Chapter 1793 (1/2)
Relying on his contacts and business ability accumulated in the Chen family for many years, Lin Maosheng managed to sell the facade of a restaurant near Wangfujing. After more than two months of decoration and preparation, Lin Maosheng is finally ready to set a date for opening.
However, shortly after all his business licenses were completed, a group of people came directly to the door. This group claimed to be members of the Beijing Food Association and forced Lin Maosheng to join the association and pay hundreds of thousands of high dues a year.
If you don't pay these fees, you can't open a hotel in Beijing. The momentum of those people is very fierce. They have the meaning of smashing the whole store if they don't agree with each other.
At the beginning, Lin Maosheng didn't know these hidden rules of the catering industry in the capital. He thought that these people might be small gangsters and local ruffians, who specifically collect protection fees under various names.
However, after some investigation, he found that these people really belong to the Beijing Food Association, and the association really openly monopolized and blackmailed the new hotel and forced them to pay high membership fees.
”What should I do? President Lin, do we really have to pay such a high membership fee? They obviously deceive people too much! ”
Lin Maosheng, who has no experience in food and beverage industry, has encountered such a problem before the opening of the hero restaurant Wangfujing store. Ye Xiong, deputy general manager recruited by his side, also said angrily.
”What can I do? It's not that you don't know. In the capital, as long as the restaurants and restaurants are on a large scale, they must be members of the capital Food Association. Otherwise, they have 100 ways to make your store impossible... ”
With one hand on the table, Lin Maosheng also felt great pressure. After all, since he came back from Zhi'an City, he has completely broken with the Chen family. Although he has not divorced his wife Chen Hui, he has basically drawn a line with the Chen family and no longer depends on any contacts and financial support of the Chen family.
In order to open this hero restaurant, he has spent millions of savings and borrowed more than one million yuan to rent and decorate the restaurant. The rest of the money is just a start-up fund. If you pay such a large membership fee of hundreds of thousands, I'm afraid the funds that need to be invested in the early stage will have to be borrowed.
However, if you don't pay the money, once the hotel opens, the people of the Beijing Food Association will certainly come to trouble.
”Mr. Lin, if we can't, we can only pay the money first. Today seems to be the last payment date they said. If they don't pay... ”
Ye Xiong, deputy general manager, also sighed and shook his head, ”I have encountered such problems in several hotels before. Moreover, it has almost formed the hidden rules of the whole restaurant business in Beijing. There is no way to open a shop in Beijing without paying this sum of money. ”
”Yes! No way, it seems... We can only pay this sum of money first, and then talk about it after opening. As for whether to pay this sum of money every year in the future, let's talk about it! But as long as the hero restaurant opens, with our menu, we can certainly gain a foothold in the capital. ”