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As more people came to eat, the restaurant's reputation naturally grew. After all, the quality of the food was definitely not a problem. Since the food was delicious, word of mouth spread, and the restaurant's reputation naturally grew.

Ye Jianchuan, on the other hand, used the restaurant's reputation to gain a lot of face during the negotiations.

By the way, although this restaurant is managed and operated by Sha Zhu and Ran Qiuye, it can actually be considered one of Ye Jianchuan's businesses.

After all, Ye Jianchuan found the shop, and he also had the Qin sisters, Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru, oversee the decoration of the shop, and they worked on it bit by bit.

As for the final share distribution, Sha Zhu didn't really have any ambitions, and Ye Jianchuan didn't want to take advantage of Sha Zhu on this issue, so in the end they simply decided to each own 50% of the shares.

Sha Zhu basically manages the kitchen and ensures the quality of the dishes. He only cooks for important customers.

Ye Jianchuan, on the other hand, provided the venue and the necessary operating costs, so Ye Jianchuan's 'contribution' should actually be higher, and he should have a larger share.

However, since Ye Jianchuan was a hands-off manager, and the money earned from the restaurant wasn't a lot for him, he didn't think it was worth worrying about such a small amount of money.

And so, Sha Zhu's restaurant opened and became a great success. At first, the restaurant only had two floors. The first floor was the main hall, and most of the customers ate there.

As for the second floor, although not many people usually go up there to eat, because the second floor has private rooms, you have to pay a room fee and service fee to eat in the private rooms.

Chinese people, let alone now, and even in the future, are not very comfortable with this so-called service charge, so naturally fewer people go to the second floor to eat.

But it doesn't matter. This business on the second floor was part of Ye Jianchuan's plan. It wasn't originally intended for the general public. The private rooms on the second floor were meant to make money off the wealthy.

The first group to dine on the second floor were naturally the 'guests' brought by Ye Jianchuan. Whether they were businessmen or officials, as long as they were 'friends,' Ye Jianchuan would bring them along. (They had paid money.)

Then... once these wealthy or powerful people have experienced the attentive service on the second floor and tasted the even better food than on the first floor, Ye Jianchuan's plan can be considered a success.

After all, these people are all powerful and influential, so naturally, some of the people they know are also powerful and influential. When they want to entertain these powerful and influential people, the first place that comes to mind is probably the private room on the second floor of Ye Jianchuan's restaurant, right?

In this way, the downstairs relies on the quality of the dishes to attract more customers, while the upstairs sells more of a 'class' and a 'prestige'.

These high-ranking officials and dignitaries who had enjoyed such top-notch service would naturally bring their 'friends' to experience it, and as a result, business on the second floor naturally boomed.

Chapter 282 The Number One Restaurant in Beijing!

However, this is not Ye Jianchuan's ultimate goal. As mentioned before, Ye Jianchuan not only wanted to build two floors, but also wanted to build a third floor.

The third floor was naturally a place specifically for serving Tan Family Cuisine, which required reservations. However, because there was no prior preparation, Ye Jianchuan encountered some troubles when planning to add a third floor.

Fortunately, these minor troubles were no big deal for Ye Jianchuan. He pulled some strings and got the permit. Then he started operating the first and second floors during the day and building the third floor at night.

In order to ensure that no dust would fall down when the building was being added upstairs, Sha Zhu closed his business for a few days in the first few days, and only reopened after the framework upstairs was completed.

It is precisely because of this scene of opening for business while simultaneously undertaking large-scale construction that outsiders are filled with curiosity about the third floor of this restaurant.

Once curiosity was piqued, the next step was naturally to recommend and promote it to customers. So, once the third floor was completed and renovations began, the promotional work for the third floor finally started.

Okay, 280 it is. In reality, it's just a matter of telling them when they settle the bill in each private room that they can make advance reservations for professional Tan Family Cuisine after the renovation of the third floor is completed.

The promotional efforts were surprisingly effective. It's unclear whether it was due to the competitive spirit among the restaurant owners or the genuine reputation of Tan Family Cuisine, but even before the third floor was fully renovated, Sha Zhu had already received orders for over a dozen tables.

Just finding enough food for these dozen or so tables is a physically demanding task, and it's impossible for the upstairs to find a dozen or so tables of guests at once!

Fortunately, Ye Jianchuan quickly provided a solution: of course you can't entertain so many guests at once, but you can have them follow the pre-arranged order and then schedule their time accordingly!

For example, the first person to make a reservation will be scheduled for the morning of the first day, the second person to make a reservation will be scheduled for the afternoon of the second day, and so on!

Sha Zhu was completely dumbfounded when he heard Ye Jianchuan's idea. Wouldn't this make these bosses unhappy?

