Chapter 7 Investigate the Market

Author: Fried Chicken Family Bucket

Chapter 7 Investigate the Market

After Xu Heping left, Xu An took out paper and pen from the bedroom and began to calculate.

Lunch boxes can be made at home. In this weather, there is no need for insulators. Two large foam boxes are enough. We only have oil, salt, soy sauce, and sugar at home, and we need to add a lot of seasonings. It is conservatively estimated that this part will cost 20 yuan.

Ten bucks, maybe.

You must have lunch boxes, take-out boxes, plastic bags, chopsticks and spoons, but these are not expensive, and you won’t need too much for your first try. You can get it for five yuan.

Next comes the most important thing, the food in the lunch box.

Xu An recalled the videos of lunch boxes sold at construction sites that he saw on short video platforms. They basically had three dishes, one meat dish, one half meat and half vegetarian, and one pure vegetarian.

Then calculate the amount of ten servings according to this configuration.

For meat dishes, let’s start with braised pork. A box lunch plus juice is about 20 taels. Two kilos of raw meat is enough. If you want to make braised pork, you have to use pork belly, which is more expensive and costs 13 kilograms or 2 kilograms.

That's twenty-six yuan.

Half meat and half vegetarian, just have a tomato scrambled egg, there are tomatoes in your own field. You can buy a plate of eggs directly, and you can also eat them at home on weekdays, a total of twelve yuan.

The last vegetarian dish is stir-fried baby cabbage, which is refreshing and refreshing to relieve fatigue.

According to statistics, the total cost is 63 yuan, and the cost of food is 38 yuan. After discounting the home-grown vegetables, the cost is about 45 yuan.

The greater the quantity purchased, the lower the cost. If a certain quantity can be purchased every day, the purchase price of meat and vegetables can be reduced by two or three yuan per catty, and the overall cost can be reduced by ten or eight yuan.

I just don’t know what the appropriate price is for lunch boxes. If the price is too high, the workers won’t buy it.

Until he graduated and started working, Xu An had never eaten lunch boxes outside. He either cooked by himself or ate from the canteen. He had no idea about the prices of fast food lunch boxes at that time.

I would eat a packed lunch after work, but in 2016 a packed lunch cost 15 yuan. At this price, there was no way to survive on a construction site.

It's better to go to the construction site and inquire about the situation before making a decision.

When I went to Xu Heping's home, General Tie guarded the door, but he didn't go home and went to play somewhere.

After wandering around the village, I finally found someone under the banyan tree at the head of the village. He was happily playing marbles with a group of seven or eight-year-old children. It looked like he had won a lot. There was a pile of marbles piled beside his feet.

beads.

"Peace, I'm going to wander around the construction site to see what food there is. Do you want to go?"

"Go, go, go, wait until I finish playing this game, I will almost win."

I knew Xu Heping was talking about going, but it sounded like he was letting himself go.

After waiting for two minutes, Xu Heping finally won the round and left with Xu An with two pockets full of marbles in the eyes of the children's resentful eyes.

It takes half an hour from the village to the town, and half an hour from the town to the construction site in the city.

Xujia Village is not big. If you go back three or four generations, you will find that their village is composed of immigrants.

My grandfather's generation suffered a famine in Xujiacun, and the army moved all the way south. Two brothers chose to settle in this desolate place near the sea.

After years of cultivation and cultivation, from the beginning of two families to more than 20 families, it has become today's Xujia Village.

There is a bus stop outside Xujiacun. There are buses to the city at seven in the morning, eleven in the afternoon, and twelve in the afternoon. The two of them happened to catch the twelve o'clock bus.

After Xu Heping got in the car, he took out the marbles in his pocket and counted them one by one. After counting the last marble, he beamed and wanted to share the joy of his victory with Xu An, but found that Xu An looked distressed.

"What are you thinking about Anzi?"

Xu An expressed his thoughts. Xu Heping's eyes lit up when he heard this. He patted his chest and recommended himself: "I don't know how to cook, but I can still get started."

Then he sold his fish pond again.

"This can be considered serious business. I'll ask my parents for some sponsorship when I go home in the evening. Forget about the money, I should be able to get some fish."

Xu An understood what Xu Heping was thinking. He was not a money-giving boy who randomly gave away his fish to others. He just knew his current predicament and wanted to help him as much as possible.

"I appreciate your kindness, but this is a business, and one yard is another yard. If you really want to use fish, you have to calculate the price, and it will be as much as it should be."

"If you don't want to buy something for free, there's something wrong with your brain."

"Brothers settle accounts, this is not like eating once and a half on weekdays. If business really starts, there will be a lot of fish used."

"Okay, okay, I can't explain the truth. I'll ask them for a preferential price from the main office."

Seeing Xu Heping's nonchalant look, Xu An knew that this boy didn't listen to what he said.

The plan to sell box lunches is still being conceived, and even if it comes to fruition, it doesn't necessarily need to use fish. If fish is really used, just skip this kid and communicate with his parents.

The bus passed by a construction site where foundations were being laid. This geographical location gave Xu An an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Xu Heping noticed Xu An's gaze and looked out the window: "Isn't this the construction site where Uncle Dongliang works? It seems that a residential area is going to be built. It seems to be called Bauhinia Garden."

