North and South groceries

With sufficient funds, the shop in Chang'an City will soon be established.

There is a restaurant in Datongfang, the owner of the store is not good at management, the store has been open for three or four years, it has been tepid, and it has not made any money.

But he was lucky, the restaurant didn't make any money, but the value of the shop he bought earlier has increased by two or three times compared to the price he bought it at the beginning.

He has been on the sidelines recently, wanting to resell this shop and sell it for a good price. He heard that Mrs. Luo plans to open a branch in the south of the city recently, so he inquired with one of his neighbors, a small steward of a sister's restaurant.

The steward told Aunt Luo about this matter, and Auntie went to his shop to have a look that day, she was quite satisfied after seeing it, the location is also suitable, and the place is big enough, the upstairs and downstairs can be cleaned well It is clean. Although it has been a few years since the last renovation, the owner loves it very much and it looks relatively new.

The price is not cheap, but in the current Chang'an City, it is not easy to find a suitable shop, so Aunt Luo didn't hesitate much, and bought it readily.

The store sold at a satisfactory price and was very happy. The neighbors were even more delighted when they heard that Mrs. Luo was going to open a sister's restaurant in their place.

After hearing about the transaction price of Mrs. Luo's shop, many people said that the owner of the wine shop in front was not kind, and they were all on the same street. The transaction price was a few percent higher than others.

There are also some merchants who come here and say that they have a shop somewhere in Chang'an City, and they are planning to sell it. If Aunt Luo wants it, they will sell it for any price. Unscrupulous restaurant owners cheat money.

Aunt Luo is not stupid, where can I find the good things that fall in the sky, if I take advantage of others, I will have to pay back sooner or later.What is the current situation of their Luo family, how many people try to give them money in different ways, the more it is like this, the more clear the accounts should be.

"Although the price of this shop was set by him, I am willing to spend money to buy it. It is an innocent business. Why do you say it in a black heart? Don't say such a thing again."

Aunt Luo didn't think there was anything unreasonable about the price of this shop. People who sell the shop naturally wanted to sell it for a little more money. As the buyer, she felt that the shop was what she wanted, and she was willing to pay more. It's completely a transaction of your choice.

These merchants showed that they were very protective of Aunt Luo by accusing the restaurant owner in front of him of being unkind. This is actually a very common way to win over.

They didn't care about the reputation and feelings of the restaurant owner, nor did they care whether Mrs. Luo would have a bad relationship with the restaurant owner and cause hidden dangers. They were just seeking benefits for themselves.

Aunt Luo is not easy to fool, whether externally or internally.

A sister's food shop also has similar things. As the big boss, some people below will naturally work hard on Aunt Luo.However, if these stewards focus too much on fighting for power instead of focusing on their own work, they will often lose Aunt Luo's trust and reliance.

Over the years, Auntie’s Food Shop has also produced a few of these. Some people were very diligent and docile when they first came to the shop, and then gradually gained a foothold. The hearts of those working below are about to start doing things.

Once this kind of sign appeared, Mrs. Luo would tell them to leave after several warnings but failed to restrain them.

They still think that they have this skill, and they will not worry about finding a job after leaving the sister's restaurant, but the result is not like that.

Ordinary small traders are afraid of causing trouble for themselves, so they dare not invite such people. After all, these people also signed a non-disclosure agreement at the sister's restaurant, and they are also afraid of getting a lawsuit.

Most of the larger shops have contacts with the north and south groceries A sister's restaurant, and with the power of so many merchants from east of the river influenced by the Luo family, most people don't want to mess with this matter.

In short, it is not easy for these people to live better in this city of Chang'an after leaving North and South groceries.

However, I heard that there are those who entered the mansion of rich and noble people and worked as cooks with others, and some went to other places. Most of them have no news. No matter how well they are doing now, it is best to keep a low profile. Knowing that they are now earning money with the prescriptions from sister's restaurant, she will definitely sue them.

I remember the first time when Mrs. Luo dismissed a manager, one of the outspoken women asked Mrs. Luo whether it was inappropriate for her to act like this.

At that time, the aunt smiled instead of anger: "You idiot, if I don't ask her to go today, it will be inappropriate for you to keep her in the shop to form cliques and eliminate dissidents. If you are as stupid as you, don't let her go when the time comes. Talking about a wage increase, I’m afraid that people will lose their jobs.”

The woman who spoke at that time is now one of the oldest employees of the sister's restaurant. Became a steward.

Over the years, I have seen a lot, and I gradually understood that if it weren't for Aunt Luo's firm rules and strong enough to suppress them, how could their sister's food shop be where it is today? The atmosphere in the shop should have been ruined long ago. Once ruined, the business will naturally not last long, and everyone will have to go home to eat themselves sooner or later.

Now that Sister's Food Shop has opened another branch, most of the former small managers have been promoted to senior managers this time, and many of the former senior managers have the opportunity to be sent to various branches as store managers.

