Manhattan Reborn 1978

The company's small building.

When David walked into the first floor with three bodyguards, he took a special look at the service company office on the first floor. Inside, there was a middle-aged woman who David didn't know sitting behind the desk working.

Got it!

It seems that this Miranla has now been roped into the newly formed women's team yesterday. .

David shook his head helplessly and went directly to the fifth floor.

On the fifth floor, in the rest area at the top of the stairs, Lavis was holding a newspaper, sitting on the sofa, and reading there decently.

When he saw David and the others coming up, he put down the newspaper and said with a smile: "Brother Biao is already in Polly's office!"

David nodded, walked to Polly's office door and stood still, took a few deep breaths before walking forward and opening the door.

In Polly's office, Sally was sitting behind Polly's desk. She and Brother Biao, who was sitting opposite, looked towards the office door at the same time.

"Hi, David~!" Brother Biao stood up, walked to David in two steps, held his hand and shook it vigorously.

When David saw that Polly was not there, he breathed a sigh of relief, greeted Brother Biao with a smile, and walked to the sofa aside to sit down.

"Where's Polly? Didn't he ask me to come to the company to find her?"

"She went shopping~! And she said you knew the reason!"

Sally raised her head slightly, squinted her eyes, and explained teasingly.

amount. .

David raised his hand to touch his nose and looked at Brother Biao: "Then did she tell me what she wanted to do when she asked me to come to Brother Biao?"

"Well, it's all written here!"

Sally pushed the piece of paper at hand to David.

David stood up, took the paper, and looked at it.

The above are some ideas written by Polly about the subsequent discovery of new items in affordable stores. There are three in total.

1. Increase and develop the existing fast food bag flavors, staple foods, side dishes, etc. available in the store.

2. Develop Chinese cuisine breakfast and lunch fast food packages to adapt to market demand and add more optional varieties for new stores to be opened in Chinatown in the future.

3. Fair-price store employees need the service company to continue to increase the number of people trained and speed up the training. The lack of staff cannot affect the progress of the fair-price store's subsequent store opening plan.

David read the contents of this piece of paper back and forth twice, and finally understood the purpose of Polly asking him and Brother Biao to come.

He handed the piece of paper to Brother Biao, who had been looking over here, and then asked Sally: "Do you have any difficulties with the training company?"

Sally frowned lightly and said with a somewhat tangled expression: "There is no shortage of teachers responsible for training. Our cheap stores and nightclubs need a large number of employees, but now more and more people are willing to come to our company and participate in training. The less.”

"After this batch of personnel has been trained, the next batch of people has not been recruited yet!"

"Oh? The unemployment rate in New York City is so high now, how long will it take for us to find someone?"

Sally shook her head helplessly and said: "Have you forgotten that it is already the end of the month, and New York City has already started to implement a new relief payment bill this month."

"Many unemployed people who had signed up with us and wanted to be trained and join the fair-price stores have been given up on the idea of ​​participating in training by this bill to increase relief funds... and they no longer come~!"

I x! ~

David was once proud of his success in predicting the passage of President Warren White's proposal to increase relief funds.

However, he never dreamed that this relief fund would also affect the recruitment work of service companies. .

David frowned like Sally, crossed his arms across his chest, and crossed his legs: "Then we can only increase the breadth of recruitment again."

"Sally, how about we try it out by placing a recruitment advertisement in the newspaper for a few days?"

"Newspaper ad?"

"I also told Polly about this. She called the New York Times and several other major newspapers. The prices there were very high. After Polly learned about the price at that time, she rejected the idea."

"The New York Times? Okay~"

"Actually, we don't need to advertise in big newspapers like that, we..."

"Hey...wait~!"

David was talking about advertising, and when he looked at Brother Biao, he suddenly remembered that there must be many people in Chinatown who cannot receive relief funds, right?

Wouldn't this problem be solved by recruiting a group of people in Chinatown to participate in the service company's training?

"Brother Biao, your uncle, Boss Zhang, knows a lot of people in Chinatown. Now our company needs to recruit people. Do you think he can help us?"

Brother Biao was looking at what Polly had written on the paper and was lost in thought. When he heard David ask this question, his mind didn't react for a moment.

"Ah~? What's recruiting?"

"That's right..." David looked at Brother Biao's confused expression and felt a little funny so he repeated what he just said.

