eurekapd Chapter 225 Successfully Taking Over the Dumpling Restaurant
Chapter 225 Successfully Taking Over the Dumpling Restaurant
The two elder sisters are indeed practical people. By dinner time that day, Hou Guihua had completed the first round of probing. The dumpling restaurant owner was so furious that Su Yuchen, who was just about to take a bus to rehearse, could hear the scolding even from across the noodle shop.
"Go, go, go, go! I took over this shop for 15, and you're offering me 5? I'm still losing money if I give you 3 at a discount of 12. How can you be so mean and want me to give you 10 at a discount!?"
The sharp and angry voice of the dumpling restaurant owner.
"Don't give me that. Your store is so shabby, in a bad location, and not very big. There are only a few pots and pans in it. You are robbing me for 15! How come your pots and pans are made of gold? If they are so expensive, you deserve to be stuck!"
Hou Guihua argued in a louder and bolder voice.
"What on earth do you have that you can charge such a price? You don't have the technology, you don't have the equipment, and your business is not good. If I take over, I won't even have customers. 5 yuan is a bargain for you. If it weren't for my sister insisting on opening a store, I would have hated the trouble of cleaning it up even if I didn't get the money!
I tell you, you won't find my store again if you miss it. Don't be ungrateful. I'll ask you again, fifty thousand! Can you do it?"
Hou Guihua continued to output violently.
"10! I won't sell it for less than this amount!" the dumpling restaurant owner gasped.
Hou Guihua rolled her eyes and turned away.
The next day at noon, Geng Mingyan continued to perform.
The noodle-pressing boss very attentively took Geng Mingyan around the front hall and kitchen, "Big sister, my shop has tables and chairs, benches, pots and pans, and I can also teach you the techniques and secret recipes. As long as you want to open a restaurant, you can take over the shop today and open it tomorrow! What do you think?"
"110,000 is too expensive. I have to take down your window display and change the layout of the store. Putting the kitchen outside is only suitable for you to open a dumpling restaurant, not for anything else. I have to spend a lot of money to redo it.
The tables and chairs look old, and the lights are dim.
Even the nooks and crannies need to be cleaned, they are full of oil.
Forget it, I'll take a look."
Yesterday the dumpling restaurant owner and Hou Guihua were still asking for the transfer at 15 yuan, and he lowered the price to 12 yuan. But when Geng Mingyan came today, he didn't dare to say anything directly, and the first thing he opened was 11 yuan.
Geng Mingyan secretly laughed in her heart at the fact that Hou Guihua's bargaining was useful, but she did not show it on her face. Instead, she frowned and looked around, then stood there hesitating for a while, shook her head and was about to leave.
"Hey, sister, sister!" The dumpling restaurant owner hurriedly stopped her, "Business is all about negotiation, can we talk? What price do you want?
I tell you, I won’t sell it for less than 10! I only sell it for 15!”
"So the minimum is 10?" Geng Mingyan showed an incredible expression and curled her lips exaggeratedly. "Although I do want to take over...
But boss, you don't really want to sell it. You dare to ask for 10 for this piece? I'll take a look. Thank you very much."
"Sit! Sit!" The dumpling restaurant owner was anxious, "Look at you. I just said that business is negotiated. Okay, you say it! You say it, okay?!"
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In the end, Geng Mingyan reached an agreement with the dumpling restaurant owner on a price of 85,000 yuan, which included the remaining two months' rent and the price of all the machinery and equipment in the store. On the same day, the three parties signed the contract together with the shop landlord.
The store rent was indeed 6000 yuan a month as the noodle shop owner said. Originally, the dumpling restaurant owner was trying to fool people with the price of 7000 yuan and wanted to charge 9 yuan, but Geng Mingyan asked to see the contract or the transfer records of the transaction with the landlord. In the end, the dumpling restaurant owner had no choice.
The owner of the dumpling restaurant left that afternoon. Geng Mingyan called Hou Guihua over, and the two of them quickly started cleaning the shop.
"Sister, what do you think the dumpling shop owner will understand everything when he comes back and sees the two sisters and us? What should we do then?" After dinner, everyone came to the dumpling restaurant together, and Ouyang Yidan asked with her head tilted.
"By that time, the rice will have been cooked. What else can he do except be furious and incompetent?" Su Yuchen pointed at Ouyang Yidan's head, not caring about the dumpling owner at all.
"That's right, I'm there to help in the quarrel! He can't win the quarrel. There are so many of us in the fight, and there are several kitchen knives in the store, he doesn't dare to attack!" Hou Guihua waved her hand heroically.
"Guihua, this is Xiao Zhao's shop, you can't do whatever you want. Don't use the kitchen knife on people!" When Geng Mingyan heard Hou Guihua say this, she was afraid that she would be reckless again, so she quickly spoke up to persuade her.
Zhao Xiaojing was both amused and moved as she watched from the side.
"Sister Jingzi, do we need to modify this display window and kitchen?" Lu Hongwen walked around the store, looking at the display window and the stove at the back and asked.
The overall area of the dumpling restaurant is about the same as the current store. The two storefronts are connected. There is a row of display windows on the left side of the entrance. The display windows are equivalent to a simple kitchen with a stove, hood, water pipes, freezer, pressure cooker, steel barrel, workbench, chopping board, and vegetable cabinets for displaying braised dishes. It is relatively simple and spacious enough for three or four people to stand. It occupies half the area of Zhao Xiaojing's current kitchen.
The original kitchen area has been opened up and integrated with the restaurant, with tables and benches for dining.
"No changes, just replace the range hood, clean the countertops and other things, and buy two deep fryers. Then Sister Geng and Sister Hou will fry the skewers here, and move the pork trotter rice and braised pot side dishes here, and then we will only make stir-fries in the back kitchen."
Zhao Xiaojing looked at the equipment, estimated the area and said.
The range hood used in the dumpling restaurant is too small and too old. It's OK for cooking dumplings, but if it comes to frying something with a strong smell, the whole restaurant will probably be immersed in oil smoke.
As for the transparent display window, on the one hand, it would be a waste of money to tear down and redo the kitchen. If you just clean it up a little, change the water, electricity and waterproofing, and repair the wall, it might cost the same as the transfer fee. Anyway, this place is mainly used for dining, and frying is just a side job, so you should save as much as possible.
Another thing is that through the transparent window, customers can see the real ingredients and the sanitary environment, which makes them feel more at ease. By the way, it also serves as an invisible advertisement. Anyway, when you are frying skewers and cutting pig's feet, there is no need to be afraid of others seeing the secret recipes you have learned. The secrets are all in the soup pot and seasonings.
After the preliminary planning, everyone packed up and left work. Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen chatted with the two older sisters about work and salary.
Originally, I thought that if the two sisters wanted to open a breakfast shop, the shop would be empty in the morning and could be used by them.
But now the work intensity in the store is very high. Every day Ouyang Yidan and the others say they go home and fall into bed and fall asleep. Even Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen have recently adjusted their work and rest schedules and started getting up at seven o'clock.
"I have no objection to you two ladies wanting to make breakfast, but I suggest you try it in the store first. After all, a store doesn't have a punctual closing time like a construction site, where you get off work late every day like today." Zhao Xiaojing advised.