In the third month of Zhou's cooked food business's booming business, a hardware store across the street was rented for a large sum of money and converted into a cold dish store, also named Zhou's Cooked Food.
The decoration style, dishes, and even the signboard and menu of this Zhou Di Delicatessen are exactly the same as those of Zhou's.
As for the activities held at the opening, they were all copied exactly from when Zhou's first opened. This made Zhou Chengming and Zhou Siming so angry that they gritted their teeth. They felt that the owner of the store opposite was really shameless and was deliberately trying to scam them.
Even regular customers of Zhou’s store can’t tell the difference between the two stores, and people often ask in the store: Have you opened a branch? The one opposite is also yours, and so on.
Even though Zhou Chengming and Zhou Siming strongly denied it and pointed out the difference between Shi and Di, during the peak hours when employees buy vegetables every day, there are still customers who are diverted to Zhou Di Cooked Food because they don't want to queue or wait.
At this time, Mingyue's focus was no longer on the store. She was walking outside every day, and the money in her hands was dispersed to various areas.
In this age full of opportunities, the money she had made money from quickly multiplied several times, and then she used it for more investments.
Even though Mingyue knew there was a fake store next to Zhou's, she didn't take it to heart, because now Zhou's cooked food was just a very inconspicuous way for her to make money. She just asked her two brothers to do their own things and not worry about other things.
Zhou Chengming had experienced the incident with the three-wheeled snack cart, so he accepted the fake store incident quite quickly. After being angry for a while, he finally let it go. He believed that Mingyue would always find a way to deal with it.
But Zhou Siming just felt that his sister was really heartless. What was robbed was not the customers, but the money! Seeing the money flow to other people, he was worried and couldn't sleep every day. He didn't have any solution, and he was exhausted.
Especially in the past few days, Zhou's daily turnover has dropped by more than half. Zhou Siming saw it and was very anxious. If there were more shameless people like him, would Zhou still be able to do business
If Zhou Chengming hadn't stopped him, Zhou Siming would have wanted to stand on the side of the road and tell people that his own cold and braised dishes were the authentic ones, and that the ones across the street were fake brands.
But thanks to Zhou Chengming's rationality, after just one week, the business across the street slowed down, and Zhou's business returned to its previous state of being so crowded that people had to queue up.
Zhou Siming was a little confused at first, but the employees who came to buy vegetables gave him the answer.
"Don't be fooled by the fact that the store across the street is decorated the same as yours, but the taste of the vegetables inside is completely different. They either lack salt and oil, or are extremely salty. They are not as good as what I mix at home."
"Besides, the food is not very fresh. I bought some potato chips yesterday, but when I took them home to eat, I found that they were already sour. I went back to look for the seller, but he still didn't recognize me. I dare not go to this kind of store again."
"That's right. Mine was even more outrageous. There was a fly in the stomach of the duck I bought, but their boss said I put it in there myself. Did I just eat too much and have nothing else to do?"
"Yours is still the best, clean and delicious. I would rather wait in line for a while longer than buy the fake stuff from that store."
"yes… "
The employees in the queue all agreed very much. They had other options, so why spend money and suffer
Only then did Zhou Siming breathe a sigh of relief, remembering that the dishes in his own shop were indeed of high quality and everyone praised the taste. The employees were not stupid and after having worked at the shop opposite once, they would trust Zhou's even more in the future.
However, Zhou Siming did not expect that the owner of the store opposite would come to him and offer a high price to poach him to work opposite.
But the boss on the other side had no idea that he was Boss Zhou’s biological brother, and Mingyue also gave him a high salary of 60 yuan per month, plus monthly bonus commission.
The boss opposite thought that the salary of forty-five yuan a month was high, but in fact it was not as good as Zhou's treatment. Not to mention the brother-sister relationship between Zhou Siming and Mingyue, even if he was an ordinary employee hired by Mingyue, he should know how to make choices.
Zhou Siming not only rejected the boss of the opposite shop, but also sneered at him for daring to poach people with such a small amount of money. Then the boss of the opposite shop did not poach him, but instead offered 200 yuan to buy the recipes of cold dishes and stewed dishes.
In this era, two hundred yuan is indeed a very high price. The store owner was really willing to spend it, but he asked the wrong person.
Zhou Siming refused without hesitation and turned around to tell Mingyue about it.
Then the next day, Zhou Chengming also told Mingyue about this, and it turned out that the boss also wanted to poach him.
So Mingyue took some time to come back to the store, and after meeting with Zhou Chengming and Zhou Siming, she talked about opening a branch and the branch manager.
"I bought a store on Xingfu Road and plan to open a branch of Zhou's Delicatessen. The question now is which of you two will go there. Of course, no matter which one of you goes there, your status will be the same. You will both be store managers. Your salary and benefits will be improved. Then the next step is to recruit and train new people..."
Mingyue looked calm as she spoke, but Zhou Chengming and Zhou Siming were both stunned.
Zhou Chengming coughed twice, "Mingyue, did you just say you were buying or renting? I think I misheard."
Mingyue said casually: "Oh, I just bought a store, which is much bigger than this one. The traffic over there is okay. When the time comes..."
Zhou Siming's eyes were wide open, with disbelief written all over his face.
Zhou Chengming swallowed his saliva and pinched himself secretly. It hurt. It was not a dream.
Zhou's business had only been open for less than half a year, but Mingyue had already bought a shop.
Mingyue didn't care about their shock and continued to talk to them about business. While they were still in a daze, their next steps were decided.
At this time, they no longer remembered the owner of the fake store opposite, their minds were filled with thoughts about becoming store managers.
Mingyue didn't stay long after she explained everything to them. She was very busy now because she had bought more than just one store.
Mingyue not only planned to do business in cold dishes and braised dishes. As Zhou's breeding farm had already begun to take shape, she bought a shop specializing in roast chicken and roast duck.
Zhou's wife is about to give birth, and this newly opened Zhou's Roast Duck Restaurant is her birthday gift to her nephews and nieces.
Mingyue has been keeping an eye on the decoration of the roast duck restaurant recently, and then thinking that Zhou Ersao's due date is approaching, she took a bus back to Zhoujia Village.
Originally Mingyue wanted Zhou Ersao to move into the health center in advance, so that it would be more convenient for delivery and observation.
But the family thought it was a waste of money. Even Zhou Ersao herself disagreed and said it was not that exaggerated. She refused to listen to Mingyue, so Mingyue had no choice but to give up.
On the third night after Mingyue came back, Zhou Ersao's stomach started to turn bad.
(End of this chapter)