After hearing this, Brother Biao immediately thought that this was an opportunity, a great opportunity to bring more prestige to their old Zhang family!

"Well... I need to call my uncle and ask. It should be fine."

"Okay, you go ahead and give me the paper. I'll study it first."

"Okay~Here~!"

Brother Biao handed David the paper and a pen on the table, then picked up the phone on the desk and called Boss Zhang of Jincheng Restaurant.

While Sally continued to work, her eyes turned back and forth on David and Brother Biao, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

When the call was connected, Boss Zhang was a little surprised at the call from Brother Biao at first. After he understood what Brother Biao said, his heart suddenly became hot.

Chinatown!

Although the area here is not too large in the entire New York City, its population density is second only to the Black District of Harlem.

The current job market in New York City is not good.

Many people in Chinatown who used to have regular jobs now have to find temporary jobs everywhere, earning a meager income and living a reluctant and difficult life.

The news brought by Brother Biao's phone call reminded Boss Zhang of the old acquaintances he had seen in recent times who were unemployed but were still running for life.

He was on the phone with a bright face and said to Brother Biao: "Tell David that I can help him recruit people, and they are all good people that we can vouch for."

"How much do you want, how much do you have!"

"Wenbiao~ You must thank David for this. He gave us a more precious opportunity this time than making money!"

"OK, I see!"

"Don't worry, I will!"

Brother Biao lowered his voice and chatted with Boss Zhang for a few more words, put down the phone, and looked at David with fiery eyes, who was lowering his head to study new ideas.

But many thoughts came to mind about this matter.

At this time in New York, a regular job with a stable income is undoubtedly a life-saving help for those hard-working Chinese Americans who are unemployed!

For now, this is no exaggeration.

Brother Biao quietly walked to the sofa next to David, sat down neatly, stared at David who was lying on the paper, scratching his hair and writing and drawing, and waited patiently for him to finish.

Twenty minutes later.

David sat up straight and stretched his neck and arms.

The piece of paper in front of him was already filled with dense words.

David picked it up and read it carefully from the beginning, then stood up and walked to Sally, picked up a few pieces of paper and pen and handed them to Brother Biao who was waiting next to him.

"I just added some new ideas of mine to Polly's ideas. I'll sort them out again, and you can take note of them too."

"Okay~!" Brother Biao prepared his paper and pen like a student and waited quietly for David to start speaking.

Seeing David and Brother Biao acting so seriously, Sally couldn't help but smile, lowered her head and continued her work.

When David saw that Brother Biao was ready, he began to explain according to his own ideas.

"This fast food bag from the affordable store Polly is a great idea."

"It can fully rely on fresh ingredients, rich variety of combinations, and low prices to occupy part of the current fast food market!"

"Now there are KFC, McDonald's, Burger King and other traditional American fast food chains on the market."

"Their fast food advantages, we won't go into details here."

"Let's mainly talk about some of the shortcomings of fast food like these."

"Nowadays, there are several fast food products on the market that can be taken away or taken away, including hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, sandwiches, cheese pancakes, etc. They all have several common problems."

“The retail prices are on the high side, more than half of them are fried foods, and there is no surprise in terms of texture and taste. The nutritional value is low and not suitable for long-term consumption. The side dishes and meals are relatively fixed, and the development of new dishes is slow, etc. "

"The fast-food package project proposed by Polly avoids all the above shortcomings."

"Brother Biao, do you remember the food TV show we are going to shoot?"

"We can definitely take advantage of this opportunity to film the show and let more celebrity chefs participate in the research and development of new fast food bags."

"Let's just talk about you. You are best at Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine, right?"

Brother Biao nodded and said, "That's right!"

"Then you can completely research and improve some of the most classic breakfast and lunch items from Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine into some fast food suitable for takeout, and sell them on the sales platform of affordable stores."

"As for affordable stores, for the research and development of new fast food projects you provide, you will be given a certain proportion of profit sharing based on actual sales data."

"Brother Biao, don't underestimate this income!"

"As long as you can come up with a hot-selling fast food product, and its income is calculated according to my estimates, your annual income will be at least tens of thousands of dollars!"

"Of course, if you can come up with a variety of fast food for breakfast and lunch that customers like, your income will increase exponentially, and we will not tamper with your share in the profit distribution. !”

"At this point, you can sign a cooperation agreement with our company to protect your interests!"

