In Tu'ao, or other Western countries, in the early days, cars were the common means of transportation for food delivery. With the continuous development of the city, there is a large amount of traffic in the city center, and parking is not easy or the parking fee is expensive. Places have begun to appear. The phenomenon of using bicycles to deliver food, however, except for the city center, other areas are still dominated by cars.
This overseas food delivery is completely different from domestic food delivery.
In the past life, before the emergence of the platform, the speed of food delivery completely depended on the individual's mood today.
After the emergence of the platform, domestic food delivery time has been planned against the clock. Even if it is only delayed for a few minutes, it will be considered late.
In Tu'ao, the time requirements are not so strict.
Now in 2010, the salary of delivery workers is divided into two modes. You can choose one of them, or the boss will force you to arrange it.
The first is to give you a fixed amount of money per hour, and the tips received belong to the food delivery person.
The second method is that the boss calculates the price according to the price of each order, and the tip naturally belongs to the person who delivers the food.
However, the second mode is often calculated by the boss. He will allocate it according to each employee’s free time and usual data, so that you can get more money than the first mode. Just throw it away.
Driving a car to deliver food will cost you a lot of gas, as well as damage to the car, traffic tickets, etc.
Naturally, the food delivery person pays for the gas fee. If you meet a boss you have a good relationship with, he will subsidize you some.
In his previous life, Chen Xi had a good time with the landlady, who would subsidize him with about 100 yuan every time.
Based on the current situation in Tu'ao, only pizza shops offer takeout, while other restaurants can only order by phone and then pick up the food.
Chinese pizza restaurants generally have very low wages. You can earn between 11 and 13 yuan an hour. The salary in Gui Lao's store is around 14 to 16 yuan (this was the price paid by a nearby Gui Lao store to recruit Chen Xi at that time, but after he worked for a month, the boss asked him to be the manager and take charge of a Pizza Hut The branch offers a salary of 20), and the tip for delivering takeout depends entirely on luck. If you go to a wealthy area, you will get a lot of money.
But there are exceptions. Chen Xi’s friend previously delivered a meal to a wealthy area, and the other party gave him a tip of 100 yuan. His friend happily went back to show off, but was discovered by his boss. The boss wanted to show the fine traditions of country H and insisted on asking the employee to send the money back. He said that the other party gave too much and he must have accidentally taken the wrong money...
The employee was quite speechless.
Anyway, all in all, delivering food in a ghost place like Ringwood can only earn about a hundred dollars a day, not counting gas expenses. The main thing is that I am exhausted.
Some people will definitely question that driving a car to deliver pizza is definitely much easier than riding an electric bike in China, but that would be completely wrong.
When delivering pizza abroad, the pizza will be covered with a large, heavy, waterproof and insulated bag, which is similar to a school bag. Those ghost guys often order dozens of pizzas, and these dozens of pizzas only count as one order, which means that you can only make a small amount of money after working so hard.
Think about it, carrying dozens of pizzas, without the pizza, and just carrying the insulated bags will make you exhausted.
Moreover, it is difficult to find the house number when driving at night, because some ghosts' houses are so old that the house numbers have been worn away. Chen Xi used to use a flashlight to observe the house numbers of the houses next to him at night, and finally he could deduce it. Approximate location.
In the era when there was no platform for route planning, all food delivery people could only rely on GPS and maps to plan their own food delivery routes, which made the efficiency extremely low.
Chen Xi still remembers an uncle who drove an Audi A6 to deliver pizza, which shocked his boss. The first is because cars like the A6 are extremely rare in Tu'ao, because they are not sold well and the price is not cheap. Now they are actually used to deliver pizza, which is comparable to Chen Xi driving a sports car to deliver pizza.
The second thing is that this uncle does not have a smartphone and GPS navigation, so he can only rely on maps to deliver food.
The problem is that he doesn’t have a map yet, so he can only search for routes by looking at the map in the store and relying on his memory before leaving. He often gets lost halfway through the drive and then returns to the store to start over.
The HungryDragon software developed by Chen Xi in cooperation with Google Map this time solves this problem.
This software was not only developed to deliver food, but also to overtake and catch up with Carsales in corners.
If you want to deliver food, you need to buy a car. Buying a car requires money, so I will give you the car first, and you will pay me back slowly in installments. Anyway, my platform also makes money from you, and the leasing company also makes money from you.
