I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

In Australia and other Western countries, cars were generally used as a means of transportation for food delivery in the early days. With the continuous development of cities, there is heavy traffic in the city center, parking is difficult, or parking fees are expensive, so the phenomenon of using bicycles to deliver food has begun to appear. However, except for the city center, cars are still the main means of transportation in other areas.

Delivering food overseas is completely different from delivering food domestically.

In the past, before the emergence of platforms, the speed of food delivery depended entirely on the individual’s mood that day.

After the emergence of the platform, domestic food delivery time has been planned to the minute. Even if it is delayed for only a few minutes, it will be considered late.

In Australia, the time requirements are not so strict.

Now it is 2010, and the deliverymen's wages are paid in two modes. You can choose either one, or your boss will force you to make the choice.

The first one is to pay you a fixed amount of money per hour, and the tips you receive go to the delivery person.

The second is that the boss calculates the amount based on each order, and the tip naturally goes to the delivery person.

However, the second model is often calculated by the boss, who will allocate it based on each employee's free time and usual data, so that you may get only a little more money than the first model.

When driving a car to deliver food, the fuel cost is a big expense, and there is also wear and tear on the car, as well as traffic violation tickets, etc.

As for the fuel fee, of course, the delivery person has to pay for it out of his own pocket. If you have a good relationship with the boss, he will give you some subsidies.

In his previous life, Chen Xi had a good relationship with the boss’s wife, who would always give him a subsidy of around 100 yuan.

As for the current situation in Australia, only pizza shops offer delivery services, while other restaurants can only be ordered by phone and then picked up by the customer.

The wages in Chinese pizza shops are generally very low, and you can get 11 to 13 dollars an hour. The wages in foreign pizza shops are about 14 to 16 dollars (this was the price that a foreign pizza shop next door offered to hire Chen Xi, but after he worked there for a month, the boss offered him a job as a manager, managing a Pizza Hut branch, and offered him a salary of 20 dollars). Tips for delivery are completely dependent on luck, and you can get a lot of money if you go to the rich area.

But there are exceptions. Chen Xi's friend once delivered a meal to a wealthy area, and the other party gave him a 100 yuan tip. His friend went back to show off happily, but was discovered by the boss. The boss wanted to show off the fine traditions of H country, and insisted that the employee return the money, saying that the other party gave too much and must have accidentally taken the wrong amount...

This left the employee speechless.

Anyway, all in all, delivering food in a hellhole like Ring Wood can only make about a hundred dollars a day, and that's not even deducting the cost of gas. The most important thing is that it's exhausting.

Some people will certainly question that delivering pizza by car is definitely easier than riding an electric bike in China, but that is a big mistake.

When delivering pizza abroad, the pizza will be covered with a large and heavy waterproof and insulated bag, similar to a schoolbag. Those foreigners often order dozens of pizzas, but these dozens of pizzas are only counted as one order, which means you can only earn a little money after working so hard.

Just think about it, if there are dozens of pizzas, you would be exhausted just carrying the insulated bags without even carrying the pizzas.

Moreover, it is difficult to find the house number when driving at night, because some foreigners' houses are too old and the house numbers have been worn out. Chen Xi used to use a flashlight to observe the house numbers of the houses next door at night, and finally he could calculate the approximate location.

In an era when there was no platform for route planning, all deliverymen could only rely on GPS and maps to plan their own delivery routes, which made the efficiency extremely low.

Chen Xi still remembers an old man who drove an Audi A6 to deliver pizzas, which shocked the boss at the time. First, the A6 is extremely rare in Australia, because it sells very poorly and is not cheap. Now it is used to deliver pizzas, which is comparable to Chen Xi driving a sports car to deliver pizzas.

The second is that this uncle doesn’t have a smartphone and doesn’t have GPS navigation, so he can only rely on maps to deliver food.

The problem was that he didn't have a map, so he could only look at the map in the store before leaving and search for the route based on his memory. He often got lost halfway through the drive and had to return to the store to start over.

The Hungry Dragon software developed by Chen Xi in cooperation with Google Map solves this problem.

This software was not developed just for food delivery, but was created to overtake Carsales.

If you want to deliver food, you need to buy a car. Buying a car requires money, so I will give you the car first, and you can pay me back slowly in installments. Anyway, my platform also makes money from you, and the leasing company also makes money from you.

