Xu Yiyang's idea is to start investing now to open the first branch in the new century, and the business area must be at least 500 square meters. It is best to find a two-story shop.
In this way, I dedicated one of the floors as a venue for the knockout rounds of the competition.
Having a larger venue to play early games will not only increase the area of the audition knockout venue and accommodate more spectators, but also provide a long-term publicity for the new Internet cafe.
At the very least, 256 teams will play all games before the semi-finals at the new Internet cafe site. Naturally, their classmates will also go here from various universities to watch the games. This will bring great influence to the Internet cafe. passenger flow.
Xu Yiyang's idea received support from everyone.
Everyone now completely regards him as the backbone, and everyone will do whatever he says.
So, Xu Yiyang made a request, and everyone went out separately to find a suitable venue within a five-kilometer radius near China Overseas.
This time, he has higher requirements for the venue. This time, he can never open it in an alley again.
For an Internet cafe with an area of 500 to 600 square meters, the decoration cost will be at least 300,000 yuan to make it clean and high-end.
As for computers, there should be room for 300 of them.
So what Xu Yiyang wanted to do was to first use the second floor as a business area and put in more than a hundred computers.
Then the first floor was turned into a competition venue, with spectator seats except for the computers used for the competition. After the competition was over, the first floor was put into daily operations.
Soon, Xu Yiyang, together with several brothers from dormitory 309 and Shen Lele, found a suitable venue for the second New Century Internet Cafe.
This venue is not far from Fudan and Tongji, and a few kilometers away from China Overseas.
The venue is located on the outskirts of a small shopping mall. The mall itself sells antiques and antiques, and the flow of people is not large, so the outlying shops are relatively cheap.
There are 660 square meters upstairs and downstairs, and the monthly rent is less than 30,000 yuan.
The shopping mall has very convenient transportation. There are three bus stations around it. The nearest station is only less than 300 meters away on foot. College students now choose to commute by bus, so this location can be said to be very convenient.
Moreover, this business is separated from the main road by a small river, so it is definitely a good place to get some peace and quiet in the midst of the hustle and bustle.
Xu Yiyang went to see the house with everyone on Monday afternoon. After seeing it, he immediately made a decision. Don't hesitate and take it.
The previous tenant of this shop was a bar, but it is said that he felt that the area was not lively enough, so he moved out after the contract expired.
When the bar was moved, naturally all the equipment, electrical equipment, tables and chairs were removed, so there were almost two large empty rooms upstairs and downstairs.
There are also relatively large men's and women's bathrooms upstairs and downstairs. Such a large area is more than enough for an Internet cafe.
The rent is paid quarterly. If you sign a five-year contract, there will be no price increase in the first two years. Starting from the third year, the price will increase by 6% every year. If you break the contract, you will be compensated for three months' rent, which is very reasonable.
So Xu Yiyang signed a contract directly with the landlord, and then hurriedly found scalpers to register and apply for certificates, and at the same time started renovations.
The decoration requirements are to replace all the tiles with white ceramic tiles, and the walls should also be painted with white latex paint, and the top should be uniformly hoisted with an industrial-style black grid.
All lighting uses white fluorescent lamps to ensure that the Internet cafe is bright enough.
The high-power commercial air conditioner with fully installed ceiling ensures that the cooling and heating are absolutely fast enough. Even if the room is full, the guests will not feel hot or cold.
Computer desks and computer chairs should be replaced with better ones, which should be arranged more neatly, look more high-end, and be more comfortable to sit on.
At the same time, large-scale overall fire-fighting equipment must be installed to ensure fire safety in Internet cafes.
In addition, there will be a front desk and bar on the second floor.
Everyone was busy at once, each with its own division of labor, and began to prepare for the opening of the new Internet cafe.
The decoration company was the first to be confirmed, and it was a tooling company with a good reputation. The other party was also the first to come in to do the decoration, including the fire protection system. The construction period is expected to be one month.
Xu Yiyang asked the other party to decorate the first floor first and then the second floor. In this case, the first floor can be completed in ten days and will not affect the knockout competition starting in December.
The local promotion activity of the second CS team competition has also been officially launched. This time, because Xu Yiyang received a large amount of advertising sponsorship fees, the local promotion did not have to be done by everyone, but was directly outsourced to the advertising company. , and at the same time commissioned an investigation company to investigate the effectiveness of local promotion, which is equivalent to helping itself supervise the work.
At this time, almost two weeks had passed since the fire, and the intensity of the fire had also dropped a lot. Although Xu Yiyang would still be recognized on the street, the frequency was significantly reduced.
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While Xu Yiyang was busy working on the new Internet cafe, the weather in Zhonghai had entered late autumn and the temperature was getting colder.
In mid-November, a heavy rain gave Zhonghai a winter atmosphere.
Everyone put on thick cotton clothes. People like Xu Yiyang and Chen Meng who came from the north couldn't stand the cold and wet, and were freezing in the dormitory every day.
This morning, Xu Yiyang and others had breakfast in the cafeteria, and everyone walked to the teaching building holding umbrellas.
Halfway through, I heard someone shouting not far ahead: "Ruolin, why are you going?"
