Ordinary Road 2010

Chapter 199 Lonely Foodie

"Jianguo, how is your research going?"

After Lin Yi attended the class reunion, he finally remembered to check and accept the homework assigned to Li Jianguo.

That guy seemed to have been waiting for this question for a long time, and immediately took out a small black leather notebook, and said in a proud tone:

"Look, it's all here!"

In fact, doing research is a very boring thing. After Li Jianguo went there once, he felt that it was boring, but when he thought of promising Lin Yi to start a business together, he persisted.

This perseverance has surpassed most college students.

Although the process is boring, when I report the results at this moment, I feel that my labor has value, and I get a sense of satisfaction.

Lin Yi only took a quick glance and found that the records on it were messy, and even the orthographic characters drawn by him to count the number of meals served in each restaurant were all on it, so he immediately had no desire to read it seriously.

"Just talk about it."

Li Jianguo didn't find Lin Yi's disgust, and shared his discovery with great interest:

"I've observed all the restaurants in and around the campus these days. Some of them offer takeaway, while others don't. The one with the best business is Malatang at Xiaonanmen, which doesn't even have a signboard..."

Lin Yi confirmed them one by one in his heart, and found that the results were not far from the results he obtained through the questionnaire survey on the BBS, so it should be accurate.

"Which one do you think we should start with if we want to attack these restaurants?"

"Of course it's Malatang!"

Li Jianguo vowed that his eyes were bright, and this time he gave his reason without waiting for Lin Yi's persuasion: "This store is the most popular in the school. I went to squat for two days and every time the line was long. I tried it." It's really delicious."

"And most importantly, do you know what it is?"

"This store does not accept takeaways yet, because they are too busy in the store every day. I saw that many people would take two or three copies and go, probably to help their roommates."

"If we can list this restaurant on our takeaway website, there will definitely be a lot of people ordering it!"

Lin nodded a little, and he could draw inferences from one instance, at least his mentality was much stronger than that of those professional fish workers.

"Have you mentioned this to him?"

Li Jianguo restrained his excitement a little bit: "I mentioned it, but he said that the people who come to the store are queuing up and can't finish it now. He was also approached by other food delivery websites before, but he refused."

"Come on, let's meet the boss together."

The two went straight out of the dormitory, and Li Jianguo took the lead and led Lin Yi to find this "Jingdian Famous Trademark".

As soon as Lin arrived at the scene, he saw that the shop was too plain.

It doesn't even have an official store name, just write the words "Ma La Tang" on the cardboard with a marker pen, which barely counts as a signboard.

The front door is also very small, with two small tables placed on each side, and if it is too full, only a dozen or so people can be seated.

Such an inconspicuous little shop has captured the taste buds of many Beijing Electrician students.

The boss seemed to have an impression of Li Jianguo, and he took the initiative to greet him: "I came here before the meal time today, let's see what I eat."

Lin Yi and the others specially picked this time to come, so they couldn't delay their business.

"Boss, this meal is not for dinner. Remember what I told you about the food delivery website? This is my roommate, his name is Lin Yi."

It seems that Li Jianguo is not used to using the term "partner", but Lin Yi did not correct him.

The boss is about 40 years old, with big arms and a round waist, wearing a small white vest. He looks more like a butcher than a lonely gourmet hidden in the city.

He wasn't angry, but he was clearly out of interest: "Oh, I told you everything about that, we don't do takeaway."

Li Jianguo spread his hands helplessly, indicating that the boss's attitude was firm.

Lin saw that he was not difficult to speak, so he chatted casually: "What is the boss's name?"

"Hey, we little people are not expensive, my surname is Yang."

Lin nodded and found that he was not used to this kind of polite tone, so he gave up the way of college students:

"Where is Uncle Yang's hometown?"

"I'm from the northeast."

In fact, the boss's accent is quite strong, Lin Yi can hear it, he just wanted to say: "That's just right, our Jianguo is also from the Northeast."

The boss was almost aware of his intentional tricks, and thought it was a little funny, so he reminded: "I know, this little fellow, we have already met each other last time."

Lin Yi was not discouraged: "How many years has Uncle Yang opened this store here?"

"It's been a long time, maybe ten years younger. It's really not me bragging to you. Many of your former students from Jingdian have come back to eat me after graduation for a long time."

The boss's tone sounded quite proud, Lin Yi followed his words and said, "Yes, I heard from Jianguo that the queue here is always long at meal time every day."

"That's not true. I still learned this craft in my hometown. Many people from our place came out to make this. But my recipe is different from theirs. It's a unique secret!"

Although the boss is in contact with college students every day, there are really not many people who want to sit down and chat with him, so he couldn't help bragging.

"Then your business here is so good, why don't you expand the store?"

The boss did not shy away from any "commercial secrets", and said very honestly:

"This is the first one. This storefront is separate, it's only this big, and there is no storefront next to it for me to rent."

"Secondly, my wife and I are the only two people in the store. It's really busy from morning to night every day. We are just as capable as this."

He also made it clear:

"Don't look at me sitting here chatting with you now, my wife is still cleaning up inside, she can't stop scrubbing."

"That man is not an animal after all, so you have to give him a break, right? Animals don't dare to die."

Lin Yi, who has worked as a social animal, can understand this feeling, but Li Jianguo obviously still doesn't understand why he doesn't make money when he has money.

"Boss, you can hire someone. If you go to our website, you can definitely sell more copies every day!"

The boss could see that he had no social experience, so he explained a few more words:

"Let's not talk about whether it's good for our small shop to hire people. If we hire people and don't sell a few more copies, can you make up for my salary?"

Li Jianguo was at a loss for words for a while. He was quite blindly confident about "entrepreneurship" that he didn't even understand, but he didn't dare to agree to such words rashly.

