Chapter 1116

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Now asking Wang Erhai what to do, Wang Erhai doesn't know what to do either.

The New Era Restaurant's main business is the staff from the Town Government.

You fired their relative, and they still come here to eat — that would really be seeing a ghost.

"Xiong Hua Shu, let me see the account book, I'll first check how the revenue is now?"

Wang Erhai didn't answer Liang Xinghua's question, but instead looked at the account book first.

At least we need to know how much we're losing, then we can think of a solution.

"Good good!" Liang Xinghua nodded hurriedly, then turned to Lan Menglian and said: "You hurry up and bring the account book!"

Lan Menglian's face showed some unwillingness.

This restaurant isn't already completely theirs now? How come Wang Erhai's hand stretches this long, meddling in this and that!

But she still turned around and brought the account book over.

Wang Erhai flipped it open and took a look, the restaurant's revenue this month was simply too miserable to behold!

Sometimes not even a hundred yuan of business a day could be done!

"This shouldn't be, how did business become this bad?"

Wang Erhai was very puzzled:

"Even if the Town Government people don't patronize anymore, it shouldn't be this bad, right? After all, the head chef in the back kitchen, Old He, his skills are quite good, many people came specifically for him."

At this moment Lan Menglian lightly added a sentence:

"That He Dahe you mentioned, his salary was too high, he was fired long ago."

Wang Erhai was directly dumbfounded:

"No, how could you fire the chef? The chef is the soul of the restaurant!"

Liang Xinghua was somewhat dumbfounded.

Seeing Wang Erhai's reaction, he knew things would turn bad.

So he turned to Lan Menglian and angrily roared:

"It's all your fault, I said don't fire don't fire, you insisted on firing them, now look, what do we do!"

Lan Menglian had an innocent face:

"Didn't we still keep Xiao Zhang? He's also a chef, and his salary is low, it's not like there's no one to cook!"

Xiao Zhang is merely a kitchen apprentice, previously responsible for helping out, now letting him take charge of the kitchen, can he make good food?

No wonder the restaurant's business would plummet!

But Lan Menglian didn't feel she had done anything wrong, and said to Liang Xinghua:

"Besides, when I raised this opinion initially, I got your nod of agreement. If you hadn't agreed to fire He Dahe, I couldn't have let him scram either. How come now it's all blamed on me!"

Speaking to here, Lan Menglian still couldn't help muttering a sentence:

"Having no ability is having no ability, blaming it on a woman — what kind of thing is that."

"You..." Liang Xinghua was furious to the point of half-dead.

Wang Erhai watched, besides sighing, there was no other way.

Liang Xinghua's eyes reddened. He originally resigned from Liguo Mountain, just counting on this restaurant to support a family of three. He didn't hope for getting rich, as long as he could scrape together a meal it would be very good. After all, running his own restaurant was freer, and he'd have more time to accompany his child.

But now it's very obvious, if this restaurant continues operating, it loses money every day it opens.

After all, rent, utilities and such, those have to be paid every month.

"Erhai, what do you say we do?"

Liang Xinghua no longer paid attention to Lan Menglian, turning instead to look pitifully at Wang Erhai.

Wang Erhai glanced at Lan Menglian.

With this woman on the side, some words he couldn't say directly.

So he said:

"You take me to the back kitchen to look, after I understand the situation clearly, I'll see what to do."

"Good good!" Liang Xinghua hurriedly took Wang Erhai to the back kitchen.

Entered the back kitchen.

Only saw the kitchen had only one chef left, that Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang was idle with nothing to do, sitting there until his buttocks hurt.

Holding a mobile phone playing games.

"Xiao Zhang, why are you playing games? Didn't I say no looking at phones during work hours?"

Liang Xinghua scolded angrily.

Xiao Zhang wasn't afraid either, just coldly threw out a sentence:

"Not a hair's worth of business, what else can I do but play on my phone?"

Liang Xinghua was speechless.

Xiao Zhang saw Wang Erhai arrive, and even complained to Wang Erhai:

"Boss Wang, you've finally come. This restaurant has been ruined by those two husband and wife messing around. Now there's not even a single customer! If you ask me, you should hurry up and fire them. They're not cut out for business, they should honestly go work in a factory!"

Xiao Zhang was young and vigorous, speaking straight and blunt.

This made Liang Xinghua so angry his face turned black.

But Xiao Zhang wasn't afraid either; he hadn't wanted to keep this job for a long time.

If he continued working here, he was afraid he wouldn't even get his salary paid.

After running off from here, he could just go seek refuge with his master.

Wang Erhai didn't respond to Xiao Zhang's complaint, but said instead:

"Xiao Zhang, you go over there and play on your phone. When there's no business you can play however you like, but when customers come, you must work!"

Xiao Zhang grinned:

"Alright then, Boss Wang, you're still the reasonable one!"

Then he turned around and left.

Only Wang Erhai and Liang Xinghua were left in the back kitchen.

Wang Erhai glanced toward the door outside, confirmed Lan Menglian hadn't come over, and only then said to Liang Xinghua:

"Xiong Hua Shu, I don't even know what to say to you. Didn't I tell you early on? For major decisions, don't let your wife participate. Is it that you feel your wife hasn't screwed you over badly enough yet?"

Liang Xinghua weakly corrected:

"She's not my wife, we haven't remarried yet, we're just living together again..."

Wang Erhai didn't know whether to laugh or cry:

"No, that's not the point, okay? The point is the restaurant's become like this now, you have to think of a way to see what to do!"

Liang Xinghua was at a complete loss:

"I don't know what to do either, Erhai. You've got more experience, you show me a clear path."

Wang Erhai pondered for a moment, then finally said:

"First you have to get Old Chef He Dahé back. This old chef's been working here since Chunsheng Uncle ran this restaurant. Many old regulars only recognize his cooking. Once the flavor changed, naturally they stopped coming."

Liang Xinghua's face looked bad, he hemmed and hawed:

"I'm afraid... we can't get him back..."

"Why can't we get him back? Offer him higher wages! Don't be too proud to lose face. If you're wrong, you have to admit it!"

But Liang Xinghua gave a bitter smile:

"He Dahé opened a new restaurant at the street corner. He went off to be his own boss..."

Hearing this, Wang Erhai sighed again.

In this situation, he really was powerless to turn things around.

Yet Liang Xinghua still busily sought his help:

"Erhai, you absolutely have to show me a clear path!"

Wang Erhai pondered for a long while, then finally said:

"I'm afraid the only way is to put effort into doing marketing well over in the county town, only then can the restaurant's business be built up."

Liang Xinghua was puzzled:

"My restaurant's in the town, why go do marketing in the county town?"

Wang Erhai explained:

"The town's customer base is just that big. A lot of old customers have probably all gone to eat at He Dahé's newly opened restaurant. So you must expand your customer base. To expand your customer base, you have to put in the work in the county town. After all, there's hardly anyone in this town anymore!"

Hearing this, Liang Xinghua felt it made a lot of sense.

But he was still completely baffled:

"How to expand the customer base? And will this cost a lot of money?"

Wang Erhai said:

"Money will definitely have to be spent, not a little. At least prepare ten or twenty thousand, but if the reputation gets built up, it shouldn't lose money. City people nowadays all like eating farmhouse dishes, especially original ecology ones. And the farm I run in Shangou Village just happens to meet their requirements on food ingredients!"

But Liang Xinghua said:

"Then I'm afraid I can't do it. I don't have much savings left."