Chapter 188 Another Way to Spend Money

As for Pei Qian, he was currently resisting the urge to change the location.

The more Liang Qingfan introduced, the stronger his urge became.

This location was far too good!

Pei Qian could almost foresee the crowds of people after the experience store opened.

Could he change this fate by moving to another location or slightly altering the functions of the three floors?

But Pei Qian ultimately resisted.

Because from Liang Qingfan's beaming expression, he had clearly put a lot of effort into this experience store.

Pei Qian had told him to take full responsibility, and it would be unkind to go back on his word now and waste all of Liang Qingfan's efforts.

What's more, this spirit of striving for perfection would drive up the cost of the entire experience store. For example, the embedded frosted white lights that Liang Qingfan had specially ordered, and the long table customized in the digital area that could integrate all the wiring, were all expensive.

Whether this experience store made money or not was another matter, but spending money was definitely inevitable.

So, after comprehensive consideration, Pei Qian still resisted. He just looked at Tian Mo, hoping he could step up and diligently fulfill his duties as a salesperson, dissuading customers.

And Tian Mo returned an extremely firm look to President Pei, as if saying: I will definitely live up to your expectations!

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Since most areas would still take a few days to complete, there wasn't much to see. After wandering around, the group arrived at the catering area on the top floor.

This area was largely completed, and the entire catering area was basically divided into three parts.

The outermost area was the snack area and beverage area, mainly for the snack market vendors to set up shop. The location was relatively outward, to facilitate customers who didn't want to eat inside and just wanted to buy some snacks or drinks.

A little further in was affordable dining, mainly featuring dishes from Mo Yu Takeaway and Shi He, with reasonable prices and good taste.

The innermost area, closest to the glass curtain wall, had the best view and was the high-end dining area. It would adopt the mode of the Nameless Restaurant, transferring some of the chefs from there. Of course, they would continue to scout for outstanding chefs from all over the country to fill the gaps.

The entire catering area was spacious, bright, and clean. Although the overall style was still minimalist, the dining tables, chairs, and other arrangements made it feel more lively, similar to the high-end revolving restaurants on the top floors of many buildings.

The group had been walking around for so long and was a little tired, especially Liang Qingfan, who had been introducing everything non-stop and was now feeling a little thirsty.

So everyone randomly found a table to sit down and ordered drinks.

Liang Qingfan asked, "President Pei, how do you feel about the arrangements for the experience store? It should meet your previous requirements, right?"

Pei Qian fell silent.

How should he put it…

The extent of spending money did meet his requirements. But this location, the effect of throwing money at it, and the future expectations… all fell far short of his requirements!

But it was already like this, so what could he say?

Pei Qian had to nod. "Well, more or less."

"But… think carefully, isn't there any other place where you can spend more money?"

Liang Qingfan was stunned for a moment. "Other places to spend more money? There… shouldn't be, right?"

He couldn't think of anything for a moment.

Because he had finalized all the details of the entire experience store, including the lights on the ceiling and the tables and cabinets in the store, which were all custom-made. He hadn't skimped on any place where money should be spent.

So when President Pei asked if there were any other places where he could spend money, Liang Qingfan couldn't say.

Pei Qian was a little disappointed. "Oh? Really nothing?"

In fact, Pei Qian himself didn't know where else he could spend money. He was just asking, thinking it was worth a try.

The main thing was that the experience store was already open here, in such a good location, but because the mall had waived a large amount of rent, not much money had been spent, which made Pei Qian feel very unwilling.

He had to spend more money to feel at ease!

Liang Qingfan was also confused. He looked at Tian Mo and Zhuang Dong, both of whom had bewildered expressions on their faces.

Obviously, everyone felt that President Pei must have seen a problem, but he was deliberately keeping them in suspense, letting them figure it out for themselves.

This was to cultivate their observation and insight.

Zhuang Dong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "President Pei, are we missing a billboard?"

"I see other stores put up their own large logos outside so that customers can see them from far away. But the outside of our glass curtain wall is bare, with nothing on it. We should put up a huge Tengda logo."

Pei Qian was slightly surprised and nodded slightly, but then shook his head slightly.

He didn't expect Zhuang Dong to be the first to come up with an idea.

But on closer inspection, although what Zhuang Dong suggested was currently missing from the experience store, the problem was that it wouldn't cost much money!

Even if he specially customized a huge Tengda logo and stuck it on the curtain wall, even if he included the cost of hiring a crane, how much money would that cost?

It was a drop in the bucket.

Seeing President Pei's reaction, Tian Mo's brain worked quickly.

President Pei first nodded and then shook his head. Did that mean Zhuang Dong's direction was right, but the specific approach was wrong?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he realized the key to the problem.

"President Pei, I understand!"

