OBS Chapter 149 Grocery Store Renovation
Chapter 149 Grocery Store Renovation
I signed the contract and told them to come to work tomorrow.
The next day everyone came very early.
There are two heavy wooden doors on the other side of the workshop, guarded by a doorman and two servants. They are only opened when people start and end work.
I checked the hygiene one by one and they were all clean.
Zhao Yuanzhen took everyone to the changing room and gave each person two sets of work clothes.
Zhao Yuanzhen demonstrated how to put on work clothes, hats, masks, gloves, and clothes.
"These are what you have to wear when you work, especially the gloves. You have to wear them. If they are dirty, you have to wash them yourself. You have to change clothes when you go to work and when you leave. You are not allowed to wear them outside. You have to wash clothes in the workshop. Everyone in the workshop has a basin and soap nuts for washing clothes."
"Yes, boss."
"Okay, come and get your keys. Each person has a locker. Choose the words on the locker according to the words on the key. If you don't understand, ask me."
Zhao Yuanzhen was afraid that some illiterate people would not be able to find the cabinet.
Fortunately, they were all smart and found their own cabinets by following the same pattern.
Start putting on clothes, hats, masks and gloves.
Take people to the workshop.
The male workers have already gone in.
Zhao Yuanzhen led the female worker in and washed her hands.
After setting off firecrackers, the machine was officially turned on.
A few people who had taken the powerful pills started to turn the joystick and add noodles and water.
Everyone looked at this magical machine. What went in was flour, and what came out was noodles.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the first batch of pancakes came out.
The positions were assigned in advance and we started to move quickly.
The dough is collected with a clean dustpan and quickly sent to the frying area. The stove in the frying area is outside so that the workshop will not be too hot.
It only needs to be added with carbon once in a while, so Zhao Yuanzhen specially found a servant to make the fire.
Divide the dough and put it into the pot carefully to avoid getting burned.
The oil was bought at the supermarket. I bought dozens of large wooden barrels of vegetable oil. After the rice was harvested in July, I would plant a new crop of rapeseed, one for a change of crops, and the other for oil extraction.
You cannot provide raw materials yourself for a lifetime, so you still have to learn to make them yourself.
Keep an eye on the heat, take out the noodles as soon as they change color, and then carry out the first round of oil control.
Place the dough that has been oiled for the first time in a filter bowl, and then oil it for the second time and let it dry.
Take a short break and wait for the second batch of noodles to be delivered.
After the dough has been oiled, wrap it with oil paper first, put five of them in a group into a cloth bag. Put a bottle of seasoning packet, a pair of bamboo chopsticks, and a small wooden spoon in each bag, then pull the drawstring and tie it tightly.
Bamboo chopsticks and wooden spoons are all customized in the system, which is cheap. Later, you need to find a carpenter to customize them, or train two carpenters to make them yourself.
The whole process is completed.
Zhao Yuanzhen customized two hand-pulled carts to deliver the prepared instant noodles to the warehouse in packages of 50 at a time.
There are two warehouses, one for raw materials and the other for finished products.
The two warehouse managers have to reconcile the accounts of how much flour is taken and how much instant noodles are produced every day before leaving get off work to prevent mistakes.
The warehouse manager was someone who was literate and careful, and Zhao Yuanzhen made a special account book where he only had to fill in numbers every day.
Zhang Sandao's task is to help keep an eye on it and check the quantity when the goods are shipped.
Based on the quantity of 15 packages in 36 minutes, 1150 small packages and 230 large packages can be produced in a day.
That should be enough to sell for now.
The seasoning packets were made in another workshop by several cooks. There were few mushrooms at the moment, so Zhao Yuanzhen could only buy some dried mushrooms.
Soak the mushrooms in water and then clean them before use. Use pork fat to fry the oil, then add various seasonings and mushrooms.
Basically, one pound of pork can make two pounds of seasoning packets. Each bottle of seasoning contains 2 grams of meat sauce, which is about 50 teaspoons. Add one spoonful of sauce to a pack of instant noodles, and the taste is just right.
After watching the workshop process go on for a day, Zhao Yuanzhen stopped watching over it and handed it over to Sun Zhang.
A small notebook was made for her with 12 names written on it. She was responsible for clocking in and out for leave every day, and supervising hygiene and work efficiency.
The old lady was very happy to get this job. Every day, she would check the small notebook and the specially customized pencil made by Zhao Yuanzhen with a serious face.
You are really serious about your work.
Over at the bathroom shop, Lan Ying has already taken people to clean up the place and is preparing to open tomorrow.
Zhao Yuanzhen has told the transport team to pull the sanitary ware products from the ceramic and papermaking workshops.
The transport team was the same one that previously transported milk, and 10 more people were added to take charge of transporting goods between various shops and workshops.
The family bought a few more carts.
In order to open the bathroom shop, Zhao Yuanzhen went there early.
【Zhang Bathroom】
The plaque is also very simple and crude.
The prices of bathroom products are relatively high, and she doesn’t want to cheat the poor out of their money.
洗浴盆25两银子，洗漱盆16两银子，地漏盆12两银子、坐便器55两银子、蹲坑便器35两银子、蓄水箱80两银子。
These are large pieces that are difficult to fire and require a lot of clay. The inner walls also need to be glazed to prevent water seepage.
Three kilns can only fire three sets a day, and all installation is included.
A full set of customized products comes with 10 boxes of tissue paper.
Zhao Yuanzhen felt that she was very conscientious.
The tissue paper is packed in bamboo tissue boxes and placed on the shelf next to it.