This greatly increased car sales.

The way foreigners buy cars is different from that of Chinese people. Foreigners are willing to buy some old cars that look almost undriveable, as long as they are cheap, because they buy them for transportation and now they can make money with them, so why not!

This was one of the projects that Chen Xi was doing in the country in his previous life, and it was a small part of that big project.

Of course, just delivering food was not enough, so he also came up with a taxi-hailing service, which was just like Uber, but targeted at a more specific group of people.

Now he has selected some of Sihai's employees to test the food delivery platform, and these people are enjoying it. Repeating the same work every day would make people feel a bit boring, and now they have new things to do, they are very happy.

So here comes the question. When domestic food delivery platforms first came out, they offered subsidies to attract customers. In the early stage, these subsidies were benefits given to customers by the platform using investors’ money. In the later stage, they became service fees that the platform received from merchants and gave to customers.

This kind of thing cannot be used in Australia.

First, Australian customers don't care about subsidies at all. They will give tips, so why should they care about your subsidies?

What foreigners care about are small details. For example, if you give him a ten-dollar snack or a small toy, it will make him happier than giving him a fifty-dollar subsidy.

Second, if you cut into the interests of merchants and want to exploit restaurant owners to gain profits, others will simply choose not to cooperate with you, and will most likely report you to a certain department and directly sue you for bankruptcy.

In any case, the chaotic phenomenon of food delivery platforms that has emerged in China will not exist in Australia at this time.

Boxhill.

"Your takeaway is really awesome. My daily meals are sold out in an instant. I think I need to get more goods in the future." Zhang Guoqiang said, pointing at the empty shelves.

"Don't be too happy too soon. Your original business was good. In the future, more and more merchants will cooperate with us, and their business will gradually get better, which will have a great impact on your store." Chen Xi took a sip of the soy milk that Lao Zhang gave him.

"You are the boss of the platform. Don't you have the final say on whether the business is good or not? Can't you just give me more advertising and put my store on the top?"

"Where did you learn all this?" Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at Lao Zhang, somewhat doubting whether he was reborn.

"Fuck, I'm an excellent student from a prestigious domestic university. Your platform is similar to e-commerce online shopping. I can understand it by analogy." Lao Zhang is indeed a top student, and a top student of that era. His knowledge is very valuable, and naturally he is quite smart.

Chen Xi kept thinking that if this guy was more diligent, he wouldn't have come to make pancakes.

"If you are always on top, other businesses will definitely unite to oppose you."

"Please give me more popularity, like putting up a billboard, and when customers click on a store, recommended stores will appear below..."

"Why don't you stop selling pancakes and come to my company to be a planner?"

"No, no, that's too tiring!" Zhang Guoqiang moved his hands as fast as the blades of an electric fan.

"It's a real headache that those foreign restaurants don't want to cooperate with us! They say that if the dishes are delivered to customers via takeout, the taste will be greatly reduced, which will affect their brand..." "There's no way. Foreigners are different from people in China. They like to make money in their own way, and they are not short of money. You can only find those stores with poor business to cooperate with first. When the business of these stores threatens them, they may cooperate with you. But there is another possibility..."

"What possibility?" Chen Xi pricked up his ears.

"From the perspective of the locals, what you are doing is unfair competition, and these restaurant owners will unite and sue you!"

"Uh...what should I do then?"

"How should I know? I'm Chinese!"

"Damn!" Chen Xi, whose interest had finally been piqued, felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on him when he heard this. He immediately gave Lao Zhang the middle finger.

"Don't worry! I have been in the catering business for decades. The prices of food in Chinese restaurants and high-end Western restaurants are considered very expensive. There are many types of Chinese food, so there are many that are suitable for takeout. But the food of foreigners is not the same. Think about it, if you pack a bunch of pasta and send it to someone's home, is it still edible? If you want to do takeout, you can only find cooperation with large fast food restaurants. KFC and McDonald's do not support takeout. They have special Drive-Thru (drive-up food), so don't even think about connecting with them.

The only option left is to work with fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut, but Pizza Hut has its own delivery staff, so you can talk to the boss and help him reduce costs. Delivery staff will also be paid when there is no work in the company.

