1987: Sleepless Tonight

Jiang Ren was very interested in the Jiekou food street plan mentioned by Lu Hao.

"You wrote in the plan that the scale of the catering industry can reach one trillion?" Jiang Ren looked at Lu Hao.

He couldn't believe it.

Even the city leaders and economic experts also seemed a little unconvinced by this data. If Lu Hao hadn't been considered a celebrity in the city, he would have thought that the data in the plan were fabricated.

Jiangcheng City's annual fiscal revenue is only about 20 billion yuan, but the national catering scale can reach one trillion yuan. Even if it is the total scale of the country, this is very amazing.

Jiangcheng's fiscal revenue mainly includes two aspects. The bulk is industrial and commercial taxes, and the smaller is corporate income. These two account for 90% of the fiscal revenue, and the other 10% is earmarked revenue and other fiscal revenue.

"Trillion is still a conservative estimate, and it may even reach nearly 10 trillion." Lu Hao said, "Of course, this cannot be achieved in a short time, it may take decades, but the overall trend is definitely upward, and the scale will become larger and larger. Come bigger.”

"A scale of one trillion or 10 trillion is the total volume of the country. For Jiangcheng alone, it can probably get a market share of tens of billions."

Jiangcheng actually doesn’t have a lot of delicious food. In the ranking of food cities, No.1 is Rong, No.2 is Chongqing, No.3 is Xingcheng, and Jiangcheng is not even ranked in the top 10.

Most of the people who open restaurants across the country are people from Sichuan, Hunan, Chongqing and other places, but Hubei Province also has its own food and catering characteristics.

Many times, when something is famous, it is not that its taste is much stronger than that of other places. It may just be that its reputation is greater than that of other places.

Take Lu Hao himself for example. He feels that roast duck is not very delicious and is far less delicious than pork ribs and lotus root soup. However, roast duck is indeed more famous than lotus root soup.

"Jiangcheng has a catering market share of tens of billions? This is not low." Jiang Ren said, "If you really want to turn the street entrance into a food street, not only do you need to move the shops there, but you also need to open up the street. The road at the entrance must be re-planned, including the shops facing the street.”

"Many shops are already relatively old. Since we are going to build a food street, we should simply renovate the ground and the surrounding areas to avoid repeated demolition, construction and demolition in the future, which will affect the operation of the food street. .”

"That's the truth." Lu Hao agreed very much.

The construction of a city must be accompanied by the construction of various municipal facilities, and municipal facilities include roads, above ground, and underground. Jiangcheng has been under construction for many years, digging everywhere.

Many roads have been encircled for five or six years, which seriously affects the travel of citizens and the operations of surrounding shops. If you want to build this area at the street entrance, you must plan it well from the beginning, and try to minimize the fuss in the future. No matter how good it is, If your store has been struggling for several months, the originally good business will become bleak.

He glanced at Jiang Ren. The deputy director of the Municipal Commercial Committee was indeed far-sighted and knew that the roads at the street entrance and the surrounding shops should be improved.

A worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do well.

"Boss Lu, do you have time now? Let's go to the street entrance to have a look and talk while walking?" Jiang Ren suggested.

He was very concerned about this matter.

I have worked as the deputy director of the Municipal Commercial Committee for several years, but I have never achieved any great results. If I reach his level and want to move up, I must have something that I can use.

This plan for the food court at the entrance of Lu Hao Street is very much in line with his wishes.

"Okay, I'll drive the car and let's take a look at it together." Lu Hao was eager to go there now.

He immediately drove Jiang Ren and Wang Guosheng to the street entrance.

The three of them walked along Luoshi Road and looked around. This road is a section of the second ring road to Houjiang City. It runs north-south and is horizontally connected to Luoyu Road.

"It is indeed a waste that there are so many shops in such a good place that are closed," Jiang Ren said.

On both sides of the road at the street entrance, many shops were closed.

"These stores are assets of each system. Now the situation in each system is quite severe. Facing reforms, deficits must be reduced. The competition in the market is very fierce. These stores have been losing money when they were operating in the past. , has not been canceled or closed, because it still bears social responsibilities, to protect people's livelihood and protect the daily needs of citizens, so it must continue to operate even if it is a loss. However, now some stores and some systems have been replaced by other social functions. The store has been replaced. There is no need to continue operating at a loss, but for a while I couldn’t find a better way to operate it, so I simply closed the store.” Lu Hao said, “Or rent it to a private owner for business purposes. Start a small business and collect some rent.”

At the time of the public-private partnership, most of the shops and real estate were nationalized and allocated to various systems. After 1978, some of the assets from the public-private partnership were returned to individuals, but most of them were still in various systems. in hands.

Belongs to state-owned assets.

The businesses under each system are becoming more and more sophisticated, but there are still so many assets on hand, which has resulted in many assets being idle, which has also resulted in many stores being closed and not doing business.

It is obviously in such a good place, but the store is closed and such a good store is wasted.

"It is indeed a waste for such a good store in such a good location to be closed. I will report it to the city and ask the city leaders to coordinate various departments to take out their stores at the street entrance. Support the food court plan,” Hong Ren said.

"This is the best thing. It can not only make use of idle stores, but also make various systems profitable." Lu Hao said.

Why should the city take the lead in doing this?

Because the relevant leaders of the city are taking the lead in this matter, it will be much more convenient when it comes to areas that require coordination, such as the leasing of stores and the purchase of property rights. If it is done by private individuals, it is likely that even the person in charge of the property rights of the store will meet. Unfortunately, time is wasted on various tedious procedures, not to mention that things may not get done.

But with Hong Ren taking the lead, if there are any difficult problems to solve, he will report them to the city. With a few words from the city leaders, things that would have caused people to run out and break their legs can be solved.

Get twice the result with half the effort.

"If this place is really going to be a food court, then the shops that are very different from the food will have to be moved to other places. This way, the overall planning of the food court will be better, and it will be more in line with the word food court." Wang Guosheng suggested road.

At the street entrance, there are not only breakfast shops and restaurants, but also hardware stores, barber shops, grocery stores, etc., and even scrap recycling shops.

Running a business is messy.