There is a milk tea shop in Konoha

If you want to open a milk tea shop in Konoha, what do you need to prepare?

I really don’t know about Midorino An, she has never been the owner of a milk tea shop in Konoha before.

I just suddenly thought of this possibility, but the more I thought about it, the more feasible it became.

The idea started when the dessert shop where she worked was about to close.

The dessert shop where Midorino An works is owned by a middle-aged woman named Nomura Kayoko.

But because her daughter is pregnant, she has to return to her hometown to take care of her grandson. I no longer had the energy to take care of the dessert shop's business, so I wanted to close the shop.

Sure enough, no matter which world it is, Sun Tzu is more important.

According to Lu Yean's original idea, he wanted to take down the dessert shop and continue selling desserts.

Because she can make all the desserts sold in the store, and the tables and chairs are all ready-made, so there is no need to spend any money on decoration. Even the customers may be the same ones, but the boss has changed.

But after she took over the store from the proprietress, she realized that things were not that simple. The quarterly rent for the store was a lot of money.

After paying the rent, water and electricity from her monthly profit and deducting costs, she found that the money she had saved was much less than she had imagined.

This store is in a good location, at the intersection of Konoha's main road and commercial street, and has a lot of traffic. But she didn't have many customers. Her monthly income could support her life in Konoha, but she didn't have much money left over.

But there are many dessert shops in Konoha, and there are several nearby. There are many competitors and strong substitutability. Now this store is following the path of small profits but quick turnover. To put it bluntly, it is to compete for quantity. The key thing is that just by selling desserts like this, she can't improve her living standard much, nor can she realize her ideal of becoming a homeowner in Konoha. Not to mention that Lu Yean has other places where he needs money. It is really sad to think about the scene where he has to think about it for a long time to eat a few more bowls of noodles.

Thinking of the stories she had heard before about how difficult it was to live in Chang'an, she didn't expect that living in Konoha would not be easy either. It cost money everywhere.

Sure enough, we still need to change our business strategy. How can business be good if it's always the same?

So, a sign was put up saying it was temporarily closed. She spent three days traveling all over Konoha, inspecting shops in the entire village, and finally came to the conclusion that she wanted to change her job! Go open a milk tea shop!

Don't think she's joking. In the past three days, Midorino An inspected shops throughout Konoha and found that most of the food businesses were izakayas. Traditional dessert shops, meatball shops, and barbecue restaurants were also very popular with Konoha residents.

Most izakayas are places for people to drink and gather. Most of the customers are adult male and female ninjas. The main business hours are at night. The problem is that she is not yet an adult, how can she sell alcohol to others? So this option was immediately eliminated for her.

Konoha BBQ restaurant is also a popular business, but it requires more start-up capital. It is not easy or friendly to grab business from existing old stores. It is better to be friendly and make money.

As for why she chose to open a milk tea shop, of course it was because no one had opened one before!

She traveled all over Konoha and asked her neighbor sister who had lived in Konoha since she was a child. After getting the answer that there weren't many milk tea shops or even coffee shops in Konoha, Midorino An was happy.

Thinking about it, in Konoha now, entertainment life is not as prosperous as it was more than 20 years ago, and it is okay to not have small shops such as milk tea shops and coffee shops.

The first person to eat crabs always has the highest rewards. It is simply not fun to have no competitors. What's more, she has been drinking milk tea for so many years. I have gained experience after drinking it. It is not easy for someone who has worked in a milk tea shop to make milk tea. The difficulty is that raw materials and equipment are difficult to find here, but fortunately there are alternatives.

Lu Yean's plan is that the milk tea shop will mainly target teenagers and provide them with a place where they can sit down, drink milk tea, gather and have snacks. In the early stage, build a reputation first, use novel marketing methods to attract customers, and later use quality to maintain regular customers.

But if you want to open a milk tea shop, the wooden seats in the original store are too quaint, and the decoration style of the store is also too quaint.

Surely it still needs to be renovated? But Lu Yean's current savings cannot support such a big change.

It cost her most of her savings to buy this store from the original landlady, and this was even though the friendly price calculated by the landlady was much cheaper.

She thought for a long time and just came up with a way to exchange money. That is to go to the pawn shop and pawn the jade pendant that I always carry close to me. This jade pendant was always carried by Lu Yean. It was a coming-of-age gift from her mother, and it was the only valuable thing on her body.

