413: Shutdown Announcement

"But…" Liu Gaoda still wanted to speak, but Qian Ziyong directly interrupted him.

"There are no 'buts'!" Qian Ziyong said, "We caused trouble for others, so we should apologize."

"Since everyone thinks our Feihuang Restaurant's model is wrong, then it should close down."

"It's no big deal."

"In the future, our Feihuang Group will do many high-tech businesses; catering is only a very small part of it, and it's a part with extremely low profits."

"Let's just abandon it!" Qian Ziyong said indifferently.

He indeed planned to enter the high-tech industry.

He heard that high-tech consumes a lot of capital.

Tens of billions of yuan could be invested, and there might be no results at all.

Since that's the case, what's there to hesitate about? Invest in high-tech!

Of course, that's for the future; the most important thing now is to close Feihuang Restaurant and lose more money.

Qian Ziyong had already started calculating.

Five hundred stores, sixteen employees per store, and each employee's salary is at least ten thousand.

That means at least eight thousand employees, n+3 compensation, which is at least over three hundred million.

And this is just employee compensation.

Customers who bought tableware from them, do they also need refunds? This expense will definitely be enormous.

Hearing that Qian Ziyong was insistent on closing down, Liu Gaoda had no better solution.

Qian Ziyong said, "The matter of apologizing to the customers is up to you!"

Before closing, there would definitely be a press conference and a formal apology to customers, telling them the reason for Feihuang Restaurant's closure.

It couldn't just close for no reason; that would arouse suspicion.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Gaoda stood rooted to the spot, lost in thought for a long time.

Closing down?

Feihuang Restaurant just closed down like that?

He sat on the chair, thinking about every little detail of Feihuang Restaurant, feeling very reluctant.

Was Feihuang Restaurant really wrong?

Liu Gaoda opened his phone and saw countless comments under the video saying that Feihuang Restaurant disrupted the market.

In many videos, people cried and complained that Feihuang Restaurant had stolen their business.

Liu Gaoda sighed.

Perhaps Feihuang Restaurant was indeed wrong.

On the other side, Qian Ziyong opened Feihuang Restaurant's official website and posted an announcement.

"Dear esteemed customers, Feihuang Restaurant has caused countless inconveniences to you all and led to a large number of people losing their jobs. As the boss of Feihuang Restaurant, I sincerely apologize."

"I also thank the employees of Feihuang Restaurant for their hard work and dedication to Feihuang Restaurant!"

"Starting tomorrow, Feihuang Restaurant will cease external operations indefinitely, and all customers of Feihuang Restaurant will have their tableware fees refunded."

"Employees of Feihuang Restaurant can choose to resign. As a gesture of apology, all resigning employees will receive N+6 severance pay."

"Thank you all for your trust in Feihuang. Sincerely, Qian Ziyong of Feihuang Group."

After clicking send, Qian Ziyong also posted the information on the Phoenix Restaurant Takeout app.

"Oh, right, Feihuang Restaurant must still have a lot of dishes. We can't just waste them, can we?"

After some thought, Qian Ziyong added a line.

"To avoid food waste, all dishes at Feihuang Restaurant today are free of charge."

After posting these, Qian Ziyong was overjoyed.

Meanwhile, the employees of Feihuang Restaurant also received the announcement on the Phoenix Restaurant Takeout app immediately and were instantly aghast.

What?

Feihuang Restaurant is closing down?

It couldn't be said to be closing down, but rather suspending external operations.

Feihuang Restaurant would still operate internally; employees of Mi Bing Milk Tea could still come to Feihuang Restaurant to eat.

This way, Feihuang Restaurant wouldn't need so many employees.

Many of them would definitely be laid off.

The announcement already stated that all laid-off employees would receive N+6 severance pay.

Qian Ziyong was too good to them.

They knew that Feihuang Restaurant hadn't been profitable for long, not even recovering its initial investment.

But now that it was closing, it was providing them with the greatest financial assistance.

He truly was a conscientious boss.

N+6 was indeed a considerable sum of money.

Many of their salaries exceeded twelve thousand, so N+6 would be over eighty thousand.

But they didn't want to leave Feihuang Restaurant.

Working at Feihuang Restaurant was simply too comfortable.

It was very fulfilling.

In the past, they worked as delivery riders for the two major takeout platforms, getting up early and staying up late every day, and it was difficult to earn over ten thousand in salary.

But now, they only needed to work six hours a day, and they had two days off every week.

Although the work was tiring and involved delivering many meals, it was only six hours of work!

Time flew by in a flash.

Moreover, the company's benefits were excellent; they could eat for free, and various subsidies were received hand over fist.

Colleagues also didn't engage in infighting.

This was simply their dream job.

Eighty thousand yuan was indeed a substantial amount of money, which could allow them to live comfortably for a long time.

However, if they didn't lose their jobs, they could continue working, and the comfortable period would be even longer.

Furthermore, working at Feihuang Restaurant gave them a great sense of accomplishment.

Customers genuinely thanked them.

If they were ever discriminated against by a customer, and they reported it back to the restaurant, the company would take it very seriously.

If a customer discriminated against them twice, they would be permanently blacklisted.

Now, customers were very polite to them.

Because their rating system allowed customers to rate them, and they could also rate customers.

It wasn't that they were employees and the other party was a customer, so one was superior!

Many customers thanked them when they received their meals.

At the same time, the food from Feihuang Restaurant was truly healthy.

Delivering the meals to customers, and customers being able to eat healthy food, made them feel valuable.

They couldn't imagine that Feihuang Restaurant was actually going to close down.

Countless employees felt like their world was collapsing.

They knew that they couldn't blame Boss Qian; it was those voices online that forced Boss Qian to close the store.

While the employees felt their world was collapsing, customers also felt their world was collapsing.

One customer after another, when it was time to eat, opened the Phoenix Restaurant Takeout app and found the announcement.

What? Feihuang Restaurant is no longer open to the public?

They had only just started eating well for a few days, and now it was closing?

Is it so hard for us to eat something good?

Although the announcement stated that Feihuang Restaurant would refund the two hundred yuan tableware fee.

But who cared about those two hundred yuan for tableware?

What they needed was healthy food!

Why is it so difficult to get healthy and delicious food?

How many takeout places in Shen City are healthy?

And how many takeout places have as many dishes as Feihuang Restaurant?

And how many are like Feihuang Restaurant, with extremely cheap prices?

With Feihuang Restaurant closed, will they have to go back to ordering those greasy, salty, gaudy dishes for over thirty yuan a portion?

They couldn't believe it was true.

But after searching on their phones, the news was confirmed.

Tomorrow morning, Feihuang Restaurant would hold a press conference and also apologize to all customers.

Once the authenticity of the news was confirmed, the news of Feihuang Restaurant suspending external operations immediately caused a huge stir.

Many Video Bloggers began to dig into the real reason for Feihuang Restaurant's closure.