Siheyuan: Starting to work in the street office

Director Li naturally would not treat his son unfairly. Since the property rights were under the street office, he could choose any house he wanted.

But those houses are empty now. Except for a few that are used as warehouses, most of the others are idle.

Finally, we chose a house that was a little further away from Nanluoguxiang.

The area is not small, about the same size as Jufulou, also 600 square meters, but it is only a two-story building facing the street.

This store was originally a warehouse of the street office. The reasons for choosing it are, first, it is large enough, second, it is on the street and there is a large flow of people nearby, and another reason is that because it was used as a warehouse, the house was renovated after the earthquake a few years ago, and there are no problems with the frame at all.

After taking over, I just made some simple repairs and refurbished it and it was ready for use.

After Hu Chengyu found a good place, he took Zhong Shan to have a look. Zhong Shan was very satisfied. Although Director Li would not treat him unfairly originally, it would be easier to talk to him now that his son was there.

The geographical location of the house is indeed good, and the houses on both sides are under the name of the street office. If there is an opportunity in the future, it would be great to connect them together.

After it was decided, Zhongshan signed a contract with the street office. He didn't have to worry about anything else. The street office and Hu Chengyu would handle it, and he just had to take the money.

The decoration of the hot pot restaurant is much simpler. Now the house is not his own, and Zhongshan does not plan to invest too much. He just needs to simply replace the windows and doors and paint the walls, and then he can open for business.

This is already pretty good. Those two small restaurants were opened right away after they cleaned up and bought tables.

These things are not important now. Without competition, we won’t spend time improving quality. As long as we can make money, that’s enough.

The hot pot restaurant was decorated very quickly, and after everything was ready, it was ready to open.

The name of the hot pot restaurant is Shuxianglou Hotpot. Although the word "lou" may seem a bit too popular in later generations, it does seem upscale in this era.

On the opening day, although Zhong Shan came, he only came as Hu Chengyu's friend to outsiders.

After all, although the Street Office has endorsement for major events, the original intention of establishing this hot pot restaurant was just to help the Street Office solve a few jobs. However, it is better to have less trouble than more, and opening two restaurants is still a bit too conspicuous at this time.

Anyway, Hu Chengyu has been pushed to the front, so let him take the lead.

Director Li and Hu Chengyu are indeed easy to talk to. To be precise, no matter what Director Li says, do you, Hu Chengyu, as his son, dare to refute it?

Although the street office has given Shuxianglou Hotpot good policies in terms of site selection and other aspects, it is not easy to take advantage of the street office.

Zhong Shan looked at the more than 20 employees in the hot pot restaurant and once again lamented the bloated level of staff in state-owned enterprises.

In other words, the subdistrict office endorsed it, otherwise Zhongshan would have turned around and run when he saw so many people.

This is a private place, yet so many people can be crammed in.

This is the result of Director Li not knowing how much money the hot pot restaurant can make and showing mercy.

Once the business is good after opening, Director Li will not be able to refuse the favor, and it is foreseeable that he will continue to send people in.

But Zhong Shan is not afraid. If they hire more employees, they will not ask him for help but go directly to the street office.

Besides, the more people the better. If there are too many people, the hot pot restaurant will not be able to operate normally, so we can just continue to expand to the sides.

Zhongshan was even prepared to not make any money, as long as he could just stand firm.

There are now two large and one small restaurants in Jiaodaokou, which is enough for now. They can occupy the seats first, and if anyone is interested in it in the future, they will just look somewhere else.

In this way, Zhongshan can treat this place as his own private land, manage it well, and then slowly expand outward.

Shuxianglou Hotpot is relatively new in Beijing. Currently, the base of several public-private joint-venture hotpot restaurants is mainly light, and since Shuxianglou Hotpot is called Shuxiang, it is naturally mainly spicy.

After the opening, Zhong Shan also worked in Shuxianglou for a while. After all, unlike Jufulou which had two experienced people, He Yuzhu and Hou Saner, Shuxianglou was full of newbies. Hu Chengyu, a second-generation rich man who used to live a life of idleness and waiting for death, brought a group of educated youth who had just returned from the countryside.

Although Zhong Shan didn't have much experience, he had at least seen hot pot restaurants in the future. In addition, he also learned a lot in Jufulou during this period of time. Compared with these newbies, he was considered experienced.

After helping Hu Chengyu sort out the situation, Zhong Shan returned to Jufulou.

There's no way, Jufulou is short of people. When Zhongshan was here, each person was split into two halves, not to mention that we are short of one person now.

Although the 20-plus people at Shuxianglou Hotpot are all newcomers, after getting started, they find their job much easier than at Jufulou.

Of course, the salaries of employees on both sides are also different. The salary of the hot pot restaurant is the normal salary set by the street office, but the salary of the Jufulou Hotel is relatively small and busier, so Zhongshan gave a lot of increase.

Shuxianglou Hotpot had been open for a few days and had made decent revenue. Although not as high as Jufulou, the turnover still made Hu Chengyu and Director Li inexplicably excited.

Only now did they realize how lucrative it was to do business at this time.

Unlike his son Hu Chengyu who was very excited, Director Li was already thinking about how to arrange more people to the store.

But it has just opened for a short time, it’s too early to rush in now, let’s wait.

As the second store became more prosperous, Zhongshan gradually gave up his interest in the hot pot restaurant and put his focus back on Jufulou.

The address of Shuxianglou Hotpot is not close to Nanluoguxiang, so although people know this place, no one cares about the hotpot restaurant at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Except for He Yuzhu, no one knows that this restaurant is opened by Zhongshan.

But there is no impenetrable wall in the world. When the hot pot restaurant was first opened, Zhong Shan took Hu Chengyu to buy groceries in the morning, but was bumped into by Yan Bugui who was also buying groceries.

When Yan Bugui saw Zhong Shan bringing people to buy vegetables, he suddenly had an idea and followed them from a distance.

Yan Bugui was not from the steel rolling mill, so he did not know Hu Chengyu. He had only met him twice and knew that he had a good relationship with Zhong Shan.

When I met them this time, I don't know why I was so distracted. I talked to these two people and wanted to hear what they had to say.

Although he didn't dare to follow too closely and couldn't hear clearly what Zhong Shan and Hu Chengyu were saying, the few words he heard intermittently still surprised him.

"What? Zhong Shan actually opened a restaurant? How does he have so much money?"

After hearing what he wanted, Yan Bugui slowly separated from the two.

Although Zhong Shan felt something was wrong, he was just an ordinary restaurant owner and no one would harm him, so he didn't care.