The boss patted his thigh and stood up: "Okay, I've had enough rest after talking with you for so long, and I have to get back to work."

"Anyway, our family doesn't plan to do takeaway, so go to another place and ask."

Li Jianguo turned his attention to Lin Yi for consultation, and the latter didn't bother to persuade the boss any more.

It's normal to have difficulties. If it's easy to talk about, how can it be Lin Yi's turn to pick up this leak?

"It's all here, let's have a meal before leaving, just now there is no need to line up!"

Chapter 200 College Students Are Liars

Unfavorable start, Lin Yi didn't get too entangled.

He doesn't have the aura of domineering, and secondly, he doesn't have the handsomeness to break through the sky. It is normal for others to worship without accepting their heads, so the only thing we can rely on is wisdom.

Sitting there, Lin Yi chewed slowly and tasted the Mala Tang. It was indeed delicious and unique, and it was a worthwhile trip.

He didn't leave immediately after eating, but sat there with Li Jianguo and compared which dish was better.

In fact, he was mainly observing the operation of the store, because the time was slowly approaching the meal time, and there were more customers.

He silently thought about what he could do to impress Boss Yang, but soon his train of thought was interrupted.

"Lin Yi?"

This unfamiliar voice came from a familiar girl, and it didn't take him long to realize that it was Cui Xiaoxue that Zheng Xun had mentioned.

"Hello, Secretary Cui."

Although Li Jianguo was ignored, he still greeted him. He watched with interest and seemed to be expecting some gossip.

Cui Xiaoxue expressed her disgust for this title: "Call me Xiaoxue. I asked Zheng Xun in your dormitory before, why doesn't it seem that you haven't come to class recently?"

"As you can see, I'm busy starting a business."

Lin Yi didn't hide it. Once his website is online, everyone will know that he still wants to get his classmates to support him.

Cui Xiaoxue was very surprised, this thing about starting a business was only seen in the biographies of famous people before, but this time I met a real one?

What was even more surprising was that Lin Yiming looked like he had just finished a portion of Malatang, as if he was joking.

"Now, here?"

"Yes."

With a calm demeanor, Lin Yi briefly introduced to her the entrepreneurial project of the food delivery website, and the experience of failing to convince the boss Yang just now.

"Sounds interesting, and did you make this website yourself?"

"It's learning by doing."

Cui Xiaoxue was also a first-year freshman who didn't know anything about technology, and Lin Yi's reaction was relatively cold, so she quickly changed the subject.

"You are from Lin'an, right? I said that I am also from Zhijiang at the beginning of school, do you still remember, have you been to Chuzhou?"

Chuzhou is located in the southern part of Zhijiang Province. It is famous for two treasures, namely the celadon from Yue Kiln and the sword from Longquan. Of course Lin Yi has heard of it.

"I have never been to other places in the province. In fact, going to university is the first time I have left Lin'an."

"Haha, I've never been out of the province, but I've been to Lin'an. You should go to Chuzhou if you have the chance."

Cui Xiaoxue seemed to suddenly think of something: "By the way, I found a Zhijiang fellowship association in school. I'm going to organize a dinner party recently, do you want to go with me?"

"I'm afraid I don't have time, and I can't get away with starting a business."

Cui Xiaoxue finally found out that Lin Yi was a bit of a stickler, and it happened that the Malatang she ordered was ready, so she picked it up, took her leave and left.

Li Jianguo couldn't stop enjoying himself watching the play:

"I'm not talking about you, Lin Yi, even if you have a girlfriend, you don't have to be so rude to girls."

Lin Yi ignored the melon-eating crowd watching the excitement: "If you are overflowing with love, there is still time to catch up with her and comfort her."

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Of course, Li Jianguo was not that boring. At Lin Yi's request, the two visited those merchants door to door according to the list he had researched before.

Lin Yi found that many merchants here have already been in contact with food delivery websites, so they can understand without too much introduction.

This is normal. Are you hungry? They opened a branch office in Beijing in the middle of last year, and universities are also their key direction of attack.

The advantage is that Are You Hungry has already laid out the infrastructure for them when doing ground pushing, such as computers in the store and equipment for ordering.

Lin Yi and the others can directly use this set of tools, which can be regarded as a free ride from Are You Hungry, and the merchants don't need to pay any extra money.

Win-win, this business is done.

From the merchant's point of view, they don't mind adding a new food delivery website, but many people still have doubts about the identities of Lin Yi and Li Jianguo.

"Did you just say that you were still students?"

"Yes, we are students at Beijing University of Electronic Science and Technology. Look, this is my student ID card."

Lin Yi nodded secretly. It's not that Li Jianguo has made no progress at all. The other party will naturally believe him with such a calm attitude, because the store here is originally a student business, and he doesn't go to see the student ID card.

But the boss's reaction was beyond their expectations.

"Then go out, we don't want to cooperate with you."

Both of them were very surprised: "The boss who said this, didn't we have a good talk just now?"

The boss was very frank: "I can't trust you college students."

"In the past, every time there was an event in the school, people from the student union would come over to ask for sponsorship, just like you do now."

"It sounded good at the beginning, and what helped us promote it at the event, and it was able to name us and print flyers for us."

"They're not greedy, they want as much as three hundred and five hundred, but after taking the money, they disappear."

"In the end, we didn't know whether it was publicized or not, and we didn't even know if the event was going on or not. Anyway, no one who came here for dinner said that they came because of the promotion of the student union."

"The members of the student union change every year, and we don't know where to find them."

"So we didn't want to respond to some students who came to ask for sponsorship later on. Some of them really came to harass them so frequently that they affected the business of the store, so we gave a little as a protection fee."

The boss didn't know if he recalled some unpleasant memories, and finally raised his finger to point at the two of them with lingering anger: