Starting from selling lunch boxes at the construction site

Chapter 16 Business is booming
The next day, it was still the construction site that arrived at 45:[-]. There seemed to be several people waiting at the gate of the construction site, including Qiao Guoxing.

Qiao Guoxing discussed it with his wife when he got off work at night, and decided that when he got off work at noon, he would buy a box of lunch at the door and take it to the cafeteria. Can be full and eat well.

From a distance, I saw a tall and thin man riding a tricycle, followed by a strong young man, so I knew it was Xu An and the others.

Qiao Guoxing squinted his eyes hard, trying to see the dishes of today's box lunch.

'Boiled pork slices, winter melon meatballs, braised tofu, Bawang flower soup; [-] yuan a piece. '

Just looking at the name of the dish, Qiao Guoxing's saliva spit up.

As soon as Xu An parked the car here, Qiao Guoxing rushed to the front of the car and opened the foam box to pick up a lunch box, and waited for Xu An to fill him with soup.

The rest of the workers gathered around one after another, and two of them bought for other workers, one took three copies, and the other took four.

The first foam box was more than half empty.

From the beginning of this wave of people, Xu An was responsible for collecting money and giving change, Xu Le handed over the soup box, Xu Heping made the soup, Xu Kang covered the lid, and the small assembly line was in order.

When Uncle Dongliang showed up with a group of workers, there were only eight boxes of lunch left, and they swept it all away, and a few people didn't buy it.

Today, Xu An made a full 45 copies. He thought it would last longer, and if he sold it slowly, it should be sold out. Unexpectedly, it was emptied in less than an hour.

The few people who didn't sell the lunch box complained a little, Xu An gave them each a Bawang flower soup, and they left reluctantly.

Xu Dongliang was worried that Xu An would not be able to continue his business without finding someone to help him.Now seeing this situation, I finally feel relieved, even if I didn't find someone to help me, the business was still done.

The dishes in the construction site cafeteria today are still pasta, but the topping has been replaced with meat sauce, which is a bit more solid than yesterday's topping with only a few shredded pork.

Most workers don't have much opinion on the canteen, after all, it is free, as long as it can fill their stomachs.

When they buried their heads in eating noodles, they suddenly smelled a smell of meat.

The fresh, spicy smell attracted the attention of many people. They looked around to find the source of the smell, and finally their eyes stopped in the direction of Qiao Guoxing and his wife.

The two of them lined up the boxed lunches they bought from Xu An on the table, and ate happily with the meat sauce noodles in the cafeteria.

Seeing how they were feasting, everyone suddenly felt that the meat sauce noodles in their bowls were not delicious.

Someone leaned over and sat next to Qiao Guoxing, patted Qiao Guoxing on the shoulder, and asked bluntly, "Brother, where does this lunch box come from? The dishes are very rich, how much is it?"

Qiao Guoxing was straightforward, swallowed the food in his mouth and replied: "There is a stall at the gate of the factory, and this one only costs eight yuan."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pain in his toes. He looked down and saw that his wife had stepped on his foot.

Qiao Guoxing looked at his wife innocently and asked, "What's the matter?"

After the man left, his wife scolded in a low voice: "That small stall doesn't have a lot of food in the box, only thirty or forty. There are five or six hundred people in the construction site. If you know more people, you can still buy them." Arrive?"

"You think the boss is an idiot. If the business is good, he will definitely make more and sell more. Today's box lunches are much more than yesterday, so you don't have to worry about not being able to buy them." Qiao Guoxing laughed.

"At that time, there will be more box lunches, and there will be so many dishes and so much meat. Many fast food restaurants start out with large quantities and affordable prices. When the business is good, they start cutting corners."

These words made Qiao Guoxing fall into annoyance.

"I've said it all, and I can't take it back." Qiao Guoxing secretly decided: "When he cuts corners, we won't buy it."

Because of the large quantity, the average cost is [-] cents less than yesterday, and the net profit of [-] lunch boxes is [-] yuan.

Judging from the current sales volume, ten more copies can be sold tomorrow.

The next morning, I went to Bald Chen's store to pick up fifteen catties of meat, seven of which were pork belly.The vegetables are potatoes and cabbage from the family of the second uncle Xu Guoqiang.

What I have to do today is a total of [-] boxed lunches. Grandma Xu is lying on the rocking chair to help pick vegetables, so she hurried and barely arrived before eleven o'clock.

Some workers who got off work early waited at the door at [-]:[-], but they couldn't wait for Xu An until [-]:[-].I thought he would not come to set up a stall today, so I went directly to the restaurant across the road to spend.

Qiao Xingguo waited under the shade of a tree after getting off work at 10:30, and it was not easy to wake up after two rounds of dozing off. Xu An was also muttering in his heart.

