Transmigrating as the Buddha-like Main Consort of a Power Minister

Chapter 54: Takeout, as usual.

After the New Year, the business at the hotpot shop remained good.

Ji Wan'er added some more ingredients, and they could earn two taels of silver a day.

The small restaurant's income was also rising, although not as much as the hotpot shop, it was steadily increasing.

Eventually, they could earn about seven hundred wen a day.

Although it was not as profitable as the hotpot, it was still a good income for a small restaurant.

At noon, there were sometimes lines.

This meant that Ji Wan'er would be very busy at those times.

One noon, there were always many diners outside.

Ji Wan'er rubbed her sore shoulders, realizing that this couldn't continue, and she had to come up with a solution.

In fact, the busy time was only during this period of the day.

The rest of the time, it wasn't too busy.

Even with two or three helpers, it was still busy.

After all, the people she hired were just assistants, not proper cooks, so they couldn't help much.

Moreover, the better the business at the hotpot shop got, the more it made this restaurant seem lacking. In the evening, when Xiao Qingming came back, he noticed that something was off with Ji Wan'er.

"What's wrong? Did something unhappy happen today?" Xiao Qingming asked.

Usually, if something unpleasant happened at the shop, Ji Wan'er would talk to him about it.

Seeing that Ji Wan'er was unhappy today, Xiao Qingming guessed as much.

Ji Wan'er shook her head.

"Then what is it?" Xiao Qingming asked again.

Ji Wan'er knew that Xiao Qingming was working hard in his studies, and since she already had an idea about this matter, she said, "Nothing, I was just thinking about how to use less effort to make more money."

Hearing this, Xiao Qingming rubbed Ji Wan'er's head.

"I believe my wife can definitely think of a way."

"Of course, after all, I'm so capable."

Seeing Ji Wan'er's confident look, Xiao Qingming's eyes grew even more tender.

While hiring cooks, Ji Wan'er also made other plans.

Early the next morning, Ji Wan'er launched a new project at the shop: takeout.

They started accepting orders, which could alleviate the lunchtime rush and sell more food.

While hiring a chef, Ji Wan'er also hired two more people specifically for delivering takeout.

At first, she wasn't entirely confident, so she had the waiters deliver the takeout orders.

The two new hires worked as waiters in the shop.

It was announced that food could be delivered to specific locations, with delivery charges ranging from one to five wen, depending on the distance.

If the order was large, delivery was free.

Of course, delivery was limited to within the county.

People who could afford cooked dishes were not poor, so they could pay these few wen.

In the first few days of the takeout project, there weren't many orders, only about ten in three days.

Ji Wan'er couldn't help but think, why was such a popular service in modern times not working here?