17: Chapter 17: The Hot Pot Restaurant Officially Opens! Talent Pool Development! Grand Opening Specials!

The day before the hotpot restaurant opened, inside the Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot Restaurant.

Twenty-one employees sat properly in their seats, looking at Su Yang, their boss.

Most of these twenty-one employees were young women.

It was a gathering of beauties, and two or three of them looked quite stunning.

Facing such a scene, if it were in the past, Su Yang might have felt a little nervous.

But things were different now; having been the boss at Spark Fitness for so long, he was no longer the person he used to be.

Su Yang glanced at Guo Fang, then at Jian Wei, and spoke directly:

"The hotpot restaurant's affairs are mainly the responsibility of the store manager. You should listen to him; I will at most only come by occasionally to check on things."

"However, before the opening, I will give each of you a salary increase of one thousand!"

Seeing the surprise on the employees' faces and their loyalty increase a notch, Su Yang continued:

"But I hope you will listen to the store manager well and provide excellent service to the customers!"

"If you do well enough, I don't mind continuing to give you raises!"

"If you can reach a level where the customers, the store manager, and I are all satisfied, not only will I continue to give you raises, but I will also take a portion of the hotpot restaurant's profits to reward you!"

Hearing Su Yang's words, many employees were filled with motivation!

If Su Yang hadn't first given them the one-thousand salary increase, they might have thought Su Yang was just making empty promises.

But now that Su Yang gave them a raise upon meeting them and promised to keep increasing it in the future, it was quite convincing!

Who works for anything other than money?

When the boss is generous, employees are naturally willing to give their all!

"However, if your service to customers is not up to par, or if you slack off, I will not be lenient!"

This served as a small warning to them; otherwise, it would be difficult to carry out work in the future.

Everyone has it tough, and Su Yang had not forgotten that he was once a wage earner himself.

As long as their loyalty was passing and they worked seriously and responsibly, he would not easily fire anyone!

Layoffs were out of the question!

He dreamed of increasing the number of employees to one hundred!

"Alright, now let's let our store manager speak!"

After Guo Fang went up, he mainly talked about personnel arrangements and some precautions.

Because tomorrow was the grand opening promotion event!

As long as the shop's location is good and the foot traffic is high, a new hotpot restaurant's grand opening promotion can usually attract quite a few diners.

Everyone wants to try something new, and incidentally, take advantage of the shop's deals.

This was the most traditional way of promotion!

As for online promotion, that would have to wait until the grand opening promotion was nearing its end.

Su Yang turned his head and saw that Jian Wei was listening very carefully, which made him quite satisfied!

Jian Wei was twenty-four years old and came from a rural county.

After graduating from high school at eighteen, he came to Rongcheng to work.

At first, he worked as a waiter in a hotpot restaurant, and later he transferred to the kitchen to work as a prep cook.

Working as a prep cook mainly involved preparing ingredients for the chef, ensuring ingredient freshness, maintaining kitchen hygiene, and occasionally helping with washing dishes, chopping vegetables... he did all the odd jobs in the kitchen.

Subsequently, he also learned how to stir-fry the soup base and the recipes for common hotpot restaurant snacks.

He worked at Xiangpenpen Hot Pot Restaurant for half a year, where the store manager was the boss.

Jian Wei would help the boss manage the hotpot restaurant, and it was during this process of managing the restaurant that he gradually acquired skilled-level hotpot restaurant management abilities.

So, he poached him over to serve as a talent reserve.

In addition to offering a higher salary, Su Yang also promised that after a while, he would open another hotpot restaurant and let him be the store manager.

As long as he performed well, Su Yang would give him a high salary plus performance commissions!

Su Yang intended to have him follow Guo Fang to learn first.

After Guo Fang finished speaking, the hotpot restaurant's employees conducted a thorough cleaning of the entire restaurant.

Jian Wei wanted to go help, but was stopped by Su Yang.

Guo Fang looked at Jian Wei with confusion, and Su Yang introduced him: "Guo Fang, this is Jian Wei. For the recent period, he will serve as the deputy store manager, which is your assistant. You can assign him any tasks you have!"

"Alright!"

Deputy store manager?

This made Guo Fang feel a bit uncomfortable.

"I will continue to open hotpot restaurants in the future, and I plan to let him be the store manager of the new hotpot restaurant. Please teach him more during this time!"

"Alright!"

Guo Fang couldn't really say anything.

After all, Su Yang was his boss.

"He counts as your apprentice. If he performs well in the store manager position at the hotpot restaurant in the future, I will give you a certain commission!"

Hearing this, Guo Fang's eyes lit up!

This works!

As long as there is money, everything is negotiable!

However, he also sensed Su Yang's ambition.

The first hotpot restaurant had just opened, and he was already starting to cultivate talent reserves for the next one.

"Boss, how many stores do you plan to open in the future?"

"Naturally, the more the better!"

"Then what if I train a few more apprentices?"

"I will still give you commissions, and I will also give your apprentices corresponding salaries!"

"Deal!" Guo Fang laughed, "What about the chefs? Old Ding actually has a few apprentices still working at the hotpot restaurant!"

"Anyone with good skills can be recommended to me. Let me see their level first!"

Su Yang was not worried about Guo Fang or Ding Hanyi's apprentices becoming too powerful.

His hotpot chain stores hadn't even taken shape yet!

When the time comes, he could still go to other hotpot restaurants in Rongcheng to poach people.

As long as he could afford high salaries, the vast majority of people could be poached!

He believed that the salary and benefits he offered to employees were definitely at the top of the industry.

The next day, the Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot Restaurant officially opened.

On the day of the opening, two rows of beautiful flower baskets were placed at the entrance of the hotpot restaurant, and the ground was covered with red carpet.

There was also a display stand for the seven-day grand opening promotion, with all dishes at half price.

As long as one consumed in the store, they could also participate in a lucky draw activity.

The top prize was a domestic skincare set worth over a thousand.

Of course, what they were most likely to win were discount coupons for the hotpot restaurant!

A normal hotpot restaurant's grand opening promotion lasts only three days, but Su Yang went straight for seven days.

It highlighted an all-out effort!

The display stand featured pictures of bright, boiling soup bases, steaming hot, with red chili peppers floating on top.

There were also pictures of various meats and seafood, sliced very beautifully.

It made people very hungry just looking at it!

And then there were the various prizes in the lucky draw activity.

Anyway, it highlighted one theme: eating here means saving money.

Maybe if you win the grand prize, you can not only get your money back directly but also make a big profit!

Besides this, Guo Fang also arranged for two of the most presentable waiters in the store to go out to the street to solicit customers.

However, he also reminded these two waiters to keep an enthusiastic smile.

Do not block passersby!

And definitely do not touch passersby!

Just promote the grand opening promotion event properly.

Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot Restaurant was located on a dining street, which was full of social-oriented dining establishments.

Nearby, there were many restaurants with good business that were quite famous in Rongcheng, as well as a few nationally famous chain restaurant brands.

Young men and women who came to play at Feida Plaza, if they wanted to eat, would mostly come to stroll along this street.

Near lunchtime, many young men and women were attracted by the 50% discount promotion of the grand opening and entered the hotpot restaurant.

Su Yang was sitting in a corner seat.

Like an onlooker, he quietly watched the employees work!