Chapter 716: Self-Inflicted Misfortune
Of course, maybe it was too smooth a while ago, which made Ning Weimin a little forgetful.
He couldn't help but spread his hands everywhere, making the stall bigger and bigger, which finally led to the reverse of everything.
Perhaps it was also because of the two types of manipulation in the postal market this time that pulling and smashing them was so cruel that this guy got his comeuppance.
Anyway, after watching Nie Weiping's victory in the live game on November 20, Ning Weimin's work and life gradually became less smooth.
Not only are there obstacles everywhere, but there are also setbacks at everything.
The key is that many of the decisions that were once certain and absolutely correct are increasingly showing side effects.
For example, take the Donghuamen night market established by the government this year.
This night market starts from the north entrance of Wangfujing in the east and ends at the north entrance of Nanheyan in the west. It is more than 300 meters long and occupies the northern half of Donghuamen Street. It is really extraordinary.
It has several "No. 1s in Beijing" at the same time.
For example, it is the first night market in Beijing to open on the road.
Another example is the largest night market in Beijing.
Another example is the first snack street named "Night Market" in Beijing.
And it is also the longest-standing night market in Beijing.
In fact, until it was officially closed in 2016, business here was still booming and in full swing.
And all this is precisely due to its unique geographical location.
Because it is close to the Forbidden City, Donghuamen Night Market is not used in the other eight night markets opened by the government at the same time. In the future, due to the increase in holidays and rest days, and the increase in shopping venues, it will gradually disappear.
It has always maintained its vitality by relying on the growing number of domestic and foreign tourists.
So there is no doubt that this land is a big cornucopia of golden light and jingling sounds.
As long as you occupy it, you don’t really have to sell anything in the future. Just collecting the rent will give you cramps.
In the original history, in fact, the first batch of "natives" selling Beijing-style snacks here began to gradually transfer their stalls to outside operators since the 1990s, and began to make "smart money".
So much so that in 2000, when the Donghuamen Night Market was renovated and upgraded to the "Donghuamen Food Court Night Market", it was hard to find even a local from the capital among all the stall owners.
As a result, the locals in the capital stopped coming, the reputation created by Donghuamen Night Market in the past was no longer there, and the era of selling dog meat over sheep's heads began.
This place quickly turned into a place that mainly deceives tourists and specializes in "a hodgepodge of random sales and bragging".
Fried centipedes, fried squid, fried silkworm chrysalises... rare items are on the stage one after another.
The sellers are not angry anymore, they are selling off inferior products, showing poor hygiene, and the prices are following the trend.
At that time, I dared to charge you 40 yuan for just three skewers of grilled squid, 15 yuan for fried liver, 10 yuan for fried enema, 18 yuan for braised pork belly, 15 yuan for fried tripe, and the rest like fried enema and fried dumplings The snacks are priced from ten to twenty yuan.
Let's put it this way, among the eighty-eight food stalls gathered together, only twenty-four sell local snacks in Beijing, and the varieties are very small.
There are only so-called "exploded tripe", "fried liver", "candied haws", "enema" and other types. I'm afraid the taste needs to be put in quotation marks.
Someone vividly ridiculed this place as "foreigners are confused by the foreigners", which is really insightful.
But even so, there is never a shortage of "idiots" coming from all over the world, seven oceans and five continents, stretching their necks and willing to be slaughtered.
After all, the Forbidden City in Beijing is so famous, and the cultural heritage in Beijing is so rich.
As long as you use the guise of "royal", "palace", and "Beijing flavor", you don't have to bother to say anything, and some people will voluntarily be fooled.
Besides, Beijing, as the capital, has a strong political attribute, and the government implements a subsidy policy for famous national attractions.
Tickets for places like the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, Beihai, and Jingshan are all extremely cheap.
This may have greatly increased tourists' tolerance for some tourism fraud.
It must be said that it can be regarded as a disguised form of "concession benefiting the people".
In short, because this street will be almost equivalent to the business card of Beijing tourism in the future and a must-visit place for tourists, Ning Weimin will definitely not let it go.
To be honest, during the initial planning of time travel to this era, he was just like a wolf who was thinking about stealing a sheep, always thinking about this treasure land.
But unfortunately, this is not a spontaneously formed and prosperous market like Xiushui Street.
Before there was any official organization, this was a purely residential area.
He couldn't act in advance and deploy people to occupy seats like he did on Xiushui Street.
This summer, because he was preparing for the book market, he failed to take care of other things. As a result, he happened to miss the soup.
In this way, he can only make amends afterwards, see if there are any ways to get some stalls through connections.
Thanks also to Director Wei from the Jingshan Subdistrict Office, who used to be colleagues with the director of Donghuamen Subdistrict.
With his help, the matter quickly took shape.
The people were quite enthusiastic. As the person directly in charge, they gave Ning Weimin maximum convenience and moved five stalls for him. This is mainly due to the fact that most people these days have never seen much of the world, and many cadres are really promoted from the grassroots and kind people.
