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Chapter 21 Partnering to Open a Store, Flame Pizza
"Hello, LeBron, I didn't expect to meet you here, do you have time to sit down and have a cup of coffee together?"

James noticed that Huo Song who was greeting him, and Wade beside him, quickly swallowed the pizza in their hands, and then walked towards Huo Song and Wade.

"I didn't expect you to be here, did you come to the training hall to train?" James found a chair and sat down.

Wade, who was looking at the phone, looked up at James, and replied lightly: "I have finished practicing with Hawthorn, now I have a cup of coffee and take a break."

Last night, after learning that actual combat can improve the loading progress, Huo Song called Wade to the training ground early this morning to fight one-on-one.

Sure enough, the actual combat training in a heads-up manner can increase the progress by 0.1% almost every hour.

However, one's physical strength is limited, and in only two hours, both Huo Song and Wade felt the need to take a break.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked out of the training ground and drank coffee at a nearby Starbucks, I met James who was eating a good pizza.

"Both of you?" James frowned and looked at Huo Song and Wade with suspicious expressions on his face.

James really didn't know why Huo Song and Wade got mixed up. It was obvious that a yellow man and a black man had nothing to do with each other.

"Dwyane and I are going to win the best rookie of the next season. So sorry, Mr. No. [-], you are going to be our stepping stone. Haha!"

Huo Song smiled and said, James couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"Is that so? It's very interesting, can you add me? I don't want to give up the best rookie! After all, I am the number one pick, right?"

James understood that Huo Song was joking.

From the previous remarks, James also roughly guessed that Huo Song and Wade are relatively ambitious players who are willing to work hard.

In fact, everyone is the same kind of people, they happen to be about the same age, and they participated in the draft in the same year. It is a matter of course that we get together to chat a few words and look forward to the future.

In a few words, the relationship between Huo Song and the three of them became closer, maybe it was because they hit it off!

"Meeting is fate! I have an idea, and I wonder if you two would like to hear me talk about it." After half a cup of coffee, Huo Song had a whim, and came a wave of "I have a dream".

James sat upright upon hearing this, and Wade also put away his cell phone.

"Would love to hear your thoughts."

"Just tell me what you have!"

After having two loyal listeners, Huo Song spoke freely without any scruples.

"LeBron, you love pizza? I think that's a good thing.

In my own words, I think there should be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people in the United States who like to eat pizza.

It's a big market, and if we invest in pizza, we get a piece of it. "

"What, I just eat pizza once in a while. I... I think you have a good idea."

James resisted at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that what Huo Song said made sense.

Pizza is fast food, and the price is not expensive. In North America, almost everyone can afford it.

It might be a good project to invest in pizza, but they were all students before and had no experience in this area at all.

"The cooking skills of Chinese people seem to be good?" James thought for a while, whether he should invest in the pizza business with Huo Song.

Just when James was hesitating, Wade said: "Hawthorn, no matter how good you say, it's useless, I don't have money!"

"It's okay, I didn't plan to take you, Dwyane." Huo Song smiled and patted Wade on the shoulder, and continued, "LeBron is the No. 400 pick, and the rookie contract alone has 360 million, while I have [-] million .”

“It doesn’t take much money to open a pizza shop, and the start-up capital is probably tens of thousands of dollars.

We are the future stars of the Pistons and Cavaliers, and every home game we have, nearly 2 people will watch us play.

We opened a pizzeria, even if only one percent of the fans visit, there will be nearly 200 people.

Assuming we price each pizza at $4.99, the daily turnover is nearly $1000.

The annual turnover will exceed 30. Even if the profit after tax is only 10%, the investment will be paid back within a year or so. "

"Cleveland has 45 people in the urban area alone, and 250 million people in Cleveland as a whole!

And a car city like Detroit has 80 people even if it declines!
We can make full use of our popularity and influence to hit the catering market in Cleveland and Detroit.

As long as we invest a negligible amount of money, we can get a steady stream of benefits.

And, we can do something meaningful, like hire all store workers who are people of color.

What do you think, LeBron?Do you want to try harder with me? "

Huo Song talked about some data to relieve James and Wade's worries, and also described the capitalists' exploitation of workers' surplus value as very lofty.

Sure enough, after listening to Wade, he responded immediately: "Hawthorn, I think it's very good.

Although I have no money, if it can provide a stable job for others, I agree!
I will definitely make the people of Miami live a happier life.

I'll give them better, cheaper pizza.

Hawthorn, you can't leave me, or I'll have to do it myself. "

The population of downtown Miami is not as good as Cleveland and Detroit, but the population of Greater Miami is not worse than Cleveland at all.

Compared with Cleveland and Detroit, which are sparsely populated, an international metropolis like Miami is quite densely populated.

In short, the prospect of opening a pizzeria in Miami is better than Cleveland or Detroit.

Coincidentally, Wade thinks that his rookie contract is short of money, and he has a group of brothers to support around him, so he can't have other sources of income, so I'm afraid he will have to sit and eat.

Now Huo Song has given him an excellent investment plan. Anyway, the initial investment is only tens of thousands of dollars. Although this is a lot of money, it is still affordable for Wade.

If the market prospect of opening a pizzeria is really what Huo Song said, then it will be a lucrative business in the future.

As Wade moved his index finger, James would inevitably be affected, and took the initiative to talk to Huo Song about opening a pizza shop.

"Since everyone is participating together, we must determine a common brand, and we will open chain stores.

But when we first started investing in the pizza business, we were all newbies, we lacked experience.

I think that when we open pizzerias in our respective cities, we cannot manage them in a unified manner. We must first be responsible for our own profits and losses and accumulate operating experience.

When the experience is mature, we will promote our brand to the whole United States together and make money together.

From the campus to the society, from a student to a businessman, from a familiar stadium to a strange shopping mall, isn't it fun to challenge some unknown things? "

"So, what's the brand? Hawthorn, do you have an idea? Or should it be called Hawthorn Pizza?"

James is about to do business together, and James is obviously getting closer to Huo Song, and he also started to call Huo Song "haw" just like Wade.

However, Huo Song was not satisfied with James' suggestion to tentatively designate the chain brand as "Hawthorn Pizza".

In fact, Huo Song already had an idea, just to see if he could reach an agreement with James.

As for Wade, why bother?
"Our pizzeria is bound to take the approach of small profits but quick turnover, so our pizza is fast food, it's crepe pizza.

Pizza pizza often requires a stronger flame and a higher temperature.

So why not call 'it' Blaze Pizza?

Just like when we play, hot, fast, furious, presumably our fans will love 'it'. "

Learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians. James and Lie Yan Pizza are ready-made, and they are not copied for nothing.

Thinking about the market value of Flame Pizza's tens of billions of dollars in the future, Huo Song is still a little excited!

Today, Huo Song and James are engaged in this wave of pizza, coffee and heroism. Even if the NBA road does not work, they will be able to live happily in the future, right?

Wade: It's clearly a matter of three people, and I'm the one who came first...

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PS, readers who like to watch the game may think this chapter is too watery, but if it is all about the game, the story will not be so interesting, but it will be dry and boring.

So, try to write some daily as a swap, and see everyone's reaction.

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(End of this chapter)