calculating how much food he needed to prepare for tomorrow.

At today's rate, it'll at least double tomorrow, right?

Over the next few hours, several more groups of individual customers came into the store.

There were white-collar workers coming down from the office building next door looking for food, food delivery drivers on their way to deliver orders, and young couples who got lost while shopping.

Without exception, they were all shocked when they saw the price, then made a few complaints and left.

"A bowl of noodles for 588? Boss, are you making these noodles with gold bars?"

"It's so hard being a worker these days, even Shaxian snacks are too expensive now, damn it!"

"Goodbye!"

"Excuse me!"

"........."

There was no other way; after all, his Shaxian snack shop had only been open for a few days, and to build a stable customer base, he needed a steady stream of repeat customers. But apart from wealthy people like Yu Shen, people like the cleaning lady and Wen Ran's colleagues only came occasionally.

This touches on a very real issue: survival is the first problem people have to face, especially in a big city like Jiangcheng where the cost of living is already very high. It's impossible to be like those characters in novels who are attracted by food and eat there every day even if they only earn 3,000 yuan a month. That's pure nonsense.

To build a stable customer flow, you first need to expand your influence and cover a wider and larger population. With a sufficient number of people, you will attract more repeat customers and achieve full house every day.

Unfortunately, online channels were blocked, and the store received a terrible rating of 1.8, so there was basically no hope of promoting it online.

Although Li Zhibai knew who had written the negative reviews for his shop, he didn't dare to cause trouble for them.

fear death.

Therefore, he could only rely on the viral marketing method he came up with to expand the user base.

Night was falling.

Li Zhibai sat behind the cashier, poured himself a glass of free tap water, and began to calculate the accounts from the opening day to today.

When all the numbers were tallied up, they came up with a number that made his heart race.

243040 yuan.

This is his total revenue from the sixth day since he opened.

Looking at this number alone, he could even stand at the store entrance with his hands on his hips and arrogantly shout, "Who else?!"

A Shaxian snack shop located in the Financial Street area made nearly 250,000 yuan in revenue in six days, which is definitely a miracle in the catering industry.

If we include Su Su's tuition fee of 30,000 yuan, the total would exceed 270,000 yuan.

But you can't calculate it that way, since this isn't pure profit.

Let's calculate the total turnover as 250,000.

The total cost of ingredients accounts for about 40%, which is about 100,000 yuan.

The rent is only calculated for these few days, and if we calculate it proportionally, it's about 20,000.

There are also water and electricity, miscellaneous expenses, disposable supplies, not counting labor costs... all added up, let's say it's around ten thousand.

Finally, there's the tax. Although he's not a general taxpayer now, he still has to pay the taxes due to being a small-scale taxpayer. He roughly estimated that, based on this turnover, he'd have to pay at least ten thousand yuan in taxes.

All things considered, the total cost is about 150,000, the turnover is 250,000, and the net profit is about 100,000. If we add Su Su's tuition fee separately, it's 130,000.

In six days, I made a net profit of 130,000 yuan.

That's roughly equivalent to the annual salary of many white-collar workers in Jiangcheng, which is quite terrifying.

However, nearly 170,000 yuan of the revenue was generated by the company dinner the day before yesterday, which was made by a huge rip-off. If that extremely large order is removed, the actual revenue and profit in the past few days would be much less.

Most importantly, there are less than ten days left until the end of the month.

According to the contract, once he took over the shop, he had to assume the 300,000 yuan rent owed by the previous tenant, plus another 300,000 yuan for the next quarter, for a total of 600,000 yuan by the end of the month.

Six hundred thousand!

"Why not just abscond with the money and open a new store in another city?" Li Zhibai thought immorally.

However, he quickly dismissed the idea. After all, the money included the cost of ingredients for Su Su's family. He couldn't very well cheat that girl out of it; that would be too inhumane.

Of course, the best way is to find that bastard Zhao Lei. That way, we can find a way to get back the rent he owes, and he will only need to pay the 300,000 yuan he owes.

Li Zhibai also considered hiring a lawyer to file a lawsuit, but that would prevent him from operating his business normally.

With so many suckers here, he really couldn't bear to close down the business. After all, where else could he find a place where he could earn tens of thousands in just six days?

"Forget it, let's figure out how to pay back the money first, and then find a lawyer to take a look and slowly try to get that money back from Zhao Lei."

After finishing the accounts, Li Zhibai checked the time and it was almost midnight, so he prepared to close early.

Just as he was about to pull down the roller shutter and go back to sleep, he heard a familiar trolley sound at the door.

Sister Zhao has set up her stall.

Seeing Li Zhibai standing at the door, Sister Zhao greeted him with a big smile: "Boss Li, you haven't rested yet? Thanks to you today, my Siqi was so happy when she came back, she even dreamed about fried rice last night."

"Really? That's good." Li Zhibai smiled. "The surgery is tomorrow. Tell him not to be nervous."

"Hey, he told me he's not afraid at all now, and that once he gets better, he wants to come here every day to eat your fried rice." As she spoke, Sister Zhao deftly set up her fried rice stall.

Watching Sister Zhao's busy figure, Li Zhibai's irritation suddenly dissipated a lot.

Forget it.

What's there to be sad about?

So what if he's short 370,000? Is Li Zhibai going to be suffocated by such a small difficulty?

Just kidding, he's the man who's going to become the King of Shaxian!

One day, he'll find that bunkmate Zhao Lei who screwed him over, make him kneel in front of his shop, and copy the words "I'm an idiot" ten thousand times!

"Big sister, you go ahead with your work, I'm going to rest now."

"Boss, you should get some rest."

"Oh, right, make sure you don't lose the teddy bear I gave Siqi." Li Zhibai felt that she probably hadn't noticed the money inside the bear, so he reminded her.

"Okay, I'll make sure he keeps it safe. Thank you, boss!" Sister Zhao nodded repeatedly, but she had a vague idea of ​​what was going on and was about to call her husband to have him check the doll.

"Hmm." Li Zhibai responded, turned around and went back into the shop, pulling down the roller shutter.

After washing up, he lay in bed and, with a thought, opened the system panel.

A pale blue light curtain unfolded before my eyes.

[Host: Li Zhibai]

Age: 23

Physical fitness: 8

[Cooking Skill Rating: God-tier]

[Gourmet Heart: 1]

[Unlocked dishes: Fragrant Mixed Noodles, Crystal Steamed Dumplings, Chicken Leg Rice, Wonton, Stewed Pot Series, and Bodhi Jade Studio - The Only One.]

[Crowd control rule: Daily effective passenger flow ≤ 50 people.]

[Bodhi Jade Pavilion sold a total of 6 units (94 more units are needed to unlock the next Gourmet Heart reward).]

[Talent Skill: Tailoring the Dish to the Customer]

[System's Recent Review: A Shaxian restaurant owner who has begun to shed his lowbrow tastes has taken a solid first step on the road to ripping off customers, but there's still a long way to go before becoming a qualified "food capitalist." Host, please continue your efforts and strive to achieve the great goal of "ripping off all the rich people in the world" as soon as possible.]

Li Zhibai: "..."

I must say, that assessment is quite accurate.