Chapter two hundred and seventy-three, the transformation of conveyor belt sushi
In this way, a new investment project was sent directly to the acquisition of a sushi restaurant.
In fact, many Japanese businesses have a unique phenomenon, that is, although it is of high quality, famous and expensive, it is actually not large in scale, and is often a portal store passed down from generation to generation. Just say that this sushi is really a ranking of sushi restaurants in Japan, the top five are all a single store in the country, with only a dozen seats, but each piece of sushi can be bought with tens of thousands of yen and there is a limited quantity.
This is of course closely related to the spirit of craftsmanship. Looking around the world, when people mention this spirit, the first thing they think of is Japan, and then Germany.
The so-called craftsman spirit, to a macro perspective, is the concept of only doing one thing in your life and doing it to the extreme. Alice vaguely remembers that the Central Bank of Korea conducted a statistics in 2008, and made statistics on century-old stores in 41 countries around the world: There are currently 5,586 old stores in the world that have been operating for more than 200 years. Among them, there are as many as 3,146 traditional old stores in Japan.
In fact, it is actually considered that the Hehui Sushi restaurant of Ishida Yahiko opened around the world, which has a history of 100 years ago, which may be quite exaggerated worldwide, but it is not a great existence in this small country in Japan. This is comparable to the national pong players who "winned the Olympic champion but failed to win the National Games championship."
And in fact, for projects like sushi restaurants, Alice really doesn’t have a good development plan. After all, this is just an ordinary restaurant. If it is McDonald’s and KFC, even Yoshinoya or Xiabu Xiabu, Alice can come up with some corresponding business policies, but if it is something like sushi...
"The chain problem is easy to talk about. It is also feasible to use people-friendly sushi to attract civilians rather than dignitaries as customers."
It is still in the Crystal Building in Ginza, in the Hehui Sushi Restaurant on the 19th floor of the entire building, and in the luxurious private room it is specially prepared for VIP customers. Alice analyzed for President Ishida.
"Actually, to be honest, the catering industry has an advantage that almost all other industries cannot match. Ishida Sang, do you know what it is?"
At this moment, what makes Alice happy the most is the relationship between superiors and subordinates of Japan. Although she is also a big shot, she is really just a little girl on the surface, and Ishida is also a successful businessman and company boss. Now she is chatting with herself respectfully. Such a scene is too difficult to enjoy in the United States.
“Advantage…”
In this way, Ishida thought for a little while and said respectfully: "I would like to give you advice."
"It's just a necessity. People can stop watching movies, changing computers, playing in amusement parks, or even reducing the number of travel, changing cheaper houses to live in, and buying clothes can also decrease, but they must not stop eating."
"Sushi may be average internationally, but for the Japanese, it is just your most daily food. No matter how poor or miserable the people, no matter how economically underdeveloped the people, will not refuse to go to a cheap and affordable sushi restaurant. It can even be said that once the country ushers in an underdeveloped period, affordable and affordable restaurants will make a lot of money, because it has attracted the original wealthy people!"
Ishida kept thinking deeply and nodding from the bottom of his heart: "Yes, just as my father praised Mr. Sam Walton so much, the affordable and chain strategy actually brought Walmart to this level now!"
"Well... it will succeed not only by these two tactics."
Alice smiled and waved her hand, then touched her belly: "By the way, it seems that I have killed all the food for both of them. How to do you have not eaten enough yet, are you?"
"Hey? Hey!? Ah!"
"Well, I'm not full, so Ishida Sang, let's have a good meal before we continue to discuss investment matters. Then I'll pay the bills for two servings of sushi."
This meal lasted for two hours. During this period, Alice naturally had a simple and easy-to-understand understanding of everything, and discussed each other's future with Ishida in a deep and deep way. The dishes on the table were also constantly passing by everyone like a lantern, and there was almost no time to stop.
The method is to have enough food, but no matter how much sushi the waiter serves, Alice can handle them all in one bite or two, and chew them very fast. At the same time, the sushi rolls are all small-shaped and convenient for a bite. Various kinds of fancy arrangements, including Arctic shells, are all ingredients that are of high quality and not heavy. The result is that the lunch feast in the eyes of other Japanese people has become the melon seeds when Alice chats.
"Then, I will buy the entire enterprise, which is a total price of US$4 million, accounting for 75% of the shares, and the rest is still yours."