These large fast food restaurants are all about supply chain, and what they care about most is cost..." Zhang Guotao picked up a snack and put it in his mouth, saying as he ate.

Indeed, fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut have compressed costs to the extreme.

When Chen Xi worked there before, he saw that pizza on the price list was about 1 yuan each. However, excluding labor, water, electricity, etc., the cost of a pizza is actually only yuan.

Australia just has too few people, the Internet is not very developed, and data collection is also a big problem...

"TMD, TMD, I'm really in trouble this time." Li Yuqing walked over cursing, with Shi Tao following beside her.

"Why would I lose money? Didn't I already have the money?" Shi Tao was carrying two large bags, which were filled with health products.

"Are you stupid? There is something wrong with the goods this time. Who will buy from us in the future? I don't know which idiot reported me."

"It's all your fault. You just think about taking advantage of small things every day..." Shi Tao had just finished speaking when he saw Li Yuqing raising her hand to hit him.

"What are you talking about?" At this time, Chen Xi waved at the two of them.

"Ah, Chen Xi, I've been badly cheated this time." After seeing him, Li Yuqing grabbed his clothes and complained.

"Let go first and speak slowly." Chen Xi pulled his arm free.

Then Li Yuqing started talking like a machine gun, saying a lot of things.

After a while, Chen Xi finally understood.

Li Yuqing had seen others making a lot of money before, and she thought it was because her purchase price was too high, so she made inquiries from many sources and found a special channel.

The result was that problems arose after domestic buyers received the goods.

As for what the problem is, it is naturally the insect incident in the previous life.

It was also because of this incident that this product almost disappeared from everyone's sight.

The stuffing of the teddy bear doll is lavender and grains, and mixing these two things together will normally breed insects.

However, the genuine teddy bear has been specially treated, and the things inside are almost infested with insects.

However, what Li Yuqing bought was a semi-counterfeit product. The lavender and grains were from Australia, and the little bears were also produced in Australia. However, the manufacturer only obtained the production rights through an agent after the little bears became popular, and it does not have that kind of sterilization technology.

When these products are sold domestically, the titles all say "lavender bears", but the products are not from Tasmania. This is actually just a word game and is not considered fraud or counterfeiting from a legal perspective.

Australian customs have very strict control over things like seeds, insects, meat and eggs.

However, this only applies to entry. He will not be so strict when it comes to leaving the country. After all, it is not his own country that is being harmed.

It is difficult to detect the insects in these grains, so Li Yuqing's little bears arrived in the country smoothly without anyone noticing.

What happened next was that a large number of buyers felt itchy all over their bodies, and small reptiles appeared on their beds for no apparent reason. As a result, they followed the clues and found the source. After opening the teddy bear dolls, they were stunned.

People with trypophobia even went berserk on the spot.

"This guy just likes to take advantage of small opportunities, haha. But this time he didn't lose money, he even made a profit." Shi Tao laughed secretly on the side.

"You are actually gloating over other people's misfortune." Li Yuqing kicked Shi Tao's butt angrily.

"You're about to graduate, so don't even think about being a purchasing agent. I think you should learn a lesson from this incident." Chen Xi also smiled.

"I am also thinking about returning to China in the future, opening a store in China, and then purchasing goods through my friends in Australia and selling them in China!" Li Yuqing talked about her future development.

"Friends? Where do your friends come from? I think I am your only friend." Shi Tao said sarcastically from the side.

"you……"

"Okay, okay. There are people around here. Where did you get that batch of goods?" Chen Xi pointed at the people around him.

"Near the school, Burwood. The supplier's phone is out of service. He must have known something had happened and ran away." Li Yuqing got angry when she thought about this.

"Is it near the school?" Chen Xi touched his chin and thought. This was almost the same as he expected.

In front of the warehouse behind the legendary billiard room.

"Brother Gou, what should we do now?" Ergou shouted with a bitter face as he looked at the large number of police cars and the handcuffed dog in front of him.

"Call Brother Xi!" Sangou said.

"Don't call him..." Gouzi opened his mouth and said something.

"Why?" Sangou was a little confused.

"Oh, what a shame!" Gouzi sighed, shook his head, and was immediately sent to the car by the police. (End of this chapter)