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Chapter 103: An Invitation from Shanghai (Makeup Chapter)

After sharing a ride with a young couple from the airport, Chen Jue first went to the No. 1 store on Binjiang Road to check on the situation.

Due to the internet buzz surrounding the two Olympic gold medalists, coupled with the coordinated promotion by the Wenzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, even before the taxi reached the entrance of Chen Ji, the dense crowd could be seen from one or two traffic lights away.

As the saying goes: "When a thousand people gather, they obscure the sky and cover the earth. When ten thousand people gather, they are boundless and endless."

The customer traffic at Chen Ji's No. 1 store made Chen Jue, the boss, feel a tingling in his scalp!

"Holy crap!"

"It feels like I'm on Nanjing Road or the Bund in Shanghai!"

"Is it really worth it just to eat a piece of chicken?"

The young couple in the taxi started discussing it, and before they even got out of the car, they felt like their legs would be sore from standing in line all day. They excitedly took out their phones to photograph the crowded scene.

As for Chen Jue, he was recalling the opening day of the original flagship store, when the line extending from the alley entrance was a straight line.

But now, after becoming a viral sensation, the line had directly turned into a winding, twisting snake shape!

The tail of the snake even crossed the pedestrian crosswalk from the inner side of Binjiang Road, extending towards the瓯江 (Ou River) embankment.

To serve these tourists who came from all over the country, volunteers who came to serve the tourists also set up professional queue barriers and placed plastic benches for resting.

Fearing that tourists would get sunburned or suffer heatstroke from the hot sun, large sun umbrellas were set up on site.

Several mist cannon trucks, specially used to control dust, circled back and forth on Binjiang Road, with the water mist emitted from the vehicles bringing a refreshing coolness to the crowd outside Chen Ji's No. 1 store.

Although the daily purchase limit was two thousand secret-recipe roasted chickens, they would be snatched up by the exaggerated crowd in less than half a day.

However, the mung bean/red bean smoothies served in the store were unlimited, and Chen Ji's special cold chain trucks kept delivering them one after another.

The Didi and taxis parked by the roadside were even more exaggerated than the stations in some small counties. Under the guidance of several traffic police teams, they would drop off tourists and leave immediately.

Such meticulous service was no less than the previously popular Zibo barbecue and Tianshui spicy烫 (mala tang).

The student couple who shared the ride with Chen Jue also looked excited. Young people love to join in the fun, so they paid and got out of the car at the newly erected Chen Ji drop-off point at the entrance of the alley.

"Handsome, aren't you getting off here?" the taxi driver asked curiously, turning his head.

Because the passengers coming from the airport, as long as they were young people speaking Mandarin, were basically heading to Chen Ji's No. 1 store.

It was rare for someone like Chen Jue to not get out of the car after arriving at the station.

"I used to eat Chen Ji's roasted chicken every day, I'm tired of it!" Chen Jue smiled in a 'Versailles' way, and after giving the address of Ou Shang Building, he started chatting with the talkative taxi driver.

When he arrived at the Chen Ji Catering's operations headquarters, the busy scene inside and outside the company almost prevented Chen Jue from squeezing in.

People!

Everywhere were people!

In addition to Chen Ji employees in uniform pushing various printed promotional materials in and out, students who came for job interviews, with some youthful faces, were also coming in an endless stream.

The interview queue stretched from Chen Ji's gate all the way to the elevator entrance, and kept turning into the fire escape.

Seeing Chen Jue, a peer who was not wearing a uniform or a work badge, seeming to want to cut in line to enter Chen Ji, those job seekers holding resumes stopped him: "Bro! First come, first served, don't cut in line!"

"Didn't you see everyone honestly queuing up?"

"That's right! Chen Ji's interviewers said that anyone caught cutting in line will have their application disqualified."

Reminded by these job seekers, Chen Jue suddenly showed a strange look.

Ignoring the dissuasion, he walked straight through the corridor to Chen Ji's front desk.

The newly hired pretty girls at the front desk were originally so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground, either answering the ringing landline phones or dealing with the student job seekers in the queue.

Seeing Chen Jue suddenly appear, one of them immediately greeted him sweetly: "President Chen, good afternoon!"

This scene made the students queuing up for the interview look sideways.

"What? President Chen?"

"Holy crap! Is he the boss and founder of Chen Ji?"

"He looks so young!"

"Is this our future boss?"

The corridor was completely in an uproar.

Because before coming to apply for a job, many people had checked Chen Ji's background information online.

A new catering brand that became a viral sensation overnight, with higher salaries and benefits than its peers, including Chen Ji's mysterious founder, were all topics of conversation among the people of Wenzhou.

