Courtyard House: Is Xu Damao a childless man? Let me help.

After deducting the cost price and shop rent, there are basically only a few dollars left from these tens of dollars. Of course, if other types of customers come to support the business, the shop can also stay afloat.

The problem is that Banggeng's little shop has become 'famous' in the neighborhood now. It only sells snacks, nothing else! So if people want to buy something, they basically have to go to the shop next door.

So, apart from kids buying snacks, there's basically no one else doing business here. Occasionally, you might run into someone who comes to buy instant noodles (if they're rich), but they're all one-time customers. This place is used as an 'emergency station'.

Under these circumstances, Banggeng's small shop's sales in the second month can be described as a complete flop. Not to mention earning thousands of yuan, it didn't even have the profit of two hundred yuan from the previous month. In the end, Banggeng only earned about thirty yuan.

This is less than what he earned working at the steel rolling mill. At least when he worked at the steel rolling mill, he could eat at the company cafeteria, and his working hours were fixed.

But if you run your own shop, you have to get up early every morning to open the door. It's not that tiring, and you don't need to exert much physical effort, but you still have to stay open until about 10 pm every night.

Such long 'working hours' and only earned him thirty-odd yuan? This is a bit hard for Bang Geng to accept!

Chapter 287 Still trying to pull dirty tricks? He's only shooting himself in the foot!

So, if he can't accept this situation, what should he do next? Reflect on his actions? And then find a new way to keep the shop running?

Please, this is a great joke, so his first reaction was not to reflect on himself, but to start harboring resentment towards the other convenience store next to his shop.

That's right, this is the good child that Jia Zhangshi raised! My shop isn't making money? It must be the shop next door squeezing me out! I have to get revenge.

So when Banggeng's shop was open for three months, Banggeng started to 'think of a solution'.

Bang Geng is quite good at causing trouble for others, after all, his grandmother is a master at throwing tantrums.

Banggeng's idea was even more 'insidious'. He first spent some money to find a local thug and asked him to cause some trouble around the convenience store.

The idea is to use this method to encourage people who used to buy things at that small shop to buy things elsewhere.

Okay, he did achieve his goal... halfway. It's true that some people switched to other places to buy things because of this thug, but your store doesn't even carry what they want!

So in the end, the other party had to go to a place further away to buy things. As for Bang Geng, it can be said that he lost both his wife and his army. Not only did he spend money and disrupt the business of his 'competitor', but he also did not gain any benefit at all.

Moreover... what Bang Geng didn't know was that this action actually caused his own sales to decline further.

The small shop he was targeting didn't have a complete selection of items. For example, they sold biscuits and instant noodles from Ye Jianchuan Food Factory, but in very small quantities, and they were often sold out.

In such situations, people who want to buy something but find it sold out will usually come to Bang Geng's store to buy it. This can be considered part of Bang Geng's 'unstable customer base'.

However, after this hoodlum caused such a commotion, many customers chose to buy from another store. And the store they switched to was none other than the small shop that Old Yan's family ran at the entrance of the alley in the courtyard.

That's right. In the beginning, to avoid competing with Lao Yan's shop, Bang Geng opened his shop in a slightly more distant location.

However, since he lived in a courtyard house, the distance wasn't too far, only about a mile or two. There was another shop in between, so there wasn't really any competition between him and Old Yan's shop.

But after this incident, all the customers of the store he targeted came to buy things from Lao Yan's store. And Lao Yan's store's supply was not as awkward as that store's. They had as much instant noodles and biscuits as they wanted!

Since they could buy everything at Lao Yan's shop, they naturally wouldn't make a special trip to Bang Geng's shop just to buy instant noodles or biscuits.

So after all this, Bang Geng successfully caused his store's revenue to drop again, and it looked like the store was about to start losing money. Bang Geng got a little anxious, but he still didn't look for the cause within himself. Instead, he came up with another 'solution'.

This time, Banggeng himself made an appearance, went to that store and bought some snacks. After buying them, he started eating them right there in front of the store. After finishing, he immediately started pretending to have a stomachache, insisting that there was something wrong with the food that was sold to him.

The shop owner was startled and immediately brought Bang Geng hot water and invited him inside to sit down, taking good care of him. Then he suggested taking Bang Geng to the hospital for a check-up.

It has to be said that the shop owner (blank) is quite a "straightforward" rich man. Not only did he not see through the tricks that Bang Geng was playing, but he also offered to take him to the hospital.

If the diagnosis really turns out to be food poisoning or something similar, the medical expenses alone would probably be several hundred yuan. Then, if there's some compensation involved, it would easily reach four figures.

