Return To 1998

New year, new atmosphere.

As the saying goes: the plan of the year lies in the spring.

Basically, every company will hold a meeting at the beginning of the year to set the company's development direction and development goals for the next year.

The same is true of Xu Tongdao's Ximen Group.

This morning, the heads of several major branches of Ximen Group gathered in the conference room of the group headquarters to hold the group meeting at the beginning of this year.

Xu Tongdao, as the president of the group, attended the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by his assistant to the president, Tan Shi.

Wang Xing, general manager of Ximen Foods Co., Ltd., Fu Yuan, general manager of Ximen Yipin Hotpot, Jin Yunfei, general manager of Ximen Real Estate Development Company, Ge Lianghua, general manager of Ximen Road Internet Cafe Company, and Su Ping, general manager of Meijia Decoration Company, attended the meeting.

The meeting started with the development status, achievements and shortcomings of each branch in the past year.

Afterwards, the heads of various branches talked freely about the development ideas and development goals of the branches that they are responsible for in the new year.

and many more.

In the first half of the meeting, Xu Tongdao mainly listened and didn't speak much.

It was not until most of the meeting had passed and he had also listened to the heads of the various branches, the summary of last year's work, and the plans and goals for this year's work, that Xu Tongdao coughed lightly and drew everyone's attention to himself.

He just officially spoke.

I listened carefully to everyone's speeches just now, and they all have something to say, and they said it well!

However, I have a slightly different view on the direction of the development of the various branches of our group for the next full year.

After a pause, his eyes swept over everyone, under everyone's curious eyes.

Xu Tongdao: In 2003, the development of Ximen Group should be focused, I think the focus should be temporarily placed on Ximen Food Co., Ltd., Ximen Real Estate Development Company, and Meijia Decoration Company!

As for hot pot and Internet cafes, suspend expansion!

In this regard, what is your opinion, you can speak freely now!

When he said these words, the expressions of everyone in the conference room were different.

Some were happy, some frowned and wondered.

It's natural to be delighted that the heads of the three branches - Wang Xing, Jin Yunfei and Su Ping - were listed as the focus of this year's development.

The people who frowned and wondered were Fu Yuan, the person in charge of Ximen Yipin Hotpot, and Ge Lianghua, who was in charge of the Ximendao Internet Cafe.

When Wang Xing and others heard the good news that was beneficial to them, they all smiled and didn't rush to say anything.

Because Ge Lianghua and Xu Tongdao are cousins, the first one couldn't help but ask: Why? President Xu! The development momentum of our Internet cafes is just right, why should we suspend expansion for the next whole year? This, It's not scientific, is it?

Seeing him taking the lead in questioning, Fu Yuan, the person in charge of Ximen Yipin Hotpot, followed suit: Yes, Mr. Xu! The development of our hotpot last year was obvious to all, and the profits were also very good. This year, I plan to develop at least three more branches. I have even trained the reserve cadres of the branch here, as long as we are given the authority to expand, I can prepare the branch at any time.”

After they finished asking, Xu Tongdao nodded, not in a hurry to answer.

Instead, he glanced at Tang Qing, the secretary behind him, and gestured slightly to Tang Qing.

Tang Qing understood, and hurriedly stepped forward and distributed stacks of newspapers to everyone present at the meeting.

Those who were assigned the newspapers, with doubts, immediately began to read those newspapers.

At the same time, Tongdao Xu said calmly: This year, the reason why we have postponed the expansion of Internet cafes and hot pot, I have already made people circle them in these newspapers with a red pen.

As the saying goes: Dapeng rises with the same wind one day,

Soaring to ninety thousand miles.

The mythical Dapeng bird wants to fly higher and farther, but it still needs to take advantage of the wind, not to mention we start a company?

When I set up this group company, I divided the company's development direction into the current big blocks, also to avoid development risks.

Recently, a disease called SARS has spread abroad. I am worried that this disease will spread to our country soon.

Therefore, I decided to suspend the expansion of Ximen Yipin Hotpot and Ximendao Internet Cafe this year, and shifted the focus of the group's development to the other three branches.

Having said that, Tongdao Xu looked at Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan.

As for Manager Ge and Manager Fu, you don't need to worry. You two will suspend expansion this year. If there is no unexpected situation next year, we will speed up the development of the part you are responsible for.

Yes!

In fact, SARS had already appeared abroad a few years ago.

At that time, Xu Tongdao, who surfed the Internet to learn about current affairs almost every day, noticed it.

And SARS, in his memory, in 2003, the SARS that once caused panic in the country.

Because of the memory reminder before his rebirth, he decided early on to adjust the company's development focus this year.

Suspend the expansion of hot pot and Internet cafes.

The development will focus on the three areas of real estate, decoration and instant noodles.

During the SARS period, he estimated that the business of catering and entertainment would be restricted.

In contrast, the three industries of real estate, decoration, and instant noodles should be less affected.

Seeing this, some people may ask: instant noodles... don't they belong to the catering industry?

At first glance, instant noodles seem to belong to the dining category.

But it is very different from the catering industry such as hot pot restaurants and Chinese restaurants.

Instant noodles...don't need to host a large number of diners on a daily basis.

Those who want to eat instant noodles, go to the supermarket or grocery store to buy some and go back.

In Xu Tongdao's memory, during the SARS period, many schools were closed, and students could not easily leave the school. Many factories also implemented closed management, preventing employees from freely contacting the outside world.

In this way, these students and employees who eat in the cafeteria every day will miss many delicacies outside, and will soon get tired of the food in the cafeteria.

And instant noodles...

In Xu Tongdao's memory, during SARS in 2003, many people liked to buy it.

Although everyone knows that instant noodles are not open for business, it is not good to eat too much.

But... it can at least satisfy everyone's appetite.

It is undeniable that the taste of instant noodles is still very good for many people.

...

Xu Tongdao gave such a reason. Although Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan disagreed a little, they did not believe that SARS would spread to China and affect the two businesses they were responsible for.

but……

Tongdao Xu is the president, and the entire group company belongs to Tongdao Xu.

Since Tongdao Xu has a good reason and his idea has been decided, as the heads of the branch, they can only obey.

On the other hand, Wang Xing, Jin Yunfei and Su Ping, seeing that the overall situation was settled, spoke up one after another, expressing their agreement and support for Xu Tongdao's decision.

He also smiled and comforted Ge Lianghua and Fu Yuan.

At this moment, Tongdao Xu suddenly felt the phone in his trouser pocket vibrate a few times.

He lowered his head slightly, calmly, and took out his phone.

Zhang Fafa, who found out that it was Zhiweixuan, just sent him a new text message.

The content is: Brother! Hou Jinbiao is crazy. He wants to invest in the construction of an instant noodle factory. He invited me over in the middle of the night last night. There are already two flavors of instant noodle recipes, he seems to be fighting with you, you have to be careful!