But until now, before the broadcast of the young entrepreneur interview program filmed by Ruian TV, the average person's impression of Chen Ji's boss was shrouded in mystery.

Seeing the main character suddenly appear, these student job seekers who were present naturally became curious and cast their attention on Chen Jue.

Including the several upright students who had just stopped Chen Jue from cutting in line, were now sweating profusely.

They even thought in their hearts: "It's over! I've offended Chen Ji's boss. When I go in for the interview later, no matter which foot I use to enter, I'll probably be passed over on the spot!"

Of course, Chen Jue would definitely not make things difficult for these young job seekers because of this little thing.

On the contrary, after greeting the girls at the front desk, Chen Jue also pointed to the young people queuing outside and said: "Contact the factory and have them send a few buckets of mung bean smoothies to the entrance, let everyone help themselves, don't let them suffer from heatstroke coming for the interview on such a hot day."

After speaking, Chen Jue entered the general manager's office under the eager gaze of a group of young job seekers.

He first called Li Fei in to ask about the situation.

When he learned that Chen Ji had received more than 100,000+ job applications during his absence, Chen Jue's face also showed some astonishment: "Where did so many people come from?"

Li Fei was also so busy that his mouth was dry. After chugging half a bottle of water, he began to explain: "Cousin, you don't know! Chen Ji's recruitment positions have become a complete viral sensation online!"

"In the few days you were on a business trip, more than two hundred new reserve store employees have already been recruited!"

After speaking, Li Fei opened job search APPs such as BOSS Zhipin and showed them to Chen Jue one by one. All the recruitment entries involving 'Chen Ji Catering' were almost uniformly popular sections in these APPs.

Just like the hot comments in the comment section of short videos, which are pinned to the top by a violent number of likes.

You should know that right now is the hot season for summer job hunting, and the traditional 'Golden September and Silver October' peak season is not far away.

In addition, boosted by the popularity of the Olympic athletes, and the real tens of thousands of yuan salaries reflected by Chen Ji's front-line employees online, young people from all over the country are flocking to it.

After all, Chen Ji's recruitment requirements are not high. You only need to be under 30 years old, have a good image and character, plus a super-low threshold of graduating from higher vocational colleges or junior colleges to achieve a monthly salary of over ten thousand.

This is almost a golden rice bowl that cannot be found even with a lantern in the catering service industry.

As a result, Chen Ji Catering's background mailbox is refreshed every few minutes, and several or a dozen new resumes are added.

Originally, it was just a small company facing local recruitment in Wenzhou, but suddenly it undertook job applications from all over the country. It would be strange if it didn't become a viral sensation!

After listening to this explanation, Chen Jue also felt a headache: "Plans can't keep up with changes! If I delay any longer, I'll become a division commander!"

Because Chen Ji's sudden viral sensation has greatly affected the expansion progress of the branches.

He originally planned to be steady and build up the local reputation in Wenzhou within half a year, and then slowly spread the branches to the whole province.

But now the reputation has exploded.

Considering these newly recruited reserve talents, as well as the endless stream of job seekers, delaying without action will waste human resources.

So after chatting with Li Fei, Chen Jue quickly gathered Dai Cheng and other market department people for a small meeting.

He asked the market department to take action quickly, go on business trips to various prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in batches to select suitable storefronts, and put the expansion plan on the agenda.

After the small meeting, he also asked about the progress of Chen Ji's image spokesperson.

After all, he runs around all day, and often doesn't pay much attention to the messages in Chen Ji's various groups. He tries to approve everything that should be approved when he can get to his post to deal with trivial matters, so as not to delay the work of the employees below.

When Dai Cheng heard the boss ask about the things he had explained before, he immediately became energetic and handed over the quotation that he had already prepared: "President Chen, Pan Lele's endorsement fee is 50 million, and Xu Jiayu's is 30 million. I asked for these after asking many connections. They are all internal preferential prices from the General Administration of Sport, and each contract is for three years."

"So cheap?"

When Chen Jue heard that the package for two Olympic gold medal-winning fellow villagers was only 80 million, which was not as good as those internet celebrity stars, it was only a matter of selling two ships of soybeans. He immediately approved the endorsement plan with a wave of his hand.

He originally planned to end the small meeting and go back to the Magic Cube factory as soon as possible to see the installation of the first batch of Shenji machine tools.

Dai Cheng handed an invitation letter from the folder: "President Chen, there's one more thing! There will be an international food exhibition in Shanghai in September. Chen Ji's secret-recipe roasted chicken has been selected. Are we going to lead a team to participate in the exhibition at that time?"

This chapter is to make up for last night's.