Fortunately, the quality of the jade pendant was good, and the money she got in return was enough to renovate the store.

The only thing left is to find raw material suppliers, outline the menu, recruit staff and formulate a marketing plan!

Although the next step will be very difficult, Midoriya An believes that in the future she will become a homeowner in Konoha and live a happy and beautiful life.

There are a lot of things you need to prepare to open a milk tea shop in Konoha. Don’t be afraid of tedious preparations, but be afraid of incomplete preparations after opening.

She was lucky. Now Konoha was a leader and under the rule of the Third Hokage, the whole village was prosperous.

Konoha does not have much aversion to many foreign immigrants, but instead has a welcoming attitude. Of course, it is someone like her who works hard and wants to live a good life. Those who have good intentions may not even know how they died in the end.

Lu Yean couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this. Don't think too much about anything. Working hard, saving money to buy a house and live a good life are the key.

The decoration of the store is still in full swing to ensure that it can achieve the effect she wants. Lu Yean specially hired a famous craftsman from Tuanzhu Street to do the decoration, but the price is a bit expensive...

It’s not a little expensive, it’s very expensive!

Lu Yean said that she didn't want to say more about this matter, and she wanted to go and pay a moment of silence for her wallet first.

Ah Qi also said that she was out of her mind. Why did she still spend the money when she was so reluctant to part with it?

But Ah Qi doesn't understand that all the efforts now are for future gains! If you want to make money, you have to be willing to invest!

To open a store in Konoha, in addition to renting a shop, of course you also have to pay taxes. Konoha's system is actually quite simple. If you want to open a store, go to the relevant office of the Administration Department and submit an application, attaching your identity certificate and store information for review. Once the review is passed and the business license is issued, the store can open. As for tax, the tax is collected based on 2% of the store's actual monthly income.

Of course, these were all said by the former proprietress, Mrs. Nomura. It turned out that Lu Yean didn't know this. Because she had become a monk on the way, after she bought the store, Mrs. Nomura took her to change the name of the store owner on the business certificate, and explained to her the preparations she had made before opening the store and the specific details of the daily store. Afraid that something had gone wrong with her.

Changing the dessert shop to a milk tea shop doesn't actually take much effort. You only need to pay another handling fee to the administrative department to change the store information from a dessert shop to a milk tea shop.

However, when the registration staff asked what the milk tea shop would be called, Lu Yean revealed that she was a bad namer.

What should I call it? Do you just use your surname as the name of the shop like the proprietress, and call it Green Field Milk Tea Shop? She always felt that the name had no characteristics and wanted a name that people would remember as soon as they heard it.

After thinking about it for a long time at the registration desk, she still had no idea. The staff on the side was patient and kept waiting. She also told her: "Don't be too anxious. The procedures have been completed anyway. You can come back when you have decided on a name." I guess. It was because of her anxious and angry look that people were a little surprised.

After hearing this, Lu Yean felt relieved, thanked the young lady and left.

I am always afraid of trouble others. I don’t know when I developed the habit. I always like to say thank you. Ah Qi also told her about this problem. Saying thank you all the time may make others embarrassed if you say too much. Maybe Ah Qi felt this way because she heard her say thank you too many times.

The renovation of the store is estimated to take some time, so we can slowly think about the name of the store. What we need to do now is to finish other work first.

After making a list of various preparations, Lu Yean started to get busy.

The first item is rent. You don’t have to worry about this for the time being, as you have paid one year’s rent. The landlord of this shop is pretty good. Although the rent is not low, it has not increased since she took it over from Mrs. Nomura. It is estimated that it will not increase much in the future.

The second item is store decoration. In progress, tables, chairs, furnishings and decorations have been selected, and they will be moved in after the decoration is completed. Moreover, after taking into account the area used by the former proprietress to live, the store's business area is much larger.

The third item is various equipment and supporting parts. Freezers have been around for a long time, and other equipment has found alternatives. However, the real headache is what to use as a cup for holding milk tea. After searching all over Konoha and nearby Tanshu Street, Midorino finally decided to use disposable paper cups for milk tea.

Anko, a regular customer of the dessert shop, told Midorano that there was a factory near Konoha that specialized in producing paper products, and paper cups were one of their products. For this reason, she specially ran out of Konoha and ordered two specifications of paper cups at the paper products factory, 500 ml and 700 ml paper cups to serve as milk tea cups.

