Friday, Mid-Autumn Festival.
In the morning, the Internet cafe has not officially opened yet, but Zhao Xinzhao's network administrator and cashier are on duty.
The network management team works in three shifts, with each person working eight hours a day and taking one day off each week.
When one person takes turns off, the other two work twelve hours a day.
In addition, Xu Yiyang and the seven of them also have their own work to be responsible for. Xu Yiyang asked everyone to take turns to settle accounts and collect accounts every day. The income structure of the Internet cafe is relatively complicated. In addition to Internet fees, there is also income from member recharges, as well as Internet cafe snacks and drinks. and cigarette sales.
When it comes to sales, it is necessary to verify the inventory, so everyone takes turns to reconcile the accounts every day. On the one hand, it ensures that the accounts are clear, and on the other hand, it also prevents the network administrator or cashier from enriching themselves.
In addition, Xu Yiyang also made an appointment with the owner of the small restaurant next door for a cooperation plan. He asked the boss to make a rice bowl menu and leave it at the Internet cafe. When someone orders, he will tell him that he has prepared it for the guests. send over.
But this is not free for him to attract customers. The Internet cafe collects the money for selling food, and then the Internet cafe takes 15%. A rice bowl costs three yuan, and the Internet cafe takes 45 cents. If he sells 100 servings a day, the restaurant owner With more than 200 extra turnovers, the Internet cafe can earn 45 yuan.
When they were in school, Xu Yiyang and the rest began to promote New Century Internet Cafe everywhere.
Today happens to be Friday, and the Internet cafe will officially open at six o'clock in the afternoon, just in time to catch up with the peak customer flow on the weekend.
Everyone was so excited all day that they didn’t pay much attention to the class.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, just after class, everyone hurriedly met and headed to the Internet cafe together.
A lot of students from China and overseas came to join in the fun when they heard that they had opened an Internet cafe.
Xu Yiyang made a promise to everyone. Today is the first day of the opening of the Internet cafe. The Internet cafe rewards guests. It only costs one yuan an hour with a China Overseas student ID card, and five yuan for the night.
Nowadays, most Internet cafes around schools cost 2,500 to 3,00 yuan an hour. Those with a better environment are more expensive, while those with a poor environment are cheaper.
Internet cafes like Xu Yiyang's have a good environment and new machines. Three yuan an hour is the normal price.
If you are a member, it is usually two yuan and one hour.
In 1999, in Zhonghai, you could not find an Internet cafe that cost two yuan an hour even if you held a lantern.
However, the price of Internet cafes is also falling very fast. It will only happen next year. Because Internet cafes are so profitable, more and more Internet cafes are springing up like mushrooms after a rain.
Xu Yiyang remembers that around 2001, the Internet cafes in Quancheng generally charged one dollar an hour. Some of the more shabby Internet cafes simply dropped the price to one yuan an hour.
Because it is a new Internet cafe with new machines, good environment, and reasonable prices, it is indeed very attractive in this alley.
Xu Yiyang wanted to publicize it in the school first, so he deliberately organized a preferential activity for Chinese and overseas students.
The price of one yuan an hour was really too cheap to have any friends, so the boys from China Overseas College rushed over in droves.
In addition to the first weekend bonus, in the next month, members will get 25 bonus for recharging over 100 yuan. Calculated based on the membership price of 2.5 yuan per hour, converted, 100 yuan can play for 50 hours, which is only 2 yuan per hour.
The real revenue core of an Internet cafe is membership income. If an Internet cafe with 100 machines has four to five hundred recharge members, the business of this Internet cafe will definitely be full every day.
Therefore, Xu Yiyang also hopes to establish a stable membership group as soon as possible. In this case, the income of the Internet cafe will be very stable in the future, and the environment will also be very stable. Especially when most of the Internet cafes are college students, the atmosphere of the Internet cafe will be better than outside. Internet cafes are much better.
In order to enhance the user experience, Xu Yiyang has put in a lot of effort.
For example, in order to protect the property safety of customers in the Internet cafe, he has already installed several surveillance cameras indoors, paired with hard disk video recorders for 24-hour uninterrupted recording and monitoring.
At the same time, eye-catching reminders were posted on the glass door at the entrance of the Internet cafe and on the walls inside: "Monitored at all times! Violators will be prosecuted!"
In addition, each table also has a small slogan customized from a roadside advertising shop: "Please pay attention to your personal belongings at all times. If any criminals falsely claim that you have lost money or belongings, before you lower your head to check, Please make sure other property on the table is safe first!"
There are a lot of thefts in Internet cafes, including mobile phones and wallets stolen inside, and bicycles stolen outside.
Usually, those who steal mobile phones and wallets use the "bro, you lost your money" routine. The person who is getting on the plane lowers his head and sees a few dollars. When he picks it up, he finds that the phone is gone.
In fact, the moment he lowered his head, the phone had already been taken away, and the person who took the phone would immediately walk out. By the time the victim picked up the money, the person had already left the Internet cafe and disappeared.
In fact, some thieves are not even willing to spend the money to throw away the items. Here, if you say you dropped something, you will take a quick glance and your phone will be gone.
That's why Xu Yiyang posted sufficient reminders on every computer desk, and there are surveillance cameras as a deterrent, which should have a good effect.
As for the outside of the door, two facing cameras were installed at two angles, taking pictures of the entrance of the Internet cafe and the streets on both sides. Eye-catching notices were also posted at the entrance of the Internet cafe.
It is most common to lose mobile phones inside Internet cafes, and it is most common to lose bicycles outside.
