In Wangfujing, Lin Maosheng relied on the connections and business skills he had accumulated over the years in the Chen family, and finally managed to acquire the storefront of a restaurant near Wangfujing. After more than two months of decoration and preparation, it was finally opened in the past few days.

We are ready to set a date for opening.

However, not long after he obtained all the business licenses, a group of people came directly to his door. This group claimed to be from the Beijing Food Association and forced Lin Maosheng to join the association and pay hundreds of thousands a year.

of high membership fees.

If you don't pay these fees, you won't be able to open a restaurant in the capital. Those people are very aggressive and are ready to destroy the entire restaurant if they disagree.

At the beginning, Lin Maosheng was not aware of the unspoken rules of the catering industry in Beijing, and thought that these people might be gangsters and bullies who came here to collect protection fees using various names.

However, after some investigation, he discovered that these people were actually members of the Beijing Food Association, and this association really blatantly monopolized and extorted new restaurants, forcing them to join and pay high membership fees.

"What should we do? Mr. Lin, do we really have to pay such a high membership fee? They are obviously going too far!"

The Hero Restaurant Wangfujing store encountered such a problem before it even opened, which gave Lin Maosheng, who had no experience in the catering industry, a headache. Ye Xiong, the deputy general manager who was recruited next to him, also said angrily.

"Then what can we do? It's not like you don't know that in Beijing, as long as you have a large-scale restaurant, you must be a member of the Beijing Food Association. Otherwise, they have a hundred ways to prevent your restaurant from opening.

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With one hand on the table, Lin Maosheng also felt a lot of pressure. After all, he had completely broken up with the Chen family since he came back from Zhi'an City. Although he had not divorced his wife Chen Hui, he basically divorced his wife Chen Hui.

The Chen family has drawn a clear line and no longer relies on any connections or financial support from the Chen family.

In order to open this hero restaurant, he had spent millions of his savings and borrowed more than a million before reluctantly renting the restaurant and renovating it. The remaining money was just a start-up capital.

If you pay such a membership fee of several hundred thousand, I'm afraid you will have to borrow money for the initial investment.

However, if you don't pay this amount, once the restaurant opens, people from the Beijing Food Association will definitely come to cause trouble.

"Mr. Lin, then...if that doesn't work, we can only pay the money first. Today seems to be the last payment date they said. If we don't pay..."

Deputy General Manager Ye Xiong also sighed, shook his head and said, "I have encountered this problem in several restaurants before. Moreover, it has almost formed an unspoken rule for the entire Beijing restaurant business. If you don't pay,

There is no way I can open a store in Beijing with this amount of money."

"Yes! There is no way, it seems... we can only pay this amount of money first, and then talk about it after opening. As for whether we have to pay this amount of money every year in the future, let's talk! But as long as the Hero Restaurant

Once we open it, we will definitely be able to gain a foothold in the capital with our food recipes."

In the past two months, Lin Maosheng has been very busy. He has done almost everything in the store, including the recruitment of personnel, and he has recruited them one by one. The deputy general manager, Ye Xiong, has

He has many years of experience in the catering industry, and he is a loyal customer of Hero Restaurant. He once traveled to Zhi'an City by chance and ate the delicious food of Hero Restaurant, and has always wanted to open a branch in the capital.

But it is a pity that Hero Restaurant will not easily authorize it to external parties, so Ye Xiong has always given up on this idea. Until he heard that Lin Maosheng, as Lin Feng's uncle, has the qualification to operate the chain operation of the Beijing branch of Hero Restaurant,

He immediately quit his original job as the general manager of the hotel and followed him.

However, even a veteran in the catering industry in Beijing like Ye Xiong has no way to deal with the Beijing Food Association.

"Yes! Mr. Lin, I have eaten every dish at Hero Restaurant. It is really delicious, a few blocks away from those star-rated restaurants. As long as it is opened, it will definitely get a good reputation in a short time."

"..." Ye Xiong also said confidently.

"Okay! If that's the case, then I'm going to hand over the 400,000 membership fees to the people from the Beijing Food Association today. I hope they won't come to cause trouble again in a short time..."

When Lin Maosheng was about to go out to pay the bill at the headquarters of the Beijing Food Association, his cell phone suddenly rang. When he picked up the phone and looked at it, he was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly received: "Hey! Shengli! Why do you have time to give me

Should I call? I just planned to call you in the next few days to inform you of the opening time of the Beijing branch! Then I invite you to come to Beijing for a few days and participate in the opening ceremony of our new store!"

"Brother, Guizhu and I have already arrived in the capital. Xiaofeng bought us a villa in the capital, so he took us all over." Lin Shengli said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

"What? You and your siblings have been in the capital for so many days? Why didn't you tell me first?" Lin Maosheng also said with a face of surprise. Now he suddenly realized that the relationship between the brothers has returned to what it used to be.

"Aren't you afraid that you are busy? After all, planning a new store in Beijing is not as easy as it is in Zhi'an City. Guizhu and I just have nothing to do today. Where is the address of your store? Guizhu and I are going there now

Come visit and stop by to see if I can help you in any way..."

Father Lin said with a smile that he had not seen his eldest brother for several months. He had not seen each other since he was restored to health, and the brothers missed each other more and more.

"Yes! Brother, after all, Lao Lin and I prepared the Hero Restaurant in Zhi'an City together. I can help you a little bit..." Mother Lin also said at the side.

"Okay! Shengli, Guizhu, the address of our new store is No. 15 Wangfujing Street. Where do you live now? How about I drive to pick you up?" Lin Maosheng said.

"No! No! We can just drive there by ourselves. Xiaofeng's car has also come to the capital. Your place is not very far from ours, so let's do this for now. Brother, we'll see you later."

After making an appointment, Lin Shengli hung up the phone. But Lin Maosheng, who was in the Wangfujing store, had just left the store and hurried back. His subordinate Ye Xiong asked strangely: "Mr. Lin, what's going on?"
Chapter completed!