However, someone who can afford to open a small shop at this point, and has been running it for so long, must be quite wealthy.

Besides, he's not stupid. He remembers all the snacks Banggeng bought. If any problems are found during the inspection, he'll definitely go after the manufacturer to hold them accountable. So he doesn't care about the money he spends at this time.

However, to his surprise, Bang Geng refused to go to the hospital for a check-up with him. At this moment, the shop owner, who was worried about causing some trouble, immediately understood what was going on.

Furthermore, since someone quickly recognized Bang Geng as the owner of the convenience store not far away, is there any need to say anything more about the cause and effect of this matter?

Then... naturally, there was a lot of wrangling, which ended with Bang Geng sheepishly apologizing, and only then was the matter considered closed.

As for Bang Geng, after offending people, his reputation plummeted again. As a result, his most important customers, the children, gradually stopped buying things from his store under the guidance of their parents.

Therefore, Banggeng's little shop ultimately failed to survive past the third month and had to close down.

The only thing that allowed Bang Geng to breathe a sigh of relief was that although his convenience store had closed down, he hadn't actually lost much money in the three months he had been running the business.

Yes, it did cost a lot of money to purchase the goods, but in the first two months I was not only able to break even, but I was even able to make a small profit.

Although many items remained unsold in the third month, and it would have been a huge loss if they had just sat there unsold, Bang Geng quickly came up with a solution: he sold all his remaining stock to Yan Jiecheng.

Of course, although Yan Jiecheng agreed to help, he still took advantage of the situation and made a profit. In the end, after Bang Geng cleared out the goods, he still lost more than a hundred yuan.

Add to that the rent for the last month... Well, after three months of hard work, Banggeng discovered that his little shop was still losing money, but thankfully not by much, just a little over a hundred yuan.

Chapter 288 Copying Old Liu's Homework

After running two different businesses and losing nearly 300 yuan in total, Banggeng realized that doing business is not something that can be easily mastered by simply copying others.

So Banggeng figured it out and decided that he should first discuss it with his cheap "adoptive father" to see if they could find a correct path.

Uncle Yi was actually starting to regret it a bit. Although Bang Geng had done a commendable job in making tough decisions in these two business dealings, thus mitigating a lot of losses.

Even though a lot of the losses were recovered, there were still losses! I had saved up my life savings for decades, and all I had saved was a little over two thousand yuan. More than a tenth of that was gone.

If this continues a few more times, won't all my savings for my funeral be gone in no time?

But we can't just not help and try to find a solution. Bang Geng has already resigned from the steel mill. We can't just let him stay at home like this, can we?

She had gone to great lengths to trick him into coming here so that he would take care of her in her old age. In fact, after Banggeng returned from his time in the countryside, she even took on the responsibility of feeding Jia Zhangshi.

What is all this for? Isn't it all so that Bang Geng can treat me and Aunt Yi well in the future? But if this person who is supposed to support us becomes a freeloader, then what's the point of supporting him?

So, in order to ensure that Bang Geng would have the funds to support him in his old age, Uncle Yi could only help Bang Geng come up with a solution and see if they could find a suitable business to do.

Just then, the Liu family's restaurant business gradually became more and more prosperous, so Uncle Yi started to want Banggeng to "copy" the Liu family's homework again.

However, running a restaurant is not as 'easy' as running a grocery store or convenience store. Unless you are a street vendor, you basically need to find connections to get a license to run a restaurant.

Although this certificate is much easier than the cumbersome business licenses, food safety and hygiene inspections of later generations, it is still one of the more troublesome types of business compared to others.

And the most crucial point is that, although everyone cooks a little at home, each family really has a unique flavor that can only be tasted at their own home.

However, this unique flavor is not for everyone. So the most important thing when opening a restaurant is to know a wide variety of dishes so that your restaurant can attract enough customers.

This single requirement alone is already an insurmountable obstacle for ordinary people who "know how to cook".

After all, most people who cook at home can only cook some simple home-style dishes at most. If you ask them to stir-fry cabbage, stew chicken, or make pork stew with vermicelli, they might be able to manage.

However, if you order more complicated dishes, such as Kung Pao Chicken, West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce, Yellow Croaker Stew with Tofu, and Salt-Baked Chicken, then...

If you can cook all kinds of different cuisines, most people who cook at home would be very skilled, let alone all of them. Even being able to cook just two of them would be considered very impressive.

Besides, the seasonings for dishes prepared by ordinary families are usually based on their own family's taste, but for some diners, it may be too bland or too salty.