It's inevitable that they'll be unhappy, since their competitive nature will cause them to agonize over this issue for a long time.

But it's okay. It's a seller's market now. Being able to reserve a table of "limited edition" Tan Family Cuisine is already a very rare thing. Would they cancel their reservation just because they have to wait in line?

If other people who have eaten Tan Family Cuisine find out, they'll think they can't afford it!

Well, actually Ye Jianchuan's approach was learned from those high-end restaurants of later generations, although when you go there you will generally feel that the restaurant doesn't seem to be doing very well.

However, they always require a relatively long reservation period before you go. Ye Jianchuan knows of a famous restaurant where reservations need to be made a full two weeks in advance.

This can actually be considered a form of scarcity marketing, right? Make you wait long enough to fill you with anticipation. Once the food quality is guaranteed, you'll feel that the long wait was worthwhile, and when you see the exorbitant bill, you won't feel that it wasn't worth it.

Of course, there are certain risks involved in using this method. You need to ensure that your dishes and service are worth the wait for your customers.

Otherwise... if the long wait raises customers' expectations, and you can't meet those expectations, all you'll get are endless negative reviews.

But for Sha Zhu, this is not a problem at all. As for the quality of the dishes, as one of the top chefs in Beijing, Sha Zhu's quality is naturally guaranteed.

As for the service, Ye Jianchuan directly copied the 'smiling service' from later generations. In addition, the third floor was already more luxurious than the second floor, so it would be quite difficult for problems to arise in this regard.

Since there's no need to worry about either of these aspects, why not just use this scarcity marketing tactic of 'queueing up for reservations'?

Besides, Tan Family Cuisine is quite different from other cuisines. Many things need to be prepared in advance. The initial soaking process alone takes several days, so making a reservation in advance is a necessary step. Naturally, the owners won't have any objections.

And so, the third floor of the restaurant that Ye Jianchuan and Sha Zhu opened together was finally arranged.

All of this took only a little over six months from start to finish. After that, as more and more dignitaries and officials came to dine, the restaurant's reputation was established.

Within the upper echelons of Beijing's social circles, Sha Zhu's "limited edition" Tan family cuisine, which required reservations, became the top choice for dignitaries to entertain their distinguished guests.

Of course, as Sha Zhu began to focus on preparing the Tan family cuisine on the third floor, the dishes for the private rooms on the second floor had to be left to Nan Yi, who was originally in charge of the food on the first floor.

If Nan Yilai is in charge of the dishes for the private rooms on the second floor, wouldn't the quality of the food on the first floor potentially decline?

However, this did not actually happen, because Sha Zhu and Nan Yi were both well-known figures in the culinary circles of Beijing.

After Sha Zhu's restaurant made a name for itself, many chefs naturally tried to imitate it. However, without Ye Jianchuan, who brought them a stable stream of high-end customers, many restaurants that wanted to move from the low-end to the mid-to-high-end market did not perform as well as they had hoped.

Having learned from these past mistakes, those who were not so 'confident' in themselves, or who did not have the idea of ​​getting rich quick but just wanted a stable life, chose another path: to directly join the already successful Sha Zhu.

So when Nan Yi went to cook the dishes for the private rooms on the second floor, the stir-fries on the first floor were handed over to the chefs who came in later.

Since they are all acquaintances in the industry, their skills are definitely not bad. In addition, they know each other well, so there is no need to worry that these chefs will deliberately cause trouble.

Chapter 283 Some 'Old Acquaintances' in the Factory

And so, without anyone noticing, Sha Zhu's restaurant had become one of the most worthwhile restaurants to visit in Beijing.

If this were in today's information age, it would definitely be a "viral" store. The number of people coming to check it out would probably burst the store.

With that, Ye Jianchuan had no more worries about the restaurant, so he left all the restaurant matters to Sha Zhu and Ran Qiuye.

As for Ye Jianchuan, he still couldn't relax. He was still at the food factory, thinking about how to expand production and add new products.

However, He Yushui, who was originally helping out at the restaurant, is now free. Should she go back to the restaurant? Not really. The restaurant is on track, and there aren't many things that need to be kept an eye on anymore. Even if there are, Ran Qiuye can handle it all by herself.

Besides, although Ye Jianchuan also takes half of the profits from this restaurant, it is nominally Sha Zhu's business. Letting He Yushui get involved might not cause any problems, given the personalities of the two siblings, but what if something does happen?

So Ye Jianchuan simply stopped letting He Yushui continue helping out at the restaurant, and instead brought her back and handed over the business in Beijing to her to manage.

Actually, Ye Jianchuan's factory employs quite a few 'old acquaintances,' such as Yan Jiedi from Uncle San's family, who now works at Ye Jianchuan's food factory.

