It is difficult to open a small restaurant.
Character: sporkin
Summer experience: open a small restaurant to deliver takeout to the dormitory.
When I think of that entrepreneurial experience, the picture is still fixed in the drunken excitement after the opening ceremony in the summer of 2005.
Opening a small restaurant was a very accidental decision. During the summer vacation, I originally planned to set up a "source studio" with three buddies. After the start of school, I gave my classmates a membership card, and the back of the card provided discount information for barbershops and restaurants around the school. In this way, students can enjoy discounts with this card, and businesses can advertise for free. In the heat, we visited barber shops and restaurants one after another. Once, when selling our ideas to a slightly upscale restaurant manager, the manager kept listening to me, without interrupting or making any noise. I don't know how long it took. In short, after a long time, the manager said "no need" and ended everything. I'm depressed. Just as the "source studio" groped a little, I met an opportunity.
One day, the three of us went to the small restaurant opposite the school to eat dumplings as usual. Later, I chatted with the boss of the glutinous rice ball and learned that they only cooked breakfast, and the restaurant was empty in the afternoon and evening. And I know that after school starts, many boys play games in the dormitory and don't want to go downstairs to buy rice-make bibimbap and deliver takeout. This market is definitely there, and it is very big. Besides, we are students, and take-out can be sent to school. In the evening, we quickly drafted a contract and named the restaurant "Yuandian Restaurant". The next day, it was delivered to the owner of the glutinous rice balls. The boss of Tangyuan was surprised: "I thought you were just talking."
Their rent here is not expensive. The three of us contributed nearly 40 thousand, and I accounted for half. They each accounted for 1/4. I decorated it myself and hired a chef. The money I invested mainly came from my savings from selling mobile cards before. Decoration is not an easy task. The kitchen is dirty and the dust on the ground is as thick as a dictionary. We shoveled it off with a shovel.
Finally, it was the opening day, and several tables were set up. The students who stayed at school sent flowers, firecrackers and red envelopes. Actually, I don't care about money. They are all students, even if they are loaded with coins. But this is the first time I have received a red envelope since I was a child, and my heart is full of joy. I was drunk that night and many people passed out. I was carried back. Finally, in addition to the banquet money, the red envelope gift is actually earned. The exciting day has passed, and the hard days are yet to come.
We consulted some hotel owners and learned that we must do our own grocery shopping and cashier, and we are not worried about hiring someone to do it. Later, I learned that farmers will sell their own vegetables at the entrance of the vegetable market near the school at five or six in the morning, and the price is more than half cheaper than during the day. We found a tricycle, and three people took turns getting up early to buy food. In those days, at dawn every day, I struggled to get up from my sleep and rode a tricycle. It was difficult to ride a tricycle for the first time. It took 30 minutes to walk 10 minutes.
Business has been good since the beginning of school. Many students sleep late, so we are open until 12 pm. Moreover, my classmates always called for drinking, and I was drunk almost every day for a while. The next morning, I had to put up with my headache and get up early to buy food. Originally, I hired my aunt to wash the dishes, but I really couldn't stand the labor intensity and went back. Later, we had to wash it ourselves. After the school started, we also printed leaflets and sent them to every dormitory. Go to the restaurant as soon as you have time after school.
In this way, from the summer vacation, it lasted for a semester, and finally the hotel ended in house demolition. In fact, we feel too tired.
Although the work is hard, I have gained a lot. Not only does it take a semester to get home with food, clothing, housing and transportation, but you also know that such a seemingly simple thing will have so many difficulties to do. And to do one thing well, we must persist.
Reporter's Note: His story is very true and frank. Now Spokane sells mobile phones online. My sister in Shanghai has a direct source of goods, earning two or three thousand a month. In the future, he wants to do his own marketing. This summer, he signed up for the IELTS English class, saying that if he wants to do global marketing in the future, his English must be excellent.
The Play website is managed by two people.
Character: Zheng
Summer experience: I founded Mi Pang. I am looking for angel investment this summer. I plan to modify the website.
Sophomore summer vacation to play in Inner Mongolia, the classmate is a herdsman's child. We were able to stay in the herdsmen's home in the depths of the grassland for a week, drinking milk tea, milk wine and milk tofu, and riding horses on the grassland. A neighbor who keeps sheep traded his sheep for tomatoes and eggs and cooked us a rare dish: scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The first self-help tour left me unforgettable memories.
What a pleasant thing it would be if people traveling around the world shared their interesting things! When I go to Inner Mongolia, I can follow the route I went last time and see how to take the bus. You can ride the grassland and drink a big bowl like me. If you go to Hainan, you can know which shops have delicious food and which beautiful beaches are unknown. My friend Pubi and I are both travel lovers. Last summer vacation, we decided to build such a website. Of course, besides hobbies, we also have ambitions and earn millions.
When I named the website, I thought of "Mi Pang" in Sanmen, Taizhou, my hometown. Every time the Chinese New Year approaches, every household takes the best rice. The master pours the rice into a special pressure tank and burns it fiercely with charcoal fire. After a loud noise, chubby rice came out in vain.
Last summer vacation, Pubby and I mobilized our parents to "invest" 65,438+10,000 yuan and registered the company. The English name of malmam Company is taken from the first letter of the proverb "Many a mickle makes a mickle". This also shows our belief that a little thing can make our dreams come true. You look simple now, but in fact, we have figured everything out.
During the design process, I gradually learned about many famous websites: 43places, flickr and Douban, but in the end we decided to follow the simple style of google. Go to our homepage, fill in the place name you want to go in a box, and then press enter to see the photos and messages of people who have been and want to go.
Shortly after the website was founded, we received some invitations and acquisitions, including an invitation from a well-known company in Beijing, with a monthly salary of more than 5,000 yuan, but in the end we refused, because we could make Mipang well by ourselves. But now the rice fat is far from our imagination, and this summer vacation is a threshold. We plan to find the first angel investment and "change face" with Mi Pang at the same time. After the revision, different people (those who want to go and those who have been there) will have different rice fatness.
Reporter's Note: I logged on Mi Pang's website (mipang.com) and found it a very interesting place. Even the small noodle restaurant near Wangjiangmen in Hangzhou is under discussion. Zheng will become a graduate student majoring in sociology in Zhejiang University in September this year. He chose this major to study the virtual community similar to Mi Pang. Now "Mi Pang" is just a two-person company in the dormitory of Zijin Port, but their dreams are great.
The big boy runs a gym.
Character: Song Xing
Summer experience: Last summer, I started a gym with someone with the money I earned from street dance, but my partner quit and left him to support himself.