Saturday.

Luke retired.

I slept until ten o'clock in the morning.

After getting up, I drank a pot of green tea. It was almost eleven o'clock.

Drive out to eat.

Luke drove to a nearby well-known chain hotpot restaurant, Shabu Tianxia.

The reason why Luke came to this hot pot restaurant was that he wanted to eat hot pot. Eating this food for two days in a row is easy to get angry, but not eating it for a week will make people miss it.

For another reason, Luke wanted to inspect this store to see if the franchise store was successful.

Luke now has more than 800,000 yuan in cash, which is enough capital for business. As long as the business is stable, it can also become a long-term cash flow channel.

Of course, it is still an immature idea now, and he also knows that doing business, especially cross-industry business, is not an easy task.

You might lose money.

Therefore, he will not invest easily without careful consideration.

This Shaan Tianxia restaurant is also a Sichuan-style hot pot. It specializes in butter hot pot and comes with four kinds of side dishes: duck blood, tofu skin, beef tripe, and quail eggs.

Choose your own condiments, oil dishes from the south, sesame sauce from the north.

There are all kinds of hot-pot dishes including mutton, beef, tripe, seafood, and seasonal vegetables.

There are also special dishes such as short crispy pork.

Because he had the idea of ​​opening a franchise store, Luke observed it very carefully, considering all aspects including customer flow, employees, dishes, decoration, etc.

After finishing the meal, I overall felt pretty good.

Luke's favorites are the tripe and short-flavored pork belly.

Luke also talked to the restaurant owner about franchising. The other party told some about the franchising situation, such as franchise fees, location selection, decoration, chefs and other corresponding rules.

There is a franchise fee every year.

The two stores should not be located too close together.

The decoration has a unified style.

Chefs, experienced chefs will be stationed in the store to provide guidance in the early stage, and the stir-fry ingredients will be distributed uniformly by the head office.

Luke did a rough calculation and found that the initial costs mainly came from three aspects, franchise fee, rent and decoration.

If you want to open a hot pot franchise store, the initial investment may be nearly 300,000 US dollars.

Another large expense is employee salaries, which is no less than US$40,000 per month.

Luke has $800,000 in savings, which is more than enough to invest in a hot pot franchise.

But he also faces many problems.

First of all, he has no experience.

Secondly, how long will it take to make normal profits?

After eating a hot pot meal, my stomach felt comfortable, but my heart became more and more uncertain.

He wants to invest in the hot pot business, firstly because he likes to eat hot pot.

Furthermore, compared to other types of dining, hot pot is relatively simple.

The most surprising thing about this hot pot restaurant is that there is a thoughtful deodorizer in the store, allowing customers to quickly remove the hot pot smell from their bodies.

After careful consideration, Luke gave this investment project a B.

After dinner, Luke went straight to the next investment project.

car wash.

Los Angeles is a large area, almost every household has a car, and most families have more than two cars.

The car wash industry is naturally indispensable.

There are two main types, the first is manual car washing.

Compared with China, labor costs in the United States are higher. Manual car washing costs about fifty US dollars, and this is the cost after applying for a card.

This is a high-end route and can be very profitable if done well.

But Luke is now engaged in a side business, not his main business, and he doesn’t have much experience in managing people.

Therefore, he prefers self-service car washes.

His car happened to be dirty too, so he came to experience a self-service car wash.

Soon, Luke drove to a self-service car wash. There was a row of car wash rooms separated by walls on both sides. There were car wash tools on the walls of each room.

Before washing the car, you have to go to the middle area to change change and car wash coins, which are all self-service.

One dollar can be exchanged for one car wash coin, and one car wash coin can be used for one hundred seconds.

In addition to the spray gun for car washing, there are also vacuum cleaners, towels, etc., which also require additional charges.

Luke gave his car a quick cleaning, which cost him about ten dollars.

The experience feels pretty good, at least it is much more affordable than manual car washing.

After Luke washed the car, he waited outside for a while. Cars started coming in to wash the car one after another, but not too many.

The most important thing for this kind of business is customer flow, which has a lot to do with location selection.

Luke roughly calculated that if a car wash cubicle washes cars 24 hours a day, it can earn about 800 US dollars in income.

Of course, this is almost impossible, and an income of $100 a day is very high.

The income from ten single car wash rooms is US$1,000 a day, which is US$30,000 a month.

Roughly speaking, it's still good, but passenger flow is the key.

Judging from Luke's experience, system reserves can be monetized by increasing the customer flow of self-service car washes.

The biggest consideration is the investment in the premise.

Ten single car wash rooms occupy a large area, and the prerequisite investment requires a lot of capital.

The biggest worry is that if there is a problem with the location, if there are no customers, the business will be over.

Taken together, this investment can be rated A.

It feels better than investing in a hot pot restaurant.

The third inspection project, antique shop.

Although the United States has a short history, Americans love to collect, and the things they collect are weird and weird. There is nothing you can't think of, and there is nothing they can't collect.

Antique stores are also the easiest among the three projects to monetize the Detective System.

In addition, Luke had another purpose of going to the antique store, which was to choose a birthday gift for his grandpa.

As a tourist city, Los Angeles has many antique shops. Whether you can buy genuine items depends on your luck and ability.

Luke came to a street dedicated to selling antiques.

Different from the priceless and high-end cultural relics in China, antique stores in Los Angeles sell old objects with a sense of history and art, such as pots and pans, furniture ornaments, jewelry and clothes, books and photos, oil paintings, sculptures, garden tools, etc.

, a dazzling array of things.

Luke had the illusion that he had entered the second-hand furniture market.

Luke just walked around and gave up the idea of ​​opening an antique store.

This industry is too deep for a layman to handle it. Even if the system reserves are liquidated, it will still be a loss-making business.

After giving up the idea, he began to choose a birthday gift for Robert.

Luke visited several stores and fell in love with an old-fashioned vinyl record player in an antique store called Time.

The Ford Mustang record player looks the same as the Mustang in appearance, and is red in color, which is very cool.

Luke felt that Robert would definitely like this record player, it was very period.

Seeing Luke staring at the record player, the boss came over and asked, "Sir, you have great vision. This is the first commemorative record player launched by Millennium Ford Company. It is very collectible."

If you like it, you can give it a try."

Luke glanced at the boss. He was a fat white man in his forties. Walking among the narrow shelves of the antique store, Luke was worried that he would knock over the collectibles. "It's been more than 20 years, can you still listen to me?"

"

"A classic car from decades ago can run on the road, let alone a record player?"

The fat boss opened a black box next to him, took out a vinyl record from it, and put it on the red Mustang record player.

Then, a burst of music sounded. Luke didn't know who sang it, but the song was very nice and had a unique flavor.

After listening for a while, Luke asked, "How much?"

"One thousand dollars."
To be continued...