Chapter 208 - Who is This, Harming Himself and Others?! (1/2)

At Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s branch at Ming Yun Villas…

Pei Qian was with Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan, visiting and surveying locations for the new high-end restaurant. In fact, they had already surveyed all the shop spaces in this area once before. They also generally understood the business environment in the area.

All in all, the place was cold and deserted. Boss Pei was very happy with it.

The original plan for Ming Yun Villas was for there to be shops in the vicinity. However, since the place did not become popular and the occupancy rate of the villas was, the traffic in the shops was low as well. No shop could recover their capital. One by one, they closed down.

Now, the rent for many shop spaces was cheap. Basically, one could rent a space for about seventy percent of the average price in the market.

A few days ago, Pei Qian picked two or three spaces which he liked. All of them were located further in from Fish-Catching Internet Cafe.

These shops had several points in common. First, all of them were big, with large areas, this satisfied Boss Pei’s requirements for a large restaurant. Second, they were all in the center of a bunch of closed shops. The surroundings were particularly cold and deserted, and the restaurant wouldn’t draw attention on normal days. Third, it was not exactly convenient to get here.

There was a lot of parking nearby. However, one would have to walk a long distance to the restaurant after parking.

Thus, Pei Qian planned to visit the locations for the last time today. After finalizing the location, he could sign the contract and begin renovations. If all went well, perhaps he would be able to bring his employees here for a good meal next month.

Zhang Yuan continued to follow behind Boss Pei and Ma Yang in silence. He found it sad that it was getting harder and harder to predict what Boss Pei would do next.

The locations he chose for the restaurant were really ridiculous.

When he first heard that Boss Pei would open a high-end restaurant, Zhang Yuan felt quite happy. He thought he had finally managed to predict what Boss Pei would do next.

While Fish-Catching Take-Out covered low-end daily meals, the high-end restaurant would take care of those with more high-class taste. The two would complement each other – it was perfect! Zhang Yuan thought that the high-end restaurant would be opened at the city center. There, it would surely become popular and busy!

However, what Boss Pei did next utterly confused him.

He picked a location close to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s branch at Ming Yun Villas even though that branch was doing the worst of all?

Ming Yun Villas was located in the south-east region of Jingzhou City. It was already a deserted location to begin with.

If Boss Pei had opened the restaurant in the city center, he would be able to cover all of Jingzhou City. Even if one lived in the outskirts, it would only take them about an hour to drive down to the city center.

Of course, this was provided that there was no traffic jam.

Yet, setting up the restaurant in the south-east region of the city would mean that those in the north and west regions would have to drive across the city if they wanted to visit it. That would take them more than an hour… or close to two.

After they finished eating, they would have to drive for another two hours back, in the evening peak-hour traffic.

The thought of that alone would be too suffocating

What’s more, the business environment there was no good. There were no entertainment facilities; why would people travel all that way for a meal?

From any angle, this plan seemed ridiculous.

However, Boss Pei had already explained his reason for selecting this location. He predicted that the Ming Yun Villas area would become Jingzhou City’s next commercial district. That was why he was making these moves in advance.

On this point, Boss Pei was being consistent.

However, no matter how Zhang Yuan studied the area, it did not look like a commercial district. It was too cold and deserted. The three of them walked and scanned the area.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yuan’s eyes lit up.

He saw a shop being set up and renovated! It was a two-story shop, and it looked quite cool. Zhang Yuan remembered that the last time he came here, the shop had been closed. What’s more, it looked abandoned.

Had someone taken over the shop in just a few days?

Zhang Yuan arrived at the front of the shop and approached one of the construction workers to ask some questions. After that, he realized that a coffee shop was being opened here! From the looks of it, the owner of this shop was hoping to attract the high-income residents of Ming Yun Villas!

It was obvious that the coffee shop would steal some of Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s customers and affect its sales. After all, it was much closer to Ming Yun Villas. It would only take the residents ten minutes to get there on foot.

However, the place immediately looked less abandoned!