Ichiro Honda had a trump card in his hand to deal with the Fusang Daqian. This trump card was the employees of the Yu-Gi-Oh Café.
Although Ichiro Honda had taken away the employees of Daqian 23, he had only taken away the employees of the Fusang Daqian headquarters. The Fusang Daqian had the most employees, which was the nearly 5,000 employees in the 321 Yu-Gi-Oh Cafés nationwide. They were still working in the Daqian headquarters.
It wasn't that Ichiro Honda couldn't take them away, but he had a more vicious plan.
Ichiro Honda's actions were fast. He resigned from the Daqian headquarters on February 10, 1994. On March 1, 1994, he and Masayoshi Son planned a new milk tea chain company, Tribute Tea, and it was ready to open for business.
Ichiro Honda had accumulated a lot of experience in running Yu-Gi-Oh Milk Tea. More importantly, the employees who were familiar with material purchasing, venue layout, and location selection had a lot of experience in running milk tea.
These experiences were cultivated by the Fusang Daqian, but now they were all weapons in Ichiro Honda's hands.
Therefore, in just 20 days, Ichiro Honda had prepared everything, from the shop renovation to the basic staff training, the use of milk tea equipment, the storage of raw materials, and a series of other matters.
Of course, as a price, Ichiro Honda only slept for three hours a day. He spent half of his time on the Shinkansen. He went around the Fusang country and supervised the work of each shop.
After all, Ichiro Honda planned to play big this time. After receiving a total investment of 350 million USD, Ichiro Honda decided to open 500 shops in Fusang, covering all the major cities in Fusang. Then, within a year, this number would be expanded to 2000 shops, completely dominating the entire milk tea market in Fusang, and beating the Daqian Yu-Gi-Oh into the dust.
Ichiro Honda was full of confidence.
On February 28, 1994, Ichiro Honda stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the headquarters of his new company. Opposite the floor-to-ceiling window was a brightly lit tribute tea and milk tea shop.
This milk tea chain store, which Ichiro Honda had invested a lot of effort into, was on its last night before opening. Beside Ichiro Honda, Masayoshi Son held a glass of wine and looked at the brightly lit Tokyo in the distance.
"I just looked at the personnel list. Didn't you say that a store should have 12 employees? Why was it that out of the 500 shops, only half of them had been assigned with employees that were 3,000 meters away? Moreover, most of the store managers are empty and have not been appointed. What is going on? "Sun Zhengyi frowned and asked.
"Hahaha!" Hearing Sun Zhengyi's question, Honda Ichiro couldn't help but laugh. After laughing for a while, he said, "Don't worry, tomorrow morning, all the missing staff and store managers will appear! They are already in position. They are my trump cards! "
Sun Zhengyi shrugged his shoulders. Although he didn't understand what Honda Ichiro meant, there was no doubt that someone was going to be in trouble!
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"I have to go to work full of energy today!" On the morning of March 1, 1994, Sakurai got out of bed on time, quickly washed her face, dressed up, and then went to work.
Sakurai was an employee who had recently joined Yu-Gi-Oh. Although this job was very hard, and because there were too many customers, there was almost no time to stop and rest for eight hours a day, Sakurai still cherished this job very much. This was because this job was very generous. If the extra overtime fee was included, the income of a waiter here could reach about 80,000 yen a month. This was already higher than the salary of many white-collar workers.
As a person who had not graduated from university and only had a junior high school education, there was nothing more suitable for Sakurai than this job.
But this morning, when Sakurai came to the door of the coffee shop and was about to go to work, she found that the door of the coffee shop was locked.
"What's going on?" Sakurai was stunned. Although Sakurai came to work at the coffee shop at 7: 30 every morning, the store manager would usually rush over to open the door at 7: 00. Then, everyone would do the pre-opening work together and finally open the door at 8: 00 sharp.
But now, it was already 7: 30, and the coffee shop was still not open. This was something that had never happened since Sakurai started working, which made her a little surprised.
"Did the store manager forget to bring the key?" Sakurai guessed all kinds of possibilities in her heart. She felt that it was very likely that the store manager who came to open the door found that he had forgotten to bring the key, so he went back to the rental house to get the key or something.
But after waiting for another 20 minutes, the store manager still did not appear. What made Sakurai feel that something was wrong was that out of the 12 employees in the coffee shop, ten of them were not here. Only a newcomer named Lian, who was in the same batch as Sakurai, was waiting at the door in a daze like her. Other than that, the other senior employees were all gone.
This made Sakurai feel very anxious because at this time, there were already five or six customers waiting at the door to buy milk tea. If they did not enter the coffee shop at this time to prepare, God knows how long it would take.
Although Sakurai was anxious about this, she could not change anything because until 8: 00 in the morning, the store manager still did not bring the key to open the door. The surrounding customers were also surprised to see that the door was closed, and there was not a single staff member inside.
Just as Sakurai was at a loss of what to do, a loud and clear shout suddenly sounded from the street opposite her.
"Dear customers, our Gong Cha Milk Tea officially opened today. All milk tea is 50% off, and it's only available for three days. The taste is guaranteed to be authentic. Everyone is welcome to come and try it!"
Such advertising shouts continued, and Sakurai could not help but feel a little confused.
Sakurai only found out about this newly opened milk tea shop yesterday. Although the opposite shop had started renovating 20 days ago, the signboard had not been installed until yesterday, when the Gong Cha signboard was finally hung at the door. Sakurai finally knew that this was actually a milk tea shop that was competing with her.
At that time, Sakurai had asked the store manager out of curiosity if this milk tea shop would affect her. In the end, the store manager did not answer her and only showed a somewhat strange smile.
Thinking of this smile, Sakurai felt that something was wrong. Someone else's new shop had opened, but her shop was suddenly closed. This situation was not right!
Just as Sakurai was feeling puzzled, many customers who were waiting around were impatient. When they saw that a new milk tea shop had opened across the street, and there was a promotion of 50% off for three days before the opening, they immediately became interested. Many people directly entered the shop and then exclaimed, "Manager Yehara, why are you here?!"
Many of these people were regular customers of Yu-Gi-Oh, so they recognized the identity of the store manager at a glance.
"Manager Yehara! Aren't you our store manager? " Sakurai was stunned for a moment, and then immediately rushed to the opposite shop with her companions. She found that her former colleagues and store manager were actually busy in this newly opened Gong Cha shop, serving customers.
No wonder her shop was closed.
"Store manager … you … you …" Sakurai's voice was trembling as she looked at her store manager.
"Oh, it's Sakurai. I'm sorry to have frightened you!" Seeing Sakurai, the Yehara store manager said with some embarrassment.
"Why did you suddenly change jobs?" Sakurai asked with a dumbfounded expression.
"Hehe!" The Yehara store manager smiled and did not answer this question. He just said lightly, "Sakurai, some things are not easy to say. In fact, I hinted to you yesterday. I asked you if you were willing to work in the shop across the street. You refused, so I can't say anything more to you! "
"But if you're still willing to follow me, you can also join Gong Cha. We'll have another 300 stores open next month. By then, we'll be short of store managers and employees. If you join us, you'll have a bright future!"
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