Chapter 948 - The New Shop Opens For Business (7)
Chapter 948: The New Shop Opens For Business (7)
The sour, spicy and delicious fish with pickles and the tangy, sweet fruit juice satisfied the customers.
Gu Fangting said happily as she saw the crowd in the restaurant grow, “Older Cousin, business is pretty good! It’s not even lunchtime yet. It’s almost noon. I suppose the crowd will grow.”
Gu Qingyao smiled and said, “It’s natural for people to like new things. No one else could have made such delicious fish and at such a low price.”
It was true.
Gu Fangting did not wonder at that. Because Gu Qingyao had made this dish for her before. Of course it was delicious.
One must know that ordinary citizens were not used to such food. It was natural. A couple of decades ago, things were in chaos, and there was a famine. At that time, people were so hungry they even ate all the tree bark and grassroots, much less fish.
At that time, they would eat anything as long as it did not kill them. Now that times were better, things were changing.
Gu Qingyao was more familiar with the mature market of ten or twenty years in the future. She really did not have a deep understanding of the current situation in China.
What she was doing now would allow her to observe her environment further.
Today, she remained in the restaurant to observe these people.
She had made so much money overseas, but she did not assume that doing business in China would be so simple.
Gu Fangting followed her. She had not yet opened such a large restaurant or set this kind of price. She was also wondering what the effects of her older cousin’s actions would be.
The crowd grew rapidly, and the dining hall on the first floor was soon full.
There were more orders for pickles and noodles than for fish with pickles. After all, it was only fifty cents a bowl. They just wanted to have a taste.
It was now about 2 pm and the customers thinned out. The next wave of customers came around 5 pm.
They worked until 11 pm when the restaurant finally closed its doors for the day.
Gu Fangting said impatiently, “Older Cousin, quick look at your sales volume.”
There were so many customers today!
The main dining hall was almost full, and there were many people on the second floor. But there were only a few using the private rooms on the third floor.
Gu Qingyao was sorting out the money. There was so much small change that it took her and Gu Fangting a long time to count it.
“I have 1221 yuan here. What about you?”
Gu Fangting said, “I have 979.50 yuan.”
They had made more than 2,000 yuan on the first day.
“Not bad. Today is the first day. As our reputation grows, the customer numbers will increase before it levels off.”
Gu Fangting smiled happily. “Older Cousin, this is already very good! You’ve already made more than two thousand yuan on the first day. Even if your numbers don’t grow, you will have made about sixty-five thousand yuan this month. That’s more than enough to break even. And you’ll earn much more over the year!”
Gu Qingyao said, “This restaurant is so large. It would be pointless if it only made such a small sum. Your own small restaurant makes even more.”
Gu Fangting disagreed. “How can you compare like that? I have many small restaurants! And I don’t even earn as much as this!”
Gu Qingyao frowned. “What did you say? Is your current income only a few thousand yuan a day?”
Gu Fangting said, “Actually, we don’t earn much. In pure profit, we earn a little more than two thousand yuan. And that’s after running this business for a long time! Besides…”
At this point, Gu Fangting seemed rather discouraged, “We did earn quite a bit in the past, but now there are many imitators, and our business has grown much poorer.”
Gu Qingyao: “…”
She and Mo Beihan had the experiences of their previous lives. As far as they knew, it was easy to do business in this era. But she had forgotten that Gu Fangting had not been reborn. She was truly a person of this era and did not have the foresight of later years.
At the moment, very few people knew how to run a business.