This greatly increased car sales.
Gui Lao buying a car is different from Chinese people buying cars. Gui Lao is willing to buy some old cars that almost look undrivable, as long as they are cheap, because he also buys them for transportation. Now you can still use it to make money, so why not!
This was one of the projects that Chen Xi worked on in his previous life in China, and it was just a small piece of that big project.
Of course, just delivering food is not enough. At that time, he also launched a ride-hailing service, which was just like Uber, but it targeted a special group of people.
Now he has set aside part of the employees in Sihai to test the takeout platform. These people also enjoy it. Repeating the same job every day will make people feel a bit boring. Now there is something new to do. , it was too late for them to be happy.
Then here comes the problem. When the domestic food delivery platform first came out, the platform would provide subsidies in order to attract customers. In the early stage, this subsidy was a benefit that the platform spent investors' money on to give to customers. In the later stage, the service fee collected by the platform from the merchant will be given to the customer.
This kind of thing cannot be used in Tuao.
First, guests from Tu’ao don’t care about subsidies or not. People give tips, do you still need your subsidy?
What Gui Lao cares about are some small details. For example, if you give him a snack or a small toy for ten yuan, it will make him happier than a subsidy of fifty yuan.
Second, if you cut the interests of businesses and want to squeeze restaurant owners to obtain profits, then others will directly choose not to cooperate with you, and will most likely report it to a certain department and directly report it to a certain department. You go bankrupt.
Anyway, the chaotic phenomenon of food delivery platforms that occurs in China will not happen in this period of time in Tu'ao.
Boxhill.
"You're really bad at takeout. My daily meals are all sold out at once. I think I'll need to buy more in the future." Zhang Guoqiang pointed to the empty shelves and said.
“Don’t be too happy too early. Your original business was good. More and more merchants will cooperate with us in the future, and their business will gradually get better, which will still be of great benefit to your store. Influenced." Chen Xi took a sip of the soy milk given by Lao Zhang.
"You are the owner of the platform. Don't you have the final say on whether the business is good or not? Just give me more advertising and put my store at the top."
"You Where did you learn this?" Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at Lao Zhang, wondering if he had been reborn.
“Damn it, I’m a top student from a prestigious university in China, okay? Your platform is similar to e-commerce and online shopping. Just draw inferences from one example and you’ll understand.” Lao Zhang is indeed a top student, and a top student of that era. He is valuable. That's very high, and his brain is naturally quite smart.
Chen Xi kept thinking that if this guy was more diligent, he wouldn't be making pancakes.
“If I keep putting you at the top, other merchants will definitely join forces to oppose it.”
“If you give me more popularity, just put up a billboard and customers will click on a store. There will be recommended shops below..."
"Why don't you stop selling pancakes and come to my company as a planner?"
"It's too tiring if you can't do it!" Zhang Guoqiang moved his hands as fast as the blades of an electric fan.
"It's really a headache for those Gui Lao restaurants not to cooperate with us! They said that if the dishes are delivered to customers through takeout, the taste will be greatly reduced, which will affect their brand..." "There is no way, Gui Lao and domestic restaurants People are different, they like to make money in their own way , and there is no shortage of money. You can only cooperate with those stores that are not doing well. When the business of these stores will threaten them, they may cooperate with you. But there is another possibility..."
“What possibility?” Chen Xi pricked up his ears.
"According to the local people's thinking, what you do is unfair competition, and these restaurant owners will unite to sue you!"
"Um... what should we do?"
“How do I know? I am Chinese!”
"Damn!" Chen Xi, who had finally aroused his interest, felt as if cold water had been thrown on him when he heard this. He gave Lao Zhang the middle finger.
“Don’t worry! I have been in the catering business for decades. Food prices at Chinese restaurants like ours and Guilao’s high-end Western restaurants are very expensive. There are many types of Chinese food, and they are naturally suitable for takeout. Not so much Gui Lao’s food. Think about it, if you deliver a piece of pasta to someone else’s home, can you still eat it? If you want to do takeout, you can only cooperate with large fast food restaurants. KFC and McDonald’s do not support takeout. There is a dedicated Drive-Thru (drive-thru) Picking up food), so you don’t want to contact others.
The rest can only cooperate with fast food restaurants like PizzaHut, but PizzaHut has its own delivery people. You can talk to the boss and help. He reduces costs. Delivery workers also calculate wages when the company is not working.