She used to bring a dozen women to make meatballs and fishballs, and she was not in charge of buying and selling.This time, as soon as the shop in the south of the city opened, Aunt Luo asked her to take care of the window selling fish balls in the new shop.

The new shop is much bigger than the old shop. When you walk into a shop, each one is a window selling food. The window where they sell fish balls is on the inside, and a small door is directly opened at the back leading to the backyard.

There is a well in the backyard, and there are many houses, some of which are used as warehouses, some of which are workshops, and some of which are specially used for baking cakes, bread, meatballs and fish balls.

She looked and looked at the new store in the past two days. From the window where the goods were sold, she saw the workshop in the backyard, from the operating table where the fish was killed and cut the meat, and the guy who made fish balls and meatballs. There was nothing the same. Unsatisfactory.

Aunt Luo also had a few conversations with these stewards and branch managers, mainly about the preparations and details of various aspects before the opening of the store.

All of them are full of motivation, because the managers not only get a bonus at the end of each year, but also give a performance bonus every month according to the profitability of the project they are in charge of, which is quite a lot. The branch manager earns more.

But earning a lot of money is also stressful. If you don't do well, you may be replaced.Aunt Luo has a lot of advantages, she treats people kindly and is very loyal, but she is less humane when it comes to the appointment and dismissal of personnel.

Before the opening of the new store, they were looking forward to and nervous, always worrying about here and there, but when the new store opened, they didn't have to think about it, and they were as busy as a spinning top all day long.

In the early years, the south side of the city was not prosperous. For example, Guiyifang next to their Datongfang and a few nearby workshops were notoriously rich in poor people and poor in law and order. Young ladies from rich and noble families basically didn’t go here. Come on.

Later, those Dinghu people set up a Dingda express here, and then several other express delivery companies appeared one after another, basically all of them were in this area.

However, the area in the south of the city has really become prosperous in the past few months, because the platform of the wooden track train is located outside the Anhua Gate.

The Anhua Gate is very close to the Datong Square area, so in just a few months, many guest houses and restaurants popped up in this area, and the housing prices also increased a lot.

Travelers got off the wooden carriages outside Chang'an City, and entered the city through Anhuamen, with Da'an Square on the left and Anle Square on the right, both of which are very lively places now, with many restaurants and guest houses, and many street vendors on the street. There are also many suburban farmers who carry carts to sell vegetables and fruits in the city.

Datong Square is just in front of Da'an Square. It used to be less lively than Da'an Square. Recently, because of the opening of a new sister's restaurant, it became very popular all of a sudden.

If you want to say how prosperous the business of this sister's restaurant is, it is rumored that their family employs more than twenty women just for washing dishes, and the halls on the upper and lower floors are full of people every day, and there The servants and maidservants of each family came in and out with food boxes, and they really didn't know how much food they had to sell every day.

If you want to talk about why the business of sister's restaurant is so prosperous, it is probably because the food is not expensive. Let alone Dongpo pork, there are some restaurants and restaurants in Chang'an City that can do it, but most of those shops are relatively cheap. Expensive, go in and have a meal, no one can afford to spend dozens of dollars.

But at Ajie’s restaurant, you go in and order a small pot of Dongpo pork, some pasta, steamed dumplings, some cold dishes, and some homemade canned drinks from their shop. Wen, for many Changan people, such a price is very suitable.

People come and go in this shop every day, there are groups of young men and ladies, there are also couples who bring their families to improve the food, and occasionally you can see some elderly people and old women .

There are also a lot of Hu people, there are Persians, Sogdians, cannibals, and many others who can’t tell where they are from. Most of these Hu people can speak Chinese, and they are very slippery when they enter the store. There are many people living in Chang’an City. Huren, the store next to the West Market used to be very common, and everyone has already gotten used to it.

In the past two years, Chang'an City has become more and more prosperous, the population is increasing, the overall consumption power is stronger than in the past, and the business is getting better and better.

However, at this time in the seventh century AD, how many metropolises like Chang'an City could exist in the world, and most of the places were still in a barren and backward state.

The Hexi Corridor has developed quite well in the past two years, but compared with Chang'an City, it is a deserted rural place. If you squat on the side of the post road and wait all day, you may not be able to wait for one or two caravans to pass by.

Although the Silk Road is brilliant, people do not walk it every day, and the desolation is the daily life here.

This year, many big families in the Central Plains have set up white stack manors in various places in Hexi, and the local people in Hexi also plant more white stack flowers.

Now the topping season has passed, and the cotton bolls are hanging on the white jasmine flowers in the field. People are looking forward to a good harvest of this year's jasmine flowers, which can be sold at a good price.

Those who think far ahead have already begun to think about how to process these white folds into white folds.

In order to save labor and transportation costs, it is better to process locally, so naturally, they thought of recruiting some female workers locally and setting up a weaving workshop.

Recently, news came from Changle County that there are people in Dunhuang, Jinchang and other places who want to set up weaving workshops. They want to find some women who can weave.

The wages offered by these workshops to women are not lower than what local men earn for a day of hard work, and many local women have come to apply for the job.