Starting from selling lunch boxes at the construction site

Chapter 340 It’s not a vacation, it’s a resignation
At two o'clock, the break ends and the afternoon work begins.

Before officially entering work, Fan Zhongchao opened his browser favorites and clicked on one of the URL links. The webpage jumped from the search page to the [Xu's Catering] ordering website.

As usual, Fan Zhongchao's eyes fell on the menu bar for tomorrow. When he was thinking about which set meal to order tomorrow, his peripheral vision suddenly glanced at the top of the page and quietly added an option.

"What is this? The points mall didn't seem to see this option yesterday. Is it a new feature?"

Fan Zhongchao clicked on this option with the mouse, and an account number with numbers mixed with letters suddenly appeared at the top of the new web page. What attracted Fan Zhongchao's attention was not the account number, but a line of small words below the account number.

[Points: 352 (Note: One yuan consumption amount = one point)]

If one dollar is equivalent to one point, the points on the account represent that I have spent 350 yuan at Xu's Catering. If converted, that is 44 box lunches from Xu's Catering.

Before I knew it, I had eaten at Xu’s Catering so many times!
After sighing in his heart, Fan Zhongchao swiped the middle mouse button, and a product display interface similar to the Taobao page appeared in front of him.

"Three pounds of cauliflower, 120 points. One pound of Hongshan Town small potatoes, 160 points. Three pounds of Hongshan Town small potatoes, [-] points. One pound of wild chestnuts, two hundred points. One pound of wild walnuts, [-] points. Can be redeemed. There are quite a few things!”

Looking at the dazzling array of products on the page, Fan Zhongchao quickly figured out what he could redeem his 350 points for.

The wild chestnuts look pretty good. The wild walnuts are also to my liking. But adding the two together requires 360 points. There are still eight points left to redeem. I don’t know whether these points are given after the order is completed or after the order is placed. Gave it
With the idea of ​​giving it a try, I hit the keyboard and returned to the ordering page. After quickly selecting tomorrow's lunch set and paying, I jumped to the points mall and refreshed it. The points jumped from 352 to 360 points.
Select the redemption product to redeem and confirm the redemption is successful.
In addition to the online points mall on the ordering page, all offline stores have also launched the [One Yuan Exchange] activity. Anyone who spends 20 yuan or more at any store under Xu's Catering can participate in this exchange activity.

Although the scope of the activity is given for three stores, both Xu's lemon tea and Xu's fast food only have single-digit redemption orders. On the contrary, Xu's braised food's redemption orders have skyrocketed, with an average of [-] per [-] consumers. Eight people are willing to participate in this exchange event.

Less than three hours after opening, the [-] kilograms of cauliflower prepared by the five Xu's Braised Meat shops were sold out. Fortunately, the shop assistants were flexible enough and gave feedback to their superiors before they were completely sold out, and sent a batch in time. Cauliflower came over to avoid the situation of being unable to exchange for a purchase after meeting the conditions.

Compared with the points mall and offline redemption activities, the sales volume of the [One Yuan Exchange] activity launched in Taobao stores is even more explosive.

Less than two hours after it went online, the number of exchange orders monitored in the background exceeded [-].

In the morning, when Gao Tian received Xu An's request to pick all the cauliflower from twenty greenhouses today, he couldn't help but wonder if the quantity was wrong.

After all, whether the cauliflower is grown in the ground or picked, the shelf life is almost the same.

If they grow in the ground and are not picked, they will bloom for you in three to five days; if they are picked and not processed quickly, they will become wilted and moldy for you to see.
After repeatedly confirming that there was no problem with the quantity, Gao Tian could only organize manpower to start picking according to the task requirements.

The cauliflower that meets the market demand and is in the normal maturity stage is picked and placed on the left. The cauliflower that can be salvaged is picked and placed in the middle. The fully bloomed cauliflower and the leaves and stems left after picking the cauliflower are also collected and placed on the right.

The cauliflower on the left was delivered to the major stores of Xu's Catering and became goods for redemption activities; the ones that could be salvaged were sent to the back kitchen of Xu's Catering for cooking and processing; the remaining ones were directly contacted by the owner of the pig farm Come over and sell it to them for pig feed at a price of one cent and a half.

At five o'clock in the morning, the transport truck came and took away a ton of cauliflower together with the fruits and vegetables produced by Aunt Hong and others.
At eight o'clock, the transport truck came for the second time and transported away three tons of cauliflower. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the third transport truck came and carried away four tons of cauliflower.
After the transport truck left for the third time, everyone thought that was the end of the day. Unexpectedly, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the transport truck came to the greenhouse planting area again, three at a time, and then left with eight tons of cauliflower. Already.
Today’s task was to pick thirty tons of cauliflower from twenty greenhouses. Xu’s catering trucks came four times and transported a total of sixteen tons; the three pig farm owners collected a total of six tons of vegetables and leaves. ; The piled-up cauliflower mountain, which was as towering as a mountain, turned into an ordinary small slope.
A grower looked at the back of the transport truck and couldn't help but muttered:

"Isn't Xu's Catering just making food? There is no braised cauliflower in the braised vegetables. It's impossible for the fast food restaurant alone to cook sixteen tons of cauliflower in one go. Why did they transport so much in one go?"