This kind of large fast food restaurant is all about the supply chain, and what people care about most is the cost issue..." Zhang Guotao picked up. A snack was brought to his mouth, and he talked while eating.
Indeed, fast food restaurants like PizzaHut have compressed costs to the extreme.
When Chen Xi worked there before, he saw that each pizza on the price list cost about 20 yuan. However, excluding labor, water, electricity, etc., the cost of a pizza is actually only 1 yuan.
Tu'ao just has too few people, the Internet is not very developed, and data collection is also a big problem...
"TMD, TMD, this time it's really a loss to my grandma's family." Li Yuqing came over cursing, followed by Shi Tao.
"Why did you lose money? Didn't you get the money?" Shi Tao was carrying two big bags, which were all filled with health care products.
“Are you stupid? There is a problem with the goods this time. Who will buy from us in the future? I don’t know who the stupid person is who reported me.”
"It's not all you. You think about petty gains every day..." As soon as Shi Tao finished speaking, he saw Li Yuqing raising her hand to hit him.
"What are you talking about?" At this time, Chen Xi waved to the two of them.
"Ah, Chen Xi, I got screwed this time." After Li Yuqing saw him, she grabbed his clothes and complained.
"Let go first and speak slowly." Chen Xi pulled out his arm.
Then Li Yuqing’s mouth was like a machine cannon, and she said a lot.
After a while, Chen Xi finally understood.
Li Yuqing saw others making a lot of money before, so she thought it was because her purchase price was too high, so she asked around and found a special channel.
The result is that domestic buyers have problems after receiving the goods.
As for what the problem is, it is naturally the insect incident in the previous life.
It was also because of this incident that this product almost disappeared from everyone’s sight.
The stuffing of the bear doll is lavender and cereals. Mixing these two things together will definitely produce insects under normal circumstances.
However, the genuine bear has been specially treated, and the contents inside are almost free of worms.
But what Li Yuqing bought was a semi-copycat product. The lavender and grains were both from Tu'ao. The bear was also produced in Tu'ao. However, the manufacturer only obtained the product through an agent because the bear became popular. Quan, it doesn’t have that kind of sterilization technology.
Selling these products domestically, with titles that say Lavender Bear, but not from Tasmania, is actually just playing a word game, and is not considered fraud from a legal perspective. Considered a copycat.
Customs in Tuao are very strict about seeds, insects, meat, and eggs.
However, this is only for entering the customs. He will not be so strict when leaving the customs. After all, it is not his own country that is harmed.
It is difficult to detect the bugs in these grains, so Li Yuqing's little bears arrived in China smoothly without knowing it.
The next thing is that a large number of buyers feel itchy all over and small crawlers appear inexplicably on the bed. They follow the clues and find the source. They open the bear doll and are shocked.
People with trypophobia may even run away on the spot.
"This guy likes to take advantage of small things, haha, but this time he didn't lose money, he even made money." Shi Tao snickered from the side.
"You're actually gloating about others' misfortune." Li Yuqing kicked Shi Tao's butt angrily.
"I've graduated soon, so don't think about being a purchasing agent. I think this incident will be remembered for a long time." Chen Xi also smiled.
“I’m still thinking about returning to China in the future, opening a store in China, and then purchasing and selling goods domestically through friends in Tu’ao!” Li Yuqing told about her future development.
"Friend? Where did you get your friends from? Your only friend is me." Shi Tao said in a strange tone next to him.
"You..."
"Okay, okay. There are people around. Where did you get that batch of goods?" Chen Xi pointed to the people around him.
"Near the school, Burwood. The phone of the guy who supplied the goods was shut down. He must have known something happened and he had already run away." Li Yuqing became furious when she thought of this.
"Is it near the school?" Chen Xi rubbed his chin and thought about it after hearing this. This was not far different from what he expected.
In front of the warehouse behind the legendary billiards room.
"Brother Gou, what should we do now!" Ergou shouted with a bitter look on his face, looking at a lot of police cars in front of him and the handcuffed Gouzi.
"Call Brother Xi!" Sangou said.
"Don't call him..." Gouzi opened his mouth and said one thing.
“Why?” Sangou was a little confused.
“Hey, that’s embarrassing!” Gouzi sighed, shook his head, and was immediately put into the car by the police. (End of this chapter)