140: Chapter 140 The Development of Jiuxiang Healthy Catering! Increase in Male Waiters!

Upon arriving at the Spark Fitness headquarters, Su Yang reviewed the recent revenue figures for Spark Fitness.

There was still a balance of over one million in the Spark Fitness account.

This was mainly because, after acquiring the gym in Luhu District and two other medium-sized gyms, Spark Fitness had been holding a five-year anniversary challenge event, which accumulated a large amount of capital in a short period.

This event also helped Spark Fitness attract many loyal customers!

Gyms have never been a business with exorbitant profits, and coupled with Su Yang's standardization of fitness coaches, profit margins have never been particularly high.

Even with the +50% dopamine secretion boost buff, working out is inherently against human nature.

To expand significantly, a large injection of capital is still required.

However, Su Yang was not in a hurry.

The weight loss classes at Spark Fitness, under Su Yang's deliberate guidance, were developing quite well!

With a +30% weight loss effectiveness boost, combined with the improvement in fitness coach standards and the special delicious weight loss meals provided by Jiuxiang Healthy Catering.

Customers who signed up for the Spark Fitness weight loss classes were often able to achieve certain weight loss results through their own hard work and exercise!

One must know that many people fail to lose weight because they cannot control their diet.

The weight loss meals provided by Jiuxiang Healthy Catering might taste slightly worse than high-oil, high-salt, and high-calorie foods, but because of the +50% deliciousness buff, it was actually almost the same!

The taste of the nutritional meals, weight loss meals, and muscle-building meals received unanimous praise from Spark Fitness customers.

After all, the loyal customers of Spark Fitness were almost all people who cared about their health.

The weight loss classes were not only popular with women but also attracted men.

Some people simply did not like coming to the gym.

But after hearing that the weight loss classes at Spark Fitness were effective, they joined in too.

This brought another batch of high-quality customers to Spark Fitness!

Su Yang estimated that the weight loss classes would become a major business growth point for Spark Fitness in the future.

After receiving positive feedback from customers, the General Manager of Spark Fitness was also actively recruiting fitness coaches who excelled in teaching exercise-based weight loss!

Furthermore, the nutritional meal delivery business of the subsidiary, Jiuxiang Healthy Catering, was doing better and better.

They had no choice but to slightly increase the number of kitchen staff!

Previously, their main task was actually to exclusively supply orders for Spark Fitness customers.

The expected number of orders was actually only about two or three hundred people at most.

It wouldn't be too many!

Opening the delivery business was just to increase business slightly and boost some profits.

Therefore, the entire company's kitchen staff only consisted of seven people!

But after that group of Spark Fitness customers tasted the nutritional meals at the gym, they were willing to support the nutritional meal business of Jiuxiang Healthy Catering even when they were at home or at the office!

Perhaps because of their recommendations, Jiuxiang Healthy Catering didn't do much marketing at all, yet the nutritional meals were selling more and more.

Su Yang was naturally happy to see Jiuxiang Healthy Catering's business improving.

After all, the profit margin of Jiuxiang Healthy Catering's nutritional meals was relatively high, and it was originally positioned for middle-to-high-end consumers.

Of course, at this stage, Su Yang did not expect Jiuxiang Healthy Catering to make a fortune.

It was just a niche business with relatively high profits!

After Su Yang finished reviewing the recent development of Spark Fitness, he heard a knock on the door.

Looking up, he saw Jiang Yuzhen and the Deputy General Manager of Jiuxiang Catering, Mei Jingshan.

"Come in!"

Mei Jingshan handed a list to Su Yang with some trepidation: "Boss, this is the recent recruitment list!"

"Hmm!"

The headquarters of Jiuxiang Catering and Spark Fitness were on the floors above and below each other in the same building.

Su Yang took the recruitment list and discovered that the ages of the female servers were starting to become polarized.

They were either on the older side or the younger side.

The proportion of males had also increased significantly, reaching one-third.

In the past, male servers participating in training were relatively rare.

But don't think that men are unwilling to be servers.

As long as the salary is sufficient, they are still very realistic.

Working as a server at Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant, the income could blow away most electronics factory workers, delivery drivers, and ride-hailing drivers.

First of all, the salary and benefits were not bad, they provided social security, and the company even covered meals and housing!

Many delivery drivers and ride-hailing drivers look at their monthly revenue and think it's high.

But once you factor in the costs of food, housing, various wear and tear, and vehicle maintenance, you will find they don't have much money left.

Recently, official warnings indicated that ride-hailing in many places was starting to become saturated.

He glanced at Mei Jingshan and felt that she seemed a bit nervous.

"It's fine!" Su Yang didn't make much of a comment, but instead comforted her, "Those matters cannot all be blamed on you; just strengthen the screening process."

"Okay, Boss!"

Mei Jingshan's nervous heart finally relaxed a little!

"Go ahead!"

Jiang Yuzhen roughly knew what Su Yang was talking about.

In the last two months, when Jiuxiang Catering recruited employees, two female employees had successfully passed their probation after working for just one month, only to be found out to be two or three months pregnant and then requested to take maternity leave immediately.

To say there was no intentionality in this, only a fool would believe it!

A few days ago, another newly confirmed female employee went on maternity leave.

Ji Guoxiong had called Mei Jingshan into his office to talk for quite a while.

Mei Jingshan's complexion was not good when she left.

At that time, Su Yang was not in the company.

After Su Yang got the news, he didn't blame Mei Jingshan too much, just told her to be more careful.

But Jiang Yuzhen noticed that Manager Mei Jingshan was still very nervous!

However, thinking of the development momentum of Jiuxiang Catering and the 3% dividend she held, she understood!

If she were in Mei Jingshan's position, she would also be very nervous!

As long as she wasn't removed from her position, an annual income of one million was not a dream!

For an executive like Mei Jingshan, once she was dismissed, finding another job that would satisfy her would probably be very difficult!

As for the boss having a gentle temper, being kind to people, and treating employees well, that was indeed true.

But Jiang Yuzhen also knew that when the boss signed off on firing an employee, as long as the employee really had a problem, he never hesitated.

To be honest, Jiang Yuzhen also really couldn't stand those female employees who took maternity leave right after passing probation.

It was very likely because of this group of people that she found it so hard to find a job after graduating from university.

Su Yang didn't really care much about female employees taking maternity leave.

He already had female employees from the old store preparing to take maternity leave, and he expressed his blessings for that!

After all, he could truly afford it, and it was normal to get married and have children when the time came.

But some people made it look like fraud, making him feel like a sucker.

However, although Su Yang felt a bit annoyed, he wouldn't dwell on it too much.

Most of his female employees were still quite reliable!

Jiang Yuzhen whispered a reminder: "Boss, in fifteen minutes, you need to have a video call with the employees of the Market Expansion Department!"

"Okay!"

Once Jiang Yuzhen reminded him, Su Yang remembered.

Yesterday, Zhou Yaoxian from the Market Expansion Department had submitted two more store profiles that passed the preliminary review to him.

Both were outside the main urban area of Rongcheng!

Jiang Yuzhen asked in a low voice: "Do you want me to go and prepare first?"

"Can you do it?"

"Yes, I have learned it. If I really encounter problems, I can ask others for help!"

"Okay, then go and prepare first."

"Hmm!"

Watching Jiang Yuzhen's retreating figure, Su Yang felt that this female secretary was quite reliable!