At the crossroads diagonally ahead, a girl holding a water-pink umbrella and trotting forward turned back and said, "I'm going to my pet paradise!"
"Oh, don't go. Class will start soon. Let's wait until the rain stops before we go!"
"It's okay, you go first, I'll go take a look and come back."
The girl under the water-pink umbrella smiled and said something, then turned around and continued running towards the fork in the road.
Xu Yiyang looked at the beautiful silhouette with classical beauty and said to himself: "Ning Ruolin, why don't you go to the teaching building to see the stray cats when it rains so heavily?"
Thinking that the nearly twenty stray cats, large and small, might not be having a good time this season, Xu Yiyang blurted out to a few people around him: "Hey, you go to the teaching building first, I have something to do."
With that said, he also headed in the direction of Ning Ruolin's Pet Paradise.
Driving into the muddy grove, Xu Yiyang saw Ning Ruolin tilting her head and holding an umbrella, trying to use bricks to press a piece of plywood obtained from an unknown source on an old school desk.
It is estimated that they want to expand the rain shelter area.
A large number of wild cats, large and small, were huddled under a few old desks, but the cotton mattresses under them were already soaked.
After all, the top of the head is only blocked by the old desks, the surroundings are still transparent, and the bottom is directly next to the dirt. The light rain can barely block it, but the heavy rain is really useless.
Xu Yiyang hurriedly stepped forward, helped Ning Ruolin lay out the plywood board, and then picked up two bricks from the ground to hold the board down.
Ning Ruolin was startled by the sudden appearance of Xu Yiyang. She screamed and froze. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was him. She patted her chest with her hand and said, "Oh, you scared me to death..."
Xu Yiyang said hurriedly: "I'm sorry, I should say hello to you first."
Ning Ruolin smiled and said, "Thankfully it's you. If it were someone I didn't recognize, I'd probably be so scared that I'd run away."
Xu Yiyang smiled, changed the subject, and said, "It won't stop much rainwater, so it's not of much use."
Ning Ruolin said: "There is no other way now. They don't dare to go to the teaching building to take shelter from the rain, because the security guards will rush them, and the kittens have just turned one full moon, so they can't walk that far if it rains."
Xu Yiyang bent down and looked inside. Sure enough, the kittens who came last time had not opened their eyes yet, but this time they were able to stand up. They were all huddled together and looking at him with wide eyes and wary faces.
Xu Yiyang felt a little sympathetic and said, "Well, I'll find a way to build a cattery that can protect them from the wind and rain. It's best to build a larger rainproof shed at the foot of the wall to solve their accommodation problem."
Ning Ruolin looked at him in surprise and asked, "Really?"
Xu Yiyang nodded and said, "I'm going to ask around and see where it is sold or where it can be made."
Ning Ruolin asked: "Will the security allow us to come in? If we install a rainproof shed, do we need the school's consent?"
Xu Yiyang said: "Then let's say hello to the school. I am also the student council president after all, so I have to show some respect, right? The weather is getting colder and colder. Big cats are not a big problem. Kittens are so small, I'm afraid they won't be able to carry them."
Ning Ruolin held the umbrella handle, clasped her hands together and said, "Thank you so much!"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said in a joking tone: "I'm building a nest for them, not for you to live in. Why are you thanking me? If you want to live in too, thanking me is enough."
Ning Ruolin smiled and nodded: "Then I will thank you on their behalf."
Xu Yiyang stood up and said, "It's time for class, let's go. I'll take some time at noon to say hello to the security and the Academic Affairs Office. They should have no objections, and then I'll get started on this matter."
Ning Ruolin said: "If you can find the right one, tell me how much it will cost, and I will work with my classmates to find a solution."
Xu Yiyang waved his hand: "You don't have to worry about it, I'll make the arrangements."
During class, Xu Yiyang thought about making nests for stray cats.
He originally thought about finding a carpenter and giving him some money to do the work and materials to build a several-story cathouse.
But if you think about it carefully, it is not reliable for the carpenter to do this.
There is a lot of rain in Zhonghai, and since it has to be placed outdoors, the wooden ones may be soaked in rain and become moldy and rotten within a few months.
The material needs to be waterproof, windproof, warm, and sufficiently safe. I really can’t think of what would be more suitable.
After pondering for a long time, Xu Yiyang came up with a good thing, colored steel.
Color steel is a kind of building material. It is not used much in ordinary households, but it is used in many construction sites.
When he was wearing his military training uniform, he often went to the construction site. The construction site project department workers lived in prefabricated houses made of colored steel.
That kind of material is fine for people to live in, and even more so for cats, right
Thinking of this, he quickly sent a text message to Lu Sifang, the owner of a construction company he had cooperated with before, and asked him: "Brother Lu, do you know any company or worker who can customize color steel?"
Lu Sifang quickly replied: "I know you. They are not everywhere. What do you want to use them for?"
Xu Yiyang replied: "I want to order a batch of cat houses for cats to live in."
"Cat house?" Lu Sifang said, "You really have a leisurely mind, but this matter is easy to handle. If you have any other requests, tell me and I will ask you."
Xu Yiyang introduced the general situation.
Lu Sifang replied to him: "Okay, I understand. I will notify you as soon as there is news."
"Thank you, Brother Lu."
(End of chapter)