As long as it doesn't violate the bottom line of principle, eat, drink, and give some gifts. Basically, asking for someone is enough.
I really want to give more and give thousands of people money, but most people really don’t dare to ask for it.
Both street directors are such people.
They have no idea that even though they are as big as sesame seeds and mung beans, their power can be worth as much as gold and silver. Of course, for the same reason, even if Ning Weimin was not greedy enough and felt that it was too little and would not quench his thirst at all, he would not be able to get more stalls.
After all, he came late, and this is the limit of what he can do.
It is impossible to squeeze others away for him, and the quality of the stalls given is not good.
Except for one at the street corner, the others are in the middle, not adjacent to each other, they are all fragmented.
Fortunately, as the weather cools down, many people don't want to work anymore, especially the non-food vendors. A large number of them have been withdrawn, leaving at least thirty or forty free.
This gave Ning Weimin a chance to eat and drink.
You know, the monthly rental fee of fifteen yuan per stall is like free money to him. He has swallowed up the entire market.
He happily promised the street director of Donghuamen that no matter who left, he would take all the vacant stalls.
In this way, the director no longer has to worry about finding new merchants. Of course the director is happy.
But the key thing is that he has a concern. With such an old stall being transferred, he is afraid that Ning Weimin will ruin the night market just by saying he won't practice his tricks.
So he had to come up with specific arrangements, explain clearly what to do with these stalls, and plan what specific operations he would run before he dared to actually grant the stalls to him.
This is where the trouble lies.
Ning Weimin did not expect that the chief director would be so careful and cautious, and he was also stubborn. He took this issue more seriously than anything else.
So in order to solve this problem, he went through a lot of trouble.
You know, although he is the top leader of Tan Palace, he can arrange for people from the kitchen to go to Donghuamen Night Market to sell snacks, and use the sublease fee to collect a handful of Tan Palace's wool.
But if you do this, the people below will not be happy.
Grassroots workers have the greatest opinions.
Who doesn’t want to commute to get off work at a normal time?
Who doesn’t want to work in a regular kitchen?
What's more, the weather is getting colder now. It's so hard to work outside at night!
More money?
I’m not willing to do it if I’m given more money.
As a cook at Tan Palace, are you still trying to earn a few extra small subsidies?
The money saved in monthly lighting costs is enough for everyone to share the profits, not to mention the big scene of the banquet hall, the income is getting higher month by month, and the ceiling is nowhere to be seen.
The lowest-level kitchen worker now earns more than 200 yuan a month.
The treatment is the best in the industry, which is enough to disdain restaurants across the country!
So face...face is the most critical issue!
Nowadays, who has passed the recruitment of Tan Palace and should not announce it to relatives and friends as a big happy event?
It’s not much worse than going to college.
If an acquaintance sees the dry stall, where will he put his face?
I thought you were bragging.
The middle managers of Tan Palace were also quite slanderous, especially Du Yang, the backbone of Beishen Kitchen’s banquet business.
His opinion is that Tan Palace snacks and folk snacks are two different things.
Tan Gong’s own snack bar is in short supply every day, and there is a long queue at the door.
Taking the initiative to hang out with those food stalls is a self-degrading and thankless effort.
What's more, the business of large-scale banquets has begun to explode, and there is a shortage of manpower.
There is really no need to insist on holding on to this petty profit.
On the contrary, they should abandon Donghuamen Night Market and concentrate on stabilizing their rapidly growing high-end business.
In short, these opinions are due to Ning Weimin’s self-inflicted efforts to raise employee benefits too high.
We must also admit that some of them are indeed objective, well-founded and reasonable suggestions.
Ning Weimin is neither crazy nor stupid, so naturally he will not act arbitrarily and force his employees to go into battle, trying to catch up with others.
But the problem is that no matter how good the Tan Palace is, it belongs to others, but Donghuamen Night Market belongs to you.
He was about to bite this big piece of meat, but he couldn't bear to let go.
What to do?
In the end, Ning Weimin had no choice but to do something stupid that seemed like a huge loss.
He went to ask Qiao Wanlin to organize the catering industry to participate in convenience activities, and then sent Nancheng’s special snacks to occupy a place.
Not to mention that I owed a huge favor, and even the rent was too embarrassed to be collected from them.
The most speechless thing is that this matter is still reported in this world.
Qiao Wanlin really thought highly of Ning Weimin. After helping him, he spoke to him generously and expressed the hope that he would also help the district and do himself a favor to help Pilka. Suddenly settled in Tianqiao Shopping Mall.
This is simply the original English name of the movie "Mission: Impossible", mission impossible - mission impossible.
Ning Weimin was dumbfounded.
Sincerely feel, nozuonodie!
I seem to be... indeed a bit cheap!
(End of this chapter)