HLnovel Chapter 136 Mingxianglou Opening
Chapter 136 Mingxianglou Opening
Not only were the waiters busy as hell, but the counter was also extremely busy.
Mingxianglou is having a grand opening sale and offering huge discounts on top-up.
Many people have never heard of recharge cards and are very curious about them.
After asking, I saw that it was a square copper piece, the size of a palm.
It is engraved with Bronze Member, Silver Member, Gold Member, and Super Member, and each membership card has a number ranging from 001 to 100.
Bronze members can get 10 taels for free if they top up 100 taels. The total amount of the cards is 110 taels, and there are 100 cards in total.
Silver members who recharge 200 taels will receive 30 taels for free. The total amount of cards is 230 taels, and there are 50 cards in total.
Gold members who recharge 500 taels will receive 80 taels. The total amount of the cards is 580 taels, and there are 20 cards in total.
Super members can get 200 taels for free if they recharge 1,000 taels. The total amount of the card is 1,200 taels, and there are only ten of them.
After the membership cards are sold out, there will be no more releases. Mingxianglou will only issue these 180 cards.
However, if the balance on a membership card is insufficient, people can still recharge it according to the discount.
Mingxianglou will record the detailed information of each card in a separate book.
Each consumption information and the balance after consumption will be re-recorded after the consumption on that day, and the cardholder also needs to sign and acknowledge the information on this page.
The cardholder can also transfer the card but needs to accompany the transferee to go through the name change procedure.
Cardholders need to keep the cards by themselves. Mingxianglou recognizes cards but not people, and does not confirm the identity of the signatory after consumption.
If the card is lost, the cardholder needs to go to Mingxianglou to sign a card suspension and transfer statement. Mingxianglou will cancel the original card according to the card number, and the cardholder will pay a replacement fee of five taels. The remaining balance will be transferred to the new card, and the new card will have a new number.
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The membership card system was clearly written in large letters and hung on the side of the counter.
Many people were so curious about the new membership that they issued many bronze and silver memberships and four gold memberships at once, but no one had applied for a super membership yet.
But this has made the shopkeeper Lu Dingle completely lost.
It's not even time to close yet, and the income from membership cards alone has already exceeded 10,000 taels...
Both floors of Mingxianglou were packed, and there were many people sitting outside. Lu Yanyan and her pastry team were very busy.
She had anticipated that business would be good on the opening day, so she prepared some cakes, salty pancakes, cloud cakes, the mooncakes that Lu Youtian had delivered earlier, and some other snacks, but they were all gone very quickly.
The best-selling item is cake. This novel pastry makes everyone who has tried it want another plate. The second best-selling item is preserved vegetable braised pork buns.
The pastries in most teahouses are Chinese-style high-sugar desserts, which will make you sick of them if you eat too much.
The snacks at Mingxianglou are not too sweet, but they are even more delicious when paired with the savory sesame cakes.
Chi Nai and the others were already sweating profusely. Lu Yanyan and Tao Jinzhi stepped forward to help, and only then were they able to barely meet the teahouse's requirements.
Qin Yuru had originally planned to launch cocoa beans today, but after seeing this situation, she didn't go to the waiter to promote it and decided to put it off until later.
Lu Baokun's voice was hoarse from talking. He had already told the first three chapters of "The Legend of the Assassin" twice, and was about to tell it for the third time. This was even more tiring for his voice than when he practiced singing.
Lu Youtian also saw that Lu Baokun could no longer hold on, so he quickly sent him away.
Those who haven't heard enough asked for another listen, saying they couldn't get enough.
Lu Youtian explained to everyone that Lu Baokun had already spoken many times and needed a rest so that he could bring more exciting content to everyone tomorrow, while also saying that there would be a fresh stage play performance.
A stage play performance?
The guests were even more surprised, what was that?
Then a clear and bright voice was heard: "Please enjoy the stage play "Miss Snow White"."
Accompanied by a burst of mournful piano music, a beautiful girl appeared in the center of the stage, telling in a sorrowful tone that her name was Bai Xue. Her mother died for no apparent reason when she was young, her father made a concubine his wife, and her stepmother was unkind...