300 coins per pack.
Because they had hung advertising signs in the toilets of each shop in advance.
I wrote that I wanted the same type of toilet paper as the shop. On May 5th, Zhang Bathroom opened and they had all the same types.
If anyone asked, they would tell me the address of the bathroom shop.
Since the store opened today, people from various mansions have sent orders.
The installation team was very busy.
Assign a number to each palace and install them one by one according to the number.
9 sets were booked today, and most of them were purchased as a whole set.
A lot of toilet paper was sold, more than 1000 packs.
Today's total turnover is 1912.
Another profitable shop, very happy.
However, the bathroom business cannot have so many people every day. After all, this thing can be used for a long time once installed.
Once everything that needs to be replaced has been replaced, business will be a little slow, and then we can only make money by selling toilet paper.
Thinking of toilet paper, I'll have to check the grocery store tomorrow.
I've been busy lately and haven't visited it much, nor have I taken any care of it. I've just let it fend for itself.
I found the owner of the grocery store, asked for the account book, and looked it over carefully. There was no problem with the account book.
Checked the inventory.
Because the old eunuch passed away and I was too busy to manage the shop, the inventory was not too much.
The light in the shop is a bit dim. This window needs to be changed to a floor-to-ceiling window.
The rest do not need to be changed for now.
The grocery store had a simple population, consisting of a shopkeeper, a servant and a cook.
Zhao Yuanzhen went to find the decorator she had been working with and asked him to find someone to change the windows of the grocery store and the toilet in the backyard, turning them into her own bathroom.
It took only one day to repair the window. After that, I re-applied cement on it. It looked much brighter and cleaner.
The grocery store closed for 2 days, changed its signboard, and reopened once more.
The signboard was changed to [Zhang Grocery Store].
A new manager was transferred from the dessert shop.
"From now on, this new guy will follow you to learn for a while, and then he will be the shopkeeper here, and you will go with me to open a new shop somewhere else and be the shopkeeper."
"Yes, ma'am."
"You will be called Zhang Huangchao from now on."
The old shopkeeper of the grocery store was going to go to the Yellow River with me in the future, so I originally wanted to call him Zhang Huangza, which means the shopkeeper of Zhang's Yellow River Grocery Store. But it didn't sound good, so I changed the grocery store to a supermarket, which sounded better.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Well, your name will be Zhang Pushang from now on."
The owner of the Zhang family's shop in Beijing.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Well, I'll have someone deliver some goods later, and you two can check and put them into the warehouse."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Well, we will be bringing in two new products soon. One is a food called instant noodles. It is a food that can be made very quickly. Just put it in a bowl and boil it with hot water. I will send someone to deliver a batch of it. I will promote it in the shop.
There is also soft paper, which can be used as a handkerchief or toilet paper. We will give some of this away later. A pack costs 300 wen, and the bamboo box for paper towels costs 10 wen. "
"Yes, ma'am, how much does that instant noodle cost?"
Zhao Yuanzhen needs to calculate the selling price of instant noodles.
The price of vegetable oil was very expensive in the Daliang Dynasty, and it could be sold for about 800 coins per catty. A pot of oil held 5 catties, which could be used to fry at least 5000 pancakes, with the loss of one pancake being 0.8 coins.
Add the price of flour, pork, mushrooms, and various seasonings, and the average cost of a piece of bread and a spoonful of sauce is about 6 wen.
The cost of a five-pack is 30. If you sell in large quantities, you can just make some money from each pack.
The price is 5 wen for a big bag of 50 noodles, which is about the same price as a side of noodles. It is more convenient and the meat sauce is real.
Excluding labor and input, the daily output of instant noodles only earns a little over 4 taels of silver.
Just think of it as opening up the market for the Zhang family's business, and also for the convenience of people traveling far away.
"Let's set the price at 50 wen a bag."
"Yes, ma'am."
Zhao Yuanzhen brought a horse-drawn carriage and placed many items that were cheap in modern times but expensive in ancient times on the carriage, such as toothbrushes, candles, brown sugar, white sugar, etc.
I also put some fine salt, which is very precious. Generally, the salt on the market is large pieces of salt. This kind of fine salt is very rare, so the price has always been very high, several times that of ordinary salt.
Zhao Yuanzhen didn't know how to set the price, so she decided to ask the shopkeeper.
Send the items together to the shopkeeper.
Zhang Huangchao was secretly surprised while checking the quantity of goods registered into the warehouse.
Who is the boss to be able to get so many good stuff?
So many toothbrushes were delivered at one time, and the owner said that they could be slightly cheaper than usual to win some customers.
The quality of white sugar and brown sugar is top-notch, and the most important thing is the fine salt. I usually don’t have any way to get these. Before, my employer would send some to me, but not much each time, only a small amount.
What Zhang Huangchao didn't know was that his boss had been replaced, and the things that the old eunuch had sent before were secretly stolen from the palace, so the quantity was very small.
Zhao Yuanzhen sent 50 kilograms, but in order not to attract attention, she didn't give out that much.
With these rare goods, this grocery store will soon become a rising star.
Business will pick up soon.
Tell the transport team to deliver a batch of instant noodles and tissues to the grocery store.
The cook from the grocery store was also taken away, and from now on, the food would be delivered to her by the dessert shop.
This saves manpower and kitchen expenses.
While Zhao Yuanzhen was busy in the grocery store, the owner of the candy shop sent someone to tell her that the matchmaker had replied.
After putting away the things for the grocery store, Zhao Yuanzhen hurried to the dessert shop.