"Perhaps we found a warehouse. We can put the common fruits and vegetables in a cold storage and keep them for ten days and a half. There will be no problem."

Another person smacked his lips after taking the words and said with emotion: "It's expensive. If you want to rent a cold storage that can store so many cauliflowers, the monthly rent will cost at least [-] yuan."

"Hey, it's 8000 yuan a month. The longer you keep it, the more you'll lose!" One person joined in the chat and retorted: "I don't think it's a cold storage thing that costs money. It's most likely that I have found a distribution channel. , sold all our cauliflowers!"

"What's ours? Now these belong to Boss Xu and have nothing to do with us at all!"

"Hey, isn't this just a joke?"

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Several people chatted on this topic for a long time, but no one could convince anyone. Finally, their eyes fell on Gao Tian, ​​who was in charge of the command. After everyone looked at each other, one of them waved Gao Tian over. .

"Uncle, what's up, do you have any questions?" Gao Tian saw someone waving and quickly came over to ask what happened.

"Nothing, I just want to ask you." The man said, pointing in the direction of the transport truck, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know whether these cauliflowers were transported to cold storage for storage or whether they found a big buyer?"

"None of them." Gao Tian shook his head and denied: "The first batch was sent to make lunch boxes, the second and third batches were sent to those stores opened by Boss Xu for activities, and the fourth batch seemed to be They are sent to surrounding towns to be used for making mats."

Yes, in fact, it is not the online Taobao stores or offline stores that have the largest shipment volume, but the rural sushi masters that Liu Tong and Liu Zhaowen are responsible for contacting.

At the end of October, the autumn harvest has basically ended, and most villagers in the township can finally break away from the heavy and busy farm work and have free time.

During the off-farm season, there are many good days and the weather is cool and comfortable, so there are more weddings. Weddings are always inseparable from banquets. When a couple gets married, there will be two banquets, one for the man and one for the woman. ; In addition, there are birthday banquets, hundred-day banquets and other banquets.

Starting from October [-]st until before the Chinese New Year, the busiest time of the year for rural shuishui mat masters has arrived.

There are two different ways for rural sushi chefs to organize banquets. One is that the host prepares all the dishes, and the chefs use their skills to earn hard money; the other is that the host decides on the banquet dishes and does the rest. Then all the power was given to the masters.

Since Liu Tong and Liu Zhaowen took over the task of negotiating with rural flow mat masters, as of today, they have collected a total of 47 contact information, and 34 companies have reached cooperation.The two called the phone numbers of these chef teams one by one according to the list. 47 of the 42 numbers were called and had conversations. Among them, 29 teams were interested in the so-called low-price and high-quality cauliflower of Xu's Catering.

After the banquet ended at four o'clock in the afternoon, one after another came to the Xu's Catering Headquarters to check the quality of the cauliflower. After some discussions, the 29 teams purchased a total of eight tons of cauliflower, and made an appointment to purchase another batch in two days. .

Points mall + online and offline redemption activities + flow mat team purchasing. If you sell according to this model and speed, you can not only earn back the principal of purchasing cauliflower, but even make a profit.

After all, today alone, the capital has been returned to nearly 4 yuan, and the cost of purchasing the output of 6 acres of greenhouses is only [-] yuan, and only two-ninths of the cauliflower sold today.
While everyone was busy making cauliflower, Xu An was sitting leisurely in the conference room, watching the design team of Hanhai Studio and the engineering team formed by Uncle Dongliang arguing endlessly.

Designers and engineers are almost natural enemies due to the nature of their work.

As the engineering team, they naturally wish that the designer's plan would be simpler. Even simpler, it would be best to divide the space into horizontal and vertical spaces, and then paint a clear picture and be done with it;
But as designers, they definitely hope that the solutions they design can be extraordinary and innovative. The spatial shape is naturally as complicated as possible, and some processing methods that look simple but have extremely high construction requirements are naturally indispensable. .

Therefore, at today's meeting, the two sides were having a very 'friendly' conversation.

The saliva was splashing everywhere with the continuously opening and closing mouth, the sound was deafening, and the cigarette smoke was lingering between the fingers. It made people feel like they were in a wonderland, and they learned a lot of swear words that they had never heard in daily life.
After persisting for 10 minutes, Xu An felt that they would perform better if he was not in the conference room, so he took advantage of the intense conversation between the two parties to sneak outside the conference room and take a deep breath of fresh air without any pollution. , exhaled another breath.

“The air outside the room is relatively fresh.”

"Yeah, all the people who can stay in the conference room are big smokers."

Xu An looked at the place where the sound came from and said with a smile: "Ah, Li Gong, it turns out you are out too!"

