15: Chapter 15 An inexhaustible supply! Absolutely an inexhaustible supply! Recruitment!

"I bought a gym, and I'm about to take over a hotpot restaurant!"

"Huh?"

Chen Li looked at Su Yang in disbelief.

She hadn't expected Su Yang to pick such difficult tracks!

Let alone the gym; unless one plans to run away with the money early on, it's very hard to make a profit.

In the catering industry, the competition in Rongcheng is cutthroat!

These days, out of ten people starting a business, eight want to do catering.

It looks like a low barrier to entry, but it's full of traps!

"What's wrong?"

"You didn't take out any loans, did you?"

"No!"

"You didn't borrow money?"

"It's my own money!"

Only then did Chen Li feel slightly relieved.

What she feared most was Su Yang trying to force it without capital!

"What gym?"

"Spark Fitness!"

"The one near Kaimao Building!"

"Yes!" Su Yang asked curiously, "You know it?"

"How could I not? Our company is right nearby!" Chen Li frowned and asked, "But can you really make money running a gym?"

Su Yang said in a relaxed tone, "It's fine, I can afford to lose money!"

"I couldn't tell!"

Chen Li looked at Su Yang in surprise.

"Why?"

"You hid it well. I couldn't tell your family was actually quite wealthy!"

"My family doesn't have much money!"

"Heh!"

Chen Li didn't believe it!

Although she hadn't been there, she knew Spark Fitness was huge.

It had luxurious decor, complete equipment, and plenty of fitness coaches. It was the best gym in the vicinity.

One of her colleagues was a member of Spark Fitness. Earlier today, her colleague had mentioned that ever since the gym got a new owner, the atmosphere of the entire gym had improved significantly.

To be able to afford such a large gym and still have the energy to open a hotpot restaurant—Chen Li didn't believe for a second when Su Yang said his family had no money!

Thinking about how Su Yang was picked up and dropped off by a car every day...

Chen Li became even more certain of her guess.

He must be a rich kid from some county town!

"Su Yang, your gym isn't going to run away with the money, right?"

Her work pressure was also very high.

She often stayed up late for overtime, socialized, and drank. Her health was deteriorating day by day.

In the last few months, perhaps due to performance pressure and the threat of layoffs, or perhaps because of irregular living habits... her period had become irregular, and she was starting to put on weight around her belly!

She had actually thought about going to the gym to exercise.

But she always felt that gym memberships were too expensive and very unreliable.

Who knows when they might run off with the money!

"How could that be?" Su Yang said helplessly, "I live right next door to you. Don't you trust my character?"

"Then if I go to your place to sign up for a gym membership, can I get a discount?"

"If you sign up for a monthly card, I'll give you a 20% discount!"

"What about a quarterly card?"

"Sister Chen Li, if you really want to buy a membership, I suggest you sign up for a monthly card first to try it out!" Su Yang sincerely suggested, "People often sign up for cards and don't come to train here, which is basically just giving me free money."

"Try it out first to see if the gym's atmosphere suits you. If after a month you want to come and exercise regularly, then you can get a quarterly or annual card!"

Su Yang knew that Chen Li lived quite frugally, even though her salary was high!

"Alright!"

Su Yang's words put her at ease.

"Then just mention my name when you go to the gym!"

"Okay!"

Returning to their shared apartment, Chen Li closed the door, collapsed onto the bed in exhaustion, and stared at the ceiling for a long time, unwilling to move.

After a long while, she finally snapped back to reality and couldn't help but think of Su Yang, who lived next door.

Tall, young, handsome, knows how to cook, and has a pretty good character...

In the past, she had occasionally thought about Su Yang, but it was just a fleeting thought!

Because she felt Su Yang didn't have much money, and it would probably be very difficult for him to buy a house in Rongcheng.

Now that she discovered Su Yang's family had some capital, she felt a bit moved...

But when she thought about her own age and their interactions over the past year, she couldn't help but sigh!

She knew very well that Su Yang probably wasn't interested in her.

