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Chapter 357 Mr. Chen wants to reward us

Jiang City.

Tomorrow Group.

Chen Mo arrived at the CEO's office early.

“CEO Chen, this is the Nanhe Coffee revenue and expenditure report you requested for the past few days.”

As soon as he sat down,

Shen Rou walked over with a stack of documents.

Chen Mo took the documents and quickly flipped through them.

When he returned to Jiang City yesterday, he had already informed Shen Rou to compile Nanhe Coffee's recent revenue and expenditure report.

After a while,

He tossed the documents onto the desk, his face filled with conflict.

The situation of Nanhe Coffee in Jiang City was largely as he expected; due to the lower consumption here, Nanhe Coffee's customer traffic was not as high as in the capital.

But even so, the daily revenue was around 3,000.

That amounted to about 90,000 per month.

Currently, Nanhe Coffee's monthly expenses, excluding rent, but including employee salaries, electricity and water bills, and some consumable purchases, were approximately 130,000 yuan.

If calculated this way,

Nanhe Coffee in Jiang City was still operating at a loss, with a monthly deficit of nearly 40,000 yuan.

There were a total of 20 coffee shops in Jiang City, and after removing two special coffee shops, that left 18 boutique coffee shops.

18 Nanhe Coffee shops combined would only lose over 700,000 yuan a month.

But if he opened more, say 100 shops, the monthly loss would be 4 million. 500 shops would mean a monthly loss of 20 million.

If calculated this way, continuing to operate Nanhe Coffee was not a bad option.

Of course, the next location selection would have to be in cities with lower consumption, like Jiang City.

However, this was only based on the best-case scenario, assuming no further unforeseen circumstances would arise.

But would unforeseen circumstances arise? Chen Mo was very uncertain.

After all, he had been very confident before that as long as Nanhe Coffee continued to develop, it would definitely become one of his biggest loss-making ventures.

But now?

A pastry set directly shattered his illusion.

Thinking of this,

Chen Mo gritted his teeth in frustration, looking at the two names crossed out on the notebook beside him.

Song Xia, Su Dan.

That's right, it was these two people. He had already found out through a phone call yesterday.

The pastry set.

It was these two who came up with it.

Especially Song Xia, how could you betray my trust like this? Is this how you repay me?

Where did your ability to manage a milk tea shop go? You had the ability to run a milk tea shop into bankruptcy, but you can't bankrupt a coffee shop?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

Chen Mo rubbed his temples, a headache brewing.

He now faced a choice: if he continued to expand Nanhe Coffee, as long as he avoided high-consumption areas, he could still ensure it lost money, though not a lot. However, once the number of coffee shops reached a certain point,

The amount of loss would still be quite substantial.

But this also carried a risk: if another unpredictable incident occurred with Nanhe Coffee, causing it to become fully profitable,

Then he would have an additional profitable venture.

And the more shops there were, the more profit there would be.

He was a bit indecisive about how to choose.

“Host reminder: It has been detected that the coffee shop's revenue has increased, lifting the restriction of only being able to open 5 shops per month. Beyond the five shops, the income from the coffee shops can be used to expand new shops.”

Just as he found it difficult to make a choice,

The system's voice suddenly rang out.

Listening to the system's voice, Chen Mo fell into contemplation.

If the coffee shop became profitable, the restriction on the number of shops would be lifted, and all the coffee shop's revenue could be invested in expanding new coffee shops.

Didn't this mean that,

Even if the coffee shop made a profit, he could still spend the revenue by opening new shops, effectively re-spending it.

Wouldn't this be equivalent to not making a profit? He wouldn't have to find other ways to spend the coffee shop's revenue.

Of course, when the coffee shop expanded to a certain extent and could no longer expand, there would be no other options.

A huge amount of revenue would flow into the company's account, becoming system funds.

But the domestic market was so large, and he could also enter international markets, eventually expanding globally, which would take several years.

And for these few years, he wouldn't settle much, treating it as only one full settlement.

His personal assets,

Would at least reach tens of millions.

So why worry so much about things a few years down the line?

After figuring this out, Chen Mo made a decision: to continue expanding Nanhe Coffee.

Of course,

This time, he also had to establish rules; if it was possible to prevent the coffee shop from becoming profitable, it should still be avoided.

After thinking this through, he immediately called Song Xia and told her and Su Dan to come to the group for a meeting today.

These two people were directly added to his 'Sixth Sense Manual'.

As the names in the 'Sixth Sense Manual' grew, Chen Mo felt an increasing headache. Some people on that list were once individuals he trusted deeply.

For example: Fang Chang.

Yet, he was the one who backstabbed him the most. Currently, the number of players in Limit Survival has exceeded ten million, officially becoming a trending game.

Its monthly revenue had already surpassed 100 million.

Chen Mo sighed deeply, “These ‘Sixth Sense’ types are truly impossible to guard against!”

Each one was more deeply hidden than the last.

Looking at Song Xia's and Su Dan's names in the notebook, he decided these two newly added ‘Sixth Sense’ types could not be let off easily.

They must be properly punished.

…………

Nanhe Coffee Main Shop,

Song Xia slowly hung up the phone and turned to Su Dan beside her.

“Teacher Su, CEO Chen wants us to go to a meeting.”

“When?”

“Right now.”

“So urgent? Did something important happen?”

Su Dan looked puzzled; it was her first time seeing CEO Chen so anxious for a meeting.

“I don't know, I guess CEO Chen probably knows about the current situation of the coffee shop.”

Song Xia guessed, looking at the customers dining in the shop.

“But didn't we haven't reported yet?”

“Perhaps CEO Chen has always been following the situation of Nanhe Coffee, so he knew as soon as he returned from the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.”

Song Xia's expression was a bit disappointed.

Indeed, after Nanhe Coffee introduced the pastry set, it had significantly increased customer traffic.

However, the daily revenue had not yet reached the point of turning a profit.

So, these days, she and Teacher Su had been trying to find ways to attract more customers and make Nanhe Coffee completely profitable.

Then, they would report the good news of Nanhe Coffee turning a profit to CEO Chen, which would be a big surprise.

But before Nanhe Coffee even turned a profit, CEO Chen already knew the news.

The surprise couldn't be prepared now.

Song Xia sighed regretfully.

“Let’s go, CEO Chen is waiting at the group.”

“Okay!”

Su Dan nodded.

The two walked out of the Nanhe Coffee Main Shop, then headed to the parking lot and got into a car.

This car was purchased from the 4S shop last time, Su Dan's company car.

As for her own company car, it was parked at home, as she didn't have a driver's license yet and couldn't drive it.

“Teacher Su, do you think CEO Chen is in such a hurry to see us because he wants to reward us?”

Song Xia sat in the passenger seat and guessed.

“Perhaps!”

Su Dan pondered for a moment and slowly nodded.

After all, CEO Chen was famously good to his employees within the group, and the previous collective car allocation was a good example.

And now they had directly changed Nanhe Coffee's severely loss-making state, even having a great chance of turning a profit.

It was not impossible for CEO Chen to reward them for this.

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