"We do need to create a signboard for the experience store, but ordinary logos or billboards won't do. They don't fit the style of our Tengda Corporation at all!"

"We should customize a super-large LED outdoor screen. We can broadcast whatever we want on the dynamic screen all day long. That's what's grand enough!"

Pei Qian's eyes lit up instantly, and he suddenly understood.

That sounded good!

The bigger the screen, the more money it would cost.

He turned to look at Liang Qingfan. "How much would it cost to make the largest, highest-quality LED screen?"

Liang Qingfan thought for a moment. "As far as I know, the price of the best-quality outdoor LED screen is about 5,000 per square meter."

"But we definitely can't cover the glass curtain wall with it, because LED screens are opaque. Covering it up would be a waste of this beautiful glass curtain wall. If we're going to do it, we'll go higher, directly to the roof."

"We'll need to build a steel structure to support it, but that won't cost too much extra."

"As for the area, President Pei, how big do you want it?"

Pei Qian thought for a moment. "The bigger, the better!"

Liang Qingfan considered for a moment. "Then let's just make a wraparound screen!"

"Taking the area directly above our experience store as the main body, with the same width as the glass curtain wall and a height of about 5 meters, then extending it to both sides. We'll have the mall remove the original two huge poster advertisements and cover the outer walls on both sides with the big screen, covering the entire second, third, and fourth floors."

"This would essentially be three parts. The outer walls on both sides of the second, third, and fourth floors would all be big screens, and the arc-shaped area above the glass curtain wall of the experience store would also be a big screen, naturally connecting to form a single entity, similar to the shape of a pair of wings."

"If we calculate it this way… it would be about a thousand square meters."

"The larger the screen, the more discounts we'll get, but adding the steel structure for the top floor construction and other miscellaneous expenses… I estimate we can get it done for about 4.8 million."

Pei Qian immediately decided, "Excellent, that's it!"

He had to say, Liang Qingfan had become much bolder after working at Tengda for so long.

If Pei Qian had asked him to come up with a plan for a big screen at the beginning, he might have only done 400 or 500 square meters. But now, he was going straight for 1,000 square meters.

That was growth!

Spending 5 million on a screen? That was quite worth it.

Of course, Pei Qian was also well aware that this big screen would have a certain advertising effect.

But could the experience store thing be kept secret?

Absolutely not!

It was estimated that on the second day of opening, everyone would know that there was a large Tengda experience store here.

Since it couldn't be kept secret, he might as well spend more money on a big screen. It wouldn't make much difference anyway.

Moreover, the electricity bills and maintenance costs for this screen in the future would also require a lot of money, which would be a sustained expense.

The big screens in other buildings would accept advertisements, and they could earn money by renting them to outside companies.

But Pei Qian definitely didn't plan to rent it to outside companies to make money. He would rather give it away for free than rent it!

At that time, he would just put up a few simple logos. He would spend the money on the LED screen, but in reality, he would be doing the work of ordinary printed posters. How wonderful!

Pei Qian had finally encountered something pleasant. He said to Liang Qingfan, "Okay, then you'll be in charge of coming up with the specific design and plan for this big screen."

The current design plan was only a preliminary plan. Liang Qingfan would have to plan how to make it integrate with the entire building and be aesthetically pleasing.

Pei Qian then looked at Tian Mo. "Liang Qingfan has been busy for a while now, but he actually has other work to do. After that, you'll also work with Liang Qingfan to help out as much as you can and take over all the work on the experience store as soon as possible."

"As for the original store, just hand it over to Zhuang Dong to manage."

Pei Qian realized that Liang Qingfan was really too capable. After all, he was a real genius architect, and he was always one step ahead.

He couldn't let this continue. He had to quickly let Tian Mo, this mediocre person, take over and strive to make the experience store start high and go low, getting worse and worse.

Liang Qingfan and Tian Mo both nodded.

They also felt that President Pei's arrangement was very correct.

For Liang Qingfan, he had almost finished the work on the experience store, with only some finishing touches left. It was indeed time to hand it over.

Moreover, his work on the snack market and Sloth Apartments was not yet completed. It was a bit overwhelming to be running back and forth between the two.

For Tian Mo, he knew that he would eventually take over this experience store, so he had to take this opportunity to learn more from Liang Qingfan and get started as soon as possible so that he wouldn't delay work due to a hasty handover.

Pei Qian asked, "When will the experience store officially open?"

Liang Qingfan slightly calculated the construction period. "Internally, it will take a little over a week. But the installation of the external big screen will take some time. Even if it's expedited and the weather is suitable, it will take at least a month."

Pei Qian nodded. "Okay, that's it. Two weeks from now, on Sunday, June 10th, the experience store will start trial operation. Speed up the installation of the big screen and strive to officially open at the end of June!"