When lunch was eaten alive and became afternoon tea, Alice finally stopped ordering, and the first negotiation with President Ishida also made preliminary progress. On a flat A4 paper, Alice wrote a record.
Ishida sat aside, looking obviously very excited.
The reason is very simple. The right time, place and people have put his store in trouble, so he had to sell the family store from his great-grandfather's era. This is undoubtedly a very shocking person. But at the same time, when a whole store is sold for $4 million, such a price that he can fully accept, he can still own a quarter of the shares he was given, which is undoubtedly another unexpected surprise from heaven!
"You are so kind, Alice Sand."
Seeing Alice writing neatly and gracefully in Japanese and English languages, Ishida said: "After buying the store, I not only gave me shares, but also had a full quarter of the share. This is really... "
"Well~ Let's win-win cooperation."
Alice smiled indifferently and said, "Don't forget, Ishida Sang, I am not your local Japanese restaurant tycoon. Even if you buy all your stores, don't you have to let someone run them? Then, who do you think you can run them? How can you feel more at ease than if you were the founder of the company?"
After writing this document briefly, she handed it to Ishida for him to sign, and at the same time began to write another one: "As for future business policies, I will give you a plan in a few days, but it would be nice to tell you orally now, what do you think?"
Ishida was slowly writing his signature, but he was stunned when he heard this: "You have come up with it now?"
"Well~ It's very simple. First of all, the sushi restaurants in your country should have a type of slal sushi, right?"
When Ishida heard this, his eyebrows raised: "Ah, that's right, this is indeed a relatively friendly way of business! That's what you want to say?"
The slewing sushi restaurant is a little bit known to almost every Japanese. Although its formal development has only been a mere thirty years, its source can be traced back a long time ago.
According to legend, in the Edo period of Japan, a method of tasting noodles began to appear: use bamboo slices to drain the spring water into the circular stone trough, and then put the noodles into the stone trough. This is the famous "flowing water cold noodles". The noodles rotate along the flowing water in the stone trough. It is indeed not easy to pick up the noodles accurately with chopsticks, but it is undoubtedly a fun way to eat. This is one of the prototypes of modern rotary sushi.
To talk about the official appearance of the sushi restaurant, it was the Sora Sushi of a sushi restaurant operator at the beginning of this century, Shiraishi Yoshiaki's Sora Sushi. It was after World War II, when there was a shortage of labor across the country, and the sushi restaurants that Shiraishi operated at that time were also facing insufficient staff. But later, when he saw the beer bottle transport belt of Asahi Brewery, he had an idea and cited this concept into the sushi restaurant. After five years of development, Shiraishi finally opened the first swing sushi restaurant in Osaka in 1958, and then the famous Sora Sushi of the whole country!
"The problem with transport belts is easy to talk about. I also have a little understanding of the sushi restaurant industry."
I was thinking about my experience when I went back to sushi restaurants in my previous life. Alice plagiarized without hesitation: "As many people have discussed, the ideal speed of sushi transport belt is eight centimeters per second, which ensures safety during transportation and takes into account the passenger flow. At this point, let's follow this method."
"Is it eight centimeters per second..."
However, Ishida was a little puzzled. What many people have discussed? Although I have never operated slalom sushi, I am a person in the industry. Have many people discussed the issue of eight centimeters? Why don’t I have any impression?
"Then, most slewing sushi restaurants are single conveyor belts, with all the guests shoulder to shoulder. This method is fine for single people and couples, but if you are group guests, it is too inconvenient. Therefore, we add tables in the appropriate place next to the conveyor belt, and each table can sit up to six people. In this way, when the same number of customers are supplied, the length required for the conveyor belt can also be reduced."
Is this really the case?
After all, Ishida felt a little confused because he had never operated a rotating sushi. Are these data a little too accurate? But he is a person in the industry and thought about that situation in his mind... It seems that this is true?
"Furthermore, just like the Yuanlu Sushi, the transport belt flows clockwise, so that most right-handed customers can lift the plate on the transport belt with their left hand while holding chopsticks in their right hand."
Ishida can be sure that the conveyor belt of Yuanlu Sushi is indeed in this direction.
While speaking, both documents were signed. Of course, this was not a contract after all. Looking at the English and Japanese fonts on his own, Ishida sighed with emotion, then looked up and asked, "So Alice San, since you bought our Hehui, do you have any plans to change your name?"
Alice blinked, picked up the juice and snuffed: "If your old father allows it, then call it He Lu, and it hasn't changed too much, right?"
Chapter completed!