Brother Biao stopped what he had been writing, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said to David with a smile: "Believe it, of course I believe you!"

"You can find anyone to cooperate with you on this kind of thing. I'm not the only one who can cook Chinese cuisine!"

"Now that you can say these words to me clearly, all I can say is, I will not let you down, David!"

"I will definitely come up with Chinese fast food suitable for sale in affordable stores as soon as possible!"

"Haha~"

"We are good friends~!"

"How could I not share such a good thing with you first?!"

"Don't say these kind words of yours again!"

"I still have some ideas here, please go ahead and write them down, or I will forget them after a while!"

"Okay, go on!"

Brother Biao started to move his hands quickly a few times. How many years has it been since he took shorthand like he did today?

On the paper in front of him, the record was written in Chinese and English. He even had a headache after reading it!

David smiled and patted Brother Biao on the shoulder to see if he was ready, and continued.

"Just now we talked about developing new fast food."

"Then we have to follow this plan and continue to consider its subsequent processing and production issues."

"You know, for every fast food developed by a chef, he will simplify some processes so that it can be processed and produced in a shorter time and with fewer processes, forming an industrialized food processing model. Reduce costs and speed up output.”

"Let's take the French fries in McDonald's as an example of this."

"The French fries sold in their stores are semi-finished products delivered by trucks that deliver materials every morning. Generally speaking, the frying and processing work is arranged in the store."

"And for the fast food you want to develop, you must consider processing and technology issues."

"It must be better than those burgers and pizzas in terms of quality, taste, and nutrition, and the processing time must be controlled within 10 minutes to reduce the time cost of output."

"I know, it's hard!"

"But we all know that if it wasn't difficult, it wouldn't be our turn to scratch our heads to do it."

"So, do you understand what I'm saying?"

Brother Biao nodded slowly: "I understand!"

"it is good!"

"In terms of research and development, I may not be able to help you much."

"But I have made some plans for subsequent large-scale processing and production."

"Let me tell you briefly."

"I plan to build a new central kitchen for the processing of fast food sold in budget stores."

"The main function of this central kitchen is to simplify the food processing and production process, centrally process more agricultural products here into semi-finished products or finished products, and then transport them to various stores for sale."

"I plan to divide it into: a rough processing workshop for washing, peeling, and sorting agricultural products; a workshop for slicing, shredding, etc. processing these agricultural products into semi-finished products; and finally, a workshop suitable for pre-made food. , a workshop for deep processing, three components.”

"This plan will put our fast food into a semi-streamlined processing mode."

"We have to ensure the quality and taste of the food we produce here, while also ensuring the efficiency and speed of the production."

"It was inspired by the truck I just mentioned that delivers materials to McDonald's!"

"McDonald's management model in terms of operation, production, and sales has been proven by the market, and there are many things we can learn from it."

"So Brother Biao, when you are developing new products, you can also learn from the production and processing models of these existing fast food products on the market to design and improve them."

"I will write down this central kitchen plan for Polly and ask her to implement it after enough affordable stores are opened."

"So during the period of opening new affordable stores and establishing a central kitchen, you can also slowly develop new products and strive to directly bring the new products to the central kitchen for processing and production."

Brother Biao nodded silently with his hands busy.

"Well... let's go with this plan."

"I'll talk about another thing next."

"Brother Biao, do you remember the last time I went to your store and talked to you about the sauce?"

"Remember, of course I remember!~"

"I even called the master in Xiangjiang!"

"You mean..."

"That's right! Brother Biao, are you interested in cooperating with us?"

"Cooperation? No problem~What do I need to do?"

"Haha~"

"Do you remember the vegetable salad you made for us with sauce last time?"

“I thought if you could supply sauces to budget stores, we could work together on a new take-out salad green product!”

"Prepared, processed vegetables + your secret sauce."

"Or, we can put all the pre-processed vegetables together in categories, let customers choose the dishes themselves, choose the weight, package them together, and then add a certain amount of sauce to them, so that customers can take a lunch break at work When the time comes or when you get home, take them out, mix them and eat them yourself.”

"Isn't this just the new type of fast-food vegetable salad that Polly wants?"

"The initial processing of these vegetables can be completely left to the central kitchen, and they are transported to various stores every day for customers to choose to buy."

"And in terms of salad dressings, we can also research more flavored dressings to match a variety of vegetable salads."