If he were really interested, it would be impossible for nothing to have happened or been expressed over the past year!

Just then, she saw a large number of messages pop up in her work wechat group!

She sighed internally, wondering if she had to work overtime again?

If things kept going like this, she would be hitting menopause early sooner or later!

She knew a female supervisor who had actually hit menopause recently!

At nine o'clock on the morning of the 8th, Su Yang walked to the gym with a light step.

Fang Tong and Lu Wanwan greeted him with a smile:

"Hello, Boss!"

"Hello!"

Lu Wanwan was also a pretty young woman, not very old, with dimples on her left cheek when she smiled.

She had been hired by Xu Zhiping a couple of days ago and took shifts with the other two receptionists.

"The boss is so handsome!" Lu Wanwan whispered, "He feels about as handsome as those domineering CEOs on TV, but he doesn't look that cold. It's just that he's dressed... a bit too plainly."

"Our boss is just particularly low-key!" Zhou Xiaolu smiled and said, "Not all rich people like to use luxury goods to label themselves."

"That's true!"

Arriving at the office, Su Yang began to calculate the accounts with a pen.

He originally had over 1.7 million in his bank card.

He spent 600,000 on opening the hotpot restaurant and gave Guo Fang 50,000 for renovation funds.

However, yesterday, 460,000 was returned as salary.

The loyalty of several employees increased to 90, which yielded him 200,000!

He still had over 1.6 million left in his bank card!

Can't spend it all!

Simply can't spend it all!

Su Yang felt he was still too frugal!

Thinking of that 460,000 made Su Yang want to laugh.

Of the 460,000 paid to the Spark Fitness employees, over 300,000 was paid by Zhang Liang!

After all, it was Zhang Liang who was managing the gym last month.

But now that the gym belonged to Su Yang, the system defaulted to Su Yang paying the employees' salaries!

In other words, he benefited from Zhang Liang and got an extra 320,000!

Not long after, Xu Zhiping knocked on the door of Su Yang's office.

"Boss!"

"Come in!"

"Boss, this is the information of the personnel who have interviewed at our gym over the past few days!"

"Did you pick out the suitable ones?"

"Yes!"

"Let me see!"

Su Yang took the stack of documents from Xu Zhiping's hand and glanced at them briefly.

Not to mention the cleaning lady, a woman in her forties, in good health... that was enough.

The accountant was also female, in her thirties, with a college degree.

Married, with one son.

The others were five fitness coaches, four women and one man.

Xu Zhiping had already mentioned the matter of recruiting professional fitness coaches to Su Yang.

Su Yang had originally wanted to recruit college students directly.

However, Xu Zhiping considered that fitness coaches need a considerable amount of professionalism and ideally should possess the corresponding coaching qualification certificates.

So he suggested to Su Yang that they should simply recruit fitness coaches who had already been trained by other gyms.

With a base salary of 10,000, which gym in Rongcheng couldn't you poach a fitness coach from?

Su Yang was not someone who couldn't listen to advice; he felt that what Xu Zhiping said made sense.

His gym was positioned as mid-to-high end; if the fitness coaches weren't professional enough, that really wouldn't be justifiable.

If they taught incorrectly and caused customers to get injured, that would ruin the reputation!

And so, there was this one man and four women!

As for why they leaned more towards female fitness coaches, that was also Xu Zhiping's suggestion.

When fitness coaches guide members in exercising, some physical contact is often unavoidable.

Male fitness coaches had an awkward spot: it was difficult for them to guide female members.

If some male members' movements weren't standard, they could directly use their hands to correct them.

But if it were a female member, if they dared to touch them directly, they would risk being accused of molestation.

If they used a wooden stick... that didn't seem appropriate either!

Female fitness coaches didn't have so many qualms!

In the past, Zhang Liang Fitness had more male coaches simply because male coaches sold more personal training sessions, and the bottom-ranking elimination system eliminated more female fitness coaches.

Su Yang's gym needed to enhance its professionalism and service, so it needed more professional female fitness coaches!