Generally, thieves carry hydraulic shears in their arms. No lock can withstand it for more than ten seconds. After cutting the lock, they ride away, which does not take more than a minute.
Xu Yiyang put up the camera, which would make the thief somewhat afraid.
When the Internet cafe opened, there was no ribbon-cutting ceremony and no one sent them flower baskets.
However, Xu Yiyang himself spent money to buy eight flower baskets and placed them on both sides of the door. On the one hand, they looked festive, and on the other hand, they were more eye-catching.
Among the seven people, except Xu Yiyang, they all felt extremely excited.
Because as Xu Yiyang said, this Internet cafe is everyone's property, one-seventh of each person's. In the future, their tuition fees, living expenses, and even family subsidies may all come from this Internet cafe, so Everyone looks at Internet cafes like parents caring for their children.
Xu Yiyang didn't care. The income from this Internet cafe was negligible to him, and it was an existence that was more meaningful than actual.
Standing at the entrance of the Internet cafe, under the watchful eyes of many Chinese and overseas students, Xu Yiyang and Zhao Xin, as the two oldest people in the dormitory, set off firecrackers together. The crackling sound was mixed with red firecracker skins spread all over the floor.
After the thick white smoke cleared, everyone pulled the red rope together and pulled off the red cloth covering the door, revealing the five characters "New Century Internet Cafe".
The Internet cafe is officially open for business.
As soon as the official opening was announced, all 90 machines were occupied by students from China Overseas College.
It is now in the reward stage. It costs one yuan per hour to use the computer. If you apply for a card, you will get 125 for 100 yuan. Using a membership card to settle the Internet fee of one yuan per hour is equivalent to a discount. Therefore, many students choose to apply for a membership card.
One hundred yuan is not a big pressure for them, but the price is indeed a lot better, and the new Internet cafe has good machines and a good environment. There may not be a place with a better environment within a few kilometers of China Overseas, so everyone naturally wants to I am willing to come here as a designated place to surf the Internet and play games in the future.
Moreover, it is easy and hassle-free to use the membership card to get on the machine. You do not need to pay a deposit to the network administrator to turn on the machine. You can find an empty machine and open it yourself. When unlocking, you can enter your membership card number and password. When you have finished playing, click log off and the machine will be re-locked.
From six o'clock to eight o'clock in the evening, more than 120 membership cards were issued in the Internet cafe alone. Many people were still waiting to board the machine, but the machines issued cards before they could wait.
The sales of snacks, drinks and cigarettes were also very good. Most of the people came without eating, so the owner of the small restaurant next door also bought more than 40 rice bowls and was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
The weather is neither hot nor cold now, so there is no need to turn on the air conditioner. The ventilation equipment in the Internet cafe is pretty good, so even though there are many smokers, it doesn't look as smoky as other Internet cafes.
Moreover, because they are all college students, there are not many social youths, so the atmosphere in the Internet cafe is also very good. Most people are playing CS, but it is rare to hear anyone swearing.
If there is an Internet cafe with many young people in the society, once there is a local area network CS game, there will be constant scolding.
Many times, conflicts in the game may even lead to real-person PKs.
Xu Yiyang also told the network administrator and cashier that if someone makes trouble in his Internet cafe, no matter what the reason is, call the police as soon as possible. Even if there is just a quarrel, the police must deal with it, otherwise what if some stupid young man suddenly takes something out of his pocket? If someone stabs someone with a knife, they will be in big trouble.
Seeing that business was not going well, Xu Yiyang and everyone felt a sense of accomplishment even though they didn't even have a place to stand.
Xu Yiyang observed for a while and said to everyone: "By the way, everyone, even if we come to play by ourselves in the future, we will still have to spend money. We can choose to recharge our membership cards ourselves, but we must not add balances to ourselves randomly, otherwise our account will be ruined." It’s chaos.”
Everyone nodded.
Seeing that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, we didn't bother to have a meal together, so Xu Yiyang said to everyone: "Okay, there is a network administrator and a cashier here, let's go have a good meal first, it's a holiday."
So, the seven of them found a hot pot restaurant and had a hearty meal of hot pot.
At the dinner table, Xu Yiyang set a division of labor time for supervising the Internet cafe.
I am on Monday, Shen Lele is on Tuesday, Li Yiming is on Wednesday, Gu Peng is on Thursday, Zhao Xin is on Friday, Chen Meng is on Saturday, and Zhang Junnan is on Sunday.
On the day of their responsibility, each person in charge must go to the Internet cafe before class in the morning. In addition to checking the operation situation, they must also collect the Internet fees and retail income from the overnight period last night. After the inventory is correct, keep the change. Circulation, bringing the entire hundred money back to school;
I have to go there before ten o'clock in the evening, that is, I go twice a day and collect payment twice.
After collecting the money twice throughout the day, it was handed over to Xu Yiyang, who then registered it in the account.
Xu Yiyang plans to buy a mini safe and put it quietly in the dormitory. The hundreds of cash recovered in the future will be placed in the safe. He will go to the bank to deposit it once a week. It is too troublesome to deposit it every day.
Xu Yiyang speculated that the business of the Internet cafe will continue to be very good. After this weekend and the price returns to normal, each machine, which costs three yuan an hour during the day and ten yuan a night at night, should be able to contribute thirty or forty dollars. The flow of money.
If calculated according to this, with 90 machines, the monthly machine fee should be enough to reach 110,000 to 20,000.
In addition, the income from various sales will also be considerable, so the income should be slightly higher than previously expected.
(End of chapter)