Chapter 184 The Good Samaritan

Mo Yu Internet Cafe, Mingyun Mountain Villa Branch.

On the way here, Pei Qian had paid special attention to the shops under renovation that he had seen before, including internet cafes, cafes, bars, and chess and card rooms.

The locations of these shops were quite carefully chosen. For example, one of the internet cafes was located right at the entrance of Jiaotong University's East Campus.

Compared to Mo Yu Internet Cafe, which was a twenty-minute walk away, this new internet cafe at the school entrance was closer and naturally more popular with students.

Moreover, Pei Qian glanced at the interior decoration and layout and found that this internet cafe was clearly imitating Mo Yu Internet Cafe.

The computers, keyboards, mice, tables, and chairs all looked brand new. There was also a bar in the internet cafe, selling coffee and various drinks.

However, the layout here was not as extravagant as Mo Yu Internet Cafe’s, and it seemed more compact. There were many more computers, and the configuration should also be somewhat inferior.

The computers at Mo Yu Internet Cafe were all assembled by Zhang Yuan, capable of running almost all current 3A masterpieces at maximum settings, with very high configurations.

But strictly speaking, this configuration was somewhat wasteful.

The computers in this new internet cafe were more cleverly chosen, using configurations that could smoothly run mainstream games. The actual price was probably half that of the computers at Mo Yu Internet Cafe. The same was true for various peripherals; they looked bright and shiny, but the prices were much different.

However, compared to other internet cafes, this configuration and environment could already be considered very good.

Several student-like people were handing out flyers near the intersection by the internet cafe.

With this internet cafe intercepting traffic, many people who originally wanted to go to Mo Yu Internet Cafe would probably change their minds.

After all, many people don't have such high demands for computers and the environment and don't want to walk that extra distance.

The situation was similar with the chess and card rooms, bars, and cafes.

Although there weren't many people, the locations were better than Mo Yu Internet Cafe, capable of intercepting many of Mo Yu Internet Cafe’s customers.

Pei Qian was very happy.

Not bad, although I don’t know who is helping, I’ll remember you. I will definitely thank you in person in the future!

Judging from the current situation, because there is little traffic in this area, these shops may still not be able to make money. It’s just that some will lose more and some will lose less.

The internet cafe might be the most profitable, and the chess and card room would be similar. As for the bars and cafes... the situation might not be very optimistic.

Opening these shops to help Boss Pei lose money, you're a true benefactor!

Speaking of this, Pei Qian thought of Boss Li, who had helped so much at the flagship store of Mo Yu Internet Cafe before.

Could it be him?

After such a big misunderstanding last time, Boss Li didn't hold a grudge? Instead, he still hadn't abandoned me?

Pei Qian suddenly felt a warmth in his heart. See, it’s not like Boss Pei only has archenemies!

People like Teacher Qiao and Ruan Guangjian are all Boss Pei's archenemies, but this Boss Li is completely different. He's simply Boss Pei's true love!

Pei Qian considered investigating a little, testing the waters. If it was really Boss Li doing good deeds without leaving a name, then he would definitely have to find an opportunity to thank him properly!

After taking a tour, Pei Qian, Zhang Yuan, Assistant Xin, and Lin Canrong went to Mingyun Mountain Villa to see the situation of the villa.

Lin Canrong was the former chef and store manager, who had been in charge of Mo Yu Takeaway during this period. He hadn't achieved anything and had been steadily losing money.

It was precisely because Pei Qian valued this advantage that he decided to promote him to be the store manager of the new restaurant.

Before this, Lin Canrong had already done some preparatory work according to Boss Pei's initial requirements.

The original tables, chairs, and furniture in the villa had been taken away by the property management, and now the entire villa seemed very empty.

When he came last time, Pei Qian had already toured it once, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

He only needed to offer some vague guidance, and the specific arrangement and selection of dining tables and tableware would definitely be left to professionals.

The living room was more than 7 meters high, spanning two floors, and very spacious, so it looked quite impressive.

Pei Qian took Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan and started with the living room first.

"Set up a counter here, a special wine cabinet, and stock it with all kinds of famous and expensive wines. Place the most high-end tables and chairs in the hall. The positions must be far enough apart. About seven or eight tables, each for four people, is enough. Definitely not more."

"In the outer garden, you can buy some tables, chairs, and sun umbrellas. When the weather is suitable, you can eat outside and enjoy the scenery."

"As for the style, prepare five styles: minimalist, Chinese, Japanese, European, and natural. Match them with different decorations, tablecloths, lighting, and tableware."

"Arrange the style according to the dishes ordered by the customer, especially this private room with the best view, which has large floor-to-ceiling windows. Be sure to prepare tables and chairs of various styles, decorations, and carefully arrange them."

"The lighting and decorations, in addition to matching the dishes, should also be as warm as possible. This restaurant is mainly for our own employees to have dinner parties, so don't make it too formal."

"Most of our dishes here need to be reserved in advance. For example, if you order Western food, then change the decoration and layout of the entire room to European style in advance. If you order Japanese food, then change it to Japanese style."

"The dishes here are divided into two types. One is ordinary dishes, which are usually available and also eaten for employee meals; the other is high-end ingredients, such as pufferfish milt, Tahitian vanilla, bluefin tuna, Parma ham... Contact the channels in advance, and customers need to make a reservation in advance and pay a deposit before they can come and taste them."

Pei Qian took Lin Canrong and talked about whatever he saw.

In short, there were two goals.

First, focus on serving our own employees, making it as comfortable and high-end as possible. Pei Qian didn't plan to put too many people in the villa. Being able to accommodate seventy or eighty people was enough.

Twenty or so people could sit in the hall, six or seven people could sit in each private room, and if the weather was suitable, you could also put a few tables on the balcony and in the garden.

Pei Qian didn't plan to bring all two hundred employees here in the future, and he couldn't bring them all anyway. He could only have dinner parties in batches.

Take seventy or eighty key employees for a meal, and then the heads of each department take their own employees for a meal.

Anyway, the main purpose of eating is to spend money, so it doesn't matter whether you eat together or separately.

Second, spend as much money as possible.

Prepare different tables, chairs, tableware, lighting, and decorations for various styles, which can spend a lot of money, greatly increase labor costs, and at the same time be justified, so the system can’t find fault.

After all, this is to provide customers with a better dining experience, although the cost of this improvement is a bit high and the cost performance is a bit low.

Moreover, Pei Qian didn't intend to care about what other customers thought at all. This restaurant was originally for his own employees to have team-building dinners and to help Boss Pei burn money. The more low-key the better.

It would be best if no one else knew about this place, so that it would continue to lose money silently. That's what Boss Pei wanted.

After giving all the instructions, Pei Qian looked at Lin Canrong: "That's roughly the arrangement. Do you have any questions?"

Lin Canrong hesitated: "Boss Pei, everything else is fine. But preparing so many styles... is it really necessary?"