'Shouldn't I go back and think that I'm losing money, so I won't come. '

By 58 minutes, Qiao Xingguo's daughter-in-law came out.

"Where's the stall with box lunch?"

"It hasn't come yet, and I don't know if it will come or not."

"Wait another 5 minutes. If you still don't come, go to the cafeteria quickly. Otherwise, there are too many people and I don't know how long the queue will be."

Xu An lived up to everyone's expectations, and appeared at exactly eleven o'clock on a small tricycle. There were still two little children sitting on the small tricycle, followed by this young man on a bicycle.

Everyone first looked at the whiteboard tied to Xu An's car. Today's dishes are: braised pork, spiked potatoes, cabbage and mung bean soup.

Seeing that today's dish has braised pork, everyone is not calm, fearing that they will be one step behind others, scrambling to pick up a box lunch.

Holding the lunch box in his hands, he slowly waited for Xu Heping to serve them mung bean soup.

Although there were only five or six people in this wave, sixteen lunch boxes were sold.

After dealing with this wave in a hurry, there was no such a group of people looting behind.

Out of ten people who came out of the construction site, three or two chose Xu An's stall.

Some are regular customers who ate the boxed lunches at Xu An’s stall two days ago, some were attracted by the workers who were eating boxed lunches and bought a try, and some were seduced by the smell of boxed lunches eaten by Qiao Xingguo and his wife in the cafeteria yesterday. from.

Uncle Dongliang arrived half an hour later than the previous two days. When he came out, there were only three boxes of lunch left on Xu An's stall.

"How many boxes of lunch did you bring here today? There are only a few boxes left so soon." Xu Dongliang thought that he was not too late, but he didn't expect that there were not many boxes left.

"Fifty copies." Xu An teased Xu Dongliang and said, "I came a little late today, some workers went to buy food across the street, otherwise there should be no box left when you come out now."

"You're brave enough. You dare to make so many boxed lunches on the third day. Are you afraid that you won't be able to sell them?"

Xu An chuckled: "Isn't this the courage my fellow workers gave me?"

"I think the number of fifty copies is about the same. Although there are some who are willing to spend money on the construction site, more are not willing to spend money. I'm afraid you won't be able to sell them all." Seeing Xu An, Xu Dongliang seemed to be still If you want to increase the portion size of your lunch box, please remind me in due course.

Xu Dongliang also came from the countryside, so he knew that the cost of such a boxed lunch was not low. If four or five boxes were not sold, half of the profit would be lost.

"Understood." Xu An nodded in agreement.

Fifty lunch boxes is almost the limit for him alone. If he wants to increase the number of lunch boxes, he will have to add people to help, and the profits will be further divided. The current situation does not allow him to do so.

Qiao Guoxing happily walked to the cafeteria with the boxed lunch. His wife had already packed her lunch and was sitting at the dining table waiting for him.He handed the lunch box to his daughter-in-law, quickly walked to the dining shelf, picked up a rice bowl and started queuing.

Although Xu An came a little late today and there was a slight delay, Qiao Guoxing still got the meal before the peak time of queuing.

He had just finished cooking when he turned his head and found that the dining table where his wife was sitting was full of people.

"Sister-in-law, open us up and see what dishes are served today, let us smell them so we can eat."

"That's right, it's so fragrant even through the box, wouldn't it be so fragrant after opening the lid?"

"Sister-in-law, don't be so stingy, just take a look, smell the smell, there won't be a piece of meat missing."

"As you go, if you want to see and smell it, go buy a copy for yourself, tie it around your neck and smell it all day, and no one cares about you."

Qiao Guoxing pushed everyone away cursing and sat down at the dining table.

After the crowd booed for a while, some people left, and the rest remained unmoved, still standing where they were and waiting for them to uncover the cover.

Qiao Guoxing's daughter-in-law quickly lifted the lids of the three lunch boxes, and the aroma of braised rice immediately filled the cafeteria.

Qiao Guoxing had already taken a fancy to this braised pork. Qiao Guoxing raised his chopsticks, quickly picked up a piece of braised pork, put it into his mouth, and commented as he ate it: "Today's braised pork is not bad, it's solid enough. It feels like eating a lot of meat and drinking a lot.”

Qiao Guoxing's daughter-in-law also picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into her mouth. After chewing it twice, she couldn't help but sighed, "The braised pork is good, but I prefer yesterday's boiled pork slices. It's delicious, salty and spicy, which suits my appetite."

A few people standing nearby took a few big mouthfuls of noodles with the aroma of the braised pork.

Eating noodles with this taste makes me feel like I am eating meat.

After eating noodles, the stomach is full, but the stomach is hungry, and they are greedy for meat.

(End of this chapter)