Bauhinia Garden!

Xu An finally remembered that he would pass by here every year when he went home during the winter and summer vacations in college. He watched the place go from being desolate at the beginning to the bustle of people in the back, and watched the house prices here rise from 5,000 per square meter to 20,000 per square meter.

Square meters, which is 3,000 yuan per square meter higher than other surrounding communities.

Because this community includes residential, commercial, educational and medical facilities, it can fully meet the daily needs of all residents in the community.

The most important thing is that the construction site in this community is large enough, there are enough workers, and the construction period is long enough. It will not happen that you just work for a month or two, get familiar with each other, then the project is over, and you have to find a new construction site.

A new round of business.

The first phase of houses will be pre-sold in March next year. After more and more people come here to buy houses, various snack streets and commercial streets begin to form in the surrounding area.

It's still a deserted place now, with little competition, but high demand.

This is a very good choice.

After coming out of the city bus station, the two of them got on the bus and only drove two stops when they came across a construction site.

There is security at the entrance of the construction site, so it is still difficult to sneak in. But it is the break time at noon, and there are many workers wandering outside the construction site.

Xu An stared at a simple and honest man sitting in the shade of a tree outside the construction site, eating a lunch box.

This man's dark, wrinkled face and his deformed hands like cattail fans are all proof that he has been working on the construction site for many years.

Most of the lunch box has been destroyed, and the dishes can be inferred from the remaining meals.

The lunch box is divided into two compartments, the larger compartment contains white rice, and the smaller compartment contains stir-fried cabbage and half a chicken drumstick.

He took out a box of Double Happiness bought at a small shop in the village from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to the man. While the man took the cigarette, he squatted next to him.

"Brother, are you working at this construction site? How are the conditions at this construction site?"

The two men finished the lunch in two mouths, carefully gathering every grain of rice in the lunch box together and putting it into their mouths. Then they licked their chopsticks with lingering interest and stacked the lunch box with the clean and new lunch box on the ground.

"The treatment is not bad, otherwise I wouldn't come all the way to work on this construction site."

"The lunch box you just ate was provided by the construction site. The dishes looked pretty good, and there were even chicken legs."

The man made a 'cut' sound with some disdain in his voice.

"You have seen the chicken legs, how could they be food at the construction site? I have traveled around for more than ten years and worked in 20 or 30 construction sites, large and small. At no construction site, there are large pieces of meat in the food, and there are pieces of meat floating on it.

A layer of oil and water would be considered good.”

Xu Anxin felt relieved, but knowingly asked: "What was that lunch box just now?"

"Hey, did you see that Happy Restaurant across the street? I bought it from there. Those who work on the construction site need a lot of strength, and they don't have the strength that comes from oil and water. You still have to eat meat every now and then, otherwise

I don’t have the energy to work.”

"Why don't you eat in the store? The weather is so hot now. If you eat in the store, you can blow on the fan and drink free soup."

"You two look like raw melons and eggs at first glance. You have never worked on a construction site." The uncle put the cigarette he had been playing with behind his ears, and then continued: "You know what a construction site is, as long as you work for one hour,

White clothes turn black, black clothes turn white, and the dust falls off when we walk. If we go into the store to eat, we only need three or two, and then the boss will not want to do other people's business."

As he said this, the man suddenly smiled.

"Although we are not allowed to go in and sit and eat, the boss will give us an extra box of white rice as compensation. If we sit on the roadside and eat, we can get a box of rice for free, so we won't lose anything."

Looking at the man's proud and sly smile, Xu An was a little speechless. Most of the workers on this construction site are honest, hard-working and capable middle-aged people. They all come from poor areas and left their hometowns just to be able to work.

Make more money.

As for discrimination, they don't care at all. In their minds, a box of white rice is worth much more than sitting in a store blowing a fan.

"How much does this meal cost?"

Hearing Xu An's inquiry, the man's face showed a look of pain.

"It's not cheap. Anything with meat costs eight yuan a portion."

After handing the man another cigarette, the two stood up and left.

In one afternoon, the two visited four or five construction sites. Some construction sites refused to allow entry and the workers ignored them. The workers at some construction sites were very enthusiastic. When they heard Xu An's questions, they gathered around and talked in all kinds of ways.

Based on what you know.

After some investigation, Xu An also learned about the pricing of lunch boxes near the construction site. One meat and one vegetable costs eight yuan, two vegetarian dishes only cost six yuan, and an additional box of white rice costs one yuan.

If you want to tempt the workers, buying a lunch box from a small stall with meat and vegetables is the key, and it is best to have something that can tempt them.

What makes the workers excited is naturally that there should be plenty of food, plenty of rice, and preferably there should be soup to warm the stomach and soothe the mind.

The specifications of the lunch box have been decided, three dishes and one soup, and among the three dishes there must be a large meat dish! The price is tentatively set at eight yuan, with small profits but quick turnover.

No matter which construction site it is, workers have a high demand for lunch boxes. As long as they can open up the situation, they are not afraid of not making money.
Chapter completed!