Chapter 441 - 166: Of Course, Rice Noodle Rolls Must Be Made and Eaten Fresh

Chapter 441: Chapter 166: Of Course, Rice Noodle Rolls Must Be Made and Eaten Fresh

"Holy shit, Boss Su, this vermicelli soup!"

"Oh my god, these spare ribs, these rice cakes! Is there any more, Boss Su?"

Su Chen shrugged. "Don’t look at me. Look at them."

Fang Chang took a closer look. Well, I’ll be!

’He’d been eating and singing their praises, but this bunch of bastards from Delicious hadn’t said a peep. They just kept their heads down and scarfed down food. In the time it took him to eat his own meal, forget the vermicelli soup—not even a scrap of the spare ribs and rice cakes remained.’

"I let my guard down, I let my guard down!" Fang Chang reluctantly put down his bowl. "I brought some fruit for everyone. If you want some, go get it!"

"Boss Fang, you’re so generous!" Bai Xiaobo wiped his mouth and dashed over to get the fruit.

Fang Chang watched, stunned.

’Didn’t you just hang up on me, saying you had no time to move stuff?’

While everyone was eating fruit, Fang Chang pulled Su Chen aside.

"Boss Su, are you getting ready to launch these new snacks?"

Su Chen took a deep breath, looking surprisingly weary. "That’s the plan. The company is severely short-staffed right now. Just look."

Su Chen pointed to the crew behind them, who were enthusiastically devouring the fruit. "We work the men like beasts of burden and the women like men. And snacks aren’t like regular dishes. You can’t solve the problem just by hiring a few more chefs."

The main issue is that making snacks takes up a lot of space. For example, making steamed rice noodle rolls requires a drawer-style steamer. For spare ribs and rice cakes, you need two or three pots going at once. And if you add chicken blood vermicelli soup, you’d need yet another pot.

It might not seem like much, but even with Su Chen’s skills, it’s a bit too much for one person to handle making all three.

"Then why don’t you just open up another floor and sell nothing but snacks!" Fang Chang imagined the scene. "Damn! My mouth is watering just thinking about it!"

Su Chen pushed the freshly brewed tea toward Fang Chang. "Isn’t that what I’m discussing with President Ling right now? But if we were to set up a whole floor for snacks, how to manage it becomes another big problem."

Oh?

Hearing this, Fang Chang’s mind immediately started turning. "Well, I’ll be looking forward to the grand opening of your snack floor! By the way, Boss Su, there’s something else I wanted to ask you about."

"Go ahead."

Fang Chang recounted Zhang Yi’s story, adding a few embellishments here and there. He explained how difficult things were for the man, and how he wouldn’t have resorted to such a sneaky tactic if his wife didn’t control the purse strings so tightly.

"Hah." Su Chen waved his hand dismissively. "That blacklist is mostly just for show. There are a few customers who’ve gone too far, but your friend isn’t one of them. If he wants to eat here, Delicious will always welcome him."

"Really?"

"Yep."

Su Chen didn’t want to get bogged down in such matters. So far, only three people on the Delicious blacklist were truly barred from service: Zhang Qing, that one civil servant, and Zhang Dali.

Everyone else was on there for show. As long as they didn’t do anything to harm the interests of Delicious, they wouldn’t actually be blacklisted.

"That’s fantastic! I’ll go tell him right now!" Before leaving, Fang Chang didn’t forget to add, "Remember to make extra tonight! I’ll be back to show my support!"

Only after Fang Chang had walked away did Ling Shuyu enter the office.

"Boss, if we start selling snacks, we definitely can’t use our old business model."

Hiring people to make the snacks, selling them, with all profits going to Delicious, and then paying the employees a salary.

That approach isn’t suitable for snacks.

"What about stalls?"

Ling Shuyu waved Liu Shengnan into the room. "If we go with stalls, there are currently two business models."

"One is to waive the rent. We collect all the revenue directly, then distribute the earnings to the vendors on a monthly or weekly basis."

"The other is to charge rent and a technical service fee."

The second method was definitely not what Su Chen wanted.

He had no plans to become a landlord just yet. "So, are we running into any difficulties right now?"

At this point, Liu Shengnan spoke up. "Although our business performance has been excellent these past two months, if we want to renovate an entire floor just for snacks, the cash we have on hand simply isn’t enough."

Su Chen didn’t press the matter.

’Before he went abroad, there was less than 500,000 in cash flow.’

The current strength of Delicious was its high monthly revenue. The problem was the tight timeline. Before their cash reserves could accumulate, they would immediately start the next venture. This led to a steady increase in the company’s assets, but the cash flow couldn’t keep up.

"In that case, let’s put the snack plan on hold for now. By the way, Shengnan, have you bought everything I asked you to procure?"

"Everything that could be bought has been purchased. Some items are still in transit and will probably take another three or four days to arrive."

"Mm." Su Chen pressed his palms together. "President Shang’s order is crucial. Setting aside our personal relationship with him, the budget for this event alone is very generous. Everyone needs to take this seriously."

"And what about President Feng?" Ling Shuyu was a bit unsure what this Feng Yaoyang was really thinking.

’Spending a hundred thousand yuan just to taste some snacks?’

’Even rich people don’t squander money like that.’

"Don’t worry about President Feng for now. He’ll tell us what he wants when the time is right. Right now, he’s the one who needs something from us, so there’s no need to rush."

After going over the company’s current situation, Su Chen returned to his office on the nineteenth floor.

The three snacks for the evening were all sorted out. Now it was time to start planning for Shang Mingke’s guest, who would be arriving in a week!

...

"Ah Wu, whether or not we invest in this project all depends on your review of Delicious tonight."

「Jingzhou Grand Hotel.」

Feng Yaoyang was smoking a cigar, and sitting next to him was the chef he had brought from Xiangjiang this time.