"Just like the restaurant I went to a few days ago, their chef had a vegetable salad with a very unique sauce."

"In this way, we will have more varieties of vegetables and more types of optional sauces, so we can meet the needs of more people for this healthy weight loss food."

"Speaking of this, I would also like to thank Harvey, whom you met yesterday!"

"He turns out to be a big fat guy!"

"Later, he suffered from many chronic diseases due to obesity, and his wife forced him to eat a lot of diet cookies to lose weight."

"Don't let me eat that stuff. I'll get a headache even just imagining it."

"I really don't know how that guy Harvey managed to lose weight by eating it..."

Brother Biao's eyes widened a lot when he heard this: "That's it...that skinny Harvey from when we had dinner together last night?"

"He eats biscuits to lose weight? fxxx! He is so perseverant!"

"Haha~ Perseverance? I think it's more like being a strict wife!" David didn't speak tactfully like Brother Biao.

He had heard Tangtang mention more than once how Harvey had managed to lose weight in the past two years. .

Yes, it is. .Boil it~!

For meat, Harvey has been eating fish and chicken breasts for two years. For fruits, he can only eat tomatoes and cherries.

Of course, you can eat vegetable Harvey as you like. .

But they are so greedy~!

hehe~

Just as David and Brother Biao were happily teasing Harvey about those embarrassing things about losing weight, Harvey and Tangtang opened the door and walked in from the corridor. .

Come on~!

I've met my misfortune~!

David greeted Harvey, who walked in first with a stinky face, with a sunny smile on his face. .

It is estimated that this guy was in the corridor just now and may have heard the conversation between the two of them. .

"Um...Harvey, Tangtang, you are here~!"

"Come on, sit down quickly, I've just finished chatting with Brother Biao."

"Let's finish the TV series filming that we didn't finish talking about yesterday!"

Tangtang happily greeted David and sat on the sofa, holding Harvey's hand and asking him to sit down too.

"Ok~! We are not in a hurry!"

"David, you guys talk first!"

Brother Biao blinked a few times, glanced at the paper he recorded on, and cast a questioning look at David.

David nodded to him and smiled: "Then let's do this for today, and you can go back first!"

"Don't forget about recruiting workers. If you have news over there, tell Sally!"

"Um...you know the phone number here, right?"

Brother Biao nodded with a smile and looked at Sally: "Yes, I have the business card Sally gave me just now."

"Sally will also make arrangements for you when we sign the agreement, right Sally?!"

Sally looked helplessly at David, who was blaming him again, and nodded in response: "I heard the plan you just mentioned, don't worry, when I see George, he will discuss the agreement with Polly. "

"ok~!"

After a few minutes.

Harvey and Tangtang sat on the sofa, watching David send Brother Biao away with a smile, then turned back and sat next to them.

Seeing that Harvey still had a dark face, Tangtang pulled his arm and smiled at David.

"We also talked about our TV series with Zina last night."

"She gave us some good ideas. Harvey and I have called some people in the morning. They will come to Harvey's studio tomorrow or the day after tomorrow for interviews."

"Oh?"

When David saw Tangtang talking, he took out a few pieces of paper from the small bag he carried with him, and took them with some curiosity.

"Is this what Zina told you?" David looked at the densely packed names and positions on the paper and knew that these people should be professionals in the film and television industry.

"Yes, Zina has met many professionals in the film and television industry in New York over the years."

"Among them, many once-famous screenwriters, directors, and actors are now out of filming and jobless, and can only find part-time jobs to support their families."

"Look at the people marked √ on the list. They are all the people we have contacted this morning and agreed to come to our company for interviews."

"There are screenwriters, directors, cameramen, actors, etc. recommended by Zina. They were all very happy after receiving my call!"

"Look at this man, William Rogers. He turned out to be a very famous TV drama director. He has produced two very good TV dramas."

"But now he can only support his family in a small newspaper in New York by writing tidbits about stars and celebrities."

"Ah? How could he... be so miserable?" David was a little surprised. .

"Is it miserable? Haha~"

"Among the people I contacted this morning, there are many who have not even received relief funds!"

"The current situation in the film and television industry is like this. These people's work is very specialized and they have no other life skills. All companies are laying off employees. They can only wait at home and hope for job opportunities. Come."

Tangtang leaned on the sofa, lamenting this damn world with some regret!