Therefore, whether the taste of the dishes is suitable or not is something that an ordinary person opening a restaurant would really not be able to say for sure.

Of course, there is another very important issue, which is the speed of cooking. When people cook at home, they don't usually care about speed, so whether it's chopping vegetables or preparing ingredients, the speed is actually quite slow.

So it might take 20 or 30 minutes to prepare two or three dishes for a meal. If this cooking speed were used in a restaurant, wouldn't the restaurant go out of business?

After all, restaurants are completely different from grocery stores and convenience stores. Restaurants only make money during those two mealtimes; during the rest of the time, very few people come to eat.

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Therefore, restaurants need to cook a lot of dishes in a very short time. Take Lao Liu's restaurant as an example. Their restaurant is not very big. It is only one floor with a total of eight tables inside and out.

However, with only eight tables, we would need to serve about eleven or twelve tables of guests during the one and a half hours at noon. Each table would order an average of four dishes, so we would need about forty dishes for lunch.

More than forty dishes were cooked in just over an hour; that's a speed that most housewives couldn't handle.

Of course, the reason why they can cook so quickly is also related to the stove and the size of the fire they use. The stoves used in professional restaurants are all high-pressure stoves, which are completely different from the stoves at home.

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So just adapting to the intensity of the fire is a troublesome thing for ordinary people.

With so many 'troubles' mentioned above, it also means one thing: Banggeng and Uncle Yi can't just find any cook to start cooking.

Since this problem is not so easy to solve, it also means that if they fail again this time, their idea of ​​losing only a little money and getting away unscathed is definitely not realistic.

The previous two failures, coupled with the fact that the 'consequences' of this job seemed even more serious, made Uncle Yi somewhat hesitant. However, Bang Geng was very confident and assured Uncle Yi that he would definitely be able to make money this time.

After hesitating for a long time, Uncle Yi finally nodded in agreement and started looking for connections to get a business license. It has to be said that although Uncle Yi had never held an official position in his life, he still had a certain status in the steel rolling mill.

After all, he had been an eighth-grade worker for more than ten years, and the number of apprentices he had taught was probably already in the hundreds. It wouldn't be a problem to find a few talented people among them.

Of course, personal favors aside, getting the business license ultimately cost Grandpa Yi over a hundred yuan, and this was just the beginning of the expensive work.

Chapter 289 Liu Guangtian dug a pit for Bang Geng

It has to be said that this guy's brain works pretty well. Although he doesn't know any good chefs, he knows who does! Isn't Sha Zhu one of the best chefs in Beijing? He must know quite a few chefs, right?

So, just like last time when he shamelessly asked Ye Jianchuan for help, Banggeng once again brazenly approached Shazhu, hoping that Shazhu could help him, completely forgetting that after returning from the countryside, he still addressed Shazhu in such an impolite way.

Sha Zhu was also annoyed when he saw Bang Geng come to his door, because he really didn't want to help Bang Geng this time. The last time he helped Bang Geng was when Bang Geng stole money.

As a result, he helped hide the food that time, and because everyone was unaware of this important news, they sent Jia Zhangshi to "283" prison. Although this was something Sha Zhu was happy to see, it was still wronging someone.

So from that time on, Shazhu made up his mind that he absolutely could not get involved in Bang Geng's affairs anymore, lest he cause any more trouble and then he would have to pretend he didn't know or report it.

If they continue to pretend they don't know, their conscience will bother them. But if they report it, to put it bluntly, if they report everything that this guy has caused, he'll probably be in big trouble.

Besides, no matter what, they are my juniors, whom I've watched grow up since they were little. So rather than getting hung up on this issue later, it's better not to help them at all!

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If Bang Geng hadn't seen Sha Zhu charging at him with a fire poker, he probably would have continued cursing for a while longer.

Having offended Sha Zhu, it would indeed be difficult to get any more information about the chef from him. However, there was still one direction I could explore.

The second candidate was naturally Liu Guangtian. Liu Guangtian himself had been a "veteran canteen worker" in the steel rolling mill canteen for more than ten years. Although he had not learned much cooking skills, he knew a lot of cooks!

Putting everything else aside, there must be more than just a few cooks in the steel mill's canteen, right? If I could find two more cooks from the steel mill to help me cook, that would seem like a good option.

So Banggeng approached Liu Guangtian. When Liu Guangtian heard Banggeng's purpose, he immediately shook his head. What a joke! The last thing a restaurant owner likes is a 'competitor'.

After all, this is quite different from a convenience store. Convenience stores operate on the principle of proximity because everyone sells the same products and the prices are basically the same. So, people naturally buy things wherever it is convenient for them.