Zhao Feiyan's restaurant business, while not as spectacular as her foreign trade company, was still not to be underestimated.
The second restaurant that expanded from the first was a qualitative leap in scale and efficiency.
Both restaurants were booming, truly making a fortune by the day.
Everything had been developing smoothly until one day, Zhao Feiyan suddenly conveyed earth-shattering news to Liu Kai Xuan.
Zhao Dajun's Moon Restaurant could no longer be sustained, and Chen Yue wanted to transfer the restaurant to Zhao Feiyan.
"What, Moon Restaurant can't go on?"
Liu Kai Xuan couldn't help but frown: "Didn't their restaurant always have pretty good business?"
"Why is it suddenly going bankrupt? This is too sudden!"
"Alas!"
Zhao Feiyan replied with a wry smile: "Moon Restaurant was pushed into the abyss step by step by my brother!"
"In the beginning, their restaurant business was quite good!"
"Busy every day, not much different from my Moon Restaurant!"
"However, despite the booming business, the profit margin was very low, and my brother was very dissatisfied with this!"
"Later, they started playing tricks with portion sizes, using small plates and cutting corners to cut costs for customers!"
"I know about this," Liu Kai Xuan nodded and continued.
"Back then, they even asked us to help taste the dishes, and we pointed out the problem with the small plates!"
"How did they improve it later?"
Zhao Feiyan replied with a wry smile: "Later, my brother did increase the portions, but they only added cheap ingredients!"
"When customers ordered shredded pork with garlic sauce, it was full of cheap ingredients like bamboo shoots and fungus."
"In a plate of dish, you could barely find a few pieces of meat. The quantity looked much larger, but there was nothing to eat!"
"After all this messing around, they ruined the restaurant's reputation!"
"Alas..."
Previously, Zhao Feiyan had conducted market research.
Although the market economy had opened up in this era, population mobility had not yet become fully active.
Most of the restaurant's diners came from surrounding households.
To run a restaurant well, it was essential to have a good reputation.
Feiyan Restaurant was affordable and used genuine ingredients, enjoying an excellent reputation in the neighborhood, and diners were willing to patronize it.
Moon Restaurant used small plates and bowls. After carefully selecting through a plate of dish for a long time, one could barely find a few pieces of meat. Its reputation was in tatters.
The reason the restaurant could stay afloat for the first few months was a lack of competition. Diners in the vicinity had no other choice but to eat at Moon Restaurant.
To eat at other restaurants, one had to walk a long distance.
However, starting last month, a new restaurant opened directly opposite Moon Restaurant.
This made the situation even more severe!
Diners all went to the restaurant opposite, leaving Moon Restaurant deserted and business sluggish every day.
The restaurant opposite was booming and making a fortune, while theirs was deserted and losing money every day.
The meager turnover was not even enough to cover employee salaries.
Zhao Dajun and his wife could no longer bear it and wanted to transfer the restaurant.
If Zhao Dajun had chosen to transfer it when business was good, he could have easily done so.
But now, the restaurant's business had collapsed. Who would be willing to take over this mess?
Zhao Dajun knew that Liu Kai Xuan and his wife had made a lot of money recently, so he wanted to hand over the mess to Zhao Feiyan.
"Then we definitely can't take over their restaurant!"
After Zhao Feiyan explained the situation, Liu Kai Xuan became wary: "If we take it over, we'll lose money!"
"Alas..."
Zhao Feiyan nodded in agreement: "I understand that, of course!"
"But my brother and his wife are clearly trying to dump it on us now!"
"You have no idea how annoyed they're making me!"
"Originally, their restaurant was in a prime location. If managed properly, it could have made money!"
"But they insisted on ruining it themselves, refusing to take the right path and opting for crooked ways!"
Liu Kai Xuan said solemnly: "How about this, have them come to me later, and I'll talk to them!"
"Yes, it seems that's the only way now."
Zhao Feiyan was truly filled with anxiety about Zhao Dajun at this moment.
According to Zhao Feiyan's own wishes, she didn't want to bother with this mess.
However, if she completely let go, Zhao Feiyan worried that her parents, Zhao Tianhai and his wife, would be too anxious.
After all, when Chen Yue opened the restaurant, Zhao Tianhai had also invested some money.
Now that the restaurant's business was not doing well, if it couldn't be transferred, it would essentially mean losing all their investment.
Zhao Dajun was dejected, and Zhao Tianhai and his wife were worried day and night.
Zhao Feiyan also wanted to resolve this mess completely as soon as possible.
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The next day, in the general manager's office of Mighty Tiger Industrial Company, located in a business hotel.
Li Ya handed her meticulously prepared personal resume to Liu Kai Xuan.
Liu Kai Xuan took the resume, glanced at it briefly, and continued.
"Li Ya, congratulations on being hired by our company!"
"From today onwards, you will stay in my office and continue to be my secretary!"
"Ah..."
Li Ya couldn't help but frown deeply.
"Director Liu... you must be joking! You hired me without even looking at my resume!"
"You're so perfunctory, yet you asked me to meticulously organize my personal resume!"
"I stayed up all night last night to finish this resume!"
Liu Kai Xuan said solemnly: "My personal trust in you is between the two of us!"
"But submitting a resume and reporting for work is a requirement of our company!"
"Business is business, and personal matters are personal."
"Secretary Li Ya is an experienced professional; I believe you understand this logic, don't you?"
"Oh, I understand, of course I understand!"
Li Ya nodded repeatedly and replied: "Just like before, business is business, and personal matters are personal!"
"Mm," Liu Kai Xuan nodded and smiled: "First, help me process these documents!"
"Ah, this..."
Li Ya took a brief look, and her brows furrowed at one of the documents.
Previously, at Red Star Rolling Mill, Li Ya's main job was to help Liu Kai Xuan review documents.
Now, it was still document review. Li Ya thought Liu Kai Xuan was kind and had assigned her an easy task.
However, that was not the case at all.
The content of these documents was worlds apart from the documents she had seen at Red Star Rolling Mill back then.
In fact, Li Ya should have been mentally prepared for this earlier.
Red Star Rolling Mill back then was a heavy industry enterprise!
Now, Mighty Tiger Industrial Company was a foreign trade company, two completely unrelated industries.