Chapter 55 A Rumor
At the end of every holiday, countless people suffer from holiday syndrome.
This was reflected in Ma Liang's roommate, who was listless and weak on the first day of class after the National Day.
Not only was I late for the first time in college, I didn't even bother to eat lunch after class and went straight back to the dormitory to catch up on some sleep.
Even when Ma Liang invited Senior Jiang to a dinner, the three guys were too tired to be interested.
Although Ma Liang was tired from setting up a stall, it was a good thing he had a day's rest. He wasn't interested in playing games either. He went to bed early last night, so he was naturally full of energy today.
After class at noon, he arrived at [Huaxing Restaurant] early, ordered a few hard dishes that took a long time to cook, and then slowly waited for Jiang Yinqiu and Liu Zhaojun to come over.
This is a local restaurant with a small area, but it is well-known in the university town.
Students from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai like this kind of home-cooked restaurant with light taste but very authentic.
Ma Liang originally chose several better restaurants, but Jiang Yinqiu settled on this one.
No need to guess, he must have been embarrassed to let him spend too much money, so he chose the cheapest restaurant.
After a while, he saw Jiang Yinqiu and Liu Zhaojun walking into the hotel. Ma Liang immediately stood up and waved: "Senior, this way!"
When the club recruited new members last time, Liu Zhaojun also said that they all went out to the dormitory as a group, and when Ma Liang treated him to a treat, he had to bring his other two roommates to kill him.
But when it came time to treat him to a treat, he wasn't stupid enough to do that, so he came in two people.
"Ma Liang, you've been waiting for a long time! Don't blame me. It's because your sister Jiang Daxue was too busy with work and came late." Before Jiang Yinqiu could answer, Liu Zhaojun said hello first.
When Jiang Yinqiu heard this, he immediately pushed his best friend shyly: "Don't talk nonsense."
"It's okay, I'm just here, please take a seat!" Ma Liang replied politely, and handed over the menu again, "I'll order a few dishes first, and the two seniors will see if there is anything special they want.
food."
He reported the two or three hard dishes he had ordered, and forced Jiang Yinqiu and Liu Zhaojun to add a few more dishes.
"Ma Liang, just add two vegetarian dishes. If you order too much, it will be a waste." Jiang Yinqiu advised tactfully.
Ma Liang did not embarrass her and said directly to Liu Zhaojun: "Senior, please have some. If it weren't for the invitation, Senior Jiang would not even agree to come to dinner!"
"Then you're welcome. I'll order a piece of shredded eel and a piece of fried shrimp." Liu Zhaojun happily added two more moderately priced dishes.
She is a local from Shanghai, and is very familiar with local cuisine. She knows what dishes to order so that everyone can look good.
Although the restaurant is not big, the food is served quickly. In addition, Ma Liang ordered several hard dishes early, and they were served one after another in a short time.
Our braised pork, sweet and sour short ribs, hairy crab rice cakes, shredded eels, fried shrimps, plus wine and vanilla head and pickled fresh vegetables, meat and vegetables and soup, this treat is definitely enough.
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Ma Liang ordered a bottle of Coke for himself and two glasses of juice for them.
He poured the drink and raised his glass: "I sincerely thank you two seniors for their help. I'd like to toast you. Thank you!"
"Ma Liang, there's no need to be so polite. We are all classmates in the same college." Jiang Yinqiu also picked up the cup and replied politely.
Liu Zhaojun also echoed in a familiar voice: "It's your duty to help junior fellow students. You are so polite about a trivial matter, I'm embarrassed to eat it."
"Haha, my bad, let's just be casual. I won't encourage you to eat or drink." Ma Liang also liked this kind of unceremonious intimacy.
So the three of them stopped saying polite words and chatted while eating and picking up interesting anecdotes from school.
Of course, Ma Liang also reported on the general situation of his part-time job as a tutor and setting up a stall during the National Day holiday. After all, the two senior students in front of him were the benefactors who helped him make money.
"So, you sold out all those discs?" Jiang Yinqiu asked exaggeratedly.
Ma Liang smiled and nodded, and replied frankly: "That's right, and I replenished the goods several times later, so I really made a lot of money."
"You are a good junior. You know how to start your own business at a young age. You are awesome." Liu Zhaojun picked up a piece of braised pork and couldn't help but praise it before putting it into his mouth.
Ma Liang could only be modest: "No, no, it's all forced by life."
"Then what are your plans next?" Jiang Yinqiu was still a little worried, fearing that Ma Liang would continue in the pirated disc business.
