NOVEL NEXT Chapter 191 Junxiao 2
After Mao Xi's Tang Shui Shop started selling pearl milk tea and mandarin duck milk tea, they were very popular in Kaitang County for two weeks.
No matter what you are afraid of, imitators soon appeared.
Several ladies who visited the sugar water shop with Ms. Zhou followed suit and opened a special drink sugar water shop in Kaitang County.
There are some that specialize in selling coconut drinks, some that specialize in coffee, and there are also shops like Liu’s Sweet Shop that sell a variety of drinks.
What surprised Mao Xi the most was that they actually imitated pearl milk tea, especially the brown sugar pearls, which tasted exactly the same.
Mao Xi asked the assistant chef to buy it and eat it. The recipe also used tapioca flour and brown sugar.
Sure enough, the wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated. Although I have already learned it, I am still a little unhappy when similar products suddenly appear.
Fortunately, the shops opened by these ladies are relatively high-end, and the decoration style is similar to that of a teahouse.
The price of a cup of drink is twice that of Maoxi's shop. If the price is so high, will ordinary people go there?
They all really went!
The ladies' imitation sugar water shop has a special feature that Maoxi's shop does not have: a handsome waiter.
The shops selling coconut drinks and coffee drinks are the most obvious.
The waiters hired by these sugar water shops are all handsome young men. They imitate Shu Xi and hold plates outside the shop, inviting people to try the drinks.
The waiters at the coconut drink shop are all strong young men, rugged yet handsome; the waiters at the coffee drink shop are handsome, soft and enthusiastic.
They were stunned to attract the young ladies in Mao Xi's shop who were obsessed with Nalan Jue's appearance.
"It's so insidious~ They actually try to differentiate the experience!"
Ten thousand little alpacas rushed past in Mao Xi's heart...
Before traveling through time, Ma Xi had seen a lot of business tactics in various milk tea shops, so she would not give in easily.
Since the environment and people are currently no match for these imitation stores, let’s do research on the ultimate cost-effectiveness.
After all, who doesn’t like a drink that’s delicious, cheap, and novel?
The Liu Family Sweets Shop sells a new product every three days, using fruits delivered freshly by Ma Baili every day.
The second cup of the new product is half price on the first day it is launched.
Matcha milk, milk-covered green tea, cheese coffee, white peach green tea, mulberry grape drink...
The common people were dazzled for a moment, and they had never drunk these strange drinks before!
The cost has been reduced, and the efficiency of meal delivery needs to be improved. Mao Xi asked Luda to help make several wooden barrels, and made a water outlet valve similar to a faucet at the bottom of the barrel.
Fill the bucket with pre-brewed tea and iced coffee, which greatly speeds up the delivery of cold drinks.
Liu's Sweet Shop didn't have the handsome waiters like other shops, so Mao Xi borrowed a chivalrous costume from Miss Mo Xia, and together with Lou Laner and Mu Zhiyuan played the role of chivalrous lady outside the shop.
This trick is most attractive to younger children, boys and girls.
Perhaps because they all have a martial arts dream in their hearts, the main customer group of Mao Xi's candy shop has changed from ladies and sisters to teenagers.
Mao Xi looked at the children at the candy shop, and her aunt's smile appeared again on her lips.
Mu Zhiyuan saw on Mao Xi's face a mature smile that should not have appeared at her age. Her eyes shone with intelligence, sweetness and charm, like a ripe cherry.
He looked a little enchanted for a moment.
"Ah Shu, these boys and girls seem to like our tea drinks very much! You are the only one who can come up with the idea of using wooden barrels to serve tea drinks."
At first, Mu Zhiyuan was a little worried that Shu Xi, a little money man, would follow the trend and hire handsome young people to be waiters. Now it seems that the business has not been affected.
Under the influence of the ladies from Beidu, Miss Zhou also opened a coffee shop in Kaitang County. This was also her earliest wish.
Mr. Zhou, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, was afraid that Miss Zhou would be too sad because of her widowhood, so he let her open a store.
On the opening day of Ms. Zhou's shop, she invited Shu Xi there and ordered a two-layer opening cake from her.
Mao Xi took the assistant chef to make it.
Ms. Zhou's family is well off. The coffee shop was renovated from an original two-story teahouse. The waiters inside are all handsome.
Mao Xi also secretly asked Miss Zhou: "Miss Zhou, where did you and the Beidu ladies recruit these boys? When I was recruiting waiters, I never met such handsome people."
"The ladies in Beidu found these for me. Some are from the Western Regions, and some were sold from poor families to the theater troupes. The waiters at the teahouse and soup shop in Beidu are all handsome boys~ The ladies say that this kind of shop The tea sells better.”
Mao Xi sighed inwardly, the wives of Huai Kingdom also knew how to do business.
"Their wages are not cheap, right?"
"It's not expensive, but the shop helps them get out of slavery, so the waiters get an ordinary monthly salary. They become good citizens, and they naturally work harder."
After finishing speaking, Ms. Zhou pointed to a sturdy young man in the shop who was grinding coffee beans: "That young man who is a bit dark turned out to be a Kunlun slave, but he was a good coffee maker in Beidu. I specially asked someone to help him. I dug it up to redeem myself."
Mao Xi glanced at the Kunlun guy. His physique was comparable to that of Luda. It turned out that Miss Zhou was not opening the shop on a whim, but was opening the store with her heart.
Three people, there must be my teacher.
After returning from Ms. Zhou's shop, Shui Xi went to the ready-made clothing store and explained to the shopkeeper the style of clothing she needed. She wanted to customize a batch of employee uniforms.
The appearance and temperament of the waitress in this shop are naturally not as good as those in other similar tea shops, but she can make everyone neatly dressed and look good, and that's enough.
People depend on their clothes. As soon as you put on new clothes, your temperament will be different.
Mao Xi also gave everyone a chef's apron with the word "Liu" embroidered on it.
Aunt Chen came to the candy shop and called Miao Xi out.
"Ah Xiao, some shopkeepers from Kaitang Fruit Cake Shop came this morning and asked you to go to the Chamber of Commerce in the afternoon to discuss important matters."
"Auntie, did they say what happened?"
"The messenger left in a hurry. It seemed that it was about the sales of the bakery."
Mrs. Chen was in charge of the bakery's ledger, and Shui Xi hadn't checked it recently. She took the ledger and checked it.
The major buyers of the fruit cake shop remain unchanged. The rest of the fruit products are supplied to the own sugar shop, and the number of individual customers is declining.
Could this be related to the sudden opening of more than ten tea shops in the county recently?
When Shu Xi came to the Chamber of Commerce, Shopkeeper Huang stepped forward and asked as soon as he saw Shu Xi, "Shop Manager Shu Xi, how is the business of your fruit cake shop recently? My sales here have dropped to the floor."
Shopkeeper Jin also complained: "I am the same. Ever since the ladies of Beidu led a group of tea shop shopkeepers and opened a tea shop in Kaitang, people have gone to their place to drink tea and eat fruits."
"Why don't your shop try to sell some drinks? Or soy milk!" Mao Xi suggested.
"Shopkeeper Shu Xi, you also know that when people go to their shops, they are served by waiters, and we are just little old men selling cakes. In comparison, of course they are willing to go to the candy shop."
President Zhou: "Shopkeeper Shu Xi, I see that you have opened a candy shop and a cake shop at the same time. Do you have any good ideas? I know you always have a lot of novel ideas. How can you get people to come back to the cake shop to buy them?"
President Zhou, why did he raise the issue again?