The story ends after Bai Xue and her friends escape their stepmother's third pursuit.
A dozen young men and women on the stage bowed to the guests and thanked them.
That clear, bright voice rang out again: "Miss Snow White and her friends are determined to fight back against their stepmother. To find out what happened next, please listen to the next chapter."
There was deafening applause and cheers from the audience.
Originally, only some of the guests on the second floor could see the stage.
From the moment the first wave of exclamations rang out, some of the guests who couldn't see the stage ran over to watch. The more they watched, the more exciting it became, and they began to regret coming over too late.
Some people even went to the first floor to share a table with others in order to see more clearly.
The guests in the box felt as if they were being scratched by a cat's claws when they heard the cheers.
If I had known this earlier, I shouldn’t have relied on my status to ask for a private room.
Fortunately, these performances are held every day. Next time, I must sit on the first floor.
It was already very late, so no matter how reluctant we were, we had to leave.
But since we were leaving, we had to pack some pastries to take back.
Chi Nai and the others in the kitchen were busy again...
Finally, when the last few customers left, the store was already very dark, with only a few candles burning to provide barely any light.
As soon as the customers left, everyone in the teahouse, from the counter to the kitchen, from the waiter to Lu Youtian, sat down on the chairs to rest out of exhaustion.
In fact, they just had some cakes for lunch, and now it was dinner time, so they were all tired and hungry.
Lu Changping shouted to the people in the store that he was going to buy some food, and then ran away.
While running, Lu Changping wiped the sweat off his face.
Not only did he play the role of a waiter today, he was almost sent to the stage by his grandfather to perform martial arts with Han Huaixi's "flying over the eaves and walls, flowing like clouds and water". Fortunately, it got dark early.
Half an hour later, Lu Changping invited Lao Yang's Mutton Soup Restaurant in the south of the city to come over with its stall.
Everyone ate mutton soup with steamed buns in the dim light, and finally they breathed a sigh of relief.
After dinner, the waiters cleared the tables and chairs. Lu Ding and accountant Li counted the bill and were both surprised and happy.
Even though they saw that business was booming today, they didn't dare to imagine that the income would be so high.
Today, the membership card alone costs 18,300 taels.
The master said that this was an advance payment and could not be included.
But even without counting these, the income is still more than 1,800 taels.
Mingxianglou is an affordable teahouse, but it also sells the finest teas.
The most common Longjing tea costs only fifty cents per pot, while the most expensive Yunshan Green Snow Bud costs thirty taels per pot.
Of the more than 1,800 taels, more than 300 taels were money for Lu Yanyan's pastries.
The teahouse's own income is about 1,500 taels, which is already the highest income for a teahouse.
Lu Ding and Li the accountant did not know the cost of tea, but Lu Youtian and Qin Yuru knew it very well.
The gross profit here is at least 70%, and even after paying taxes, their net profit is still more than half.
Moreover, the freight of the Escort Agency alone accounted for more than 40% of the cost of tea this time. When the Lu family's caravan is established next time, the freight will be reduced a lot, and the profit will be even higher.
Lu Youtian was very happy and waved his hand, giving everyone in the store an extra 1 or 2 taels of silver as an opening bonus.
Lu Baokun, who had a hoarse voice, received three taels of bonus, not only that, but also the autumn pear paste prepared by Lu Youtian.
Lu Baokun instantly felt his strength coming back to him, and he could continue his lecture tomorrow.
Lu Youtian thoughtfully moved the stage play to tomorrow morning, and Lu Baokun would speak at the script in the afternoon.
On Lu Xing's side, Lu Youtian was given twenty taels.
Lu Xing accepted it with a smile, turned around and handed it to Lu Yanyan, asking Lu Yanyan to ask someone to deliver it to Ji'an School. Lu Yanyan agreed.
Lu Yanyan deducted 10% from the money given to the teahouse and took away 336 taels.
Chi Nai and others had already received the dividends distributed by Lu Youtian, so Lu Yanyan did not give them any additional dividends.
Lu Yanyan initially estimated that the cost of the 336 taels was around 120 taels, which was equivalent to earning more than 200 taels a day, which was really a huge profit.