It seems Uncle Carpenter has done this kind of thing quite a lot.
Anyway, Lin Wan is especially happy today. She was worried about not having enough funds, but unexpectedly, she not only got a table and chairs for free but also earned a hundred.
Lin Wan directly took the more than one hundred yuan and went to the place where she originally bought the stoves.
She ordered twenty-eight stoves according to her own measurements.
At five yuan per stove, it turned out that she only spent forty yuan today to fix both the seating and the stoves.
After handling this, Lin Wan found a restaurant for a simple lunch and then went on to order the store sign. Meanwhile, three wall partitions had already been built in the shop this afternoon. At this rate, it will be completed in a few days.
Lin Yinghui and Lin Wan have been busy in the hot pot restaurant for more than ten days, finally getting something presentable.
In the hall, upon entering, it’s divided into three vertical rows, with a half-person-high wall separating the tables and chairs alongside the walls. The middle row doesn’t have any walls, making it more spacious.
On the walls of the hall, Lin Wan showcased her drawing skills, painting the origin and advantages of hot pot, along with an aunt carrying a basket of chili peppers. It’s quite lively, giving people a refreshing impression when they walk in.
It’s worth noting that, in this era, no one has ever designed a restaurant .
Although it’s common in the future, Lin Wan just loves this kind of style.
Against the wall in the kitchen is the front desk, with a table placed there.
In the small courtyard at the back, Lin Wan leaned against the back wall and built two small private rooms with bricks.
In the remaining space, Lin Wan planted flowers and grass.
Altogether, there are seven rooms on two levels. Lin Wan gave them names: the two below are Auspicious Pavilion and Ruyi Pavilion, and the five above are Fulu Pavilion, Gongcheng Pavilion, Hengtong Pavilion, Xiangrui Pavilion, and Xiqing Pavilion.
After arranging all the chairs, Lin Wan posted a recruitment notice in front of the store.
The recruitment matter was left to her brother, while she wandered around the nearby vegetable market.
Upon reaching the market, Lin Wan found this vegetable market quite familiar; she used to come here often in her past life to buy groceries. It’s coincidental that this place is very close to Han Yi’s house, just a few hundred meters away.
Looking at the market that was both familiar and strange, Lin Wan felt a burst of joy, wondering if heaven was helping her be closer to Han Yi again.
Although she didn’t cook much in her past life, she knew which shop offered good deals and which ones had inaccurate scales.
Just on the variety of vegetables alone, Lin Wan researched for three days: shrimp, sliced pork, sliced lamb, a few varieties of dried mushrooms and agarics, five or six types of greens and potatoes, noodles, duck blood, tofu, duck intestines, chicken gizzards, tripes, and tofu skin. After searching for a long time, there were only two families selling them, at three yuan per pound. This item is delicious, and people will eat it despite the price. However, there aren’t any meatballs on the market; they need to be made by herself.
After setting the menu, Lin Wan bought a bit of each dish, rented a camera from the photo studio for a day, and spent a day at home messing around, taking photos of these dishes.
Then she took them to the photo studio to process into one-inch color prints. One photo costs fifty cents. Alas, there’s no choice; color photos are rare, and even black-and-white photos will take until next year or the year after to become widespread. Afterward, Lin Wan bought some cardstock in the market and spent a day at home making twenty-three menus.
The total cost to open the new store was twelve hundred yuan: the rent was two hundred, stoves cost forty, workers and various odds and ends already took up two hundred.
Adding the tableware cost of over two hundred, she only had about three hundred yuan left in hand.
On her brother’s side, the people were almost recruited: two aunties in the kitchen for washing and plating dishes, Aunt Gui and Sister-in-law Liu, and a fifty-something dishwasher, Old Mrs. Yang.
Four waiters, three girls, and one boy, with one person in charge above and three people below.
Each of the dishwashing and plating aunties earns thirty-five, the dishwasher Yang Ma earns thirty, and each waiter earns thirty-eight. Meals are provided, but accommodation is not included.