Previously, with Ye Jianchuan's help, Yan Jiedi had gone to work at the Workers' Store. However, the Workers' Store was later privatized and divided into several parts, so Ye Jianchuan's influence was no longer as effective.

So Yan Jiedi became one of the sales staff who were forced to be laid off. And since there were no large-scale layoffs at that time, it would probably be a long wait for Yan Jiedi to be reassigned by the authorities.

Instead of sitting at home waiting, Yan Jiedi decided to find something to do herself. So she contacted He Yushui and got a job at Ye Jianchuan's food factory through He Yushui.

Moreover, it wasn't the kind of work that involves going down to the workshop; it was work in the reception area, which was actually part of the responsibilities of the factory's propaganda office and security office.

For example, there is a guard post at the main gate. If someone wants to enter, they need to announce their presence first. Also, any letters or other documents are placed here so that the workers can easily pick them up when they finish get off work.

In addition, this gatehouse has another important function: broadcasting announcements, which is somewhat similar to the school's campus radio station.

As for the workload here, it's not that much. After all, Ye Jianchuan didn't expect a young girl like her to be guarding the gate. That's something the lower-ups do. As the head of the reception room, she can just stay in the office.

However, while you might think there isn't much work here, it's actually quite busy. After all, Ye Jianchuan's factory is quite large, and he receives several hundred letters of all kinds every day.

So just dealing with these things takes her a lot of time. Of course, even so, it's still better than her staying at home waiting for news. Besides, although she's busy, most of the work is done by her subordinates, and she herself is relatively free most of the time.

Besides Yan Jiedi, another member of the Yan family was also put to work in the food factory, namely Yan Jiecheng's wife, Yu Li.

Previously, Yu Li had resigned from her job and was running the small shop at home with Yan Jiecheng. However, as mentioned before, there wasn't much to worry about or run errands for their small shop.

So it would be a bit redundant for the couple to take care of everything together, and because they had too much free time, they would often quarrel over trivial matters.

To prevent this situation from escalating, Uncle San slammed his fist on the table and ordered Aunt San to go help Yan Jiecheng watch the convenience store. As for Yu Li, since she had nothing to do, she might as well find a job.

So what kind of class would be the right choice at this time? Uncle San quickly thought of Ye Jianchuan again.

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Anyway, it wasn't a big deal, just a matter of a few words. Plus, Yu Li was indeed quite clever, so Ye Jianchuan didn't hesitate to hire her as the deputy director of the finance department.

So why is she the deputy? Well, it's because the accounting and finance department is so crucial! Ye Jianchuan naturally needs to choose someone he can trust to manage it!

So... Ye Jianchuan simply dumped all the accounting and finance matters onto He Yushui.

That's why He Yushui held multiple positions at the food factory in Beijing, serving as both deputy factory director and finance director. However, since Ye Jianchuan was busy expanding sales channels, her role as deputy factory director was essentially no different from that of factory director.

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Besides these three people, there is another person who also works at the food factory, and like Yu Li, he works in the finance department. That person is Xiao Huaihua.

However, since Qin Huairu had moved away a long time ago, and Huaihua had grown up quite a bit, neither Yu Li nor He Yushui recognized her as Xiao Huaihua.

Ye Jianchuan didn't have any other ideas behind this arrangement; it was simply because Huaihua's sensitivity to numbers was indeed beyond imagination.

She has just turned eighteen, and Ye Jianchuan plans to have her work as an accountant in the finance department of the food factory so that she can familiarize herself with the work process.

Once my business grows bigger and I start a company, I can promote the locust flower business, which would be a good help to my business.

By the way, since we've mentioned Yan Jiedi and Huaihua, what about Banggeng and his ilk, who were around the same age as Yan Jiedi? And what about Yan Jiekuang, who, like Banggeng, was sent to the countryside to work as an educated youth?

Yan Jiekuang was actually not much different from the ordinary people. After returning from his time in the countryside, he was assigned to work in the city's sanitation department.

Although it sounds like a sanitation worker, someone who does things like sweeping streets and cleaning up latrines, Yan Jiekuang didn't actually come back to sweep the streets; instead, he became the person in charge.

Chapter 284 The 'Business Acumen' of the Sticky Rice

To put it bluntly, Yan Jiekuang is now on the path of officialdom. Although his starting point is not good and he probably won't be able to climb much higher in the future, at least he has carved out his own path.

In addition, the salary and various benefits of working in a public institution are much better than before, so even if I can't become a high-ranking leader in the future, I will definitely be able to live a decent life.

After Yan Jiekuang returned from his time as an educated youth sent to the countryside, he was given a fairly good position. So what about Bang Geng, who was also sent to the countryside as an educated youth sent to the countryside?

That's another story. When Bang Geng came back, the government actually assigned him a pretty good job.