69novels Chapter 268
Chapter 268
A pot of tea was served, and Meng Haisheng asked Ming Shijie directly.
"If you open a restaurant, with your cooking skills, can you make the restaurant profitable?"
Meng Haisheng asked directly, but Ming Shijie hesitated.
He Dong, who was standing by, looked anxious, and he helped, "Although my senior brother is younger than me, his skills are really not to be boasted, and there is no one in the whole capital who can compare with him."
"It's just that his family dragged him down, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen to this point."
Meng Haisheng looked at He Dong with a smile.
"It shouldn't just be a family problem. I heard that Master Ming has a very picky temper."
He Dong smiled awkwardly.
"That's a misunderstanding. My senior brother has high requirements for dishes. He will never use unfresh ingredients, ingredients of unknown origin, or poor skills of the workers in the kitchen."
"It is precisely because of these things that my senior brother has never found a suitable job. Now he has broken up again, and he has become what he is now."
"Junior brother, can you please stop exposing my shortcomings?"
Ming Shijie was a little embarrassed.
"Okay, I like people like Master Ming who are particular. I will go out to find a house tomorrow to see if there is a suitable restaurant for sale."
Ming Shijie and He Dong looked at each other.
"Boss Meng, you don't have a restaurant yet?"
"Yes, I just arrived in Beijing today, but money makes the world go round. I believe I will own a restaurant soon."
Faced with Meng Haisheng's confidence, Ming Shijie and He Dong didn't know what to say.
Ming Shijie even felt that he might be dreaming.
"Boss Meng, what kind of restaurant do you want to open? There is a teahouse on Dongfu Street that wants to sell to customers, but that teahouse is quite big and the price is not cheap."
Dongfu Street is very famous in Beijing. Whenever there is a family banquet, the first thing that comes to mind is Dongfu Street.
Anyone who can open a teahouse here must be rich.
It is rare to meet one that sells to customers.
"Master He, which teahouse owner do you know?"
"I definitely don't know the big boss. The manager over there is from the same school as me, but he has no interest in cooking. After our school was disbanded, he followed others to learn how to manage restaurants and teahouses, and now he has achieved some success."
"Let's go, Master He, take me over to have a look."
"Boss Meng, if you want to buy that teahouse, it will cost at least 200,000 yuan. Why don't you consider it?"
"Let's go, no need to consider it."
At this moment, Meng Haisheng was already very happy. Not to mention that the teahouse cost 200,000 yuan, he would buy it even if it cost 400,000 yuan.
In Dongfu Street, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, the real estate here will rise in price like a rocket in a few years.
While there are still people selling now, Meng Haisheng naturally wants to stock up more.
He has four children, and he will work harder in this life than in the last life to lay a foundation for his four children.
Now He Dong seemed to be dreaming, and took Meng Haisheng and his party to find his senior brother Lu Xiangyang.
Meng Haisheng stood downstairs of Youmingfang, looking up at the huge plaque, and he thought to himself that it was no wonder that the boss wanted to sell this teahouse. It was estimated that it had been losing money since it opened.
Look at the name, the Nether Room? This name is too dark, it would be strange if it could make money.
"Wait in the hall, I'll go find my senior brother."
He Dong went to find Lu Xiangyang in a familiar way, and Meng Haisheng and others sat in the hall on the first floor.
In the afternoon, there was no table of guests on the first floor of the teahouse, only two waiters stood in front of the counter and chatted.
Seeing that Meng Haisheng and his group came with He Dong, they didn't even come forward to say hello.
Meng Haisheng was a little skeptical about Lu Xiangyang's ability? This waiter was too blind.
After a long while, Lu Xiangyang came over.
The moment Meng Haisheng saw Lu Xiangyang, he immediately understood why he could become a well-known manager in the catering industry in just a few years.
Lu Xiangyang looked to be in his 30s, with a fair and handsome face. When he walked towards Meng Haisheng, he had a decent and very friendly smile on his face.
His external conditions would allow him to be very popular in the catering industry.
"Hello, Mr. Meng, I'm sorry to be inconvenienced. Please go upstairs."
"Manager Lu is too polite."
The group went up to the private room on the second floor, and then someone brought tea.
Meng Haisheng didn't beat around the bush with Lu Xiangyang, and directly explained his purpose, he wanted to buy this restaurant.
"Boss Meng is really a straightforward person, so I won't be pretentious. Our boss is in a hurry to go abroad, so he gave a price of 130,000. She is in a hurry to sell it and cash out, so she gave this price. If it is according to the normal price, such a big teahouse will start at least 200,000."
MengHaisheng felt that the 130,000 yuan was acceptable.
"Okay, I can accept the price, but I have a question, and I hope Manager Lu can help me solve it."
"Please go ahead, Mr. Meng."
"Dongfu Street has a lot of people, why is there so few customers in such a beautiful teahouse?"
Lu Xiangyang smiled awkwardly at Meng Haisheng's question.
"I'm not afraid of being laughed at by Boss Meng, so I'll just say it straight."
"There is definitely no room for a teahouse. What Beijing lacks the most is literati, and there are even more people who pretend to be cultured. When it first opened, it was full every day."
"But our boss hired all her family members, from those who buy tea to the chefs who make tea and snacks in the kitchen, and even the waiters in the lobby are all related to our boss."
"With just such a group of people, no matter how clever I am, I can't control them."
"Now my boss can't stand these relatives at home, so he simply sold the teahouse and went abroad to live in peace."
When Lu Xiangyang said this, Meng Haisheng instantly imagined a big drama.
No wonder there was no customer in the teahouse, and they were all driven away by the people in the teahouse.
As the saying goes, it's easy to make a fortune, but it's hard to keep a family, which is probably what it means.
"I have no problem. Ask your boss when he can come to sign the contract."
"I'll make a phone call."
When Lu Xiangyang made the call, Ming Shijie finally woke up from his dream.
"Boss Meng, you are not really going to buy this teahouse, are you?"
"What's wrong with that? I think it's great. As long as we change the tables, we can save on decoration."
Ming Shijie pinched his arm hard, and he grimaced in pain. Only then did he believe everything today.
If someone had told him about this yesterday, he would never have believed it.
Now he just felt like a big pie fell from the sky and hit him dizzy.
"If you buy the teahouse now, I, the chef, don't even have an apprentice now. How can I cook? No, I have to go back and find the knife I used to cook with. I must not let it rust."
Meng Haisheng looked at Ming Shijie, who was talking nonsense, and rolled his eyes.
It is said that Ming Shijie is very fond of cooking, but why is this knife rusting?
After a long while, Lu Xiangyang came over.
"Boss Meng, please wait a moment. My boss will be here soon. If possible, we can go to transfer the ownership early tomorrow morning."