70: Chapter 70 The Expanding Headquarters of the Catering Company! Marketing Department!

Chapter 70: The Expanding Catering Company Headquarters! Market Expansion Department!

"Believe it or not, I'll sue you too?"

"I don't!"

"I'll bite you to death!"

The next morning, Su Yang still managed to drag Chen Li along to Jiuxiang Catering.

She was still pouting in the car.

However, once she got out of the car, she quickly composed herself.

She looked much more professional and serious.

Looking at Chen Li in her slim-fit suit, she looked every bit the workplace elite.

She even walked with a certain aura of authority.

Su Yang couldn't help but think about having her change into this outfit for him some other day.

He introduced Chen Li to Ji Guoxiong. Hearing that she would be in charge of finance, Ji Guoxiong breathed a sigh of relief.

He sized her up slightly and felt that this woman seemed quite reliable.

Over the next few days, Ji Guoxiong recommended his old subordinate, Mao Yufei, to serve as Vice President, managing operations, sales, and quality control.

Su Yang also found two other experienced Vice Presidents through a headhunting agency.

Cheng Haoquan, forty years old, was responsible for managing procurement, engineering, the central kitchen, and the R&D department.

Mei Jingshan, thirty-seven years old, was in charge of the office, human resources, and market expansion.

Both of them had extensive management experience in catering chains.

Mei Jingshan happened to be unemployed and at home.

Cheng Haoquan was poached by Su Yang from a medium-sized hotpot chain.

Su Yang had performed a Business Deduction pairing them with Ji Guoxiong, and they worked together quite well.

Su Yang offered them an annual salary of four hundred thousand yuan, plus a 3% incentive stake each. The three Vice Presidents were quite satisfied with this salary.

Although they didn't think a 3% stake would amount to much money, they saw Su Yang's attitude!

He gave the General Manager and Vice Presidents stakes because of their rich experience.

The company was just starting out and needed them at the helm.

As for giving other employees raises and benefits, Su Yang planned to wait a while.

The salaries Su Yang offered were already quite good!

He didn't want to give too many raises and benefits all at once, as it might spoil the ordinary employees' appetites.

By gradually increasing salaries and benefits, they should feel a greater sense of achievement and happiness!

Let them grow with the company!

With Mao Yufei, Cheng Haoquan, and Mei Jingshan joining, the recruitment speed for Jiuxiang Catering accelerated greatly, and the organizational structure of a formal catering company was quickly established.

However, because Jiuxiang Catering only had one store and three others under renovation, each department only had a few people, perhaps two or three.

Some departments even consisted of a lone manager with no subordinates.

There were literally more leaders than employees!

But there was no way around it; if he hired too many people without arranging work for them...

Su Yang would instead have money deducted by the system.

Once the staff was hired, the company began to operate under the leadership of Ji Guoxiong, Mao Yufei, Cheng Haoquan, and Mei Jingshan.

Mao Yufei sent people to register the company trademark, found a design firm for the logo, created a unified interior design for the Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot Restaurants, designed uniform staff clothing, and registered accounts for Jiuxiang Beef Hotpot on various platforms.

Cheng Haoquan first went to the hotpot restaurant to understand the procurement channels, cataloged the various dishes, and prepared to introduce new ones. He also sent people to help Su Yang oversee the renovation work.

Besides preparing the company management and evaluation systems, Mei Jingshan also prepared to train the employees from the former Japanese restaurant.

At the same time, she began posting recruitment ads online to build a talent pool for the two hotpot restaurants Su Yang was about to open.

Su Yang told Mei Jingshan that he planned to increase the staff in the Market Expansion Department to twenty people first.

Their main task was to find locations suitable for opening hotpot restaurants, which was also a primary reason Su Yang had established the company.

Additionally, he planned to place some promising store manager candidates in the Market Expansion Department.

In the early stages when there weren't enough hotpot restaurants, they would go out to find suitable locations.

Mei Jingshan was somewhat worried about the company's capital; the expenses for twenty new employees were not small.

However, Su Yang told her not to worry, as the funds were completely sufficient!

Since it was put that way, Mei Jingshan naturally had no reason to oppose Su Yang and ramped up the recruitment for the Market Expansion Department.

Over the next two days, Su Yang added nine employees to the Market Expansion Department.

Six of these nine new employees were recommended by Guo Fang and Xiang Nantian, all of whom possessed proficient or skilled-level hotpot restaurant management skills.

The other three were poached by Su Yang from other hotpot restaurants.

Those three hotpot restaurants were barely surviving.

Lured by Su Yang's high salary, the three store managers defected immediately.

However, after asking these nine people a few questions, Mei Jingshan directly suggested to Su Yang that they should attend a few days of training classes first.

Because she found that while these nine candidate managers might be decent at managing a hotpot restaurant, asking them to find suitable locations was a bit too much for them.

Their understanding of how to find a suitable location for a hotpot restaurant was far too vague, lacking clear concepts and standards.

When Mei Jingshan asked them what kind of place was suitable for a hotpot restaurant, they would only give ambiguous descriptions like high foot traffic or having many nearby restaurants...

Mei Jingshan's basic requirements for them were to count the foot traffic at the store's entrance from Monday to Sunday and to understand the situation of nearby restaurants, including the number of restaurants and their daily turnover.

They needed to find out the number of households in nearby communities, residential buildings, and apartments, as well as the occupancy rates.

Whether they were mostly young people or elderly people.

Whether they were mostly migrant workers or locals...

All this data had to be compiled before a preliminary conclusion could be drawn about a store location.

Su Yang naturally took Mei Jingshan's suggestions to heart.

Ordinary people without the 'Business Deduction' skill could only rely on data analysis.

This was also more scientific!

Store locations filtered through this method might not be guaranteed successes, but they could definitely eliminate the vast majority of trash locations.

This was exactly what he wanted!

He reassured the nine candidate managers, and they all expressed their willingness to undergo training.

After all, they had all been screened by Su Yang.

Some of the candidate managers' previous hotpot restaurants had poor business and were facing closure.

Others were completely unemployed.

Before they had stores to manage, Su Yang gave them a base salary of six thousand yuan.

They all hoped to become store managers and earn salaries of over ten thousand!

Thus, Mei Jingshan started another training class.

And she sent Manager Zhou, Zhou Yaoxian from the Market Expansion Department, to give them the training sessions.

After sending the nine candidate managers to the training class, Su Yang finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

As long as the nine candidate managers finished their training and the Market Expansion Department was expanded, his workload would be greatly reduced in the future!

He had to admit that Ji Guoxiong, Mao Yufei, Cheng Haoquan, and Mei Jingshan were all very professional and reliable.

But thinking about the potential losses for Jiuxiang Catering this month, he felt a bit numb!

Because the profits from his single hotpot restaurant definitely couldn't cover the headquarters' expenses.

Once Mei Jingshan hired another twenty people for the Market Expansion Department, the total number of staff at the Jiuxiang Catering head office would exceed fifty people.

The monthly payroll would then exceed five hundred and fifty thousand yuan.

Fortunately, the salaries and benefits Su Yang paid out would be returned by the system.

Otherwise, he would never have dared to set up such a catering chain structure at this stage, let alone hire four industry elites like Ji Guoxiong, Mao Yufei, Cheng Haoquan, and Mei Jingshan!

However, what put him slightly at ease was that two more hotpot restaurants would definitely open by the end of the month.

Next month, Jiuxiang Catering as a whole shouldn't lose much on paper, and might even have a chance to break even.

To him, breaking even was a huge win!