As for why not use plastic? Of course because there is no sealing machine. Everything is difficult at the beginning, not to mention that she is opening a milk tea shop that no one has opened before. I originally wanted to use plastic cups, but I couldn't find a store that sold sealing machines, so I had to use paper cups.

So the setting of this world is wonderful, and many things in modern society are also available here, such as movies and TV. But there are also many things it doesn’t have, such as milk tea shops and sealing machines.

Then comes the fourth item, making a menu.

Although I decided to change the store from a dessert shop to a milk tea shop, I still decided to sell some of the original desserts in the new store. The reason is of course because there are so many people buying it!

As for the types of milk tea, before closing for renovation, Luye launched several classic milk tea flavors in the store to test the waters, such as pearl milk tea and jasmine milk tea.

The response was pretty good, especially the students from the nearby ninja school and the young ninjas who had just graduated, who loved this sweet drink.

It seems that no matter which world you are in, sweet milk tea is the favorite of young people!

The fifth item is raw material supply. This is the last thing to worry about. Midori An was originally responsible for purchasing the materials used in the dessert shop. Now there are just a few more materials to purchase. She specifically asked Uncle Inoue from the tea shop to help choose them. These teas were of fairly good quality and moderately priced. Because they were in large quantities and were in long-term supply, Uncle Inoue generously gave them a 20% discount.

In return, Luye gave him a dozen free experience coupons. Reciprocity is something that must always be done no matter what world you are in. Being polite will never go wrong.

It's the best thing to be able to get a discount. In the spirit of saving when you can, Luyean has been bargaining on prices these days. People who buy things try to keep the prices down, while people who sell things try their best to raise the prices. It’s tiring to play the ball back and forth. If it weren't for the fact that Konoha didn't have any, she really wouldn't want to go out and waste her saliva.

Fortunately, all the efforts were not in vain. When the decoration work was completed, the results were very satisfying.

In the end, when Lu Yean had settled everything, there was only one last thing left - the name of the milk tea shop.

"Wouldn't it be better to just use the one from before? Why go to all the trouble!" Hongdou said, taking out the three-color meatballs from the bag.

"It saves trouble, but I always think of a name that can have a profound impact on people." That's why I put this matter off until the end, and I can't afford to name it.

"I don't care what they are," she said slurringly as she swallowed two meatballs in one gulp, "Anyway, as long as you continue selling three-color meatballs."

This is why Lu Yean chose to keep some desserts on the menu. There are many regular customers like Hongdou who often go to the store to buy three-color meatballs. Even though it is now closed, they still insist on buying meatballs from the boss. Although Lu Yean wants to change the dessert shop into a milk tea shop, in order to retain the original customers , she still chooses to continue selling relatively simple desserts with considerable sales volume, such as three-color meatballs.

Hongdou threw a bamboo stick into the trash can and stood up from the stone bench. "But I'm looking forward to it. There is a milk tea shop where you can buy milk tea and desserts. Remember to save a seat for me!" He disappeared as soon as he finished speaking.

He comes and goes without a trace, as if ninjas are so elusive.

When Lu Yean picked up the bag and prepared to eat the meatballs, he realized that it was empty.

"That was originally for me to eat. Why don't you save some for me?" He just distracted himself for a while and thought about something, and Hong Bean ate all the meatballs.

She really deserves to be a ninja. Does her hand speed mean she is fast?

Lu Yean originally planned to give Hongdou some free coupons, but it seems she can only wait until next time.

However, thanks to Hongdou, Lu Yean finally thought of the name of the milk tea shop.

It’s still a familiar office, and it’s still a familiar staff. The difference is that she finally figured out the name of the store. It's just that the young lady in charge of registration seemed a little unable to understand the name Lu Yean came up with.

"Are you sure you really want to call me this name?"

"Yes."

"Don't think about it anymore?"

"No need to think about it, I've already thought about it! Just call it this."

"Okay." There was a hint of helplessness in the young lady's tone. This is probably the first time she has seen such a distinctive name~

The milk tea shop was named Youjian Milk Tea Shop. Lu Yean thought that the name was easy to remember and distinctive, and it would be refreshing to hear.

Now everything is ready to open for business.

In the tenth year since he came to this world, Midoriya opened a milk tea shop in Konoha.