"Yes, Boss Xu, not only is the air outside nice, but the scenery is also nice."

At Li Gong's invitation, Xu An walked to his side and lay on the railing with him to look at the specially arranged rock garden in the hotel.

"Li Gong (Boss Xu), I have a question for you."

"You say it first" X2
"Then let me talk first" X2
"Let me tell you first!" This time, Xu An finally spoke out before the other party spoke: "There is almost no profit in a project like this, and all you earn is hard work. I am very curious as to why you would take it. Undertake such a demanding project?”

"Aha!" Li Gong didn't answer Xu An's question, but asked back: "I'm also very curious, if we didn't agree to this demanding request, which studio would Boss Xu choose to bid?"

"Which one?" Xu An withdrew his eyes from the garden view, fell on Li Gong, and replied very honestly: "If your studio does not accept this condition, then I will choose to find a studio with a good reputation. , slowly running in from zero to one.”

"This answer is reasonable and unexpected." Li Gong nodded as if he suddenly understood, and then answered Xu An's question: "The reason why I took over this project is because the sea hot springs provide a lot of room for development. , very big.”

After saying that, Li Gong also withdrew his gaze, looked directly into Xu An's eyes, and said with a smile: "We want to use this project to compete for prizes. Before this meeting, I was worried about whether our design could be implemented, but I just saw it. After seeing the construction team led by XCMG, I felt relieved.”

At the bidding meeting, Xu An's condition was to leave room for bargaining. If the studio strongly requested it, he could give up the right to purchase materials and provide a construction team and supervisors on his side, as long as they didn't go too far. Just turn a blind eye and close one eye
But what I never expected was that as soon as I made this request, the other party agreed.
It's good to have a plan, it's good to have a plan, but I'm afraid I have no plan at all.
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[.The live shopping section was officially offline on October 31st. Xu’s catering live broadcast room was merged into the food section, and Asakusa’s live broadcast room was merged into the beauty section. Relevant personnel are requested to do a good job in docking.]

Hey----

Gu Yutao let out a long sigh and his eyes fell on the document outside the chat box. The document contained the information he had just compiled. It was a line chart with two lines representing traffic and profit. Climbing almost straight up
Although the live broadcast segment has improved, despite its recent performance getting better and better, and despite its increasing profits, the company's leaders finally decided to eliminate this segment that does not match the input resources and output.
Obviously, obviously I just need to hold on for one more month and it will be fine!If we persist for another month, even if the output of this sector is not as good as the first-tier anchors, it will still be able to rival several second- and third-tier anchors.
Moreover, the development space of this section is much larger than that of those anchors.
There is some reluctance, but I have tried my best to fight for it. Regarding this ending, I have a clear conscience and no regrets.

After typing the word 'received' in the chat box and pressing the send button, Gu Yutao closed the chat box, picked up his cell phone, walked outside the company building, and made a call.

"Hello, Mr. Sun, I am Gu Yutao, the person in charge of the live shopping section. I wonder if you still remember me. Yes, yes. Has your company's live shopping section been set up? Are you still short of manpower? Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Sun, for the opportunity. I will try to join the company as soon as possible. Thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Yutao turned around and took two steps towards the office building door, then stopped, stood there and hesitated for a while, then took out his mobile phone and made a call again.

"Hello, Boss Xu, I am Gu Yutao, the person in charge of the shopping live broadcast section. I regret to inform you that this section will be canceled and reorganized on October 31, and your company's live broadcast room will be allocated to the food section."

Before making the call, Gu Yutao originally wanted to tell Xu An that he was planning to change jobs, and asked him if he would be willing to join Taobao, a larger platform, after the Taobao live broadcast section was established.

But at the moment when the words were about to be spoken, Gu Yutao hesitated.

The Taobao platform does have to build a live broadcast section, but no matter which company, there are a lot of new businesses proposed every year, but not many can get the project approved. Even if the project is successfully approved, even fewer will be approved to go online if it can be completed. It will be difficult until the last moment. Determine whether the project will be aborted or successfully launched
Forget it, wait and ask again after the dust has settled.

"Ah, Boss Xu, I'm here. Sorry, I was distracted by something just now. Well, the reason why I called you, Boss Xu, is not only to tell you about the sector reorganization, but also to tell you what's next. A new colleague will be arranged to take over the affairs of Xu's live broadcast room, and I will no longer be responsible for following them."

"It's not a transfer, I plan to take a good rest for a while. Yes, haha, thank you Boss Xu for your blessing. I wish Xu's catering business to prosper and reach a higher level."

After the call ended, Gu Yutao walked straight to the door of the leader's office and knocked on the door. After getting the exact answer, he held the door handle with his right hand, turned it gently and walked into the office. Without waiting for the leader to ask the purpose of his visit, Gu Yutao Then he spoke directly.

"Leader, after completing the handover of the live broadcast section, I want to take a break. Ah, taking a break does not mean taking a vacation, but resigning."

(End of this chapter)