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Chapter 121: Oxford Street Main Store

  Men Mian bought it, and Li Changheng, who has practiced his hands and mind, went to his Mian Mian to chat with the designer every day about decoration, and then went to see Li Xingfu and his two apprentices on the research and development of dishes.

   came from him personally and said to find a chef.

   Li Xingfu, who is almost 60 years old, gave his Sichuan restaurant directly to his son Li Yixiang.

   then took two apprentices with the best craftsmanship and most trusted by him.

   Join this panda restaurant without even asking about salary or benefits.

  Speaking of it, it’s hard to keep the dishes secret. Fortunately, fast food restaurants make food into semi-finished products.

   Not only the sauce can be secretly made, but even the seasoning bag can be made first, and the chef in the store only needs to fry it according to the process.

   Therefore, Li Changheng's treatment of Li Xingfu and his two apprentices is pretty good among the Chinese population, not only starting with monthly salary of 300 and 150 pounds.

   can also get 0.3% and 0.1% of the profit commission in London. If the commission is not enough for their salary, they will make up the commission equal to the salary.

   As for the property rights and shares of the store, he will surely be in his hands.

   And the 0.3% commission is actually not that high.

   million pounds in profit, only a commission of 3,000 pounds.

   Li Xingfu is to obtain Li Changheng’s relationship, or asylum, and doesn’t care about commissions.

   And the only thought of his two apprentices is that he is already a manager-level person with an annual salary of 1800 + a bonus of 1800 pounds, shouldn’t he marry a wife?

   If you save for four or five years, you should be able to buy a three-bedroom house.

  Of course, the treatment is very high among the Chinese Americans, so the confidentiality contract is also very strict.

   Even the lawyer who made the contract and his assistants were so strict that they had to check the legal provisions and past cases again and again to ensure that the contract could be protected by the law.

   This matter has nothing to do with whether he is black-haired and white-skinned, even if Li Changheng is completely Chinese, he will protect his interests as much as possible.

   recruited the store manager and the two chefs in the store, a cake baker, four waiters, and two cleaners.

   asked Annie to help find a retired maid in the royal kitchen to train 10 people in service and kitchen hygiene and safety awareness.

   No one is serving these days, comparable to those who have served the royal family.

   Then in the process of finding the source of the ingredients, Li Changheng was helpless and thankful that he had dispelled the idea of ​​opening the chain store.

   If it's just an indoor bustling area in London, cold-chain truck delivery is okay.

  Once there are more stores, it is impossible to open a processing center in every city. The cost of sending semi-finished products to stores in various cities and storage will definitely cut more than three levels of profits.

   One month passed unconsciously. On February 1, 69, the first panda restaurant, which was decorated and prepared for a month, officially opened.

   Not only are Li Changheng and Annie waiting for today's revenue data, but even Charles, Andrew and others who have begun to renovate the restaurant are waiting to see if the improved Chinese food can really be loved by Londoners.

   Andrew had other people who were angry that he opened a fast food restaurant on Oxford Street, but waited for Li Changheng to have a 1 to 3 duel.

   After listening to this group of talents honestly, the customer audience is different, and there are rumors, they both doubt and dare not to provoke him anxiously, waiting for the final result.

   At ten o'clock in the evening, the call finally came.

   A day's turnover of 1,100 pounds did not surprise Li Changheng. When there are more repeat customers, the turnover will increase by about 2-3 floors.

   But what he didn't expect was that the best seller was actually the price of 50 pence, which was definitely high-priced egg waffle ice cream.

   Knowing that this kind of snack will be popular in London in the future, he prepared two ovens to make egg waffles at the beginning.

  The store manager told him on the phone that many people lined up today to buy the egg waffle ice cream sold at the window counter next to the store’s door.

   opens at 9 in the morning and closes at 9:30 in the evening.

   The two ovens have not stopped all day, and more than 200 egg waffles are sold in one day. The Cantonese pastry chef who specializes in baking, is tired of eating supper, his hands with chopsticks are shaking.

   Li Changheng lamented that Chinese Americans can endure hardships. At the same time, to the 25-year-old store manager Mary Edson who Meryl got from the maid school, he proposed to hire another pastry chef.

   suddenly remembered the large electric oven I had seen in the future.

  "Mary, you tell the pastry chef that his daily workload will be 50 stoves from now on. It is better to improve the oven if you increase manpower.

  Finally, your salary this month has all increased by 10%, and the pastry chef rewarded him with an extra three days' salary, which is 15 pounds."

   Hearing that there is a reward, even if Mary, the cashier's hand is soft, the manager can't help but feel less tired.

   "Thank you, thank you, BOSS".

   Hanging up the phone, Annie said with a smile on her face, "When the turnover stabilizes, if there are 1,500 pounds a day, wouldn't it be possible to have a monthly turnover of 45,000 pounds?"

   "Almost", Li Changheng smiled and nodded, "After deducting all the expenses of labor, water and electricity, food materials, etc., there will be a profit of about 15%."

"so tall?"

   Li Changheng shook his head, "I bought the store directly, saving nearly 30,000 pounds in rent per year, and of course the profit will be six or seven percent higher.

  And don’t forget, 28% sales tax.”

   "That's right," Annie said after thinking for a while, "That is to say, after paying taxes, a shop can earn 58,000 pounds a year?"

   "Less", Li Changheng said with a smile, "The full amount of money to buy the door face was bought with the money borrowed from the offshore island company, and the holding company of this panda restaurant is Henry-LEE.

   I only have 39% of the shares in this company, so I only need to pay 39% of the 28% business tax, and I still enjoy the tax rebate.

   It’s about £70,000 a year.”

   "Can you avoid so much?" Annie looked at Li Changheng worriedly, "My dear, this is a tax of 12,000 pounds~lightnovelpub.net~ Is it really okay to do this?"

   "What can be the problem?"

   Li Changheng pouted, "England's law is like this. I want to trouble me, so I will change the tax provisions first.

   And even if they change, they don’t have the right to trouble me with the previous things."

   After finishing speaking, Li Changheng thought to himself that the plan to buy a store in a prosperous area would work.

   Excluding the 380,000 pounds of the three-story door face on Oxford Street, and the 270,000 pounds paid for the decoration of the villa, the two million pounds of gold, at this time, there is still 1.36 million.

   But he doesn't plan to buy a three-story store like Oxford Street in the future, so he will buy a store with 100 square meters or even six to 80 square meters facing the street.

   You can find a professional intermediary to buy a store. The trouble is to train the staff.

   "Anne, you can help me ask Ms. Meryl whether the maid school in London is willing to take up training."

   The last time I was looking for a retired maid from the royal family, letting her train 10 people for three weeks would be considered overloaded.

   Although the training fee of £20 per person per week is not expensive, the total of £600 is not expensive, but the increase of several times, or even ten times, is no longer a task that can be completed by two assistants alone.

   Annie nodded immediately, "Let me ask Ms. Meryl."

   For more than ten minutes, Anne, who put down the phone, said with a bit of surprise and surprise, "Ms. Meryl said, if you still want to recruit those who have not been selected by the noble family, then graduate students from the Maid Academy will be the store manager.

   It is entirely possible for them to be responsible for the pre-job training together.

   Pay less salary, but also cultivate the team's tacit understanding first.

  The most important thing is that it is also possible to organize the training process into a manual to form a complete set of procedures to prepare for the future."