After all, it is illegal, and the more you do it, the more likely it is that there will be negative consequences.
Ma Liang heard her worries and immediately promised: "Sister, don't worry, I won't do that next time.
Now that I have some funds on hand, I am thinking about finding some new projects, but after thinking hard, I still can’t find a direction.”
"That's not easy, let's make food." Liu Zhaojun was chewing braised pork when he suddenly said this.
Ma Liang was very puzzled when he heard this: "Eat?"
"Yes, delicious food and snacks. Let's not talk about the urban area. Just some special snacks in the university town. Let's see which business is bad.
If you do something special, the queue can go from Huazheng to Dongwai.
If you are lucky enough to become an Internet celebrity store like those time-honored brands in Guangming Village, people from all over the city may come from thousands of miles to queue up to buy from you.
It just depends on whether you can find the right product." Liu Zhaojun analyzed it carelessly.
As a local of the Magic City, I don’t know what else, but she is quite familiar with the specialty snack business.
The history of some local specialty Internet celebrity snacks in Donghai can be traced back half a century. The people here love to queue up for these snacks, and they are famous throughout the country.
Fresh meat mooncakes from Guangming Village, pickled duck, dim sum from Harbin Food Factory, Lao He’s bad chicken, bad hairtail fish, Shen Dacheng’s cakes, Lao Dachang’s ice cream, curry beef dumplings, Wangjiasha’s eight-treasure rice and glutinous rice balls, etc.
These time-honored Internet celebrity stores are definitely the originators of the craze for queuing at Internet celebrity stores in China.
During the most exaggerated times during festivals and festivals, the queues can stretch hundreds of meters. The longest record is that it is said that one has to queue for 8 hours to buy one.
I have to say that the people of Shanghai are willing to spend money and time when it comes to food.
That's why Liu Zhaojun could say this casually because it is a common thing for others.
But her reminder pointed out a feasible direction to Ma Liang.
Food and snacks are really a good business field, with small investment and quick returns. If you find the right product, you can accumulate a real first pot of gold in a short time.
The small amount of money from selling pirated discs is only enough to do a small business, and it is not a first pot of gold at all.
But he had no business experience in his previous life, so how would he know what kind of snacks to make.
So Ma Liang opened his mouth and asked: "Senior, do you have any good suggestions on food and snacks?"
"Don't ask me about this, I just gave you a random direction.
If he knew what he was going to do, he would have made a fortune long ago, why can I tell you?" Liu Zhaojun shook his head and said he couldn't help him.
Ma Liang sighed helplessly: "That's right, but thank you, senior sister, for reminding me."
“Or you can go to the city to do more research and find specific directions.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to be completely innovative. Depending on what kind of snack business is good, you can come to the university town and copy it." Jiang Yinqiu suggested kindly.
After all, she serves as the president of the Entrepreneurship Association, so she still knows a lot about entrepreneurship.
Innovation is so difficult, whether it is business model innovation or product innovation, it is not something that ordinary people can do.
Especially for inexperienced college students like them, they cannot aim too high when starting a business and must come up with some innovation themselves.
In the snack business, if there are successful cases elsewhere, copying them into a new blank market would be a more reliable entry point.
Hearing this, Ma Liang said gratefully: "Yes, you can definitely make a copy. Thank you, senior sister, for your suggestion."
He could feel the worry in the other person's words, or he was afraid that he would accidentally lose money in business again. After all, starting a business would lead to a near-death escape, and it's not as easy as most people think.
While greeting the two senior students and eating their dishes, Ma Liang also fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, he suddenly remembered a rumor he had heard at a dinner hosted by a client in his previous life.
The story of a catering and snack tycoon who instantly made a fortune in Shanghai with an Internet celebrity snack.
The reason why I remember this rumor so deeply is because this catering tycoon made snacks to an astonishing level.
Because someone once went to the shopping mall investment manager's office with one million in cash, just to get a small stall.
This shows how exaggerated the business of this boss’s Internet celebrity snacks is.
This saucy operation instantly became the hottest topic of conversation in the venture capital, commercial real estate, catering and retail circles of Shanghai.
Ma Liang also personally experienced that Internet celebrity snack in his previous life, and it is indeed a super product.
It took two or three years for the big boss to make his fortune from this Internet celebrity snack, which gave him a lot of room for maneuver.
Why not make a copy yourself in advance?
There will be another chapter later, so let’s read it tomorrow morning!
Chapter completed!