Liang’s Snacks also placed a ballot box at the entrance and prepared some menu items that Liang Quan could make but hadn’t implemented yet, for customers to choose and vote on.

The promise is that the menu inside the shop will change once a month, and everyone is welcome to taste and provide valuable feedback in order to improve and perfect it.

After all, it’s still in the exploratory stage, so customers are more tolerant than expected. Coupled with the cleanliness of the shop, it’s reassuring, so in just the first week of opening, their daily sales reached seventy to eighty thousand yuan, and this didn’t even include nearly a hundred pounds of spicy strips they gave away daily!

The total profit reached forty percent, meaning if they earn ten thousand yuan, they make four thousand yuan. After all, it’s a shop; rent, utilities, and staff wages (part-time workers) all have to be factored in, so it’s not as high in profit as a street stall, but relatively more stable. At the end of the day, as long as they work steadily, after restoring the original prices, they can easily make four to five thousand yuan.

Their pricing follows industry standards, without excessive fees: soy milk is two yuan a cup, wild vegetable soup and bean paste noodles are five yuan a bowl, tea eggs are one yuan each, and moon bread varies from three to six yuan depending on the added ingredients. For example, with just spicy strips, it’s three yuan; if adding an egg, it’s four yuan; beef makes it six yuan. Pan-fried buns are ten for five yuan, and spicy strips remain ten yuan per pound, with a complimentary packaging box.

The snack varieties he set up by the ballot box are also based on tastes from across the country, with items gradually added or removed. Not everything can be changed all at once. First, they open for a month, observe and ask about preferences, and then make improvements.

After a week’s worth of publicity, Liang Ji’s customer flow has become quite stable, with regular customers coming after seeing updates on social media and videos.

Liang Quan prepares the pan-fried buns, while Song Ge and Wen Fang are in the front organizing the sales. There’s an aunt hired specifically for collecting and washing dishes. Liang Quan doesn’t intend for his own wife and mother to do such work; they only need to package and serve the food to customers. Part-time workers get twenty yuan an hour, from 6:30 to 8:00 AM and 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, earning sixty yuan over three hours. Liang Quan feels it’s quite fair, with payments settled every ten days.

Fewer customers come in the evening, so they can handle things themselves. However, Wen Fang still needs to go home to take care of the children in the evenings. If it really gets too busy, they can call the aunts, who can come almost immediately because they pay promptly without any delays, making everyone willing to cooperate.

Since they serve breakfast, they need to work until around ten at night and get up at three or four in the morning to prepare the dough, which is very tiring. They earn hard-earned money, but being together as a family is the greatest happiness.

The customers are very forgiving; nobody rushed them when they were slow initially. It’s because of their goodwill that business stabilized within three months, even achieving a monthly profit of forty to fifty thousand yuan. However, this fast-paced work began to overwhelm Song Ge.

So Liang Quan asked her to rest at home, but she didn’t want to. So she helps in the morning during meal prep and then returns home without having to come back. Later, they hired a young man as a full-time worker with a monthly salary of three thousand yuan. With a strong young man helping out, efficiency improved significantly.

Sometimes their son, after school, also helped in the store, packaging food for customers. As Liang Quan puts it, he can’t coddle him from a young age; he needs to understand the difficulty of earning money. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Liang Quan is considerate of his family’s health. When Wen Fang has her period, he lets Song Ge come and help for a few days, with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law taking turns to rest.

This seemingly casual act deeply touched Wen Fang, especially since her mother-in-law was willing to cooperate and even cared for her. How fortunate to marry into such a family!

In summer, the shop offers popular summer snacks like cold rice noodles, cold noodles, and cold jelly. With the exquisite cooking skills accumulated by Liang Quan over several lifetimes, they attracted numerous customers to come check in and spread the word. Later, the added meat buns became very popular, and the iced sour plum soup and pear soup he made himself after summer began were very popular, selling no less than ice cream.

The Liang Family values sincerity, so after running the snack shop for a year, they had saved a million and bought a multi-thousand yuan Wuling Hongguang for daily vegetable transport for the shop. At the end of the year, they used the one million yuan to buy a three-bedroom, two-living room commercial house. The interest on the second house required a monthly payment of two to three thousand yuan, totaling eight thousand yuan in interest, which worried Song Ge a lot.